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More recently ive been enjoying jeff schmidt's album outre, Im finding his approach to playing very interesting.

Double the pleasure, Double the funk!

Well the OLP Stingrays were wired passive.

If he has a degree in Electrical engineering then he will have taken the courses nessisary to fix your bass. Circuit analysis, Electronics, ect.

Im a sucker for block inlays. I say go with them for your Carvin.

You will eventually have to replace your tubes.

Pots (Potentiometers) are measured in Ohms, The K stands for kilo or thousands. So a 500k pot has a maximum value of 500,000 ohms. if your concerned that much about the volume drop I would switch it to a 250k pot since that is what the spec suggests.

It depends on your playing style I would suggest trying both of those, as well as a J, and seeing which sounds and feels better to you.

Dotting notes to give them more emphasis. Liberal use of Rests. Playing the root then an octave up. That's all that i can think of right now.

All of the Sly & the Family Stone recordings i believe

You could always just put the darkstar in it. :hiding:

You probably saw a squire VM fretless zombie. It looks a lot like jaco's. That may be the closest thing you'll get to a left handed jaco signature with out a custom job.

According to wikipedia, it was released in 2005.I dont know that they were ever released with a wenge neck though, just the fingerboard.

A lot of people on the forum are based in the U.S. or canada where its anywhere from 4-7am so most people are asleep, give it a few more hours. That being said I cant say that i have any valuable input as i have never used either of the pickups but one is ceramic based and one is alnico based...

Guitarists and singers are easy to find. Drummers and bassists aren't. Sounds like you already have the hard part done. Just saying.