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I'll third it! Veddy Nice!

Now I played the Silva-Machine on my ’74 4001FG for a two week ends and on one gig already. I experienced the following:

The existing high gain had about 9.6 kOhm and the bridge PU slightly more. This “original” constellation was producing a quite modern, crispy sound for such “old” instrument and as I’m not into vintage, I was fine with it. However, as I like the look of a toaster and my bass will get the “pre-’73-conversion” by Paul W. beginning of next year, I asked Sérgio Silva to make one of his “artwork” for me. His Silva-Machine now came out as a really hot toaster, very powerful due to new magnetic material dowel pins he used (he received from John A.), although the resistance is still vintage 6.9 kOhm.

But so is the sound, very deep bass, with a lot of deep growl, very similar to Elys' 1968 21-Fretter which I played before shipping to him. Anyway, but I’m into modern sound and playing style (slapping, pulling, Funk,…). So I would like to check out a higher resistance (about 10kOhms) toaster, if the sound could become crispy again rather than vintage. So if anybody is interested I would like to swap such toaster with you. Mine is in mint condition with cover and all screws are mint chrome. See pic above.

Hi Peter,

I don't have one to trade, BUT should you decide to sell it, I'd love to use it in my 1974!

Tony

The toasters in my 320-12v63 are 10.5K. The toaster in my '57 1000 is 5K even. For me, the lower the better; less distributed capacity, greater linearity, wider harmonic range. Less output, well, my amp goes to 12.

A simple bar magnet, for instance the type you can find on Jap-made Strat-style pickups, will make an old toaster pickup - specially the type having short slugs for polepieces - sound very noticeably hotter. Try it sometime.