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We're a fairly democratic bunch. The main song writing force in the band is the guitarist, and tends to develop ideas by recording demos and giving them to us. Sometimes this demo can be fairly fully realised with some bass ideas in there already or it could be as simple as strummed chords. If there's some bass there then I'll use it as a starting point, but will put my own spin on it. If not then I'm pretty much free to come up with whatever. We perfect it at practice while the singer hums and jots down ideas then she goes off and writes lyrics. Speaking for myself, I'm only starting this bass playing and being in a band caper, so even though I wouldn't anyway I am in no position to be arrogant about suggestions/criticism. I'm happy to take on board suggestions. I would never claim to like it but I accept when I'm wrong as an opportunity to make something right and learn something. My trying not to be a knob is probably one of the reasons that the band have put up with my lack of knowledge and experience

[quote name='bassjamm' post='701744' date='Jan 5 2010, 03:41 PM']Hello everyone, I was just wondering why it is that some people tend to shim the neck pockets of their basses...what's the advantage of this? And How would I need to adjust the truss rod and action to compensate for any shimming? Thanks Jamie[/quote] The main reason is to achieve a low action where the bridge saddles cannot go any lower. The classic example is the replacement of the standard Fender bridge with the Badass II - the thicker base plate means that the saddles can't go as low as the old bridge. A tiny change in neck angle means that the saddles have to be set higher to achieve the same action as was before the shimming. You shouldn't need to change truss rod unless you change the strings - same strings, same tension, all you've done is make a tiny change to the angle the neck meets the body. See the guide in the stickies of this forum : [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=49897"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=49897[/url]

Can't help you with that, but welcome aboard nonetheless

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Umm, a rather workshy 4 I'm afraid. Still, I'm 3 up on 2008

"A Message to You, Rudy" is fun just to play ad nauseum, not really thinking what you're doing

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The simplest fix is to glue a few cocktail sticks into the hole then screw the strap button back in once the glue is dry. The felt washer should hide a repair of this nature. It'll be right as rain once the edges of the hole are shored up. It's taken nearly 40 years to come out after all.

I'm not very good at multitasking

Up to you at the end of the day, it's your bass! I presume we're talking about an Epiphone T-bird here, of course! You'd be nuts to molest a vintage Gibson in this way, imho.

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[quote name='nunnelse' post='686408' date='Dec 16 2009, 03:27 PM']I've just bought my first bass - a secondhand Yamaha RBX250 that's missing a cover on the volume knob. I understand this bass has plastic control knobs so looking to replace with something sturdier. No idea though what size/type I need though. Would welcome some advice.[/quote] There are 2 types - press fit for split shaft pots and the ones with grub screw for solid shaft pots. You need to determine which kind of pot it is first. If the pot shaft has a split down the middle of it and is jagged round the edges a bit like a cog then you need press fit knobs. If the pot shaft is smooth and has no split in the middle then you need grub screw. Then go here: [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axenob.htm#Knobs"]http://www.axesrus.com/axenob.htm#Knobs[/url] - good place to go for silly little things because postage is free.

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Rotated for your convenience: Compared with this '74 (courtesy of Elderly Instruments, who I presume are a fairly reputable source), doesn't the font look a bit different? I think that's a replacement decal. The Fender bit is too far to the right (the tip of the F is underneath the string tree whereas on the '74 shown it is to the left of it and just misses it). The font is not only a different style, it's a different size too.

I'll stick my neck out and say the logo's wrong for '73 isn't it? That style didn't appear until about '75?

[quote name='maxrossell' post='682125' date='Dec 12 2009, 01:08 PM']the bass player in question doesn't use basschat[/quote] WHAT?

If it stays below £75, you buy it and you don't like it, you'll probably get your money back selling it on. If it goes above £100, leave it be and come on over to watch me eat my hat

That's a better (more accurate) one than some of the more recent ones, it's got the 2 stacked vol/tone knobs instead of 1 master vol, 1 master tone and selector switch.

+1 on swapping the halves over, the raised poles should be under the A string. See this Seymour Duncan pickup for reference: [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/antiquity/bass/1104412_pickup/"]http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/anti...1104412_pickup/[/url]

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