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  1. hooky_lowdown
    https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/hardware-parts-c1/bridges-tailpieces-c2/bass-c96/gotoh-contemporary-bass-bridge-p666?attribute[2]=6
  2. hooky_lowdown
    Great look bass. Uber cool. 😎
  3. hooky_lowdown
    What are you talking about, hybrids? Others have mentioned 45-100. You're not alone bud.
  4. hooky_lowdown
    You clearly haven't read the early posts in this thread. 🤔
  5. hooky_lowdown
    Carol Kaye: "The way I mute the strings is by folding over a piece of felt muting (buy at the sewing section at Target, Walmart etc.) so it's doubled to a width of about 1-1/2". Take it and tape it (I use masking tape) to on top of the bridge area, but laying slightly ahead of the bridges. It won't be too loose but you will have to re-tape it tighter from time to time."
  6. hooky_lowdown
    Fender flats sound great on a Squier pj, especially the older one's. It took me a few years of buying and selling basses, to realise it's often not the bass, it's the strings which make the sound I like. Since then I've gone through all sorts of strings, an expensive excercise, but now as long as the bass has a neck I like, is well made and is balanced, I know the strings I like best, I just put the two together and nail the sound I like. Having had nice fenders and alike in the past, I now have two (very) cheap basses, a Yamaha and an Ibanez both with my preferred flats and half rounds, and I'm just as happy with both, if not more so than the fenders.
  7. hooky_lowdown
    Funny you mention this, as I see my bass as an extension of my furniture, and I generally have it out knocking about around the house.
  8. hooky_lowdown
    For me it's somewhere in the middle, my bass(es) are tools to enable me to make music, but at the same time I've got to like them, like playing them, so guess there's some kind of connection, not sentimental for me, unless it's YOB. Like you I can't help but have gas, searching for that one perfect bass, but as I get older my tastes are nearly always in flux, so even if I find one I really like, it won't stop me from searching and then buying another. I had got down to one bass, but over the weekend I brought two more, so now my collection will soon be up to three. Depending on how I get on with them, one or both will be moved on, and then the search begins again. Damn you gas. 😕
  9. hooky_lowdown
    I doubt one person in the crowd would care either, musicians exempt! 😉
  10. hooky_lowdown
    I predominantly play cheap gear, after years of buying and selling gear at all price levels, I know how to set up my gear to get the sound I like no matter the price tag. If the gear feels nice to me to play, and sounds good than I'm happy. I've also found some brands work well together, and others don't. My current main bass is a £40 Yamaha, which plays and sounds great. Gig it without any problems, and no worries if it gets damaged nor stolen as I'd just replace it with the same. 😄
  11. hooky_lowdown
    This has been asked before, no one knows, other than they're made in Korea, iirc.
  12. hooky_lowdown
    What kind of red, bright, dark? Brown tortoise shell or black would be my preference. 😄
  13. hooky_lowdown
    If @NancyJohnson likes fender flats then Labella's are the opposite - the woolly tone the OP doesn't like.
  14. hooky_lowdown
    If you like fender flats, which are nice, try D'Addario chrome's, they feel and sound similar to the fenders only next level. 👍
  15. hooky_lowdown
    Anyone used these strings? I really like a warm/vintage bass tone so thinking of giving the 7150m a try.
  16. hooky_lowdown
    Toffeeburst definitely better colour. 👍
  17. hooky_lowdown
    Fender, D'Addario and EB Colbalt's are all hybrid flats, they are a little higher tension and have more zip compared to old skool flats.
  18. hooky_lowdown
    Doh, I would watch but there's live UFC tomorrow morning from china. I'm sure Soccer AM is repeated, will catch you then. 😀
  19. hooky_lowdown
    Scroll part way down, lots of options... https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/pickguards-c62/fender-basses-c111
  20. hooky_lowdown
    "Jazz bass" on headstock, and P body with split pickups may be a giveaway???
  21. hooky_lowdown
    The thread title asks the question. Your post and inclusion of a youtube link answers it.
  22. hooky_lowdown
    The "Vintage" button is a simulation of a valve amp, so adds warmth, then simply adjust eq to add definition, along with tone knob(s) on your bass.
  23. hooky_lowdown
    Check the Features/Spec button from the link. Georgous bass btw.
  24. hooky_lowdown
    You ask the question, then answer it yourself?
  25. hooky_lowdown
    Do you have the "Vintage" button engaged?
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