Meet Bertha the 3-string short-scale bass. 25.5" scale, 24 frets, the body is a birtch Bo Diddley box from MGB Guitars, neck and fretboard are oak.The control plates are scraps produced by a Detroit metal stamping machine that makes parts for Ford. The Cruiser emblem is from an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser wagon. I can just imagine being parked at the beach, late 1960's, sitting on the tailgate and playing The Ventures tune Pipeline on this bass. :)The pickup is a 4k Mini Box Bucker. The two switches are for tone capacitor selection, one is.033µF, the other .068µF, combined they act as a .1 µF cap and both off tone control is bypassed.
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No problem AGP, always a pleasure to give back to the CBN community in some small way. I should also mention that there is an "always on" .0068 µF cap between the jack's hot and ground. This gets rid of very high frequencies that to me just sound like a hiss or static.
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No problem AGP, always a pleasure to give back to the CBN community in some small way. I should also mention that there is an "always on" .0068 µF cap between the jack's hot and ground. This gets rid of very high frequencies that to me just sound like a hiss or static.
First time I think I've seen switchable Tone Capacitors, might have to try that one, thanks for posting the details :-)
Thanks Nigel!
Stunning with all the details, bravo