MoonBassAlpha

As long as you don't forget the battery....

Don't most people use a blade style strat humbucker (Hot Rails or Cool Rails, or some similar clone)? No worries about string spacing then! Can be found for under £20 on the Bay of E.

Result!

The Bevis Frond, actually, last night!. Mainly went cos the guy my band backs up occasionally did an album with them, and I've had to play some of Ade Shaw's basslines. They were good in a psyche wig-out sort of way. 2 guitarists soloing at the same time isn't something I see a lot of these days!

As used on the Bass d.i.+. Anyone know if and where you can buy them? cheers MBA

Might be worth checking the soldering of the sockets to the board. if the ground has disconnected you might well hear just this. PCB mounted sockets can be prone to this. Both my old Zoom multitrack recorders had this on the headphone socket, an annular fracture of the solder round the pin.

2 issues, you are right ! 1 tension - the strings will be looser. Heavier gauge of the same brand, or another brand designed for higher tension will help. You may need to adjust the nut slots to accommodate thicker strings 2 Setup - less tension on the strings means the neck will relax into more of a back bow, so you won't have as much relief. You'll need to slacken off the truss rod a bit to get the relief back HTH MBA

Is the jazz V 35" scale by any chance?

I use a plastic credit card as a fret rocker. Straddling 3 frets at a time only, the long side does the lower frets, and then switch to the short side as the frets get closer together. You should rock at the bass and treble sides of each fret, and the middle for good measure. High frets will often be at the edges and less so in the middle. Hope this helps!

I've got an EDA905 to look at. Complaint was that it was making a farting noise. It all checks out ok, turns out they were playing it through a guitar cab! It's a 5 string, and I think they were using a drop tuning too... Anyhow, the action was also 7mm, so I've shimmed the neck and now got it playing nicely with <1.7mm top to bottom! It's a really good neck! The remaining problem is one of the tuners has broken in the slot where the string sits. It still tunes and holds tune but doesn't look right. I can't find a single (not a set of 4) replacement in that finish, a smokey chrome. It's a Gotoh style right handed one (these things string up oddly). I'm wondering if anyone has better Google-Fu than me or has a spare knocking about in their parts drawer? Don't mind paying, of course!

6 pages in, in a topic covering loudness of cabs, and the expression "volume displacement" hasn't surfaced yet? Shame on you lot!

I was air bassing along to Good Times in my head at our morning stand-up meeting. My boss asked if I wouldn't mind stopping doing that. He's a bass player too, but I suppose there's a time and a place

Some pain killers can do that!

Another useful tip for while you're playing with the neck pocket is to slacken the neckplate screws off very slightly with the strings up at full tension (normal pitch). This uses the string tension to pull the neck hard into the end of the pocket, and can improve sustain and evenness across the strings. I recently did this with my Telecaster (guitar) and it made a noticeable difference. Obviously, do the screws up tight once you're done! Hth MBA

If you're worried about taking wood off with the tape you might try going over it with a hair dryer to soften the sticky. I find it works a treat!

Don't confuse turnover with profit though. ^

A medication box with am and pm sections would do 14 different ones, the lids snap closed, and have handy suggestions as to which plectrum to use on any given day!

That's an oddity, is it short scale? I can see the logic of only having 15 frets with a high C string, if that's how this is intended.

A Kramer 450B that weighed less than 8lbs would be sweet! I think mine was nearer 12 But nothing sounds quite the same. Pickups were a bit low output too, but that can be easily addressed.

My mate has just got the Presonus Eris 4.5, very pleased so far. Slightly over your budget new though

I read that old drum skins make excellent templates for spraying logos. Course, you have to have good cutting-out skills

To replace a faulty one in a Big Muff pi (Russian made). Dpdt, latching. I'm sure they're much of a muchness, but if any brand/source stands out, please let us know, cheers! MBA

Any idea what the body wood is? Apologies if I missed it earlier in the thread.