Owen

And of course, it is not necessarily the drummer. It could well be the guitarist. Or even us!!!!

This always does it for me. 80% of the album really.

The struggle is real. Except when it is not, that is when it is the best.

You are a master of understatement.

I frequently do, but I have got over myself.

A link would be ideal here!

Excellent news!

They are designed for the flobadob (Copyright @Happy Jack) strings, but were actually failing before I put the steel strings on. And the basic structure beneath the outsized string recepticle is just like any other open geared 14mm machine head. They just seemed to be screwing into themselves tighter and tighter rather than actually turning the string peg. The peg was moving, but there was something else happening as well which was not on the design brief.

At least three of them are getting so tight when I am tuning up that they are actually refusing to turn. They feel like they are actually going to snap and I have had to string the bass up in the wrong orientation. The plastic washer between the "ear" and the bulk of the unit is getting squashed out of existence. I am not whinging about them, for £200 inc shipping from the other side of the world, there is a lot going on and it is inevitable that cheapness has to happen somewhere. People need to make money to eat and put a roof over their heads.

In further news, the grub screw was actually stuck on the magnetic tip of the screwdriver. There is a reason I usually ask other people to do this stuff for me.

The master spoke and it was so. I have all the washers. Sadly, the grub screw holding the gear wheel is somewhere on the floor. It does not matter because they are going in the bin, however, I still feel stupid. Doing it all on my knee instead of the desk which was literally a foot away from me was not smart.

I just cannot see how it undoes even if I get all anksty with it. The only way I can see is to get a spanner thin enough to get to the bottom nut.

As in just grab it and go for it? I do not want to use them again so I suppose I could.

I have a cheap Uke bass which I am modding into a mini bass. The machine heads are made of cheese so have to go. Can I get them off the bass? Can I heck! The nut is under a washer kind of thing. Any ideas? TIA

Thanks

Thanks, I will get some NM Pro.

Neck or neck and body? I am getting ready to attack mine.

The piezo is currently sitting under normal bass guitar strings cut to size but tuned to pitch. My guess is that there is too much pressure. The strings have settled in and I think that it will work. I am going to get some proper machine heads, a cheap and cheerful 5 string bridge and a funky Oval Delano pickup. Passive vol and EQ for now but might put a pre in there later.

I pur a set of bass guitar strings on today. The tesnion is ok. the nut is so high for the flobadob rubber strings that fretted notes on frets 1 and 2 are way out. 4 of the 5 machine heads only want to turn in one direction so I have had to reverse wind strings. I might have crushed the piezo to death. It is going well, and it is not going well. Structurally I think it might work. At the moment, it is not happy. I am not too bothered about the piezo cos I would change the bridge anyway.

I am describing the Freeze, but I figure that having different tones ready to be sustained would give me a broader pallette. For instance there are some songs we do in church where having a quiet "pad" would be great and that can be programmed with perhaps less initial "thud" from the bass. The element of progammability is what does it for me. Obv, when I talk of programmability I am talking about the geeks at work doing that for me.

Much to learn I have. Off to shop I shall go.