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Boom Boom Bhuna - The Outhere Brothers

Yep, all done and working fine now. Thanks for everyones' help!

I've lost interest in vintage instruments, I used to love the mojo and feel of a 60's or 70's Precision, but ultimately they're an expensive - and increasingly a risky - luxury, I can make often equal quality instruments from some carefully selected used parts on eBay 👍

Not sure there is a justification for an accurate copy other than scamming people. Even if your justification isn't actually money, your intent is to fool people to thinking that a bass is something it isn't when examined close up

Slightly unrelated, but during a soundcheck the other week two of our band members were complaining about a high pitched ringing coming through the PA/monitors. The rest of us thought everything was fine so we weren't particularly motivated to find the supposed problem, but after a bit of confusion/accusations of having divas in the band we then realised the two complaining were both late teens/early twenties while the rest of us were 45+, and possibly some of our hearing wasn't what it once was! Mind you it is quite hard to fix a problem that you can't actually hear - we just went through some of the higher frequencies until the youngsters stopped complaining!

Also align your pots and rescrew them firmly.

Two blokes having a chat. Gordon Giltrap's Fear Of The Dark is a great album.

So very true. If you don't know how the meter works, it is not a tool at all. The same with an RTA.

I bought an American Vintage II because I know I can't afford a real early 60s bass. I do wish it felt a bit more 'worn in', although I know I could take the wet and dry paper to it... or spend a big chunk again for custom shop relicing. The existence of such accurate 'copies' with 100% honesty in what they are, from serial number to neck and body markings, defeats most if not all the justifications for creating these 'fakes/forgeries'. Whatever justification people use, it's clear that one or two owners down the line someone will get scammed. Also, people like me with zero expertise will stop buying real vintage. The only ones I would trust now, without help, belong to a couple of friends who have had them since the 70s or earlier. And even if I had them, would their value appreciate as fakes get more abundant?

From their site: I remember trying their half rounds vs GHS Brite Flats and they were very similar, but not identical.

I looked and there was a message in red stating ‘Frequently Returned’. I don’t ever order strings from Amazon having done it once before 🤔

It does state long scale on the Amazon site?

Huh? Where did that come from?

Did my first gig with backline for over 18 months, Saturday night….. Didn’t like it! My usual gigging set up is IEM’s on theatre stages, this was a small pub gig. I couldn’t get used to the dynamics of a cab behind me, it all sounded unbalanced? I’ve sold up most of what backline I possessed admittedly, so only had a MB head & 15” cab & the stage was quite small, so most of the sound was going past my knees. I was sending a feed to FOH as well, so my amp was only for monitoring purposes, but with trying to listen out for click,vocals & electronic drums, it all sounded too live to me! 😄 The answer should’ve been to go IEM but the last time the band played at the venue, we ran everything IEM but suffered with wi-fi issues ..

If you don't do that, it won't work, as the white wire coming out of the red one is the hot output from the two volumes. Just follow the wires, the bare one being the ground. With that in mind, you will be able to follow the wiring diagram above. That said, it seems that the wiring is a tad messy with some mistakes...

Some very variable reviews on Amazon ... are these strings actually suitable for 34" scale basses?

Great, thanks!

Ordered, will do for my P-basses..