Recent content by Brent Hahn

Glad I asked. :-)

Well then... glad I asked before I just went and did it. Being one of those guys who play Jazz basses, I'm of the both-dimed school, but hate the volume pedal (as well as the tuner pedal I have to use outdoors). So to get that, should I combine the two pickups P-style into one volume pot that...

Right now I use a volume pedal to back off the gain. Is the sound of that different from dialing back the two volume pots on the bass? Or is just that less loud = less full onstage = less good? No snark intended, just not following the logic.

Different folks want different things. I'm seeing a big uptick in RF-heavy situations that make a stock passive J untenable. Especially if it's a recording/streaming kind of gig. And I just about never need Jaco Honk. But I'd also like to be able to revert to the stock wiring in an unclunky way.

In practice live, the idea would be that you could ride your gain up and down using one knob, not two (a win), and stay not-noisy while doing so (another win).

Passive J Bass. Would it be possible to use a twin-gang volume pot as the front knob (for humbucking at all volumes) and a push-pull volume pot as the middle knob, using it as an alternative volume control for the bridge pickup? The push-pull switch would move Hot of the bridge pickup between...

Often, the dead spot in your bass is really the dead spot in the room. At the extreme, there's one venue I play regularly where's there's no point in playing anything above the 4th fret on the D string, it'll just disappear. I had someone come up to me and crack on me for playing the bass part...

A lot of the rockabilly repertoire depends on the bottom note of a pattern for a given chord being an open string. You can play it without that, but it's pointless masochism.

Followup: the holes didn't line up, and the neck pocket needed a tiny bit of widening and about 1/8 inch of deepening. And one other goofy thing -- the bolt holes in the body weren't wide enough to let the bolts travel freely (the bolts are only supposed to grab the neck, not the body as well)...

I run house sound at a venue. We'll occasionally get an upright bass player with a non-magnetic passive pickup, and it sounds fine directly into the house amp. But when it passes through a house DI, the feed to both the amp and the DI's XLR output is either thin or low-level or both. The DI's...

I run house sound at a venue. We'll occasionally get a player with a non-magnetic passive pickup, and it sounds fine directly into the house amp, but when it passes through a house DI the feed to both the amp and the DI's XLR output is either thin or low-level or both. The DI's are passive...

I'm willing to be talked out of it, but I think I'll initially go with P wiring (1 volume 1 tone). If that works well, then I'll stick a muting short-circuit switch of some sort in the third hole.

I'm about to put together a Franken-J. To me, the standard Volume-Volume-Tone configuration has a huge problem, which is that any deviation from dead-even volume between the two pickups wrecks the humbucking-ness. Would it be possible to instead have it be Overall Volume-Tone-Tone, with the...

Thanks for the heads up. This one's got a 34" scale and the original neck is a 20-fret.

I've got a 70's Ibanez Challenger lawsuit P. Sounds monstrous, but I've got a nickel allergy so I'm allergic to the frets, and I don't love the neck. I can do a Warmoth neck with Evo Gold hypoallergenic frets for way cheaper than I can get an LA fret job. The question is, will standard...