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    The Official Short Scale Bass Club -- Part 4

    " A new bass isn't in the cards for me ATM" A new bass isn't in the cards for me even from an ATM...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 26, 2023 at 9:21 AM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    Extremely helpful, thank you! I think there is one in my future but first I need to sell at least one of the instruments I have up on Reverb.
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:55 PM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    The Yamaha Motion B: prices on them seem OK. Are those double J pickups? Humbuckers? (Or is that the same thing?) Anyone own or play one?
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    Thanks for the suggestion. Saying Fralins sound great comes as no surprise!
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    More Ibanez mod ideas. My "Mozzo" (modded Mezzo) is sounding very good, but I wonder what it would belike with the PowerSpan Dual Coils that come...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:30 AM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    No, I am thinking of selling some other scales and converting to medium. I already have a modified Ibanez Mezzo that is great and a home-brew...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:40 AM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    I am trying to thin the herd and yet I keep seeing glowing references to the Motion B. You people are no help at all!!
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 23, 2023 at 8:06 AM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Medium Scale Bass Club

    I had no idea that Epiphone made a medium scale EB. What a great find. And it is the violin body, not the SG! The EB-1 is endlessly modify-able.
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 22, 2023 at 6:50 AM in forum: Basses [BG]
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    PBass with Nordstrand Wiring Question

    Nothing that can be illustrative. This is a P-style bass with small rear control space. I have been doing this sort of thing for a while and...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023 in forum: Pickups & Electronics [BG]
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    PBass with Nordstrand Wiring Question

    Tone is full on always. No treble roll-off.
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023 in forum: Pickups & Electronics [BG]
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    PBass with Nordstrand Wiring Question

    I have a handful of orange cap .022 and .047mf that I use. My stock Precision has a .047. I have an email in to Nordstrand. Will wait for them to...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023 in forum: Pickups & Electronics [BG]
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    PBass with Nordstrand Wiring Question

    Bought a Nordstrand NP4 for a PBass build. It sounds great, super clear, but I have wired it up twice and the tone knob still seems not to work....
    Thread by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023, 5 replies, in forum: Pickups & Electronics [BG]
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    The Official Short Scale Bass Club -- Part 4

    So, another take on the Varitone switch used on Gibson guitars. They used to say that the Gibson Varitone gave you: bypass, B. B. King, unusable,...
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023 in forum: Basses [BG]
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    The Official Short Scale Bass Club -- Part 4

    What exactly *is* the Tone Drop? A variable capacitor? The Nordstrand site description is a flowery pile of zero actual information.
    Post by: JohnMalay, Jan 20, 2023 in forum: Basses [BG]