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  1. Grangur
    Heat rises. So I'd are on the side of caution and change the lamp to an LED version and save energy at the same time.
  2. Grangur
    A tip for when buying a fretless: Remove the strings and run your fingertips down the fingerboard. Feel for any undulations. If there are subtle dips and rises, the sounds from the strings will be inconsistent. This is the same as the frets not being leveled. I had a Squier VM that didn't pass this test.
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    That, @alembic1989, is one gorgeous bass. In a moment of gas I got looking at another on ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greco-GOB-700-Natural-Made-in-Japan-Bass-Guitar-1978-Vintage/183029327135 Have to say I'm hesitating over this with this in the description: 【Neck Condition】 the neck is bending / twisting where it separates from the body
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    But its only inspired by Claypool. There's no claim of him ever owning it or even being in the same room, ever. It's ugly.
  5. Grangur
    I've used a Babitz full contact bridge on a Fender P. It gave a great improvement in the tone, but the bridge isn't cheap.
  6. Grangur
    It looks miles better too. What folk see in the BBOT escapes me. I know others will disagree and say "Leo got it right first time", but the only benefit, IMHO, in the BBOT is price - it's cheap.
  7. Grangur
    Sorry Mate, but that's a contradiction. He either does a good job, or the frets are buzzing. You can't have both. Don't know what he had it for, but if it needs adjustment it would have taken nothing to do it. If the frets need leveling, he should have called you and got your agreement to do it while he had it.
  8. Grangur
    An old cabinetmakers trick to see what wood looks like when you laquer it is to lick it. Or if you don't fancy that, use a very slightly damped sponge. If it was mine, there's no way I'd paint it. Seen their website, it looks interesting. If you don't mind sharing, what was the complete cost of buying, shipping and taxes etc?
  9. Grangur
    If this was a natural wood, oiled finish, I'd simply sand it, re-oil it and enjoy the bass. As it's painted/lacquered, send it back, no question.
  10. Grangur
    Completely understandable. There is a beauty to a piece where 2 pieces of wood come together and the finish is smooth and there is no gap etc. If there are lumps and bumps and gaps, this is not the same. If you're actually going for a rustic feel, then you might get a Wishbass, but that's different. With the style of a Fender you're not normally buying into this kind of feel.
  11. Grangur
    Having worked in wood-working factories, I would say the reason for undulations in the skunk-stripe is because wood, when cut thin is prone to twist and bend. Fender are in the business of making instruments as cheap as they can to hit a competitive price. They won't be wanting to ditch the slats that have been cut for the neck infills, just because they're twisted. It's very unlikely the twisting has happened after it has been fitted into the neck. This is at least the 2nd thread we've seen here on BC about dips and lumps in the skunk-stripe, so maybe Fender have made some changes in the acceptability levels in their QA checking at the factory. If it was mine, I'd either refuse it on delivery, or take some fine-grade glasspaper to it and sand it flat. Then finish it off with a few coats of lacquer. It is, after all's said a budget bass. So you get what you pay for. If you like the bass in every other respect, fix it and move on.
  12. Grangur
    Debatable. If you back off the strings shouldn't you also back off the truss rod? I say this, because the purpose of the TR is to counter against the tension of the strings. If the strung tension is reduced, then maybe the TR could be pulling in a non-helpful way?
  13. Grangur
    True, but is this the same amp that the Op has been using to play all the other basses that have been ok? Something here doesn't add up, but throwing money at a new bass isn't a good strategy.
  14. Grangur
    surely, @jrixn1, the "audio" bit is a red-herring? Both pots are suitable for audio, or we wouldn't be able to use them for sound? The important bit is they are either "log" or more accurately "logarithmic" or the other being linear. The difference being this: Where with the linear scale(shown here as Arithmetic) a quarter turn means the volume will go up/down by 25%. With a Log. scale, the sound will change by either very little, or a lot, depending on what end of the scale you are.
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    If this bass is brand new, Ollie, why don't you take/send it back and make this the problem of the folk who sold it to you? It's crazy if you're having to buy new bridges and otherwise throw money and the bass, simply to make it do what it should do already straight out of the box.
  16. Grangur
    Get a good soldering iron. It will last your lifetime if you look after it. Maplin stock some good ones. Get good quality pots. The cost is negligible but the difference in quality is significant.
  17. Grangur
    Ariane Capp. She does lessons for SBL Academy. She also has some on her own website, No Treble and other channels on Youtube And here's a gratuitous vid of her playing Another: Rufus Philpot. Again Phil has done sessions at SBL, I've also had some Skype lessons with him
  18. Grangur
    I've owned about 7 Warwicks from the 2000s. They've all been really good. I prefer 2000s to the new ones. I went to a store and tried 4-5 new Warwick Pros. I wouldn't favour any over any of my 2000 models.
  19. Grangur
    The annoying thing with pianists, is he doesn't own it. So P** all you like. He'd simply go home.
  20. Grangur
    Hey, @samcrabtree00 we were right: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-German-Warwick-Corvette-Standard-4-string-Natural-Bubinga-Passive-gig-bag/362233495494 £599
  21. Grangur
    Nice bass. Not see a FL$$. It's cool.
  22. Grangur
    That looks a really shockingly good result there, Sir! The body on these is basswood, of course. Are they really light weight? Just wondering, as some lightweight bodies can leave the necks a bit heavy by comparison.
  23. Grangur
    Only guessing , but by "Creative Space" what LM may mean is, "I don't want you, on anyone, seeing what I do with my fingers". Not saying he's in the same bracket as LM, but Rick Wakeman won't play if anyone can see his fingers. He played the opening piano on Cat Stevens' Morning has Broken and Rick takes great pride in the fact that in all these years nobody can quite nail how he plays it. If you listen to a lot of Rick's work you can hear those opening bars come up in a lot of what he plays.
  24. Grangur
    Hi Nrthnr, Welcome to BC. A good few here may have dabbled in TB. A few others are on SBL, myself included. I don't post much in "The Campus" much.
  25. Grangur
    There MUST be someone who actually lives in Cambridge though. Mustn't there?
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