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Has anyone watched Geddy Lee’s TV show “Are Bass Players Human Too?”? I’ve only seen two episodes so far - the ones with Melissa Auf der Maur and Krist Novoselic - and was wondering what the community thought.

I’m no expert on the 5 string but to me the headstock is the wrong shape for a fender , truss rod adjustment is not at the heel, pretty sure the American pro ll has 2 string trees, wrong neckplate, wrong bridge, I think it’s as described as not a fender

Not sure if the principle is the same for bass as it is guitars, but where goes. I had the same issue with active guitars and distortion pedals. In the end I found the solution to be using a valve based distortion pedal or the dirty channel of my valve guitar amp. I ended up buying a Radial trimode which works great.

I bought a Mooer Power Supply for a pedalboard from Richard. Excellent price and was delivered really quickly. Updates were really good from Richard's end as well. Richard was the guy who sold me the fabled Valenti #042 way back in 2008 so for me will always be a top seller on basschat. Not quite a Valenti this time but will be using the PSU this afternoon at band rehearsal so all good. Many thanks Richard. Much appreciated 🙂

Ok, the gig at Capones. Interestingly enough, someone was talking about places that aren't consistent with live music. Well, Capones has a lot of bands booked, however it's not really a music crowd. We did the best we could. It wasn't a good gig. I mentioned we haven't played a bar in years. We felt like we had went backwards. The sound was awful. Boomy and and a lot of echo. We have another gig booked there on August 12th. We decided on the way home to cancel it. One good thing. It was an $800.00 gig. Daryl

Home By The Sea - Genesis

Home In My Hand - Foghat

or you could use a plug cutter to cut the wood around the screw and then dowel the hole once you have broken off the plug with the screw still inside, cheap set about £12, smallest diameter 6mm can cut something like 25-30mm deep Last weeks twoodford yt video showed him using a home made plug cutter to extract a headless 3" screw from a previously 'repaired' guitar neck joint

Heaven In My Hands - Level 42

I have not used Dragster, although a pedal maker said that such units may not work well. Better alternative is to find a distortion that works with your basses. I tested several pedals after I found that not every pedal is functional with every bass.

I just reread the original post and noticed how recently this bass was built, which I didn't initially pick up (geddit....?) Given that, I suspect it would be easier for people here to help if you provided more details e.g., the make and model, which would allow people here to advise on the technical side, for example which PUPs should be in the bass. Re the legal side, @RhythmJunky is probably correct in terms of warranty, and given it was built in 2024 this might still be a legally enforceable path you could take, but as @warwickhunt suggested, probably best to try diplomacy first! But it sounds like you might have tried diplomacy and the builder has pushed back. So, if this is - as appears to be the case - an error in design or build, a little pressure applied on this forum would do no harm, whoever the builder is, it's likely a significant percentage of his market read this forum (although given it was a UK builder it's possible it was a custom order which might make things more problematic).

Monkey gone to heaven. Pixies

Those who were trying my custom 'Titan' 6-string (walnut top) and were wondering what the control options were... and I'm bad at remembering them... here's the set-up. From front to back: Volume (pull for passive) Pickup select/balance Neck switch - down P, middle series, up reverse P Stacked bass (bottom) treble (top) Bridge switch - up parallel, middle single coil, down series. Final furthest back control - Middle. Also, a shout out to @rwillett for making the whole thing possible.

People have been taking guitars apart for decades and finding little bits of card/sandpaper under the heel joint. It's not cheating as such, it's just a fix to facilitate getting it right.

Don't Need This Body - John Mellencamp

(I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew

Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins

Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars

I just powered everything up with the bass plugged in and started unplugging power and audio and didn't notice any significant reduction in noise, even once all the pedals were unplugged and my chain was bass > QMX > amp, which implies its the switcher...? Signal chain is as follows: Bass > Walrus Audio Canvas Tuner (currently crappy mini tuner I can't remember the name of) > QMX (3 leaf Octabvre > 3 Leaf Doom 2 > Origin Effects Halcyon > Tru-fi ghost Vibe > Iron Ether Xerograph Deluxe > JPTR FX Jive) > Noble Preamp > amp QMX is powered direct from the distributer as recommended by Gigrig (had a conversation with them a month or so ago), all connected with Evidence Audio solderless, so that might be the next round of testing.