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Passive J Bass. Would it be possible to use a twin-gang volume pot as the front knob (for humbucking at all volumes) and a push-pull volume pot as the middle knob, using it as an alternative volume control for the bridge pickup? The push-pull switch would move Hot of the bridge pickup between...

I run house sound at a venue. We'll occasionally get an upright bass player with a non-magnetic passive pickup, and it sounds fine directly into the house amp. But when it passes through a house DI, the feed to both the amp and the DI's XLR output is either thin or low-level or both. The DI's...

I run house sound at a venue. We'll occasionally get a player with a non-magnetic passive pickup, and it sounds fine directly into the house amp, but when it passes through a house DI the feed to both the amp and the DI's XLR output is either thin or low-level or both. The DI's are passive...

I'm about to put together a Franken-J. To me, the standard Volume-Volume-Tone configuration has a huge problem, which is that any deviation from dead-even volume between the two pickups wrecks the humbucking-ness. Would it be possible to instead have it be Overall Volume-Tone-Tone, with the...

I've got a 70's Ibanez Challenger lawsuit P. Sounds monstrous, but I've got a nickel allergy so I'm allergic to the frets, and I don't love the neck. I can do a Warmoth neck with Evo Gold hypoallergenic frets for way cheaper than I can get an LA fret job. The question is, will standard...

I have a 70's Ibanez Challenger Lawsuit P. Monstrous sounding. It has a broken pickguard. I know it's a long shot, but do any of y'all know if a Fender guard would be a straight swap?

I have 2 very similar basses. One is a 70's Ibanez Challenger lawsuit P-bass, and I recently got an early 80's Ibanez Blazer, which is basically a post-lawsuit Son-of-Challenger. Besides the cosmetic differences, the biggest difference was the bridges. The Challenger's is Fender-like --...