Doctor J

Don't ever change, Gibson 😂

Why must it be one bassist vs another? Can't they both be appreciated?

Exactly. Refer to the line about being clever and inventive 😉

He gets an undue amount people taking shots at him. He should call himself Joe Dartboard. FWIW, he's almost flavour of the decade, at this stage. I became aware of them through a thread here in 2014, been a fan ever since, and they had been going quite a while by then. They've worked hard at what they do and worked hard to get to where they are. Fair play to them. They have made an impact in an industry where new artists are no longer supported. They've been clever and inventive to make things happen for them. If you don't like their music, fine, but everything they have achieved, they have done the hard way - including taking the financial risk on the signature basses which seem to irk so many. Perhaps Tony could do that too and he could have one?

House music, surely?

Ironically enough, did Plaice not choke on some water?

Follow this, (VVT is a standard setup whether you'r JJ or PJ) paying particular attention to the lugs you're connecting to on the tone pot. The output of the pickup goes to the middle lug of the pot, the ground gets soldered to the pot case.

Only granite is real.

Yeah, the guy from Dark Purple. He's good.

"our goal was to play live" That singer and guitarist aren't gigging any time soon. If you want to gig, you're going to need to find other people who want to gig too.

Balderdash!

Another double album coming in October - "Return Of The Dream Canteen" It's quantity, I suppose. One out of two ain't bad.

Some folks just don't like tone controls.

Funeral for a Vendor

They should have it somewhere in the midlands. That way, people don't have too far to travel to point out in person that they're not interested in it and never watch it.

The slab body lasted 3 years, the single coil with contoured body came out in 54. Ask Sting. He won't lie. Leo got it right, for the time, third time around 😁 Edit -> in fact, given how much the pickup constitutes what comes out of the amp, I wouldn't consider the 51-56 basses the same as the split coil bass which followed other than using the same model name.

Is that a 6 month supply? 😉

I know what you're thinking... was this thread bumped after 12 years or was it 13?

Unless your wife is, at minimum, 30 years younger than you, she's not qualified to answer that question. Sorry, the rules of what is rock 'n' roll are very strict in this regard.

Blurb: I took a literal approach. The Hippo, nature's most untrustworthy beast. Technical stuff: Drums are Yamaha birch with an oak snare via Thomann mics into a Behringer Pre. Basses are a L2K, guitars are a Tokai 335 and a Bacchus Strat, all into an Avid Eleven. Vocals through an SE condenser into the Eleven, also, and it was all smoooshed together in ProTools.

They should know, anyway, from returned units from retailers. My replacement set came from Schaller via Thomann, who contacted Schaller prior to processing the warranty replacement. The request for pics came from Schaller themselves. It's a shame, Schaller parts are usually as good as anything out there but they did not get this design right.

Ah that sucks balls, but we've all been there. Take a breather and go again. Time to reform the 602 with the drummer?

Walter Becker modded his Precision back in the day. It wasn't a relic to fawn over, it was a tool to get a job done and was treated as such.

Like Lefty J, I don't have a bass but also have a 335 copy, one of the Japanese ones. It's perfect, to be honest, and I've never felt the need to change anything on it over the last 13 years of owning it. It's probably my most used guitar in standard tuning.

Been there. I ordered a lightweight set from Thomann last year and one of them split about 6 months later when it wasn't even in use. One day I picked up the bass and the head was lying alongside the bass. Thomann replaced the set without any trouble. Definitely get on to Schaller. This is a design fault, not a bad batch or a customer problem. You can see in my and your pics that the shaft the head is screwed onto has recessed out of the body of the tuner. It looks like, when the string is under tension, the shaft is pulling out of the main shell. This puts stress on the head at the point where the head is thinnest, resulting in it splitting.