Recent content by Fudleysmith

For worship team playing CCM, it fits my needs perfectly. The active/passive switch allows so much tonal and sustain variation that it works perfectly switching from passive on the mellow opening to active on the second chorus for the thunder.

+1 in the comparison between the Ultramags and the Pure Blues. Pretty much my experience too, but on a Yamaha 605 in a CCM worship team.

I just took a set of round core Boomers off of my Yamaha 605 in favor of the ultramags. The low B is much more to my taste on the ultramags, much firmer and allowing me to really dig in without lots of fret slap or pickup brushing. The ultras also have a nicer string to string timbre progression...

I play a 605 in a worship team in a Hispanic Baptist church. The active/passive switch has worked perfectly to change the timbre and presence "on the fly", even between verse and chorus. Passive for the ballads and the first verses of anthems, etc..., but then when the chorus rises or the...

An update to this experiment. I upgraded the pots and opted for a .68mf capacitor. The bummer is that I changed three variables at the same time, so I don’t know which factor contributed the most to the tone upgrade. The throw-away pots were about the diameter of a nickel and had a very scratchy...

I just did this exact thing and i completed it yesterday. eBay P-bass knock off for $55.66 and the p-bass pups out of a Yamaha 174ex (that i upgraded to Bartolinis) that were hanging around. Kept the bridge, replaced the strap buttons, disassembled and lubed the tuner mechanisms, replaced the...