pete.young

I'd be inclined to have a word with @Ashdown Engineering before you do anything drastic.

The last set of EXL220s I bought for my 5-string Bass Collection, were supplied by Strings Direct as a 4-string set of EXL220 plus a single 0.125 B string, so I think it's definitely possible to match a 4-string set of EXL170s with a lighter B. The code for the B is XLB125.

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Whereabouts are you @guyl - if you're anywhere near Ipswich you're welcome to come and try mine, and it'll probably go to the east anglian bass bass if that happens.

This is an 8 year old thread. If he hasn't figured it out by now, he probably never will.

That is because this thread is old, really old, and the pictures will have been lost on the move to the 'new' site, a couple of years ago.

Sorry BassBunny, none of mine look like that.

Agree with this. I have a Nordstrand in my 5-string which is also a big improvement on the standard. I've used the Artecs too and they're OK until the pots start crackling.

5-string P/Js are relatively rare. I had one and traded it to Skezza, but I haven't seen many others. The other option is to change the JJ pickups - mine now has Delano stacked humbuckers which do a pretty good impression of a P. The 5th string is OK - not as good as my BBNE2, but then that's what you'd expect.

Yamaha Music London have spares for most everything, but at the prices they charge it'll be cheaper to buy an 1024x.

I had the same symptoms (couldn't lift my outstretched arm to be parallel with the ground, at 90 degrees to my body). It wasn't related to bass playing. Physio determined it was due to tension in my neck muscles, and several sessions of neck massage later it was fixed, with no re-currence. The Osteo/Physio route is good, but worth a visit to the GP first - in my case the GP gave me one of the practice 'credits' so it was done on the NHS.

I had one for a while and wasn't impressed with the octaver or the synth.

If weight is an issue too, maybe it would be worth getting Maruszczyk to make you a chambered Jake with Jazz neck. Probably still be cheaper than a US fender.

This looks great. It's a very similar colour to my SB465, both the top and the staining.

DHA VT1 pro has a DI and a headphone out, both with a gain control.

Some Japanese not-for-export basses have slimmer necks, somewhere between Jazz and Precision. I have a PB70US which is like this.

Quite challenging this. My Bass Collection SB310 is pretty light, but 7.8lbs according to my scales.

Is it right that with Band Mule you need a different email address for each band you're in? That wouldn't work so well for me.

The allen key will probably be an Imperial size - if your set is metric there won't be one that fits. Don't know the exact size though.

I'd like to withdraw my recommendation for wheresthegig. The charging model has now changed and you need a $5/month minimum subscription . We'll probably go with bandwerkz.

I had a solid state Peavey, I think it might have been a Mark 3, and an 18" Bass cabinet. THis would have been around 1978/79. Burman was available at that time, Muir Music in Manchester had several of them, but they were certainly out of my reach as an impoverished student. Even so, some people thought they were too cheap: Dave Lunt remarked at the time that, given the cost of the components, he wouldnt even plug his soldering iron in for the profit margin.