Bigwan

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Anywhere else I'd agree. Neck plate is fine as you can swap it.

I went to £35 quid because I'm a tight-wad. It might be a 20p fix, or a £300 fix. Might be good for spares as buying from Mesa is no longer financially viable IMO

Guy local to me is trying to sell a first run Sire for £650 notes because Marcus Miller signed the neck plate. He signed a thousand of them though, so just how collectible is that? Certainly raised a chuckle from me...

My phone has auto-corrected to worse things than that in the past!!!

This topic is not helping my Mustang GAS by the way...

Nothing unreasonable in what you're saying - same thing has annoyed me, on and off, for years. It's a buyers market at the minute, making these folks seem even more "misguided". What some people deem as upgrades or improvements can be quite laughable. The fact is that folk like this have always existed, it just seems like there are more of them because, you know, internet...

Gotcha. Had other pics open in separate tab in chrome and flicking back and forth myself

Haven't seen close up photos but from what I've seen the Mikey Way Mustang seems to have a silver finish with a black fleck. OP's bass certainly isn't that... Edit: reasonably good pics here of the Mikey Way finish: https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/retro-bass-guitars/squier-mikey-way-mustang-bass-rosewood-fretboard-large-flake-silver-sparkle Doesn't look the same to me.

Nice looking bass. Looks like it was originally Olympic White... (possibly black looking on the right edge of the neck pocket) Can't imagine the racing stripes on a Mikey Way would be easily removed to leave a finish like that, and the Mikey Way seems more silver to me than this. EDIT - what's the pickup rout like?

Which is why the strings lost their snap... If you're used to a certain tension why would you expect the strings to perform the same at lower tension?

There are a number of mods that are kind of incremental. I did them all at once so it can be quite a bit brighter than the original (as far as I remember!) with the nature control up full. I'd like to revisit the project and do a lot more playing around with various values and maybe implement the tone control from other BJFE/Bearfoot circuits in addition to the nature control. But, you know, life...

Report back! EDIT: A quick search reveals a few Yamaha THR10 owners here and no bad comments at all...

Yeah that sprung to mind, but we were asked for recommendations. Not tried, or even seen the Yamaha in the flesh so I'm hardly likely to recommend it. I do have my doubts that it'll handle true bass given its size, but I'm open to being proved wrong!

Just recently picked up a Bass Cube 30. Very impressed. Also have a lot of love for the Line 6 Studio 110. Sounds very good in a small package. Always been intrigued by the Bass Cub, but never bitten... I remember a review here saying recorded music sounded very good through it so I'd imagine it'd work well with guitar with a preamp to add the voicing of choice.

Do you need string spacing adjustment? If not I'd be tempted to go with a bridge with fixed string spacing. One less thing to worry about. Gotoh, hipshot or Fender high mass bridges. I say this owning a bass with a Shaller 3D. It's a nice unit, although I never liked the spacing plate needed for certain basses. Not a particularly elegant solution.

Half way through our first gig in the first money making cover band I was ever in. Soundcraft desk had a fit and the master xlr outputs quit. We took a short break and set our active stage monitors up as vocal and acoustic guitar PA tops (monitor mixes were working fine). Cranked my wee Ashdown 1x10 combo/Aguilar 1x12 cab rig up and away we went. Guitar player had a Fender twin and was determined to use it! But the layout of the place made things really awkward - 2 long, narrow (about 12' x 5'), raised platforms surrounded by handrails, separated by about 15' of dance floor leading to a staircase (looking from other end of the room the stages were in the left and right corners, dance floor in front with stairs between the stages - designed by a lunatic with no regard for drunk punters safety!). Without monitors it turned into a total winging it session as the Fender Twin was pointing at me from the other stage and was SO loud I couldn't hear the drummer at all (he was also on the other stage!). Looking back if I'd had XLR to jack leads we could have run the monitor mix outputs to the power amp, but we didn't... Fault in the mixer was a 20p opamp. I know because I fixed it after it had sat with "a mate who fixes stuff" for 6 months before returning as repaired (but actually totally untouched)... Total comedy of errors in a venue totally unsuitable for live music. Of course we didn't learn our lesson and played there about 20 times over the following 2 years. Once had to play half the night without the drummer as his kick pedal disintegrated during soundcheck. He had to run home for a spare (45 mile round trip!). Same band (towards the end) were playing in a coastal hotel who'd just had a sound limiter installed. You can guess the rest. Thing had been wired wrong and took out the whole bar (except the gambling machine which always amused me!). 3 times... The look on punters faces when they're bouncing round to "Highway to Hell" and suddenly the noise stops...

Have you ever considered going to CGCG? I've recently got my hands on a 4 string Dingwall AB1 and have a set of heavy gauge Newtone strings ready to go on there for GCGC tuning (REALLY heavy gauge) - in preparation to release my inner Devin Townsend! Have my Ibanez baritone electric tuned GCGCGC already...

Enablers!

Submarine preamp is a Keutzer with a few mods too so they're in the same family.

A brightened up BJFE Blueberry circuit is a thing to behold. My fav by quite some way... and I built it myself based on fuzzdog's Juicy Blue kit. A few mods suggested by Josh/Azure Skies over on TB (that's Josh Broughton of Broughton Audio) and it sings. Must build one standard to compare the 2 and post some clips...

That sounds a bit odd. The BDPG is basically a trimmed down Kreuzer on-board preamp with a boost (actually an EHX LPB-1 modded for more bass throughput) in front of it. Confirmed by Ryan Ratajski himself on TB...

My old hard rock/metal originals band played in that tuning. Set of Elite 0.110 Steels and minimal setup adjustment from standard (think I had 0.100s on before that).