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Post by JAC on Oct 26, 2018 10:55:23 GMT
Oh, and about the dots being centered, this is very common on lined fretless basses. Although some unlined fretless basses also have them centered which can be very confusing in my opinion.
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Post by LeoThunder on Oct 26, 2018 11:56:40 GMT
I saw that "review" before I bought the bass. I'll have to take a detailed look at it. I don't mind the "Les Paul" switch off feature that was described in there but it said the wiring drained the battery and I want to understand why.
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Post by LeoThunder on Oct 26, 2018 12:11:18 GMT
Oh, and about the dots being centered, this is very common on lined fretless basses. Although some unlined fretless basses also have them centered which can be very confusing in my opinion. You mean horizontally centred between frets. I mean vertically centred within the width of the fingerboard. The dots are… funny. They start in the middle of the fret positions but start drifting downwards at the octave. I finished the marking so I could play higher up without guesswork: I measured the fret positions on my SR, so I assume it's right.
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Post by LeoThunder on Oct 26, 2018 12:41:36 GMT
Maybe the markers were placed before the bass was ever intonated...if it ever was. Have you measured them against a scale chart? No, but I placed my fret markers at the exact position frets are on my Ibanez SR and verified that the notes played there on the E string match those played 5, 10 and 15 fret positions lower on the other three. The funny thing is that the dots are well placed in the lower half of the neck.
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Post by LeoThunder on Nov 18, 2018 9:41:19 GMT
I did a bit of re-wiring. For some unclear reason, this bass is wired like an old Les Paul without a selector switch. This style: It means that both tone controls are in parallel and have a cumulative effect, not related to a particular pick-up since the output of both volume controls are always connected. Connecting each tone pot to the input of the volume pot rather than to its output makes them selective, as shown in the lower diagram. The above diagram is the original, nonsensical wiring. I could have made the volume controls independent too but read that this configuration has a negative impact on high frequencies when lowering the volume, so I passed on it. Here's what it would have looked like:
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Post by JAC on Nov 18, 2018 12:56:35 GMT
So you now have two tone controls? One for each pickup?
Mine has master volume, blend, highs and lows.
Does yours not have the preamp in it?
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Post by LeoThunder on Nov 18, 2018 13:38:27 GMT
It's just active pick-ups and simplistic passive electronics, just like a Les Paul without the edges. So yes, I have pick-up specific tone controls. I didn't know they made a B-400 with an active pre-amp, but indeed, there was such a thing in 2011. Mine is most likely older, some real vintage. I see the knobs are not positioned the same way.
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Post by LeoThunder on Nov 18, 2018 14:02:14 GMT
Now, that's funny. This old 2011 review shows a cavity without a battery holder: It looks as if it is meant to be stuck on the plate or move freely in the belly of the besat. I made fun of mine because it was built in a way which made it inaccessible (pots in the way) but now I start to think it was a DIY upgrade from a previous owner:
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Post by confucian on Feb 19, 2020 22:26:05 GMT
Just Purchased one of these, this thread has answered a lot of my questions already
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