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The Mark Bass Advanced Soft Touch strings feel very much like DR to me, and cheaper. They have Stainless and Nickel.

Poor service thread on tFb as well https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/287054/

I've recently got the building bug and so far I've done my Pingray, a strat and I have the parts for a Gibson scale telecaster in the house but I need the weather to get warmer again before I can paint outside. But now I'm thinking of doing a short scale 50s P bass as a sort of Dusty Hill tribute. Ideally I'd like to find a slightly downsized body to keep the proportions right, but I'll think about getting a body blank if I have to - slab bodies are probably the best option for a first time body making attempt. A blank that has the neck pocket already done would be perfect. If I can get suitable parts over the next few months then I'd have 2 things to paint in the spring. I'd do it in that old butterscotch type colour he had for a long time, then do the hairdryer + air can cooling approach to get the finish cracking a little. I wish I had a workshop - at the moment I have to do everything other than soldering in the garden. I also really need to spend some money on power tools. Other than an off-brand Dremel and a drill I'm doing everything by hand.

Tell him you’ve never seen such a great parody band. Best ever and that you really needed a laugh. Thank him repeatedly.

Dunlop short scale flatwounds are very nice - but I'm not sure how loud they would be on an acoustic instrument - is it purely acoustic or can it also be plugged in?

No because the distance between frets will be wrong. But if you get a bolt on and put a properly build shortscale neck on it and keep the neck pocket in the same place then you have to move the bridge to make it work. For Fender guitars Warmoth do conversion necks that do not need the bridge or the pocket moved - the neck is built in a way that makes it all work just by screwing it on. I am not aware of anyone doing bass conversion necks.

That one is different. This is the same as the one my neighbour has, albeit in a different colour: https://reverb.com/item/501921-reduced-rock-bottom-price-aria-elecord-feb02-acoustic-bass-fishman-transparent-blue-no-veneers The actual one is in a brown burst.

My next door neighbour just bought one of these from a charity shop. They are not on the Aria website anymore and the only one I can find on the web is one from a Reverb listing 11 years ago in the USA where it sold for £223.84 equivalent. My neighbour bought it on a whim, doesn't really play but is now retired and thinking about doing something with his time. The action is a bit high and it probably needs the bridge adjusting by a luthier so as to not ruin the pickup - it has a Fishman 3 band with a semi para mid range control. If anyone knows anything about these, please let me know.

My EMGs are about 1mm from the string. I've got a Smoothhound and a Line 6 G70 and neither of them distort the wireless. The G70 has a gain control on the output / receiver going to the next things in the the signal path but the Smoothhound does not. Neither has a gain control on the transmitter to receiver. The Smoothhound was very cheap, the G70 was not. Are you sure it's the wireless and not something later in the chain?

I can’t decide which I liked best. I did do another one with my John Stockman / Karnivool patch and it sounded so OTT, but unfortunately the levels were crap and it was clipping all over the place. I used Moises to remove the original bass part. Such a great app!

@HeadlessBassist Sorry for the delay. I recorded a play along of one of my favourite songs: “Come as you are” by Beverley Knight. And then because I was curious I recorded did it again for another 3 takes with different amp sims. SVT 4 Pro. Dirty Aguilar Tonehammer Joe Dart heavily compressed (although new roundwounds not flats) Fat DI. Bass EQ stayed the same apart from the Tonehammer as the low was far too much so I backed it off a little, but it was only boosted a little in the first place. There’s a little playlist of the 4 on YouTube.

New member. 3 posts... Nice try Mr Hall, I see you!

Hipshot want $70 to ship adapter bushings from the US…

Hello!

The Nordy mute is definitely the fastest on/off option but it is so expensive for a stick with some foam on it. And the foam is very hard and mutes massively. A triangular shaped foam would allow the muting amount to be altered just but pushing it on more or easing it off - ideally with a softer foam... That and the stupid price made me make my own ones. Plastic Ice Lolly stick. About £5 for 20 of them: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XY9JF3V?th=1 and then some adhesive backed foam tape: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VJXPD4B?th=1 (Just an example, you can get it a lot cheaper than that, for shorter amounts) And you can make a bunch of them for various basses. Stick the foam to the lolly stick and then use a sharp knife to cut the slots to fit your instrument. Can even shape the foam for more and less muting with just a pair of scissors. Cut the lolly stick down to size to remove the excess length. I made enough for all my basses for about a quarter of the cost of a single Nordy one.

Done.