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Measure the pickup with an ohmmeter. This is easy to do: unscrew the plate, flip it over, set the selector switch to the bridge pickup, and you can read the true nature of the neck pickup off its leaf terminal of the selector switch. It should read steady, and depending on the year of manufacture, ...

All well and good, gentlemen, but when will the next batch of W basses start shipping? Or have they already?

bigandyh wrote:Thank goodness I found someone else who has a 4004

I have one, but it's green.

jps wrote:How is maple as firewood? Oh yeah, watch out for the fumes from the finish on the bass.

Maple makes excellent firewood.

I did, but it was a long time ago.

squirebass wrote:One thing that struck me though, was both he and Squire died on June 27th. Odd considering they were both well-thought of bass players and that one influenced the other so much....

New members of and new meaning for Club 27?

I worked for HP for 11 years, but it was in Corvallis, Oregon. I did kinda meet Siegfried on line. I think.

jps wrote:That would be very nice, then you'd look a real pro with that arrangement.

I wouldn't want to mislead anybody!

I suppose I might have left out the actual available frequencies, but he did ask.

I hadn't thought about using a 4-pole connector. As things stand, the speakers I'm using with it are all 15"s. I was thinking of using an external cabinet with an 8" or 10". But it wouldn't be difficult to wire in a 4-pole connector in the back of the rack.

Copied from the manual: The PureBand™ Crossover System provides a variable state Linkwitz-Riley 24dB/octave filter allowing you to choose a point between 50Hz and 3kHz on 1/12th octave centers. The following points are available for choice: 50Hz, 53Hz, 56Hz, 59Hz, 63Hz, 66Hz, 70Hz, 74Hz, 79Hz, 83Hz,...

My main rig these days uses a Crown XLS1500 power amp. It has a built in crossover. I also have a Biamp crossover I could use with another amp, if I wanted to.

I'm going to have to add a midrange speaker!

I've been playing Ric basses for four decades now, so I've played them through a lot of amps. Currently, in one band, I'm using a modified 4000 through a second generation Sunn Model T (also modified) into a Sunn Model 410H cabinet which is sometimes supplemented by a Model 215 cabinet loaded with J...

Rehearsal was canceled last night, so I had some free time. I decided to go ahead and wire the neck pickup in parallel. I also had a 500K pot with a switch handy, so I used the switch to allow both parallel HB and SC operation. Wired it all up, and it didn't work. Checked all my wiring, and found th...

I've noticed that the neck pickup is considerably louder than the bridge pickup. Eventually, I intend to install a push-pull pot to select single coil on the neck pickup, but I think I'll try wiring the neck pickup in parallel. That should reduce the output, bringing the pickups into closer balance.