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Thunderbird Club
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Five years and three months for me, God willin' and the crik don't rise.
And give up all that?
City permittivities or county?
I absolutely did not understand a single bit of all that.
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Banana oil. There were at least a dozen words in there you were familiar with!
you're serious aren't you?.....
That makes my head hurt!!
Those of you who've changed pot values in your basses, was it pretty much always 250k changed to 500k? Why did you make the change and what were the results?
In the treble guitar world, the rule of thumb has long been 250k for single coils, 500k for humbuckers. Lower values bleed off more treble, so I'm guessing that's why the 250k seems common with bass humbuckers. But it's a bit more complex.
In the treble guitar world, the rule of thumb has long been 250k for single coils, 500k for humbuckers. Lower values bleed off more treble, so I'm guessing that's why the 250k seems common with bass humbuckers. But it's a bit more complex.
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No wrist straps?
I just don't want to load down the pickups, so I go with 500k. I just put 1M in my Ripper.
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
As I mentioned in responding about my Orville, changing the pots from 250k to 500k made all the difference it terms of really opening up the SD custom shop pickups - The 250k pots had it sounding weak, unremarkable in every possible way, the difference was night and day.
I think most of us have some technical knowledge that would take a while explain to a person outside of our field.
I think I’m going to try that on the VP I put the Thunderbuckers in. I like them now but suspect they can be even better.
