My 6-stringer is great, but preamp is not so powerful and noisy. Last gig I played through borrowed SWR and decide that I really need a little treble, but I cannot afford it because of noise.

I already tune myself to spend 110-150 bucks for Bartolini preamp, but I’ve found Artec preamps. I didn’t find much about them, but nothing bad at all. I tried to ask on talkbass.com. And mcracer gave me best price and free shipping for Artec SE3P-A and black metallic knobs (including concentric ones). The price for the preamp and knobs is about the same you can get on ebay for only preamp.

He promised to ship it today or Monday. I’ll post results here.

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Finally, I think I got it. The difference between standing and sitting position is not only in angle of neck, position of bass itself… Just do this: sit down with your bass. Do you see the fretboard? The whole fretboard? Yes? This is the problem. Stand up and check what you see now. This is only 4th (5th, 6th) string and small dots on the side of the neck. Maybe part of fretboard. The problem is in this lengthwise angle. Remember it and practice sitting with the same angle.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what is wrong – leg, angle of bass towards horizon, height… I tried to maintain this things the same while sitting and standing and failed again and again. I’m standing up and my speed and accuracy reduces. And I’m doomed to practice it from the beginning. And finally I got it. I’m happy.

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