pete.young

Not sure about Kramer outsourcing production. If they did, they kept quiet about it. All the aluminium neck Kramers were branded as made in America. My Hondo has a 'Made in Korea' sticker on the neck, plus a quality control stamp of some kind so I think you are right about Samick.

Interesting this. I have a Hondo Alien. It has a bolt-on neck and no truss rod. The neck itself has an aluminium spine and aluminium up the sides under the fingerboard, with wood filling in the gaps, just like the Kramer. Bought for an '80s tribute gig and gathering dust ever since! There's a theory that towards the end of the production run Hondo turned the Alien into a set neck without the aluminium, to cut costs, and these were also rebranded as Phantom guitars and possibly other brands too. This talkbass thread has some info, and pictures. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/dukes-vs-aliens.788654/ Definitely not worth £170 in it's present condition, and without the hard case.

I have a Starplayer bass, bought second-hand from this forum a few years ago. The list price seems to have gone up quite a bit in the interim. I'm very happy with it: it's a good-quality instrument which is comfortable to play and has a useful range of sounds, regardless of where it was or wasn't made. The components may have been sourced outside Germany, but they are not cheap. I would say the build and sound quality is on a par with Gretch Electromatic, and considerably better than Fender Coronado reissues and Epiphone. spectoremg if you are anywhere near Ipswich you are welcome to come and try mine.

Apologies for not meeting your high standards. I've just spent a week in A&E in Ipswich Hospital, so I'm slightly behind the curve.

Aaaaghh!! My eyes!! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BASSURGERY-4003-INSPIRED-6-STRING-BASS-GUITAR-PRE-USED/392126458450?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140328180637%26meid%3D329580ab0956404082ebaee693c9de95%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D333124809569%26itm%3D392126458450&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

I always take mine off, for bass or any other stringed instrument. Can't abide rings either.

What he said. Plus, during my Applied Acoustics course, part of the engineering degree I studied back when Shergar was a colt, I was taught that noise-induced hearing loss always peaks around 4Khz, regardless of the forcing frequency. This is around the frequency range of normal human speech. I find that when I go to a noisy pub I can hear the background noise very loudly but struggle to make out what the bloke opposite is saying, and this is an indication I've suffered some damage somewhere along the line. Despite that, my upper range is still OK and I can, for example, hear those 'mosquito' HF noise generators that paranoid shop owners use to keep da yoot' from congregating outside their premises, crystal clear. So using high-end drop off as a means of evaluating effectiveness of hearing protection is flawed too, whether or no the response curves are flat, since you're measuring the wrong frequency.

The Purple Helmet.

Not once you tape it down with a bit of gaffer 🙂 Mine has velcro on the bottom nowadays and lives on the pedal board.

As Bearfist says, no particular issues. I had a Bass Collection SB310 set up like this for years, as a backup to the 5 string. You just have to recut the nut. Intonation on the lower B isn't an issue, nobody can tell if it's in tune anyway!

A true Giant Of The Bass. RIP.

Why not just retune the bass? What am I missing?

Think you will probably find though that the MM pickup isn't in the sweet spot, so you won't get much of a core MM tone. The ones I've tried have sounded more like a Jazz bridge on steroids.

If you can find a used one a Tanglewood EB-18 is good for small hands.

Colin Hodkinson's work with Back Door.

It's god's way of telling you to stick with round wounds.

When Andy retired, Wizard was taken over by Hot Rod pickups https://www.hot-rodpickups.com/bass-pickups-33-c.asp and they still make the Thumper. I have a Nordstrand in my Japanese Precision and I'm very pleased with it. The weird thing about these threads is that virtually everyone is happy with the choice they've made - you almost never see postings that say "I fitted <x> in my bass and it sucked watermelons through elephants".

Has the packet actually been opened and re-sealed under that glue? It looks more like the kind of temporary gorilla snot used to stick things onto magazine covers.

If you're just looking for something cheap and cheerful, the Artecs are OK - I've put a couple of the 4-pot versions of these into Bass Collections. https://www.thomann.de/gb/artec_se3_basselektronik.htm and there is also a version called the SE3P which has a sweepable mid boost/cut. If you want to spend a bit more, Nordstrand and Glockenklang would be good choices.

Ask Kiogon to make you a passive loom.

Attenuators work on the post-power stage output, so they need to be between the amp output and the cab.

Katzenjammertastic. Paging Happy Jack! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Balalaika/223419406346?hash=item3404d5980a:g:xRcAAOSwpZpccqhJ

!!!!!!!!!! Who are you, and what have you done with the real 51m0n?