pete.young

Now it's cleaned up and working you'll probably get your money back. Looking at the bridge, it's quite possible that it requires a medium-scale string even though the playing length is short scale. If you're going to buy new strings you need to make sure you get the right speaking length, this page explains it a lot better than I could, with pictures even - https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/blog/how-to-measure-bass-scale-length/ I think you're a bit harsh on Chris Squire, I'm not sure he belongs in a metal dustbin. Besides which, you'd have to take Adam Clayton out first.

A Hohner Chordamonica from c.1973 and an Ibanez C5 Chorus pedal from I think the late '70s. And a bouzouki which was made for me in 1979.

Might be worth talking to Aaron Armstrong at Armstrong Pickups, they seem to have a talent for resurrecting dead pickups.

Get the guitarists to turn down.

Ungrateful bunch. I think Ped deserves some credit for negotiating a discount.

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.

IBTL

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.