Recent content by mrhilger

I reached out to Fender already but since he is no longer an employee they were not willing to share any information regarding him.

I am not sure if anyone can help me with this one but here goes.... I am trying to get in contact with George Blanda. I have one of his handmade guitars that he made before his tenure at Fender. It is an "Asskicker" serial number 001. I would like to talk to him about it but just can't seem...

I am probably leaning towards a different preamp, but I am curious about adding a switch. Is there a single switch that would allow me to route both pickups to either a passive path or the active path?

Thanks for the reply, but this is not a jazz bass so that wouldn't work. Also, on my jazz basses that also use an Audere preamp, I find that I use the midrange tone controls the most. The j-tone doesn't offer control over the midrange.

Will do. It might be a while though as money is tight right now. That's why I was trying to something on the cheap with stuff I already have;)

Points well taken. Simple would probably be better served by just getting a preamp that does what I want and be done. No need to reinvent the wheel here;) Thank you for sharing. I agree I am probably going for a more complex solution than necessary. On a side note, I was doing a little more...

I would like to use an Audere Classic preamp that accepts input from two pickups. It's configured with Vol/blend, bass/treble, and high mid/ low mid controls. Since it accepts inputs from both pickups I don't know how to I should setup the passive circuit. If I am understanding you correctly...

I seems to me that if you want to get a P bass-ish sound you will need pickups that are split coil. That seems like the most important thing. I have a jazz bass with a set of split coil pickups and they seem to give the best of both worlds. If I use just the neck pickup it is pretty close to...

I have an SR505 that I want to make both active and passive. Switchable of course. I know it is an easy mod if you have a preamp post volume/ blend controls. The problem for me is that the preamp I am using has a vol/ blend control in addition to the eq section. I could easily replace the...