Recent content by HHudson

If you bought the shielding tape from a trusted source, it should be w/ conductive adhesive. I once bought expensive copper "guitar shielding" tape online which turned out to not have conductive adhesive, shielded on a Saturday afternoon of course, measured w/ a multi meter, lol, only the small...

NP, ws just offering some thoughts :D => hum ... buzz Shielding. Like most basses - including Fender MXs - no or insufficient shielding is the norm. I copper tape shielded & grounded my EB Enhanced and it got rid of the EMI/RFI issues, mostly coming from the MM PU. If you plug in, keep...

The answer to that question is easy (and I am not trying to be snarky), fewer bassists are willing to buy a 412 & thus companies less willing to produce them. Most of the posts above are people talking about why bassists generally do not prefer 412s. A quick search of the local classifieds...

The one I was given to set up still had the original ~20 year old stock RW strings on it (dead but still felt like rat tail files, I'm sure the 7250Ms you used were a big improvement) and had never been set up.. required a tweak for the TR and saddles even before I swapped the strings, had a...

I recently setup an early GSR200 for a friend who wanted flats (growl friendly Fender 9050Ls) on it... was very surprised how good it sounded. Don't care for the "PHAT" bass boost knob turned more than a couple of mm, but you don't have to use it. A good bass with a comfy neck, ditto I would use...

Edit, got my colo(u)r coding wrong above for the cap according to that diagram: Correction with added clarity: "you either do want it & add it with the GREEN connection with the cap inline and ignore the RED connection, or you don't want it and only install the RED wire connection and ignore...

Ditto... (but a bit less for looks and I only have one :D ), great for rock, have only swapped out the active T/B pots & knobs for a dual concentric so I could add a passive tone control for passive mode. Otherwise remained stock. Replaced an MM Bongo V HH (which can do more, but this does what...

So, just in case anyone else should decide to use Cadfael's (technically correct) drawing has issues & and ends up here because of it, best to look at this, it is much clearer and shows the physical connections as they need to be soldered (note: if you have an unangled switch, the in/out...

I won't repeat all that I've posted above, but soloed at home, the PUs sound better (mainly the P, the MM is pretty close to the bridge for my solo tastes) in passive mode than active (which is actually good for harder forms of rock, quite growly), passive = sweeter and clearer, there is a ~20%...

Hi Murad, => "unwind the string?" I very much doubt that will work.. and the string will be dead afterwards, they are steel & wound at a very high tension on the core. I haven't looked, but the Fender VI strings used to be expensive, I'm sure you could find a happy recipient who would want to...

Edit: OK re-read, so you do have linear 330k, you can try them and see if you get on with the linear taper, or just use the 500k or 250k log/audio taper which you have (Ric also flip flopped on the values in the past) if you do not like the taper. If you close the pots & measure, you will find...

Personally I prefer the standard log pot taper for volume.... I'd use those before buying new ones, they have the original 330k spec you wanted, linear will just change the taper of the pot so they do the same thing, but at different points on the dial. Edit: Wait a minute, I'm confused now...

Hi Murad, Exactly which Gretsch Jet Model did you get - and importantly, with a Bigsby (i.e. as in the last two photos with a G5265 above) or is it really a Stop Tail? Exactly where & how are the strings not fitting? Due to length and/or diameter? The scale length for the newer G5260 (stop...

@MJBoult sorry, brain fart on my part, I should not post when I'm tired, agedhorse is, as always, right... 8 Ohm speakers (or possibly 32 like the current HE), can't find an Ampeg diagram for the old HE. 4 x 8 Ohms would result in 32 Ohms if connected in series, not 16.... so forgetaboutit.

@MJBoult apparently has one of the older 1990's HE cabs, which are only rated 200w (4 Ohm speakers rated @ 50w each for that cab, 2 wired in series & then the pairs in parallel for the 8 Ohm load I suspect: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/ampeg-svt-410he-older-200-watt-version.1569300/ ). The...