I've been seeing a ton of stories on this preamp,so I just ordered this exact one.Hoping it will put the zing in my Armstrong loaded homemade 70s Stingray clone.I like everything else on it but it's passive.The Monotone seems to be very popular.
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Sterling SUB NBD and need your thoughts
- Thread starter thebassbuilder
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Last night I installed the bridge pickup and electronics of the Fluence set and the pickup sounds really good but man is that thing a pain in the ass to wire. I am still not sure I want to keep them. It was still distorting my interface. Now I have not tried lowering the pickup, as you should see the crude wiring job I did just to test it. I will also say that Lobster was right when he said a little adjustment to the Bass knob especially makes a big difference in tone. It almost seems like it not only changes low end volume but the character as well. Hard to explain. It has way too much low end I think. half way is the max I think I would ever need. I liked rolling it down just under the center and that gave it more of a Stingray tone to my ears.
Does anyone know if you could take a 2 way switch and make the stock pre have a bypass switch but still use the volume and install a tone knob as well?
Does anyone know if you could take a 2 way switch and make the stock pre have a bypass switch but still use the volume and install a tone knob as well?
Check out the thickness of the magnets on the stock pickup. I am no pickup maker but this looks like this could be at least helping the reason for the hot pickup. Hard to make out in the pic but you can see it is close to half inch thick. I have seen a lot of the aftermarket pickups having much thinner magnets
Did you manage to go plug it into anything other than your iTrack Solo yet? That might save you a lot of unnecessary work.
After putting the stock pup and electronics back in, I lowered the pup a good bit and now I can have volume at 100% with no issues unless I slap it or turn the bass up a touch past noon, both of which I am not doing. So too me I think I am happy with it for now but still may try one more pup. I was thinking about trying the GFS ceramic MM they offer as I would like too have the option to crank everything with no issues. I also want to add a p bass to it as well but I have a question about that.
I want to know if I was to add a p bass pup to this bass in the neck/middle position, could I add a stacked volume tone knob to the jack location while moving the jack to the side but run everything separate but both stock and p bass passive knobs connect to the jack together with no issues? So I want the stock part of the electronics to stay as is and the p bass will only be passive but both connect at the same time to the jack. Would this be able to work or would one cancel or feed into the other and cause an issue?
