I clicked faster than Google could translate your sentence to Dutch ^^
That is a beauty. But really too expensive … and cannot be bought in Europe.
You can get dual humbuckers 
but yes, it’s expensive which is why I didn’t post it earlier.
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You are going to learn to embrace the natural characteristics of each bass as it comes. You don’t have 2 basses anymore, lollipop. I took that steps a couple of years ago and it took me a year just to keep my hands off the knobs and play the bass as it is. After a few months I started to have an idea what each bass sounds like and their personalities.
Forget modding pickups, just grabbing the bass and start turning knobs to the tone you like is just a bad habit for a multiple basses owners. Unless I’m recording and/ or seeking a specific tone for a song I just leave them at center detent.
You can get a Delano big pole jazz pickup to replace it. It’s a humbucker pickup with plenty of muscle behind it. The question then become why make all your bass sound the same? I have a 4 stacks tool chest full of pickups that I stopped modding my bass because of this very reason.
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Yeah. No.
I need to be realistic. If playing bass were my only hobby and if I were good enough, ok. But I have too many expensive hobbies … and I find that a bass/bike/etc never should be better then me.
I should deserve it!
So, I will either keep the Sire U5 and be happy … or get back to the original idea, buying a Harley Benton MV-4MSB and mod the hell out of it. And just for fun, get a 2nd Harley Benton MV-4MSB and make it fretless. Be cause I can! Hopefully…
Hey, if you don’t need those - I know somebody who does 
If only… we can but dream
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Medium scale, so not on my radar ^^
If I can play well enough that I could play a 2000€ bass without feeling guilty, I will be really happy!
32"/30" feels the same to me personally. But I hear you.
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You are still young, my friend, and did not have to fight ninjas, bikes and dragons, I presume!?
With age comes not only wisdom, but also pain & immobility 
So … 30"!
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hah! I am in my sixties and don’t qualify as young, have had six knee surgeries and lost all feeling in my feet, and so am legally disabled, I have torn my radial ligament in my left arm and do not have the strength to lift a bass with it anymore, and I had to quit playing bass for about 8 months from the pain. Now, I am relearning the bass from scratch because my left arm doesn’t work the same as it used to.
I feel like we could go at this like that scene from Swamp Thing, where they compare battle scars. Point is, I get pain and immobility, which is why I am moving over to short scales myself.
I agree 30" is best.
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My favorite bass with the best neck is my Vintera II Telecaster which I cannot play. So I am building up my Rascal. Which will be killer
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I don’t understand how Americans always keep looking young - Axl Rose, for example
But: getting older totally s#cks, I can relate to that!
Love “Swamp Thing”!!!
Yeah! You almost got me with the Rascal. I nearly purchased it. But I have the feeling that the geometry is not much better than a long scale, as the bridge is so far in the direction of the neck…
PS I find the green version really a beauty!
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I’m surprised that you don’t go for something like this
Short scale stingray.
If I’m limited to just 30” scale the stingray and the Squier mustang would be the first I’d grab. May be the 30” jaguar too.
I’m keeping an eye out for a musicmaster. A few nice ones slipped through. I played one with a modified Strats pickups. It sounds really cool.
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It’s our layers of baby fat.
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I case of Axl Rose, its a combination of Botox and hyaluronic acid injected into the skin. That is the whole “magic”.
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I was wondering how that guy looks so, eh, good?
He looks exactly like that nice older lady that works in my favourite supermarket around the corner
Ok, the DP126 has arrived at German dealers, and I immediately ordered one, before it’s gone. Without having the bass to put it on (it’s still on it’s way from China).
Very frustrating to have the parts but no bass!
My plan is to replace the stock pickups with the DP126 as soon as the bass arrives and keep all stock pots and electronics for the time being, but replace the pickup selector switch with a blend pot - using your diagram.
When the bass is here I can find out what pots and electronics are used by the manufacturer and replace/enhance them, if necessary.
For the blend pot I have currently two options: 250k and 500k.
These are the models I could choose from for blend pots:
250k:
500k:
Or this one, but I see only three connections here. Looks wrong to me!?!?!
https://www.thomann.de/gb/mojotone_cts_250k_blender_split_pot.htm
I read quite some discussions about 250k vs 500k - and I am totally confused by them. Also, because some of the people that comment obviously don’t know what they are talking about (just like me ^^).
I do understand that the blend pot might have some impact on tonality (why?) and that it can be connected to mass or not (heh?) and that the value (250k/500k) also can depend on the value of the volume pot.
This is not the lego principle, like with the EMGs. But I’ll go the extra mile for the best possible option…
If you look at the DiMarzio diagrams, they suggest they suggest 250k tone and 500k vol pots. If that helps.
Model P & J Wiring 8_23.pdf (141.4 KB)
Waiting is the hardest part
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I saw an ad on the local marketplace for a $99 short scale bass that looked so much like an amalgam of Warwick body styles I had to look further.
It’s a 25.5" scale, exactly the same as a Fender Stratocaster.
It’s a cheap bass with cheap parts… but perhaps that makes it the perfect donor body/neck for some parts upgrades? Totally thought of you when I saw this review:
Could be a fun project.
After a good setup, it actually sounds halfway decent as-is, even:
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