Doctor J

Reverb has been fine for me. Have used it several times and never failed yet. Like ebay, amazon and others, it's just a means for you to engage with a mix of independent private and commercial sellers. I never had any trouble, studying feedback and past sales always pays off. To this day, the worst packed thing I ever bought was from here, the hardcase with a single strip of brown packing tape around it, bass inside, no other packaging material at all. I still love this place, though 🙂

Updates to the Reverb app will be exactly the same as the previous version, just with different colours.

J neck? Looks nice and narrow at the nut.

It's natural for the bridge J to have less output than a neck P. Set the pickup height by the sound rather than with your eyes. They are unlikely to sound good set to the same height. Don't be shy to have the J closer to the strings than the P.

The concept of putting up with an instrument you're not happy with, so as not to upset a future owner, is quite an odd one. If you don't like it, change it. If you can't or won't change it, sell it. Buy the instrument you actually want to make music on. In this day and age, there is no reason to compromise.

While a Fender design is a known quantity, it seems to be a lot of backwards looking music where they have become the uniform of choice. The onus seems to have gone from standing out to fitting in, in a lot of contemporary music. Schecter, ESP, Ibanez and co continually evolve, they refine their models and, generally, they don't make what they made 5 years ago and much of their artist roster consists of people still pushing the envelope a bit. The big US companies have chosen a path of endless regurgitation and lots of the music made on them follows the same concept.

See 5 and 6 here https://www.basschat.co.uk/faq/

Saw them a couple of times in the early 90's when they were touring VDOP and Darrell was still a "Diamond", first time they were supporting Megadeth, then on their own tour with Gruntruck supporting. Savagery both times. That plec on the left was used to play By Demons Be Driven 😉

It touches which other tuning peg?

Jiving in a Box Johnny Hates Yazz Curiosity Killed the Car Go Rest T'pay

Simple Binds Dull Historical Society Mansas The Bleeders

You own it. Do whatever it takes to make it the instrument you actually want.

I think the Vigier Passion pickup positions are perfect and I'd love to hear what a pair of MFDs sound like in those positions. However, since you're paying for it, what is it you want to get out of this bass?

The idea of Elixirs is that the entre string is coated after being wound, which stops your biocrud getting into the winds, thereby eliminating the need to to clean with meths. Wipe down with a dry cloth, if needed, but don't use any kind of solvent on a coating like that, would seem to be the obvious course of action.

Meh-tallica?

My experience differs. When we were kids, a mate of mine could play all kinds of widdly-widdly stuff, very technically accomplished, exceptional coordination. He couldn't create to save his life, however. He had absolutely no creative gift, everything he wrote was mediocre and, when he tried to solo, is was just a mish-mash of licks of the players whose material he had learned through reading tabs. He had no musical voice of his own. That well was dry. I used to know a clarinet player in an orchestra for whom the idea of writing or improvising something of their own was an entirely alien concept which did not compute. Being a coordinated player does not correspond to being an interesting creative spirit and vice-versa. That this lad has taken the time to learn so much of other people's material and try to pass it off as his own suggests that he is not well endowed with a creative brain. At the risk of a generalisation, you'd expect creative people to spend their time... well... creating, rather than learning other people's material forensically.

How about the hits of your favourite Swedes and Morrissette done in an east African style... ... Alanis ABBAba

Few things in life are as aggressive as the G&L MFD. The G&L will get you a lot closer to the sound you're looking for than the DJ.

Shame he put holes for the polepieces in the top. You could have a lot of fun putting all kinds of different pickups in a cover like that. I'd love to hear what a pair of G&L MFDs would sound like in my Passion II

Loosen the neck bolts a smidge and move the neck a bit towards the treble side, get the strings centred on the fretboard.

Bluddy Holey

Replace it. Save yourself time and energy.

It's grand, he has set it up beautfully to do a "penny drops and I've ruined my career but now I'm digging up" video where he cries a little, finally acknowledges what he did wrong, outlines the mental struggles he has gone through which we don't understand and promises he's on the path to redemption to make everyone, who called him out for being a c**t, feel guilty. They're all the rage, these days. It's really society's fault, don't you know 🤣

No, man, dig up!