Recent content by BobBass56

I just pulled the trigger on a now hard to find, almost unicorn status, 35th anniversary 5er. I own a Bongo Stealth 4 string HH and I was noodling around with it using only the bridge PU and I couldn’t get it to sit in the mix well at all to my liking no matter what I did with the 4 band EQ...

Santa Clause, aka ME, just got one of these for Christmas and yeah, I paid the $3800 freight. Oh well…… I’m anxiously looking forward to taking delivery and being the owner of one of only 225 made. I also wouldn’t mind owning one of the HH models but they only made 25 of those and they’re...

Can anyone send me a pic of their stock preamp? I’m having an issue with my SRF700 where the volume control for the neck pickup is either full on or full off with little change in between and the tone control acts more like a volume control than a tone control. The controls for the bridge...

Well I did an initial test and the results are in. Here’s what I did...... I made an inverted pickup holding jig out of wood and mounted a Seymour Duncan Bridge pickup from an older project to it so the whole affair sat about 1/8 inch from the strings and the pickup facing them upside down...

I think the John East just might be better since it offers a true passive mod. For now I’m going to divert my attention to my other “project” which is my new ‘20 Ultra PJ-Bass. I’ll be adding a 3rd pup closer to the neck. I’ve made a temporary rig using an inverted “U” shape jig out of...

I may just go with the Audere kit and be done with the issue all together. I’d be giving up the passive function since their kits are active only and I also take a “back-up” bass with passive mode to a live gig so no worries there. I’ve heard good things about their preamps and could make my...

@rojo412, Your bass builds look amazing!!!!! Now I might have to go out and find me a Ric to add to my collection

Also regarding the Blend pot, it works well in Passive. Not so good in Active. Fender....... what the hell did you do? While I had a screwdriver in hand, I removed the neck and shimmed it using a couple guitar picks (temporary) and got the action dialed in butter smooth and how I like it with...

WoW! I feel like it’s Christmas in here!!!! LOL. Unfortunately I would need to Frankenhack the preamp. All the components are soldered to the PC board. So I would have to see if the replacement pot could be rigged to fill in the space left if I remove the OE one. Here’s the photos as...

Shims on order. Only $36 from Stew Mac. Now for finding a the right pot. I’ve seen elsewhere in this forum they fixed the problem using a 250K M/N no load pot that has 2 sets of 3 lugs stacked.

Shim kits? I’ll do it if it’s a full shim to maintain a solid connection between neck and body. Not afraid at all. Also not afraid to unsolder PC mounted components. I’ve done it a lot in the past repairing electronics. I’ve built an entire “Portable” PC from a kit way back in the day and...

Interesting thought! It’s the stock OE Fender preamp for the Elite Jazz. I’ve never removed the cover plate to see if it does but now that you’ve mentioned it, I will check it out. While I’m in there, I’ll note what pot is being used for the balance and take a look at replacing it as well. One...

I think I found a solution..... Leaving the Master Volume set, the blend pot in the center detent, and Passive tone in the middle, I turned all the active tone pots down to about 1/3 and now it matches extremely close in volume and tone between Passive and Active when just flipping the switch...

I recently revisited my Fender Jazz Elite sitting in the corner and found the batteries were dead so there was no active mode. No surprise there. What happened next has me baffled. I put in 2 fresh batteries and now have active mode again except it is WAY louder than passive mode. I have to...

Will this work?