The bass started as a stock but damaged Flea 5. I repaired a lot of damage to the finish on the back of the neck, and then decided that although the bass sounded pretty good, with the great tone and stability of the neck I wanted a more versatile instrument. I purchased a pair of used Lakland pickups from a 55-94 and routed for\/installed them along with the three position mini on-on-on switch for the bridge pickup coil selector and kept the original Bartolini 2 band active bass\/treble controls, then designed and fabricated a new pick guard based around a combination of the original Flea pick guard and a MusicMan Stingray 4-style guard. I installed the bridge pickup so that the rear coils would be in 70’s Jazz location, with the neck pickup in standard Jazz neck pickup location. This compromises the StingRay tone some but more than makes up for it with the Jazz sounds (if you’re familiar with the Lakland 5502\/5594 series basses). Still desiring more variety, I decided to replace the pickup pan control with a three way pickup selector, ala a Les Paul. But in order to still be able to slightly favour the timbre of either pickup, I adopted the idea used in the Fender Roscoe Beck Jazz bass, where a mini switch is set up with a 28k resistor- one setting on the switch bypasses the resistor, the other selection runs that pickup signal through it to slightly reduce the gain, thus favouring the other pickup…I installed one per pickup. I also wired in a passive tone control placed ahead of the preamp, coupled with a push\/pull active\/passive switch. Lastly, I installed a mini on-on switch to enable series\/parallel switching between the neck pickup and bridge pickup. Although a close friend now owns this bass, IMHO it is the most versatile and best sounding bass I have ever played as far as standard fretting goes (I now play a Dingwall Z3, which is the bomb). But the Modulus is the one of my many builds\/modded basses that I am proudest of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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