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Now that is bloody helpful (I won’t tell you how I got a bushing out yesterday) 👍

My solution .......

Might also be worth understanding why the strings sound unbalanced?

Most Dimarzios have those, I'd get the Model Js https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/jazz-bass-hum-canceling/dimarzio-model-j

I guess there might be a very specific reason these were suggested (?), but there's plenty of other hum-cancelling J-PUPs out there that are easy to get hold of in the UK, and many/most of which people here will probably have far more experience with 👍

I've always assumed it's really driven fretless, digging in that hard there'd surely be a lot more fret noise, plus the intonation sounds inconsistent for a fretted bass?

It’s the age-old ‘what sounds good solo sounds shit in the mix’ and vice versa thing. The groove and timing in the track are extraordinary

There ain’t a problem I can’t fix Cos I can do it in the mix…. Reassuring that there’s a Flea bassline I can play as well as Flea 👍

Looks like we're doing this album after the Pixies, never sure if it's a good thing to listen to the isolated bass line of your fave track

I asked this question today..... .....and thanks to a few members am now aware of some tools of which I was completely oblivious, specifically a step drill bit (genius) and a tapered reamer. So, it seemed it might be useful to start a thread in which you could let us know which tools you use for which DIY jobs on bass, especially if they're old school and manual 👍

Thanks Paul, luckily the 12mm dowels appear to have a grain running across, I'll have to wait and see but I'm optimistic 👍

Thanks, and interestingly I bought not only a hand-held reamer today but also a step drill bit! I'm aiming to use the former but will have the latter on standby. I love the fact that whatever job you need to do, someone has invented a tool. However, there is one major problem - knowing what that tool is called! I'd never heard of a step drill until I searched reamer and they appeared low in the results 🤔 This is the body in question, I'm hoping next time I post a photo it looks a whole lot better

There are time when power tools spoil the fun 👍

Very nice, but something about it feels wrong to me, hand and head movements at time look like there's some video artefacts in there? I might just be imagining it of course...... Either way, lovely bass line 👍

There's something magnificent about old tools, a mate of mine found one at a boot sale, and a few years later has a collection to rival some bass collections! Thanks for the advice, some jobs require the combination of high attention and effort and low speed 👍

Tony, that is exactly what I'm looking for I suspect, many thanks mate 🙏

Hi folks, I have a bass body with rear access to the control cavity and what can only be described as a number of experimental holes - 7 in total - from the cavity to the front surface of the bass. I want to fill these with dowels, but each hole is a slightly different size so I want to standardise them all at 12mm to allow me to use 12mm dowels for all holes. I was going to use a 12mm drill but suspect that despite being quick and easy it might cause more harm than good, I then thought about using a round file but I imagine that's the hard way and will likely leave me with irregular/not-round holes. Thoughts re tools/techniques welcome 🙏

I must admit that was my first thought, whether a pre-amp optimised for single coils will work well with - and I'm probably technically incorrect in saying this but I'm going on experience - apparently more powerful P and MM PUPs? I'm aiming to use a Jazz Bass control plate which limits my choices to a degree, and for the time being I'm going to install a VT/VT stacked passive circuit courtesy of @KiOgon, which will at least allow me to compare the O/Ps of the two PUPs and perhaps experiment with circuitry. Hope you're enjoy that FL Dan 👍

I may have missed deleted posts, but from what I’ve read I’m pretty clear where the problem started, pretty clear how it should have been dealt with by the business, and pretty clear that it wasn’t. IMO other factors were caused by these, not causal in themselves

Problem is, before they cut and run as the profits dry up, they put all the traditional studios out of business, then all of a sudden there’s no rehearsal spaces, and we’re worse off than the old model where we might have to make a phone call, deal either real people, and pay a little more. This is the case with studios, music shops, venues, you name it. We as musicians need to think about the future of music as we save a few quid and save a few seconds