It's a pretty easy mod to add either a dimmer for brightness or a switch to control focus (off-side-both), or even both if you can find places you don't mind the additional controls. Can also add dimmers inside and only have the switch external. I personally like the 3-way toggle for side/front LEDs

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on Today at 07:42:04 AMJulian Bream (1933)

I saw Julian Bream play around '73-'74 in Greensboro, NC.

Now if you see humans, call......

Peter (who will add "Beep beep")

Julian Bream (1933)
Peter Lewis (1945)
Johnny Thunders (1952)
Joe Satriani (1956)

Peter

Other things to consider - if you're using nickles, switch to steels, and try the neck pickup soloed into a guitar amp. And don't be gentle on the strings.

Quote from: jazzyvee on Today at 12:56:46 AMThat is my favourite version of School Days, solo and tone for the solo.
I have found a close approximation of that tone but it does take fine tuning as well.
I think you have a bass with two filters and separate pickup volumes yes?

 Start with the bridge pickup. Set the Q fully on and the filter closed and just play some of the notes then just really in small increments start to open the filter, you will get to a sweet spot point (around 1/4 turn of the knob), where that sound starts to exist and can be finely tuned and by careful playing near the bridge, you can get a good approximation. You may need to add some of the neck pickup in the same way to add some body to the tone if needed, but it does start to disappear if you have too much of the neck pickup in the mix.
Stanley is always fine tuning his tone during play so you will be in good company

I have also managed to get a close approximation of that tone on my signature bass (With Anniversary Electronics) and since it now has a Fat Boy in it, that sound is stronger.
I think in your video he is using a tenor tuning which may help make the effect stronger/easier to get.

Thanks. I have an EvH Signature (has a two three way Q switches and two filters and two volumes) which is in tenor tuning and I have Spoiler (also with three way Q switch and one filter and pickup balance). Both are medium scale. The way you describe it is the way I normally find my tone. Favoring the bridge pickup and dialing back the filter completely and bring it up until I have the right balance and between brightness and darkness, then adding a bit of neck pickup if needed. But even with the most extreme Q switch setting neither one does give me that exact nasally/hollow SC tone. Think I need a series 1 for that? Also a short scale contributes to that sound I think? 

I don't know the actual current draw, but from conversations here on the forum over the years, it seems be that the batteries will only last for about 20hrs of play time.

One assignment I had several years ago at a very old treatment plant... built in the 1940's, a huge public service project, all concrete and tiles, echoes for days. The Control Room was directly across the hall from a Conference Room. In that Control Room was a steel panel full of all the old analog programmable logic, just miles of wire and relays and switches and little lights, and one hellacious [[[LOUD]]] alarm for anything and everything. Any alarm condition anywhere onsite would trigger that thing. If it was my shift to be on-duty, I'd just unplug one wire from the sumbitch, and pay attention to the screens. Trick was, you had to be darn-sure to plug it back up when you swapped seats. Because some people... you know... need loud noises.

Anyway, one of my fellow Operators was one of those people. That klaxon went off during a Senior Staff meeting full of muckety-mucks across the hall while Zoowicky was in the john. I came through the doors of the Filter House just in time to hear him bellow from the stall;  JUST CUT THUH WIIIIRE!!!

(don't do that... there's an easier way)

I wouldn't be put off buying a bass if it already had them but i doubt if i would order them on a custom.

Quote from: jazzyvee on Today at 12:32:53 AMThat quilt is really dramatic.
I guess the side and front LEDs come on when you plug in the 5 pin as i can't see an extra switch for the front LEDs.

There's no switch, and I haven't tried to figure out whether there's anything inside to turn off the lights while it's plugged in to the power supply.

They are over the top.