Recent content by SouthernGorilla

Thanks! The counter is the one thing that's been holding me up honestly. Figured I'd have to buy one of those $200 machines to do it. This thread has turned out far more educational than I expected. I am grateful for all the information and ideas.

A switch with multiple taps is definitely the most accurate way to get specific turn counts out of a pickup. I'm not entirely sure a pot would even produce the same results at its min/max as a switch would with the same pickup. The idea behind the pot is that it lets you get between the tap...

One of the thoughts that goes through my head constantly is that knobs are overrated. I genuinely believe most of the fiddling players do with the knobs is pointless in the context of playing music with a band, especially in a live setting. So hardwiring a tone into the bass is absolutely...

I'm glad to see I'm not completely off the rails with this idea. I plan to give it a try. But it will be a few weeks at least. I don't have the tools to wind pickups, haven't seen any tapped bass pickups for sale. Instinctively, I worry it might just be an inefficient, complicated way of...

Always open to good advice. Bad advice is often more fun. At the moment, none of the planned overhaul is particularly interesting. New tuners, strings, pickups... just replace the questionable bits that come on a bargain instrument. The tuners are especially frustrating. But that's all basic...

With all the discussion around the internet about winding coils, specifically about how many turns to use to get the right tone, I'm surprised I've never seen what I think is an obvious mod to at least experiment with-- variable windings. Obviously you can't change the number of turns on a coil...

I thought I already joined and said hello but it didn't recognize my e-mail. Must have been a senior moment. Anyhow... I just bought myself a shiny new $100 Rogue 5-string. I went cheap because I haven't played in twenty years and I wasn't sure I wanted to get back into it. Of course, as soon...