To Gold Top or not to Gold Top...

[Dr. Aquafresh]

OK... Sometimes the simplest answer is the best one.

I've decided to do nothing and leave it be, for now.

I'm going to give the Dan Armstrong and the 8 string the week off and give the LP another shot.

In other news I picked up a Micro Pog this weekend. I should know if it will give me a reasonable 8 string sound at practice Tuesday.

Later

[uwe]

The sound can't be the issue, can it? LP Standards are the "rockiest" bass Gibson ever made.

[Dr. Aquafresh]

Oh no, the sound is great, though I have been getting some strange buzzing recently.

Mine has the T-bird pickups and the Bart pre-amp and it pretty much kicks out the jams.

Maybe one day I'll figure out what the knobs actually do.

[uwe]

I have the passive version as a four-string and the active as an eight-string. I prefer the passive sound though. The TB Plus chrome pups are already so forceful, channeling them through the Bart TCT electronics for further boost is too much cherry pie.

[Nocturnal]

That was why I installed that push/pull pot on mine so it could be active or passive. It had plenty of balls in passive mode, and active just pushed it over the top IMO. Sometimes I wish I still had it but we never really bonded like I thought we would.

[chromium]

Andy's was a great player!  And "kicks out the jams" pretty much sums up that active setup.  Holy cow that thing was a real face melter (in a good way)

I would have got on well with that bass (or one like it), but have been trying to eliminate some redundancy as it is...

Gold top that sucka!