Recent content by JohnArnson

I am considering buying 2 of these dirt cheap pickups: Janika Hot Rail: They are probably highly unlikely to be any improvements over the stock ones I use now, and I suppose chances are that they are worse, but buying the 2 bridge pickups that I need will cost me what equals about 46$, about...

Here's a new sound test with some changed settings, as I wasn't completely satisfied with the tone of the example above: Dropbox - Soundtest - Ibanez 5 string Mikro - 221119.mp3 - Simplify your life Clean bass signal alone, which I really never use, just to give you an idea of how my bass...

I thought it would be optimal of you you actually had a sample of how the tone of my bass is now to be able to suggest pickups that might get me in that ballpark. So I recorded a soundtest of my bass, but changed my EQ setting a bit again, as O wasn't totally satisfied with the raw tone of my...

So I currently use the 2 stock J pickups on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro bass wired in series directly to the output jack socket of the bass, and for such cheap pickups they do sound surprisingly great, but as I have to run the bass through a graphic EQ boosting the 280Hz band about 4dB, the...

Yeah, I had it the same way when I first started out, the more features the better, now I got a 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro with the 2 stock J pickups permanently wired in series directly to the output jack socket of the bass: Never though I'd be playing a 5 string though, and just got this...

A sound test I just recorded of my bass setup, using my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro bass, that I have re-wired so that the 2 stock J pickups are wired in series, connected directly to the output hack socket, and tuned in F# standard tuning, F#1 to D3, 2 half steps above standard E tuning, and...

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My 28,6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro bass, that I tuned in F# standard, as in 2 half steps above standard E tuning, F# to D, gauge .090-.074-.054-.042-.030 strings, poplar body, maple neck with a jatoba fretboard, and with a bit a gray paint, a gray decal and new knobs and a switch, which...

Use both techniques and improve in both. Use the technique that fits best with what you are playing, Personally I started out with using pick coming from guitar, then learned how to use my fingers and played that almost exclusively for some years, now however I am back on mostly playing with...

What I actually meant to say, though it came out as the exact opposite. And yes, usually something not having neck dive will usually be defined by something with a balance point around 40 degrees or so, so when you push it up much further and then let go the heavier neck will tip that balance...

A couple of people seems to read this wrong, the MIM Hoppus with roundwound strings on it won. And even by quite a margin.

Fair enough, I might have been a bit too sensitive there, no hard feelings whatsoever. Sorry for taking it personally when it wasn't intended that way. Anyway, regarding neck dive, I think that Mikro might be a combination of you getting unlucky to get one that was specifically prone to it...