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i am a true fan of graphite necks !! i got 3 basses with moses necks. that i made myself. i just bought cheap hongkong or korea jazzbass copies ( 120$), mounted the necks with bridge and tuners from the copies. installed bartolini p-bass pickups and a bartolini ntbt electronics: perfect...

oh what a discussion, of cause the passive ideas has some nice issues, first because of ungoing dammage of a natural sound. but dont forget, this is more relevant if you are more to the oldschool side, wich is good. the practice in studio and live playing is different. you are very up to need...

well i put an extra mm pickup from gfs on my pbass ´57 replica in addition to the original pickup. the stingray is on the exact MM position. actually this combination is very cool. so i have the choice between an oldschool sound and an very dry and hard sound. i have a blend pot installed that...

hi there, thats a good input. of cause the resistance is meant sorry. -- actually i do have an tct laying around. i quite like the sound of the bartolini preamps. do you know the diffrence in sound to the ntbt 918 ? personnaly i dont have problems with the hught output of the preamp. my...

hi, i got them used. they have the alembic writing engraved. - not in gold- only as black carving. mxy ?

hi there, my new alembic pickups have a little over 8k ohm impedance. thats a lot. i am unsure what electronics i should use with it? is the idea best to rebuild a series II electronics or will be something else better. my reservation is about the working together of the parts. the...

hi zbasstringer, my experience is that its absolutly ok to take todays corean models as a base. there is career, uunsung and their brands, silver star...... they make good basses. when you take a good PU and a cool bridge you shouldnt have any problem to make it a good bass. my advice would be...

hi boys, wow nobody knew anything about my bartolini pickup probllem........ so i found it out myself. here is the magic about that for you that might have one day the same prolem: these old bartolinis in preci shape have each one- a preci is always made of two pieces- two wirings. one that...

dear collegues, my choice for frettless bass strings for studio and live since the mid eighties are: Dr. Tomastik ( infeld wien, austria). usualy this company makes strings for orchester classical instruments. they are very smooth have a wonderfull singing tone and give you the right feel to...

undoubtly the consruction of a bass is responsable for basic sound differncies. i once had the same bass- music man 4 string- with one rosewood a maple fingerboards. the differencies where noticeble, especially in the dryness of the sound. for my ears the rosewood had more deep mids, wihc is...

no i am from the good old europe...... northern part

hi ; i think the choice is problematic for a real slappy funky sound unless you like the old and damped sound of the early and the 70 slap years. for modern slap sound you should consider- apart from the right sayings in the other posts: have a good bass and strings first that fit the desired...

dear vincent P, lets face it: the base is always the base. that means first get your sound good. any effects, even copression or crossovers comes after. 1.) step: a good preamp. most of the preamps are not working because they offer thausands of features and no good sound. the right- and only...

dear august grey, you should know, or decide before you touch the knobs, what ist your personality sound wise. that depends on your playing style: when you like it more melodic playing and you play more than less notes, you should have not too much bass. the goal would be to make your bass...

hello collegues, for my newest bass i bought 2 preci pu from bartolini that will be installed reversed ( buzzard style) in my bass. unfortunatly i dont have documentation about the wiring of the pickups themself. they have each one ( every one of the 4 pieces- remenber i have 2 preci PUś)...