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+1 Popping your Bass-cherry in front of the family. Excellent idea👍 I hope it’s loads of fun for you.

Thanks for that. It’s very helpful.

Excellent, thanks for posting.

It just couldn’t cut it on the American market, so it was dropped.

Tony Hancock. Apparently it was something of an obsession of his.

Bumm! Bumm!

You are one sick puppy 👍

Nice looking bass. I love the way that the picture sequence looks a bit like a striptease, saving the full reveal to the last shots. Does it sound p-bassey? It strikes me as a nice idea having a traditional sound with modern looks.

All together lads! Happy Birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Dave and Graham Happy birthday to you.....

Fabulous. Thanks for posting 👍

Yeah, well outside the comfort zone, eh?

The volume, as such. isn’t the issue. It’s just that I’ve recently had to change to using In-Ears and I am, for the first time, hearing my basses “up close”. It just sounds a little thin and raising the pups beefs things up. I can always adjust the eq. on the pre-amp but it struck me as logical to try and optimise the signal chain starting at the beginning. It’s not a terrible problem or anything, I’m just tweaking to see what I can improve.

Hi Guys, thanks for all your suggestions. In the meantime I discovered that attaining the height sound wise that I liked meant having the pups at a height at which the pup-covers acted like a ramp ( a la Gary Willis) which is a feel I don’t like. Either I’ll live with them a tad lower or I need more powerful pups.

Thanks for those suggestions guys.

Hwa, hwa, hwa, hwaaaaaaaa! [muted trumpet]

Surely fretting is rather the idea.... ....coat.

Hello All, I have a Squier Pro-Tone V which I love. I was intending to test/check-out adjusting the pickup heights, but have come across 2 problems: 1.) The screws are quite corroded and, although they screw out quite easily, seem to not have a very firm grip i.e. they can turn and turn at both extremes (high and low). 2.) When I screw them out in order to raise the pickup, at some point the pickup stops moving upwards (I assume because the spring under the pickup has reached it's maximum height). I'm not very skilled with tools. Is it particularly difficult to lift out the pups and put in a longer spring? Is that even the correct solution? I'd be grateful of any advice or indeed diecting to an appropriate thread. I tried a couple of searches in this section but had no luck. Maybe I was using the wrong search criteria. Thanks, Paul.

Taking one for the team there is really most laudable.

Why not just look upon it as some free promo for your band? I understand about etiquette and asking first etc. but, at the end of the day, it’s not doing your band any harm, is it?

Ah, OK, I was just curious.

Result!👍

Very cool picture Matey.