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Sounds promising, but I think you should raise the T40 pickup a bit as the P-Bass pickup seems more powerful. I really like the look it with the added pickup. Congratulations, very nice job!

Sounds to me that venue acoustics meant the guitarists couldn't hear themselves, so they all kept turning up. Instead, the band leader should be taking control and telling everyone to turn down. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I saw a band on Saturday night. They complained about the sound. The guitarist and bass player had amps set on stun, the sound guy had to turn off everything in the PA except vocals. At one point he went up to the stage and told them all to turn down. Which they did, but 2 minutes later, turned back up before the sound guy had a chance to sort it all out properly. I didn't see their soundcheck, but you wonder how they'd got to that point.

I picked one up a couple of weeks ago. I have a terrible habit of just not practicing electric bass at all between rehearsals and gigs, and I thought a handy headphone amp device might help me break that, as well as fulfilling some guitar functions. It is working for that, it's a handy little thing and I like that it charges off the ubiquitous USB C cables that are already around my living room. Though I must say I'm not really blown away with the actual sound possibilities of it so far. The amp models mostly sound somewhat like you'd expect, it's quite functional, but I haven't really dialled in something that makes me smile yet. Totally clean or strongly driven it works OK, but getting an amp model into where it's just very subtly breaking up and squashing at the top of my dynamics is quite hard to nail.

Haven't used my '90 Thumb Bass for a while and when trying it today, when I inserted the jack plug there was a static type electrical noise, like something being turned on, it lasts two to three seconds and then all is fine. It will do it again after removing and re-inserting the plug. It never used to do this and my other Thumb Bass, a '91, doesn't do it. A new battery doesn't help.

Bumping this thread. I believe they went under and stopped producing strings at their Welsh factory yet Picato strings are still widely available and have the UK flag on the packaging. Any ideas?

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Negative, captain...

There are some hipshots (possibly mini clover) with the same screw pattern as modern mini tuners and hole size…

Just the box. It may not reflect the contents. Cryptic.

Perhaps unusually, the most uncomfortable SPL I've been around was in a recording studio! The engineer kept trying different amps because he thought the bass hook needed more grit, and eventually I was plugged into a massive Hughes & Kettner valve head with an 8x10 fridge. We kept stopping and starting while he tweaked the settings, but I found I had to stand at the longest distance my lead would allow: standing too close to the cab was actually making me slightly nauseous! Eventually he stuck a RAT in the signal chain, everyone agreed that was "the one" and I finally tracked the bass part, wondering whether he couldn't have just plugged the damned pedal into a smaller amp in the first place. (And of course, by the time it was all mixed down, it didn't sound anything like as "big" as the sonic assault I was trying to keep under control in that soundproofed room...)

That's the problem with smaller companies that's for sure. G&L is a bit of nightmare in that regard as they seem to have no UK distributors for spares.

Oh don't worry, there'll be a skill swap soon - guy who helped me with the long drill and the cleaning out of the neck pocket on my other bass project is needing a laptop for his daughter, so I'm gonna sort him out with something.

Some very useable sounds there, Neep. I like.

Sharing my practise today and thought of recording it. It’s one of the songs we will play this sunday. It’s an original tiune by our church: Every Nation and it’s called Tribes. Locked in on my core tone with the Dingwall and Anagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNOBuDhzqPS/?igsh=cjZwY3pwdWRtODI2 I just hope our team will pull it off this sunday.

Great variety of tones, well done, huge options going forward 😊. Enjoy the results of your labours. Make sure you top up the beer money pot of the Engineering department. 🍺🍺🍺

I'll take a look dude

You'll get plenty of help with that existential crisis on here! Welcome to the forum.

Marcus eating his own Sire dog food and it sounds great!

This video popped up on my Facebook feed today. Actually, Rick Beato originally posted it on YouTube last year sometime. It's a little seven-minute story regarding a '52 Fender P Bass. For those that have not seen it, it's maybe worth a look.

the issue that started this thread is now resolved, but a minor, related one remains: When playing the E string with my middle finger on the third fret, I can't really lift my finger without getting major rattling on the third fret itself. This is the case with all frets on the E string. THe A issue doesn't suffer as severely from it. My guess is that it's just a question of technique? and because the E string is such a big lump of metal? Anyways, the guy in the teaching videos doesn't seem to suffer from it xd as for @Hellzero and @JJMotown: it's fine guys, please don't fight about something so trivial