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I just built a Fuzz Face variant, and got an incredibly good peaches sound, by accident. So maybe he used one of those.

If you give your bass, and several hundred quid, to a renowned techy, and if he secretly does precisely nothing to it and then gives it you back, it will subjectively sound better. If you give him more money it will sound even better. Fact.

Volume at 11 means the power is now at your fingertips, not in the volume control. Also softer playing to me sounds more musical and rounded.

I wonder if you can make a bass out of a ring tailed lemur.

With the Ivory you could make the most illegal piano in the world. We may be raping African wildlife, but at least we're helping fight racism.

maybe get an overwound jazz bridge pickup, sould sound darker

IIRC the grubs hold the pickup in place, and they are also prone to breaking their thread, so be careful.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1343515737' post='1751716'] I'd expect that you'd have to order enough strings to make the cost of shipping worth it, but not too many that you go over the customs and excise threshold.(which will probably make you cough up for VAT Annnnd the admin fee added by the courier. Usually around 8 quid. I'm guessing that would be one set of bass strings and thus, more likely to save money by going to the likes of Stringbusters or Strings Direct? [/quote]yeah i think the threshold is £15.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1343899017' post='1756895'] To the OP, you might have to bite the bullet and fill the current holes and just get some proprietary ones e.g. Wilkinson etc. off eBay. If you go for the 70s Fender style Gotoh ones they are massive so should easily cover the holes you have! [/quote]Head stock is quite small. I guess filling isn't such a bad option. Time to find some matchsticks.

if the string gets too close to the magnet it creates a chorus-like effect

In small venues, the majority of the bass reaching your ears will have been reflected many different ways. There is little any speaker configuration can do.

If you are really neurotic about horizontal dispersion on 4x10s, you can just put a brick under one corner of your cab.

A live venue is not an anechoic chamber. It is impossible to predict how a particular speaker arrangement will behave in any given venue.

[quote name='bassy1223' timestamp='1343773005' post='1755173'] I have messaged the add holder. I've been cheeky and asked for £150! [/quote]It might just work.

[quote name='bassy1223' timestamp='1343689186' post='1753871'] Thanks for all the advice, guys! I continue to search and am still open to advise/offers. [/quote]did you check out the one in darlington?