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I have a friend who needs to convert a garage to give music lessons. There will be no drums so there is no need for super soundproofing. Can I share a plan and ask for advice?
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Well worn chromes. This is where it is at everyone. -
I think it is a Maholo, yes. Mine was obviously built on a different day from your's This one is all good and Jez did add the finishing touches. -
Knock 'em dead, baby!
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I bought this new as a 5 string Uke. I have always wanted to try the super short scale thing. I put proper machine heads on it because the originals were made of cheese. You can see the origianal screw holes. Jez (Jabba_the_gut)(he is a wood whisperer) did all the hardcore woodwork which needed doing to turn it into a properly functioning instrument. The reality is that a 21" scale length is just too short for the B to work. But I had to try. If you fancy a 5 string strung E to C at proper bass pitch, then this is it. If you fancy one of those new fangled octave up basses strung B to G then this is it. It is properly set up and is frankly a lot of fun as well as sounding like a proper bass - until you get to the bottom B. It has the same preamp as it originally had when it was a 5 string Bass Uke. Vol/bass/mid/treble. The vol has a center detent in it. Crazy. Fancy it you know you do!
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I am very far from being an expert. But in my experience if a piece of kit is not turned on it can have the buzz thing happening. Also induction loops sometimes do very weird things. I do not know if either of these are involved.
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I had forgotten about the side jack aspect. That does change things. The shodiest piece of work I ever had done was a side jack on a MONSTEROUSLY expensive custom I had had made for me. I took it to the local guitar shop for a side jack to be installed. "How difficult can it be to do a tidy and aesthetically pleasing job?" I thought. Too difficult for the bodger masquerading as a tech. And when it was done, there was nothing I could do to rectify it. I am still angry when I think about it.
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I have people to do that for me. As in, my tech abilities are zero so I do not even try. I had an Audere once with the variable impedance switch. It did something bonkers to the pickups. In a good way. Should I have left that bass as it was? Absolutely.
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I have recently been messing with Sadowsky preamps and have found them very pleasing. They do a drop in Jazz plate.
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This gives my dream of being a luthier wings.
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You are a bad man. On reflection I would probably pickup a tribute 2nd hand and mash that (including smoothing off that headstock). I could even have it painted as a relic! Now I am excited! I could even have it done in blue sparkle and have a suite of Basses by Leo in the same colours.
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I played an L1000 and really fancied it. Because I cannot spell bass without a B then the concept of L1000-ing a L2500 is quite attractive. I realise that pickup placement is a thing, but I have to explore ALL the options. I also need to get out more.
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No. Really!!!
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Anyone on here buy a Rob Allen Deep 5 at auction yesterday?
Owen replied to Denzel's topic in Bass Guitars
I set the limit in my head at what I could shift it for easily. That equation did not work on this one. -
Anyone on here buy a Rob Allen Deep 5 at auction yesterday?
Owen replied to Denzel's topic in Bass Guitars
I originally had a bid of 1500 placed, but I costed the extra 26% + whatever the fee for someone to pack and courier it to me would be and I backed out. -
I cannot answer definitively, but I never sing and my seal is better with an open mouth.
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Wait! Tell me more?!
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I have owned several Bongos. None of them came with that option.
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It is not a real Bongo until it has a dink at the end of the headstock. Get to it.
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Nice looking bass! As an aside I also have an MTD Kingston and despite the fact that I "should" sell it I just cannot part with it. They are criminally underrated.
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Honestly, it is a long time since I did it, but I was bending notes up "almost" a semitone or sharpening slightly to make it happen. Sometimes pressing the string really hard into the fret was enough to make the difference. But it was definitely a thing.
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In keyboard world and guitar world, equal temprement does it's thing and it is fine. In my experinece, playing a fretted bass with an orchestra, very few of whom are tied to equal temprament, means quite a lot of bending notes to fit in where they "should" be.
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I went to the Midlands Bass Bash. I played a G&L CLF L1000. I then played my MM5. I realised that the L1000 had a certain je ne sais quoi which I desire. Do they make them in 5 format? Do they heck. I am thinking of options. The easiest is to get an empty MM5 pickup shell and whack an L series 5 string pickup in there. And get a wiring harness made up for the full L1000 experience. I am fully aware that the pickup will be in the wrong place but can live with that while I prove the concept. If I like it I can get a new scratchplate and get frisky with a router to that correct pickup placement. Can I find an empty MM5 pickup shell? Can I heck. Can anyone put me on to one? I suppose I could get one printed. TIA
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I have nothing to add, other than WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? It cannot be that difficult to see that whatever made that happen was not a good idea.
