rmcki

Pleasure to deal with and great comms, would not hesitated to recommend Martin as have many others!

i agree, i find the preamp nasally/aggressive , and there is only 1 way to find out... I can always put the MEC back in if i don’t like it.

i was thinking that the UHI-PRE would still retain the core sound of the thumb but provide a wider spectrum of variation. Take your point though.

Anyone out there put an East preamp in a thumb bass? 
 I have a UNI-PRE and was considering swapping the out MEC. I was hoping for some advice on the results, pointers and any gotchas before commencing the operation.
 
 your thoughts please?

Touch anything metal on the bass and it goes away. Turn the vol up and it goes away. What am i missing?

DR Handmade Lo-Rider - Nickel, always feel more punchy to me, they have a higher tension.

++ KiOgon, pleasure to deal with. Just send him a pm.

Great, I thought that might be the case, but needed some advice from someone with more experience. I guess I was being impatient. Cheers

Doing a reapire on a MIM P bass neck, i bought a can of the above, took my time and sprayed the neck with a satin spray. left the neck for a few hours, cut it back with 1500 grit paper, and resprayed. did this a few times. Neck looks great Except - a few days now and somehow the neck still feels sticky, its dry but seems to cause friction with skin. Have i done anything wrong? Do i just need to wait longer before assessing if its a sucess?

I've bought a 5 string fretless, arrived today. 2 small bashes on the back, that's it. Everything else is fine. Neck looked really dry so I'm putting Lemmon oil on it. Well worth the money.

if you press the strings down at the highest frett, then the pickup should be 2mm below the strings. Couple of thoughts; Have you tried a new set of strings. Is there still the same issue in passive mode