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That's what put my lad off getting one. It nearly doubles the price!

I have been wondering if the 800 is just a slightly more powerful version of the 500. There again not so much that I'd want to swap, because my 500 is plenty loud enough for any venues we play. Plus the speakers are nicely "played in" now

You have a Sire and you've just bought a Sterling and you want other people to tell you which one you prefer?! Use your ears! ...and then keep the Sire. I much prefer my P7-5 to my Sterling sub 5 - much more punchy and articulate 🤪😂

There is no magic mojo in pots. They are variable resistors. As long as you replace them with decent quality ones, they are consumables as far as I'm concerned.

The frets would have been originally levelled with no tension on the truss rod. If you want to level them again, remove the strings, slacken off the truss rod and then maybe wait a day or two for the neck to settle. You can then check if it's level via two methods: firstly with a long steel rule looking for gaps or high frets, and then various sizes of straight edges to "rock" over three adjacent frets

Probably, but you might want to go a bit more towards the blue end of the spectrum to counter the basic red hues of mahogany if you can, and don't get too upset if it ends up brown A test dye on a piece of scrap would be advisable if you can

A Dremel with a polishing wheel and a dab of fine cutting compound such as Meguiar's Ultimate Compound will take it to another level again If using steel wool mask off your pickups, or you'll never get it off

This. It comes in two types/strengths - the weaker one (242 blue) if you ever want to undo it again in future https://www.loctiteproducts.com/en/know-how/build-things/threadlocker-red-or-blue-which-ones-right-for-you.html

I played a 4 string a couple of weeks ago for the first time in over a year since making the switch to 5. There were a bunch of musos at the gig with a possibility of someone else getting up, so I took something that wouldn't confuse them too much. It turned out that the only other bass player to get up was left-handed anyway and brought their Hofner violin bass with them 😁 Still, it was quite interesting to switch back for a night after my 15 month "immersion" in the land of 5 Oh, and I thought this thread was about 5 strings being a bit more mainstream these days? Well yes, they are. If you like/prefer them, that's good. If you don't, well that's good too. It's not a competition

Someone took this photo on Saturday night at my guitarist's wedding. Wild hair courtesy of Storm Kathleen and an open window (it was HOT!)

We've found the most effective thing is to post a few days before, including a photo or video. We also post up the events - our followers will see them without us paying. We also have a QR code on stage that takes people to our Facebook page

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This is one of the more random threads I have seen on BC I'm still kind of struggling with why someone would change strings so often, but then to re-use strings they have removed Mine have been on for 14 months now and I half considered a new set but haven't been arsed just yet. The battery is also still holding out

Talkbass: Some people worry about minutiae, that should spend a lot more time playing. Like @BigRedX says, show me the ramp! Just shim it with a bit of card

That's another thing. Just because you have a low B now, you don't have to spend the whole gig down there. Personally I just play "normal" 4 string range parts using the 5th string to make life easier on some trickier bits, and then hit the "brown notes" sparingly for more impact

I switched to a 5 at the start of last year. It took a little while to get used to but now feels so natural and has improved my technique. I'm wondering if I'm likely to play any of my 4's again. I think I'm a bit rare around these parts though - there are not many other local 5-ers that I know of

I really don't think that a piece of card the thickness of a business card is going to cause a ski ramp in the heel of a guitar neck. You know they are made from pretty hard wood like maple, right? Even if it did it would only affect frets that as a bass player you shouldn't be going near 😂

Just got back from seeing OMD. Fabulous! Their new album Bauhaus Staircase is not bad either

If you have another bass with a neck that you find comfortable, the profile can always be copied from that one

If it's just for vanity and you're not looking to make a huge profit, maybe look at a site like redbubble.com. You upload a design, people can order it, other people print and dispatch it, you take a cut. I've bought a few t shirts from there and they are nice quality. https://www.redbubble.com/about/selling

I saw the Musical Box last week doing the Selling England By The Pound 50th anniversary tour. Still utterly fabulous!

Half cut, I once stood there chatting backstage with Dave Edmunds for half an hour or so without a clue who he was I was the bass player in a scratch band to back Geoff Downes (Asia, Buggles) at a charity gig he'd organised. I was rather ashamed that I didn't have the foresight to learn Video Killed The Radio Star even though it wasn't on the song list. I busked it ok, but it would have been so much cooler to have known it properly Last year I lent my Thunderbird to Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash) when he turned up to a gig in Nuneaton without his bass! 😂

Another band. The lead guitarist was an old hand and had been gigging in various bands since the 60s. The singer/rhythm guitarist had never been in a band before this one. They had been together for a few years and when their bass player left I got roped in by the drummer, that I had previously played with in another band We did "dad rock" covers, playing in local pubs. We'd been together for a couple of years and were getting plenty of gigs, but started to get a bit fed up with the lead guitarist sounding like a wasp in a jam jar all the time, on every song. Anyway eventually the drummer took it upon himself to explore the tonal range of the guitarist's amp, and made him stand there playing while tweaking knobs - it was quite capable of some gorgeous clean tones as well as filth. That really didn't go down well with the guitarist. I think he felt quite indignant about it and he decided to retire from playing shortly afterwards, effectively ending the band

We had been rehearsing our tribute band for nigh on 3 years. We'd been through a couple of second guitarists (I really must post in the weird audition thread). The keyboard player was an absolute perfectionist but we'd battled through week after week to get the performance "acceptable" (it actually sounded flippin' awesome). We were ready to gig! That's when the drummer decided he wasn't really into that music and he'd in fact just been helping us out until we found a drummer that wanted the gig. That's when I finally decided I'd had enough, and the band folded