JoeAArthur

no, your not missing much.. I'm just not a fan of the big bass necks. its not the nut width that gives me trouble, its the thickness of the neck front to back. after playing 4 stringers for 25 years it just seems wrong,,LOL I'm just an old fart set in my ways so to speak,,LOL,, more then 4 strings and using guitar picks, your not playing bass,,,LOL what I'm working towards is,, I have my Warwick bass for E and drop D. the Hamer Blitz bass restore that I'm working on now will be for D and drop C and then my next restore, a 84 Ibanez Destroyer bass will be setup as B and drop A. just using the top 4 string from a 5 string set. as the restores go forward I'll have make the electronics match up "somewhat", but still leave room for some tonal differences. I will go all passive which will put me in the same area as far as output goes. then find a preamp that will let me program the difference out of them, or something like that.. right now like with all projects money is a factory. everything is coming up on me at this point in time. bass rig is due to be replaced as its about 20 years old and could stand to sound better, its pretty shot.. gotta get my taxes done to see what I have to play with for all projects. Wow (says the dumb checkout chick, "I say it louder"), I jes think it is like so good how you can like express a totally ignorant thing aND everywon will think like it is just so cool cause you follow it with a ",,LOL,". I will just luv dat. End I jes now how it es to only has those taxes to get things done. muny is all ways a factory - I lik that seying. mayb this yar cents the las 20 hasnot werked out fer ya de taxes will be butter. Gud Luk!!

Yep, if you can't play the music, blame it on a mechanical problem. Edit: Ain't got a mechanical problem? Create one.

Let me be the first to point out that you ain't paying attention. There is no need to change tunings with your guitar player. Say that second sentence out loud until it really sinks in, then to tell your guitar player to **** himself. And "small hands"? Give me a break. That is the wimpiest excuse anyone could ever use. Look up Carol Kaye and learn that you don't have a problem.

+1. I've never retuned from standard. You can screw up your neck, but not me. If you need lower notes... well, that's why they make a 5 string.

Never tried a dsonic... but an X2N for a bridge pickup positively rocks!!

Not a problem. Personally though - I would have kept the single cap and used the switch for a choice of different parallel resistances (zero or bypass being one of those resistance). The cap, in conjunction with the volume control value, may determine the frequency of cut, but a parallel resistor would determine the depth of cut. Just different strokes!! Hope it works out!

Typo.

Just add another wire for the bypass to my previous diagram. One lead from the switch (lower right hand lug) and a lead from each cap twist together to form Con1. This time, CAP2 should be smaller than CAP1 to give a Full/less/even less bass sound switching. Con1 and Con2 replace the two leads for the single cap C3 in the Ric diagram - doesn't matter which is used for which. +---CAP2--o o | / | / Con1 ----+ o o---- Con2 | | +---CAP1--o o | | +------------+ [/codebox] Does this make sense?

Add to that... "Gretsch" is "Rickenbacker". In the Ric diagram, C3 is wired as a bass cut and the push/pull shorts around it for a full bass sound out of the bridge pickup. That is not the same thing as Myka's diagram which would provide different cap values for normal treble cut.

I get it - Bypass really means "not in addition to"... Series really means parallel... I think I'm straight now!!

Don't know... sounds like you got it to me. Maybe because finding space for the circuit board, any pedal controls, and the battery might not be easy?

This is how an on/on/on switch will switch: Cap 2 selected o o | | o o o o Cap 1 Selected o o | o o | o o No cap selected position o o o o | | o o [/codebox] Not sure what you are trying to say, but this is not true - a bypass of the tone control, the [i]no cap selected[/i] position is not a short circuit. A short circuit would turn the tone pot into a volume pot.

Yes. how? Like this - the circles represent the six lugs of your on/on/on switch. +---CAP2--o o | / | / Con1 ----+ o o---- Con2 | | +---CAP1--o o [/codebox] Con1 and Con2 (Con for connection ) should be wired into your circuit as if this whole thing was just a single cap. The value of Cap1 should be the smaller than Cap2 for the switching you describe Don't forget - that is a diagonal wire between the switch lugs.

Yes.