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I feel like this could use another switch...
- Thread starter ScottfromCalgary
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Based on how clean that bottom J route is, I'd actually trust it. If the price is low enough, I'd buy it and just wire it passive PJ. Plug the other holes with Chicago screws.
Teijo K.
Commercial User
Why not?
A new Pick Guard, Volume/Volume/Tone, and you'd have a decent looking P-J.
Heck, I'd even consider buying now...
EDIT- Just saw that the price was $1500. Hmm...
Maybe not.
A new Pick Guard, Volume/Volume/Tone, and you'd have a decent looking P-J.
Heck, I'd even consider buying now...
EDIT- Just saw that the price was $1500. Hmm...
Maybe not.
Hey, if the neck isn't total POOP, for that price, it could be an excellent "work on it" bass...View attachment 3117001
If your in Medicine Hat, AB, Canada you could pick up this beauty instead at a much more reasonable price! $200
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The switches might be an 8-bit volume control. All-on: full volume. All-off: muted. The seven lowest-value switches on: Half-volume.
The advantage would be obvious: Flipping a single switch can provide a subtle or significant change in volume, without having to carefully position a freefloating potentiometer. You can go from half-volume to full-volume with a single switch flip, and 256 possible values is practically more than you need!
The main disadvantage is having to remember which switch is the lowest-value switch and which is the highest.
One of the switches activates Amazon's one click purchase feature to send you more switches.
Do a TB title search, "most knobs on a bass?", from Jan 10, 2011. The Alembic wins. A couple of posts down is a link which has the explanation of the function of all the knobs....I think us TB'ers need to rewrite the knob assignment list. More stuff like; 22. " Spotlight on bassist", 23." Waitress call.", 24."Drummer mute", 25. "Mojo- lo/med/hi", 26. "Groove- auto/manual", 27. "Girl butt oscillator- vertical/horizontal/circular", 28. "More me- 10/11". Whaddau think??
This isn't really my kind of thing, but for some reason I like it.
Perfect for a cover band doing 80s hair metal OR new wave!
I also think bass in OP is an attempt to go Becker.
For some reason, it looks like it's made of plastic, to me.
Could be a nice bass for an Archies or Gem and the Holograms tribute band, though.
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Me likee. I’d want black pickup covers though, and at least one purple LED somewhere.
I built a couple guitars in the heyday of switch arrays - phase switches, parallel/series/single coil switches, etc... and quickly realized that having 28 combinations didn't help you get a better sound - especially when 35 of them were "suck" sounds. Sure, experiment with all those things, and....find out what you will use. Then put a 3 way switch on your instrument that gives you the combinations that work for what you do. A few good sounds that are easy to get (and an instrument that doesn't have suck sounds) are worth a lot more than an instrument with every possible combination of wiring.
one wakes you up, the other wakes the audience up!
That said, it's definitely unconventional, I'd be cool with taking the J pickups out, going back to the traditional P circuit. Swap out the pickguard, or keep it as is, leave the body routes open, mojo-machine right there
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That actually looks almost like my old Pbass. I had a very similar setup on a 1976 Pbass. Same PU configuration, but I only had 3 switches (each one turning a pickup on or off). It was a hell of a bass and could get a bunch of great tones out of it. I think I got mine for under $400 though.
