Welcome back and beautiful bass!
Let us all know if you need any help.
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It’s a SRMS806 BTT. Just rolls off the tongue huh?
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SR - sound gear
MS - Multi scale
Series 800, so mohagony body, 5 piece exotic wood neck, panga panga fretboard
6 string
BTT I don’t know, but has to do with top/pickups is my guess
All in a name
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Apparently it stands for Brown Topaz Burst…somehow 
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It’s a nice looking bass. I had an SRMS805 in deep twilight, and loved so much about it. Multi frets are so easy to adapt to.
In the end I never grew comfortable with the string spacing, I’m a 4 string dude. I tuned my old Jazz to BEAD so I have a B string when I need it.
And replaced it with an SR600E which is due to get here Friday.
Nice looking bass, I know it plays well
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What happened?
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It’s a bad connection I think, between the pickups and the volume knob, although our local repair shop seems to think it’s the output jack.
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I have very similar experience. I am primaraly a MM Stingray player, owning three now, but had 5 at one time.
I didn’t go quite as far as you did with an American Fender, but I just got the Pete Wentz Signature Squire P bass (with Jazz neck, I was not aware of that fact when I made plans to get it, but I don’t mind, although I would like to have a P with a P neck at some time too), but being a passive P with a Split P pick up (volume only, no tone), and I get that sweet P sound that gives me that sweet tone for songs that I play that benefit from it, like Sabbath songs. I am more happy with the P bass than I ever dreamed I would be. It does not take top spot in my line up, but it is up there, Stingrays are still my main axe, but this is right behind.
Welcome back. I had a stint in the hospital that sidelined me from playing bass for a few months last October thru end of Jan 21. Its a tough road, but I was amazed at how much I retained from Beginner to Badass, and Talkingbass course Scales Essentials. I was also in the middle of both Simple Steps to Sight reading volume 1, and Chord Tones Essentials at the time, and I was able to step back pretty much where I left off, only needing to rewatch a few lessons to jog the memory, and all was good.
I hope you find the same and are able to get back in without too much trouble.
The biggest obstacle I had was my Fretting fingers having softened back, and getting easily fatigued in both my fretting and plucking fingers. Because I had been playing a lot, prior to the hospital stay, when I finally got back to it, I was rearing and ready to go, but I got tired and my finger tips hurt quickly. So take it slow and steady, and if I can offer any advice at all, it would be to do some strengthen and endurance exercises daily. If. you can practice and do lessons daily, that is great, but if nothing else, just pick up the bass for 10 or 15 min a day and run some exercises, like just 1-2-3-4 on E and A and D and G, then move down a fret til you get to the 12th. Just a few times a day will help get that strength and endurance back much quicker.
Nice Lakland, those seem like excellent basses.
They make a few, including a couple headless versions. I am not much of a fan of headless and not sure about fan frets, would have to try one, don’t much see the need on a 4 string, but I know the Ibanez ones are really good.
Me too. I have yet to make a BEAD, and lack a set of 5 strings to do so, but I may end up going that route sometime. I think I would like to do it on a thicker neck, like a P bass, but I don’t have one to do that with. Wait, my DEAN MetalMan M has a chunky neck, and I think I actually got it to make it a BEAD, just never got around to it. I will probably get a 5 string set of DR Neon Orange to put on the black bass.
Nice work
I am sure it will eventually get sorted out
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I’ve never even tried fanned frets before either but it might be more comfortable to play as in feel more natural. I love my 6 string Ibanez SR but it doesn’t have fanned frets but I don’t fret.
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You can always check it out yourself. P bass wiring is not terribly complicated maybe just a wire got disconnected. A basic soldering skill can get the job done. Not gonna lie while it’s not complicated, there’s a small learning curve. Give yourself a little practice run you can fix that pretty fast.
Since you are going to see a professional anyways you have nothing to lose. That’s how I got started at the beginning of locked down, the appoint was weeks out. So I got on Amazon ordered a few wires, output jacks and soldering iron, and hit the YouTube. Couples of burned joints later I got it. Costing less than what pro would have charged me weeks later.
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You’re right…the wiring is really simple but I’m just wondering if I missed something. I soldered the wires from the pickups myself and they seem to have good connections, but it’s still not reaching the amp. I’m hoping he can show me what the problem was so that I could do it on my own next time. My wife liked the bass so much that she wants to see me do more and I admit it was a lot of fun to build my own, but unless I want to take my basses to the shop every time, I need to learn to get it right.
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That’s awesome. That was me, lol. Soldered everything and closed it up then plugged it in. Nothing! Mine was 3 tab output jack I wired it wrong.
From then on I tested it first by tape the wires to the tabs and plug in to check the pickups using some metal (screw driver) to tap the pickup eventually, I get the right one then I use color sharpie to mark the tabs.
I was so happy. Soldered everything up then discovered my next mistake. I wired everything up outside the output jack hole, have to do it all over again, lol.
Good luck man welcome to diy club.
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You will find it is something simple.
Do you own a multimeter?
If not nab one and learn how to check continuity.
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I have one but have never used it. I’ll see about having Terry (the repairman) show me how on Saturday. He’s actually opening up a half hour early for me.
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in my case, the wires to the output and the pots were already pre-wired but I did have one come off the output, so maybe I didn’t have a strong connection or something. It’s even possible that when I bought the set that they weren’t wired correctly either.
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The good news is if there’s no signal then usually it’s the hot wire(s) if it’s noisy then it’s the ground wire.
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No signal
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Very nice!
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