I have a quick question for anyone who has a Corvette with active J-style pickups:
Is the red wire the output and the white wire 9V? Or is it the other way around? I'm assuming the shield on the white wire is ground, but I can't seem to find anything to indicate which is which for power and...
There's no real reason that they wouldn't work. Instead of wiring up the output from your pickups to the preamp, you're wiring the output from the switches to the preamp. You should be just fine.
Just as a side note to this thread, some well-placed electrical tape over the exposed pole pieces takes care of the popping/distortion people have been talking about. I did it on a jazz bass I had and it worked wonders. Just cut the tape evenly so that it looks nice.
As for the OP, it just...
I have DR Hi-Beams but will be trying something new next. I want to work through a couple of different brands and see what speaks to me. Anything's better than the stock strings, though.
I think that's kind of how I'll use my switches - having them as a reserve for when it comes time to take a solo or a riff that's supposed to be out front. 8)
Thanks for all the compliments. :) The more I play this bass, the more I dig it! I put on a set of light gauge Hi-Beams, and did a set up on the bass over the weekend. Now it plays like a dream!
I've found a few configurations that I'm partial to. With the bridge in series and the neck in...
The black looks good I think, too. It was a tough call between that, OB, and the green.
motley: You got me. ;) It was pretty much a copy and paste job, but I dig this forum and the other, so I figured I might as well spread the love!
Finally! This is very exciting for me - I haven't had a new bass in a long time. This bass is the culmination of a huge gear purge; I had five basses, now I'm down to two. I sold them all, plus a bunch of other gear, to buy this bass, keeping only my trusty Fender Precision.
I ordered my bass...
I finally got my Ocean Blue Corvette $$ in the mail last night! This bass is super sweet - I'll post pictures and a brief review soon. 8) I was curious, though: when I put the humbuckers in single coil mode, which coil is active? The front or rear?
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