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I've got a Squier Paranormal Jazz '54, and I feel like the tonal options would be more varied with linear pots - at the moment, I can't get a signal with both pickups dialled in unless they're both set to the same volume. However, they're concentric pots, and I'm finding it hard to find linear...

Again, it looks like the same one from the Peter Hook model. I think this could probably be described as Rivoli-ish. But then if Epiphone aren't gonna get off their backsides and make some new ones, then someone else might as well.

I doubt it would be that heavy. I have their Peter Hook signature model (another semi-hollow, with just one split pickup and a full 34" scale), and it's a reasonable weight. I do sometimes think that would be a perfect bass with another pickup to balance the split pickup that is really close to...

Eastwood seem to have just recently launched their own version of the Gibson EB-2/Epiphone Rivoli, called the VKB-4. It's a short-scale hollowbody with a neck humbucker, and a split-coil bridge pickup. Link below: Eastwood VKB-4 Has anyone had a chance to try one? There's very limited info...

Me giving my D5 its gigging debut a couple of weeks ago. Sounded incredible and felt so easy to play.

Thanks for the responses. Given my total inexperience and lack of knowledge, I might just pay a professional £50 to do it for me. A soldering kit and other materials would probably cost the same anyway!

I'm considering replacing the pickup and pots in my Sire P5R and Squier Jazz '54, but I've never soldered anything in my life. There are loads of decent soldering kits out there, but most of what I see online in terms of the solder itself recommended a 60/40 tin-lead mix with a rosin core. Is...

Last weekend I got to use my Sire D5 live for the first time. I was torn between that and my P5R, but that badly needed a setup and I just didn't have time. I don't think the stage monitors were working as I could barely hear myself play, but out front from videos people took it sounded...

That bridge is crazy expensive. I don't see the need to replace the whole thing, if I can get some decent saddles. Never had a problem with any bridge, except maybe the stupid Rickenbacker V2 bridge (it's not as bad as the V1 but it still has the silly mute system...). Need to get them by this...

Does anyone know of any brass saddles that definitely fit the stock P5 bridge? I feel like it'd be an upgrade on the stock saddles, and probably make it sound a tiny bit brighter. And for strings, do I need extra-long strings to use the string-through holes, or will standard scale strings work...

I had my first gig experience with one of my recently-acquired Sire basses recently, and man, I'm regretting not having been aware of Sire for so long. I got a P5R recently after looking for a 4-string P Bass to round out my collection, and to get a cheap workhorse for gigs where I didn't want...

Last weekend I used my heavily modded 2000 5-string Squier Standard P-Bass Special on stage for the first time. First time using a 5-string on stage at all! Had the bass for 18 months but have only recently gotten my head around the extra string, and my hands used to the massive neck. Was also...

Does anyone know of any replacement knobs that would fit the P5R and/or D5 that are basically the same (flat top, chrome, texture, same size, push-on preferably), but with a pointer/marker of some sort on them? Somewhere that delivers to the UK would be extra helpful. I'm getting annoyed by not...

Does anyone know if there are aftermarket bridge replacements for the V2 bridge yet? All the results I'm finding seem to be replacements for the V1 (pre-2020) bridge. While I don't hate the V2 bridge completely, the mute really is pretty pointless for me - especially as the foam seems to be too...

Yes, that brief video, and some others of Mike Watson, show the nuances that you just can't get with a pick. Their basslines are so criminally underrated, and full of beautiful little ghost notes and quick gallops.