Thanks for the replies!
Marcus, ah, now I get it. Yeah, I'd say having at least one knob maxed out is definetly a good idea. I always had both on max on my GSR200. The tone-knob, for metal, is IMO, a deal like with guitars. Who plays remotely heavy stuff with their tone down and still gets a good tone? JMO, of course.
I've always been under the impression the balance knob itself is not active. What's active is the EMG EQ. Never known for sure, tho. I NEVER use the EQ, so I've always thought about just yanking it out of the circuit so that perhaps I could get a slightly better tone. Not a master with soldering, tho, so I've never gotten around to it.
Razorjack, yeah, I generally used the bridge pickup myself. I like the fact that it's got a grittyier midrange and tighter lows. I've always wanted to try a lower-output, less dominant kinda pickup in the neck, tho. Something tighter and with a grittier mid-range sorta like a J pickup. In fact, been thinking about replacing the EMG HZ's for quite a while, but never gotten around to it.
JBroll, that's cool! Having a stereo jack for the bass was definitely something I wouldn't have thought of. The two outputs was also a good idea. So did you leave any controls between the pickups and the jack at all? Volume maybe? Or do you mean 'straight' as in STRAIGHT?
Marcus, ah, now I get it. Yeah, I'd say having at least one knob maxed out is definetly a good idea. I always had both on max on my GSR200. The tone-knob, for metal, is IMO, a deal like with guitars. Who plays remotely heavy stuff with their tone down and still gets a good tone? JMO, of course.
I've always been under the impression the balance knob itself is not active. What's active is the EMG EQ. Never known for sure, tho. I NEVER use the EQ, so I've always thought about just yanking it out of the circuit so that perhaps I could get a slightly better tone. Not a master with soldering, tho, so I've never gotten around to it.
Razorjack, yeah, I generally used the bridge pickup myself. I like the fact that it's got a grittyier midrange and tighter lows. I've always wanted to try a lower-output, less dominant kinda pickup in the neck, tho. Something tighter and with a grittier mid-range sorta like a J pickup. In fact, been thinking about replacing the EMG HZ's for quite a while, but never gotten around to it.
JBroll, that's cool! Having a stereo jack for the bass was definitely something I wouldn't have thought of. The two outputs was also a good idea. So did you leave any controls between the pickups and the jack at all? Volume maybe? Or do you mean 'straight' as in STRAIGHT?
