VERY happy with Only Music wiring harnesses

[paulrider]

I just picked up a 60 stacked wiring harness and a 75 wiring harness from these guys and their work is top notch. Here's their site: Bass Wiring Harnesses. . I do my own wiring many times, but I now take a medication that makes my hands shake sometimes, so when that happens, I'll buy the complete harnesses. When my hands are not shaking, there's a place on Ebay that sells packs that come with 3 pots, shielding tape, a really nice oil filled Societ era capacitor plug input and cloth covered wire and it's only $21.00. I know that putting Auctions from Ebay is a no no, but their Ebay name is Muleboy100 and I've bought about 20 of these packs from them and they are all top notch.

[FunkMetalBass]

$21 seems a bit pricey for all of that, but I'm glad you've found something that works for you. I see they offer wiring kits for quite a few different classic/vintage basses and various years of each.

[SGD Lutherie]

$95 for a wiring harness is way over priced if you ask me.

For instance, they sell the standard Jazz for $55, and you can get one from Mojo music for $40.

[testing1two]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

$95 for a wiring harness is way over priced if you ask me.

For instance, they sell the standard Jazz for $55, and you can get one from Mojo music for $40.

To be fair, the harnesses from Only Music are vintage reproductions as opposed to the ones from Mojo which use standard parts. Whether that is worth the $15 premium or not is up to the end user.

[paulrider]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

$95 for a wiring harness is way over priced if you ask me.

For instance, they sell the standard Jazz for $55, and you can get one from Mojo music for $40.

The Mojo Music harnesses use standard orange drop capacitors that in my opinion don't sound as good as the oil filled capacitors. The $95.00 harness for the 1960 is really not that pricey seeing the parts that they use.

[FunkMetalBass]

Originally Posted by paulrider

The Mojo Music harnesses use standard orange drop capacitors that in my opinion don't sound as good as the oil filled capacitors. The $95.00 harness for the 1960 is really not that pricey seeing the parts that they use.

I'd venture a guess that any differences you hear are probably attributed to varying capacitance and not from the capacitor material, at least in the case of a simple passive tone control.

Paper in oil capacitors can have tolerances of up to +/- 20%, whereas the Sprague caps have a tolerance of +/- 5%.

[stanknuckle]

I second the workmanship! Bought the 1962 harness and it's very very well soldered. It all feels very sturdy and Will last many years to come.

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by paulrider

The Mojo Music harnesses use standard orange drop capacitors that in my opinion don't sound as good as the oil filled capacitors. The $95.00 harness for the 1960 is really not that pricey seeing the parts that they use.

All capacitors sound alike when used in a passive tone controls. Also the only time you "hear" the cap is when the control is between 4 and zero. On 10 it has no affect what-so-ever on the toe of the bass.

Also, some of these "vintage" repro expensive oil filled caps, like the ones Gibson and Luxe sell, are really metal film caps in bumble bee shells. So they are selling a $0.50 cap for $25.

Uncloaking Reproduction Capacitors

Or poor repros:

Edwin Wilson's Bumblebee Capacitors

There's also nothing special about orange drops. It's just a fad.

Add up the parts in that $95 wiring harness and see how over priced it is.

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by FunkMetalBass

I'd venture a guess that any differences you hear are probably attributed to varying capacitance and not from the capacitor material, at least in the case of a simple passive tone control.

Paper in oil capacitors can have tolerances of up to +/- 20%, whereas the Sprague caps have a tolerance of +/- 5%.

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