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Bought a nice preamp from Tony, brilliant seller! Fast / detailed postage! Thanks again man!

They stay at home now but I like them far too much to sell them.

Looking to replace the electrics on my yamaha rbx360, standard pots aren't long enough to fit through the body and tighten the nut in place. Pot(s) shaft is too short. Anyone know where I can get a harness VVT which'll fit?

Hello Basschatters I had been looking for a fretless for a while and there have been several on the forum that I nearly went for but in the end decided to build one for myself. The plan is for a fretless four string, with a single Bartolini MMC pup coupled to an East filter preamp. I used to do a few builds, some of which I posted on a previous incarnation of this site, but I haven't done one for ten years or so now so it will be interesting to see how much I remember. Anyhow the idea is to keep the budget down to the cost of what I was going to spend on buying a fretless so a notional budget of ca. £400. This will mostly go on parts as I have an unused mahogany body blank, maple neck blank and a wenge fretboard left over from when I last built a bass, although I will splash out on a nice walnut top for it. Here is a pic of the last fretted bass I made, the plan is for the fretless to be the same shape and style if i can find the old template and hopefully source a similar grade walnut top.

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My first bass amp was an Ohm 'Pukka' bass combo. 60 watts, 15" speaker, 5 band EQ with compressor if I recall. Really weli made and good looking bit of kit, it sounded great and I have fond memories.

Isn't this just the natural expansion and contraction of the copper as temperature changes?

Those embroidered denim jackets with patches now on display as artefacts at the V&A Fashion Museum. Quite fitting, I thought to myself when I saw that, considering that so many of the blokes that wore them at the time looked like Vikings and Anglo Saxons.

I'm wondering if I should go with something like a line6 Pod GO. I could set up a basic preset for each bass along with the small number of effects that I will use. It looks relatively simple compared to something like the Helix and I don't have a problem tinkering with it to get the sound right. Plus I don't have to buy a bigger pedal board to potentially fit a sim pedal, overdrive and possibly something like a Boss LS-2 to blend clean and overdriven sounds. And if I have a bigger board then I will be tempted to add more unnecessary pedals.

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Lawks! As I was a skint yoof I used to sew zips into my tesco jeans that I'd dyed black and purple and made into drainpipes. My needlework wasn't very good, but it was meant to be DIY punk! I even made my own bumflap out of a particularly vile green acrylic tartan material then scrawled "Slits" on it in fluorescent orange paint. By contrast, mine and Swamp's mate (the only other school punk) had a rich dad who bought him a pair of real bondage trousers from XClothes, and real leather jacket with Ruts painted on it... We always sent him to the bar.

On off topic , I retitled my post as Problem Solved Please Ignore ! Can somebody tell me how to delete the post entirely ?? It seems an unnecessary pita to do so. 😮‍💨 Thank you in advance

Some of us sewed badges on (and embroidered!) our own jackets!

Ah gotcha 🙂 I suppose that it's a double edged sword - I want a good sound out of the PA but if it sounds terrible through the IEMs then I won't enjoy the gig. I am more inclined to go with the fact that most of the audience won't know the difference between a precision and a Pickenbacker so a little overdrive in my sound wont be that noticable out front. I may be a one-off, most people want to get a sound that is great through the PA but I want to enjoy the gig as well so won't put up with a crap sound in my IEMs as long as it sounds decent through the PA.