pete.young

Think this is a bass guitar string. Maybe you'd be better off getting a mod to move it to the Miscellaneous For Sale section, more people are likely to see it there.

+1 for the Presto Lights. I'm using them on my plywood bass, mostly for Old-Time (Appalacian music). They work very well for the occasional slap and still produce a decent tone, at least on the top 3 strings. The E is a bit puny though. I went to a lower tension set than the Spirocore Weichs because my bass has headstock issues. Not sure if this is an issue for you, but a Kevlar core string isn't going to work very well on a magnetic pickup.

I think @Happy Jack had one of these.

I'd be inclined to have a word with @Ashdown Engineering before you do anything drastic.

The last set of EXL220s I bought for my 5-string Bass Collection, were supplied by Strings Direct as a 4-string set of EXL220 plus a single 0.125 B string, so I think it's definitely possible to match a 4-string set of EXL170s with a lighter B. The code for the B is XLB125.

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Whereabouts are you @guyl - if you're anywhere near Ipswich you're welcome to come and try mine, and it'll probably go to the east anglian bass bass if that happens.

This is an 8 year old thread. If he hasn't figured it out by now, he probably never will.

That is because this thread is old, really old, and the pictures will have been lost on the move to the 'new' site, a couple of years ago.

Sorry BassBunny, none of mine look like that.

Agree with this. I have a Nordstrand in my 5-string which is also a big improvement on the standard. I've used the Artecs too and they're OK until the pots start crackling.

5-string P/Js are relatively rare. I had one and traded it to Skezza, but I haven't seen many others. The other option is to change the JJ pickups - mine now has Delano stacked humbuckers which do a pretty good impression of a P. The 5th string is OK - not as good as my BBNE2, but then that's what you'd expect.

Yamaha Music London have spares for most everything, but at the prices they charge it'll be cheaper to buy an 1024x.

I had the same symptoms (couldn't lift my outstretched arm to be parallel with the ground, at 90 degrees to my body). It wasn't related to bass playing. Physio determined it was due to tension in my neck muscles, and several sessions of neck massage later it was fixed, with no re-currence. The Osteo/Physio route is good, but worth a visit to the GP first - in my case the GP gave me one of the practice 'credits' so it was done on the NHS.

I had one for a while and wasn't impressed with the octaver or the synth.

If weight is an issue too, maybe it would be worth getting Maruszczyk to make you a chambered Jake with Jazz neck. Probably still be cheaper than a US fender.

This looks great. It's a very similar colour to my SB465, both the top and the staining.

DHA VT1 pro has a DI and a headphone out, both with a gain control.

Some Japanese not-for-export basses have slimmer necks, somewhere between Jazz and Precision. I have a PB70US which is like this.

Quite challenging this. My Bass Collection SB310 is pretty light, but 7.8lbs according to my scales.

Is it right that with Band Mule you need a different email address for each band you're in? That wouldn't work so well for me.

The allen key will probably be an Imperial size - if your set is metric there won't be one that fits. Don't know the exact size though.