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The BH2 are genuinely awesome sounding pickups. I honestly wish they would make them available in more sizes.

I've played exclusively in A standard for well over a decade at this point. Standard tuning doesn't even sound good to my ears anymore because it lacks that extra booty the loosened strings give.

The golden pearl ones are definitely harder to come by!

Whenever you touch metal on the bass you are completing the ground circuit. Fully shield the electronics cavity with copper, ground the bridge wire to the copper, and you will no longer need to be what completes the circuit.

For anyone interested, here was Daniel's explanation as far as tonewood from when I started the process of having my 535 built. Now having experience with this build, I think the maple neck would'be been the better choice for me. What I was hoping would happen is that the "focus" he mentions...

My 535 is also ash/ash/BEM and anyone that knows me outside of here knows that I've had quite a journey with it :thumbsdown:. This may be a bit long winded, but I think it's worth it for anyone that buys this wood combo and isn't too keen on a taking a loss by selling it and trying to get into...

And yet they keep recommending this combo to people...I'd even venture to say that it is one of their top selling combinations :eek:

Yet another ash/ash/maple bass that didn't stick around lol. It's a pretty common theme around here...

Most likely a Hollywood shop bass which would put it in the in the late 1980's.

Well, anytime you add laminations you create compression and neutralize sympathetic resonances. No doubt that neck has a way more focused sound than a single piece of ash.

I had the opposite results with mine lol, but I think the woods have the most to do with this. As already stated here multiple times, the northern ash body/ash neck basses can sometimes result in an overabundance of "vintage-y" mids that cause the fundamentals to get lost (really just...

Also, per your request...

MT5T are reverse p splits, which is why they are not quite as dark/warm as the drop shoulders that were in that black Basic 5 (which are MT5C duals). Once Mike was out of the picture the part numbers on the back of the pickups stayed the same, but the sound of the pickups drastically changed...

---UPDATE--- I have discovered the purpose behind the resistors on the mid pot on later TCT pres vs no resistors on the old Tobias TCT preamps. The pot values were different! The old Tobias pres used a 25K pot so there was no need to lower the overall value with resistors. The new TCT uses a 50k...

Pretty simple. I gave the stock electronics a shot out of respect to Mike & Daniel, but ultimately decided that they did not achieve what I prefer. I first installed a TCT with a different buffer (to accommodate for 9v only operation and the higher input sensitivity of the TCT), but the TCT...

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I'm a diehard TCT guy (which I believe falls into the filter based category). Both my 535 and Beast MTD basses use it :cool:

EMG 35 = Bartolini M3 EMG 40 = Bartolini M4 EMG 45 = Bartolini M5

NGL, was surprised when I saw you were trying these. Not surprised at the result though lol.

Same here!

More often than many are willing to admit (which is understandable as it can feel embarrassing to spend that kind of money and not be happy with it). IME many people (myself included) fall into 2 traps... 1.) They hear basses like Gouche's and think they are representative of the standard "MTD...

They won't/didn't. I know the electronics that went in these and they're nothing like what was in Mike's basses or even the short lived "slap tone" pre from the 90's Gibson ones.

You have 2 more traditional (no buffer) dual coil pickups mated to a more typical NTMB+F (not MTD custom) preamp. Each pickup has series/single/parallel mode via separate 3-way switches and when both pickups are in single coil mode the stock configuration is set to use the 2 most outer coils...

I would not advise this with an active/passive setup, a 25k pot would kill the top end of the pickups because of treble bleeding to ground. On an active only setup (where the volume pot is isolated from the pickups), what you say is accurate. Where do you have the internal input trim set on the...

Getting my Kingston AG5 re-fretted with the MTD Evo Gold wire was easily the best mod I ever did to that bass! If you have the 2+2 screw pickups, I recommend contacting David Daw at MTD Kingston and seeing if you can get the updated (2+1 screw) pickups. Those combined with the stock NTMB+F are...

While I never owned the bass that is for sale here (just the bridge that is on it), which was the first bass of mine you bought?

^ Best response. ESPECIALLY with Mike's build philosophy and his electronics being tuned as transparent as possible to leave the wood to do all the work. He doesn't want instruments even built from the same wood to sound the same because (as already stated) every piece of wood is unique and...

These wouldn't happen to be a set of CBC-T would they?

Tone is super objective, what is "better" depends on what you're after. I was wanting strong lows/low mids and a bitey treble. We borrowed from the Marcus Miller formula and also decided to go with an ash neck to gain a bit more focus since I wasn't going with a top (I really like trans finishes...

This seems to be a common result. The ash/ash/maple (from my experience) has this overabundance of midrange that just overpowers everything else. It makes it hard to get good fundamentals and also makes the attack extremely round sounding. I was expecting something more towards the Marcus Miller...

I would've, but I was there on my own errands and Mike/Daniel had limited time to spend (and when I saw it, it was covered in shop dust) lol.

I saw this bass with my own eyes (I think I may have even touched it lol). I saw the ocean fade on the back sitting in the rack next to the bench and went to take a look because I thought to myself "I really think I've seen this build already somewhere..." :roflmao: Beautiful bass, congrats!

So that is an NS-TMB, which is The NSTMB circuit differs from the NTMB stuff in that it uses a +9-9 switching power supply. There should be a pair of wires coming out of the main module that do not attach to anything and have shrink wrap over them. Those are not supposed to see ground or touch...

You can easily tie a treble bleed pot off of your volume pot with your stock setup. The treble bleed pot itself will be setup just like a traditional tone pot and basically function like one as well, it just won't add that resonant bump while rolling the treble off.

Are you looking specifically for that more nasally resonant bump of the modern tone pot wiring, or are you just looking for another way to roll-off treble that doesn't also cut volume?

That doesn't seem right as what you're describing should be series wiring and very high output. Unless your p bass pickups are just super hot.

As far as I know, all you will get is the preamp module. Keep in mind that the TCT is a treble boost/mid cut/bass boost circuit in it's basic form, but you can add a mid module to gain mid boost as well. The biggest thing will be getting all the ground and jumper wires correct. The TCT is a very...

I'm pretty sure Mike made this comment specifically in regards to how an ash neck and ebony board work together. In his opinion, the treble created by that combo was too much to be compensated for by adjusting the preamp EQ. He's also said for the longest time that he refuses to use cocobolo...