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i also have the musicman version with the wider neck that i got decades ago when the bass vi was truly a rare commodity ..its very capable of bass vi duties but it's achilles heel is that musicman used regular guitar tuners thus cutting itself off from being unable to fit the superb heavy gauge fender bass vi e string even if you managed to track down as set in those days ..so you ended up having to use the specific ernie ball vi bass set of strings made for it which lacked a certain clarity on the low e that i can now thankfully get today from the vintera ...so now after acquiring my vintera i have relegated the musicman silo to baritone g to g duties which is another very interesting area to get into. I find within the bass vi format it's more about string choices than the bass itself and the area that sorts the men from the boys is that low e ...i am so fussy about low e string definition ...this is what ultimately made me veer away from the classic vibe ..it seemed that with the classic vibe it was all a bit of a kludge whereas with the vintera it just does it straight out of the box ...no shimming or third party bridges or particular strings needed ...ironically i did end up getting a stay trem for the vintera not because it ever needed one in the slightest but simply because my ocd wouldn't allow me not to, since i already had them on my avri jazz and jag .... in fact if the truth be told only the jag every really required one.

Consolation Prizes - Iggy Pop

Glittering Prize - Simple Minds

Fixed bridge, hardtail conversion, experiment with pickups It wasn’t easy to find a gauge both heavy enough for the 6th string to intonate properly, and light enough to leave space between strings. It made me approach guitar differently that’s what. I wish it worked for me. in the end, dispatched

Eoin is a great writer but his writing missed the highly random but unexpectedly profound coincidences that made the originals so worth multiple re-reads. The randomness was born out of blind panic as a creative byproduct of Douglas's appaling time management. I agree about the movie also but it was clearly targeted at US mainstream audiences and...simplified...as a result.

Maybe check that the wiring of the speakers isn't out of phase? G.

Hayseed Dixie at the Old Bakery, Truro last week. Phenomenal.

Were they short scale strings?

I was also at that gig - Gabriele and her band were superb, she's 65 and bouncing around the stage like a 19 year old for almost two hours.

Yeah, my initial thought was to re-string with EB Hybrid Slinkys but it sounds great as is atm.

Firstly define 'intelligence'.

Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate

For £700 a scratch plate wouldn’t bother me. It’s the more important parts that I think are amiss.

You Win Again - Bee Gees

Turn of a friendly card. Alan Parsons Project.

Good Grief. Homer Simpson Signature

my last wee project was mashing together a Euna preamp and a Broughton high-pass/low pass ... running at +-17.5v or so, I had a switch to choose 10M, 1.5M or about 500k input impedance - 1-1.5M feels about right without losing something in the balance of the sound of a Bass IMO. I was just using TL072 though, cheap enough in the PCBA process that I didn't experiment with anything sexier. Sounds like you need to filter the DC from the output or something to stop the pops. you'll be no ones friend feeding DC into the PA!