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I stopped playing during the COVID lockdowns. I don't get much joy from playing bass on my tod, so I didn't. Honestly, it was 50/50 whether or not I would go back. Then I gave my head a wobble, treated myself to a royal purple G&L CLF L-1000 and got back on the horse.

Also props to @andruca for the write up on their SB500S which helped push me over the edge and snag this one - cheers! Nice playing in the demos you put up, btw. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/502833-nbd-pretty-nice-1981-yamaha-superbass-exemplar

I picked this up cheap because it's in a bit of a state and I felt sorry for it. It's not a particularly common bass around these parts, so I figured I could get it back to being hale and hearty again. It's pretty dirty - the tuners are green in places and I had to wash my hands after stringing this bad boy back up - boak! But that's just dirt. The main issue with this bass is the neck pickup. The coil windings have been... interrupted shall we say. Thankfully most of the coil is intact, the break is pretty close to the beginning/end of the coil so I'm going to try to unwind it slightly back to good wire then solder it back up and see if that works, failing that I guess I'll need to get it rewound. A wee project for the weeks ahead. Its mostly cleaning and polishing, the pickup to attempt to repair, and maybe some finish repair on a couple of nasty chips in the neck finish. Dunno if it's worth a build diary, so I'll probably just document my progress here. FWIW, the remaining pickup sounded pretty decent in my wee Laney 30W combo in the office here. For all the dings/dents/scuffs/scrapes/lacquer cracks, the bones appear to be solid and it feels quite nice to play. I think with a bit of work this will end up being a fine counterpoint to my BB1200.

You assume I play mid week. And I'm only 5 or so years behind you...

Aim lower - at the local level here at least, door tax is less than a tenner, and the pints are £5-6. Still no effer want to get off their fat one (and their heads out of Instagram's backside...), but that's our fault for not being all "HEY, WE'RE IN A BAND, WE'RE GOOD, YOU SHOULD COME AND SEE US" all over the socials, because it's bloody gross and quite ikky to have the begging bowl out, whoring ourselves to hell and back again just to try to coax a few folk to come and see a band.

Long scale? Epiphone Jack Casady. *mic drop*

Narrow it down for us - what scale length are you wanting?

Don't worry, The Inevitable Teaspoons are currently recording our second album, all by ourselves, in our RF hellhole of a rehearsal room, with whatever mics we can find and a Zoom R24, mixed by me who knows hee haw about mixing. What could possibly go wrong? But it will sound about as far from AI generated "perfection" as it's possible to be, and even though no effer will listen to it, it might poison the AI well a touch...

It's important enough to say it twice - do NOT use your truss rod as a means to control string height/action. That it has a small effect upon string height when you're adjusting at it is neither here nor there. It's there to control neck relief, to keep the neck straight (or with a very slight concave bow in it) to counteract the forces being placed on it by the strings.

I will be bringing 2 amps - a Markbass Mini CMD121P IV combo for louds, and a TC Electronic BH250 which will be headphones only, that worked really well for me at the SWBB.

Learn to play right handed But in all seriousness - 80s Yamaha - BB perhaps - I think they did a few lefties?

I have a second hand Nespresso machine in my office. Classic, so I can buy pods at Lidl or whatever's on a deal - Nestlé isn't getting a penny out of me, lol. I even learned to like black coffee, saving even more money. I do buy my lunch at lunchtime most days though, because I'm a lazy so-and-so.

The factory was hired, had to be emptied for new tenants next month.

Yes, I did read your original post. Your original post said nothing about the EQ on the bass itself. Go fix it yourself then, you can naff right off with the attitude.

Despite the somewhat sarcastic delivery, Hellzero is not wrong in the philosophy - back to basics. So, the volume is up full, the EQ (on the bass) is set flat, and you've tried a fresh battery, correct?

Basschat, thy work is done.

Aye aye, politics and stuff *handwaves*. But are you any good, like at fitba or rugby? Let's get down to the real issues here

If you have an original, get it copied, either by Brian Pillans (earlpilanz on ebay) or Tinytone. Other pickguard makers are probably available, but those are the two who spring to mind.

That's the sad part of it, Dad. I don't believe they were trolling

Oh yeah, I didn't recognise Bill Wyman with his bass neck down there...

Did you have to get that wee lick in there at the end? That right wing sentiment rubbing off on you or something? Don't make me come down there and educate you about Scotland's net worth to the United Kingdom. I'm worth half of the Barnett Formula alone. But if you want me gone, just say the word.

Felt like I needed to follow up my post like with a "yay for decent gig, but boo to unfavourable test results". Hope it's not too bad, all the best.

Friday night (Halloween), played Grays Inn in Mastrick, Aberdeen with Nine Lives. Wasn't the best of gigs, file it under "alright". Oddly, the pub didn't seem to be doing anything for Halloween, but that didn't stop a bunch of people being in fancy dress anyway. Including me - who you gonna call? Neepbusters! Anyhoo, we were late starting because one table of folk who had finished their dinner wouldn't vacate the area for ages, leaving us a lot less time to set up than we usually have. Grr! Put me in a bad mood, ngl. But we got going about 10 mins late, and managed to get an OK sound from the get-go. It was busy enough at the start, but I suspect a lot of folk had kids and once they left, the place cleared out pretty bad. There were a few stragglers, but it was mostly dead, leading to a fairly meh gig. Oh well, still get paid, I suppose. Gear was the Sire Z7 followed by the Yamaha BB1200, into the ISO Standard modular bass rig.

Thankfully, there are several people here who give the impression that they won't touch a bass which weighs more than 8lbs, sadly more often than not for health reasons, so hopefully it will find some favour in these quarters.