Doctor J

I use an Ashdown ABM 300, one of the original ones. Every amp is coloured differently, but I found the Ashdown sounded great with the EQ flat and, if it didn't, the bass was the problem 😂 Any EQ tweaks from there are subtle fine tuning. If I need to make massive EQ changes to get a good sound, the bass gets moved on.

Yeah, it's hard to go against Thomann on this one.

I haven't used the EQ on my amp in over 15 years. I love having an onboard EQ to subtly tweak to taste and, when passive, can always find what I need with a treble cut. I've never found an onboard EQ which didn't have far more capability than required. Generally, if you're making massive changes with EQ, something is badly wrong somewhere. When I had a 3-band Stingray, I usually ended up with a small bass boost, slightly larger mid boost and a reasonable treble cut. Lovely sound.

Yeah, if it's series then the signal has to go through both coils, one after the other. If it only affects one coil, but both coils are active, then you'd think it would be parallel with the cap on just one of the coils.

I use a tuner, that's it. I usually bypass the amp EQ too. Drive comes from pushing the input gain of the amp and how hard I play the strings thereafter. If your music demands effects, then go for it by all means, but don't have the mindset they're a must-have. I have never used a compressor, live, aside from the gentle clipping of the input gain stage. You need to be in tune (well, most of us do 😉 ). Everything else is fluff you should be able to play without in an emergency (or just fundamentally be able to play without). Nobody really gives two figs about the subtle phasing you apply during the second chorus but, if it makes you happy, yeah alright, go for it, spend that cash.

A picture of what you, alone, are seeing would help greatly.

Oooooohhhhh nice. Lose the lower switches, put a master volume there, put pickup blend, bass cut and treble cut on the main control plate, move the jack to the side and we're really talkin'! It'd be a shame not to have series for the neck pickup, though. Some properly cool sounds can be had from that.

Whatever bass you stole.

I'm unsure what you're trying here. Relief is the amount of forward bow, as in, the direction the headstock is pulled with string tension applied, relative to the straight line of the string. If you have too much relief, surely you need to apply back-bow? Either way, as you're trying to manipulate the wood into a shape here, make sure you do it with the truss rod fully slack. The truss rod is (usually) a tool to counteract the pull of the strings. If there's no string tension, there shouldn't be any truss rod tension either. The nut shouldn't be putting any tension into the rod so it shouldn't be making contact with anything.

Give Ohm a go, great band. Extraction by Howe, Wooten and Chambers will challenge you, but is quality No talk of fusion is complete without Mahavishnu Orchestra. Although they were a five-piece, I think there are songs which could be adapted for a trio

No love for Searchb*stard?

There was an early 80's Japanese Tokai on there for several months, last year, at the same price. You'll get much better bargains if you're not too pushed on having the big F on the headstock, as they're all that seem to sell regularly on Adverts. Did you see a guy selling the Thompson Stingray for €550? It's mental that it wasn't snapped up immediately before the usual lowballer infestation. Keep an eye on here, too. Not every seller is in the UK.

Yeah, it looks perfectly well put together. I'd guess the neck is Mighty-Mite, I have one and it looks very similar - looks like quite a flat fretboard and the black plastic sleeve access to the truss-rod is consistent with them, too. Although, to me, it looks like a slightly wider nut, possibly a Precision neck?

Ahh, the eternal optimism of the parts-bass seller, who will never get even close to covering the cost of parts bought separately.

Thanks everyone, that was a particularly strong selection of compositions, I thought. Well done, all 👍

Yesterday, I bought tickets to see Cory Wong next April. Ironically enough, Cory Wong was the last gig I went to at the end of February last year. I imagine I'll go to other gigs before April, but it's a nice feeling to have one marked in the calendar for definite.

He says this Fender has 24 frets, too.

He is also waging a war on punctuation.

The problem is precision musicians.

Now that is how you do a snug fitting neck pocket! Very nice.

I'm not sure I'd agree being crudely misinformed is any better than being entirely oblivious on any topic, to be honest. If anyone cares enough to get over the hype, understanding digital representation of music is fairly basic stuff. https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/digital-audio-basics-sample-rate-and-bit-depth.html https://www.headphonesty.com/2019/07/sample-rate-bit-depth-bit-rate/

The Tucker Carlson reporting of sound wave analytics 😂

There is a way but it isn't pretty. Just graft part of another string on to make the length you need. Fold a cm or two from the end of of each part so you have two sharp Vs. Obviously, this needs to be where you won't hit the string tree or be wrapped around the machine head post. Link them together, then use some thread to close the Vs, locking the two parts together. Just wrap the thread around, you don't need to do anything fancy. It'll hold in tune, no problem at all.

Tony Choy's blue Ibanez SR800 Ron Bruder's Zon Scepter Tom Araya's BC Rich Wave Johnny Rod's yellow Ironbird

That's the one 😍