A wide strap will help with the neck dive for sure. Nice looking bass.
Resting your forearm on the body is a good fix
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Oh yeah almost forgot that they put Flea bridge on Tim’s model. That’s nice. Which one do you have passive or active?
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I searched long and hard for a shorty T.C. It took me a year plus to get my hands on a passive one. Never found an active one.
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I’m a P-bass fanboy, but the rascal’s nice. Maybe if you can find one: try the Fender Modern Player Telecaster Bass. It’s around €800 and occasionally pops up on local marketplaces.
Also, you can’t go really wrong with a squier. Especially when picking mid to high price range.
Fender? Fish f#ck in it 
No, seriously: the Fender Modern Player Telecaster Bass looks nice. But I don’t play long scale, cause of my abnormal body shape and all kinds of strange defects, due to my uncommon heritage and old age…
So, I’m totaly not interested in long scales, except for the d@mn G&L L2000 …. but only cause everybody on every bass forum loves it … and I want to be part of something too.
I’m a huge Humbucker fan! More Humbuckers = more better!
My favourite bass has three Humbuckers (now … initially it was a P/J, then a HH … and now a HHH, where every pickup can be switched between single and dual coil mode).
I do have a P/J and a P/H, but I never play the precision pickup solo. It’s boring. But not as boring as a jazz bass, I admit
Precision pickups are humbuckers you know, so you could say you have an H/J and a H/H and not be wrong. All a humbucker is is a pickup with two coils wired together to cancel hum. And a P pickup qualifies.
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P, schmeeee!
I find it unnatural, immoral and probably illegal that they are split into two parts and are not even on the same position.
Why is that?
Also, humbuckers really buck hum. P only pees
P pickups are not humbuckers. Sure, they are hum canceling, but they are single coil for each string.
Humbuckers are dual coil for each string.
They sound entirely different and in some ways are polar opposites.
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That is incorrect. Lookup Stacked Humbucker or Linear Humbucker
Yes. Each string is playing through two coils, exactly what I said.
Not on a linear. The two coils are side by side
And on a stacked, the second coil isn’t wired to the output. You could argue either way whether played through counts if one coil produces no sound, won’t fight on that ( it doesn’t have poles to the strings)
This is a stacked
And this is a linear
Ahh, looks like SD is using “linear humbucker” as a marketing term for what is basically a P-like hum canceling pickup in a J housing.
The fact remains that when people say “humbucker”, usually they have a specific sound in mind, which is very different from either of those hum canceling pickups, or a P.
If you tell most people with a P-bass they have a humbucker they will correct you. P pickups and 90+% of humbuckers out there sound extremely different.
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Seth Lover (Humbucker PAF), Ray Butts (Filtertron) and Seymour Duncan (the person) are three OG of pickups.
I don’t disagree on this, which is why I was mildly critical of the other post as people in general use simply call them hum cancelling.
Sure, but the company didn’t introduce the linear “humbucker” until 2015, so it’s not like it’s a tradition or anything.
Whereas the Filtertron and the PAF style humbuckers (both from the ‘50s) are much more similar (though still pretty different, mostly due to biasing towards the magnets or the windings). And are what people associate with the humbucker sound; richer/more saturated, heavy mids, less distinct.
FWIW I prefer the Filtertron approach (usually nice ceramic magnets) in modern humbuckers (the real kind). It lets you keep more of the brightness, punch and clarity.
Actually, looking into it further, Seth Lover invented the Linear Humbucker in the 60s. (while at Fender)
That I actually didn’t know. So he stuffed a P into a J housing, basically. What did he call it?
Wide Range humbucker
I believe Fender also calls it the Noiseless. There is conflicting data on whether the Noiseless is stacked or linear. I will say I don’t like stacked. They sound better but are tall and impede adjusting the string heights unless you route the bass body.
That’s not the same as the linear SDs, there’s two coils per string. And six magnets per string (half are upside down). It’s a standard humbucker with different magnets and windings.
You’ve got one pole per string.
I think what Duncan did was say hey, I can use one of the two coils in the WRH, wire in the other two pole pieces, and call it Linear. All new!
No, that’s just stylistic. the other poles are there, just beneath the cover/upside down. Kind of like how PAFs just have six screws showing in traditional Gibson cover plates. Take it apart and see
This guy did:
It’s a traditional humbucker with a heavier wind and different magnets.
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