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Romeo2

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  1. thanks v much 3below, contact cleaner does not work anymore, at least not in the long-run, this being a mighty mite closed pot I assume it has just ran its lifespan

     

    just curious now if it has to be the one that they sell - i can't find anywhere shaft length or any technical info, hard to find exact looking thing on uk ebay, oh well, i might end up paying shipping from the US for this one damn thing. don't want to desolder just yet, i can still play it when I have the patience to get it not cracking and hissing and dropping volume

  2. Doctor J, my experience is even more limited but I'll share just for collective insight.

     

    Indonesian G&L L2000 from 2013 has a nut which the bass gallery tech deemed fine (I asked to replace if he thought it's worth it). It seemed too high for me but the frets are mega jumbo or whatever the jargon is so it needs to be that way, and I can get the action as low as it gets so it's fine.

     

    Nut on a Vintage Modified Squire PJ is just fine, too (and the instrument itself is from possibly one of the best 'budget' instrument lines made in recent times).

     

    Yamaha BB4 and another cheap Yamaha PJ fretless have issue-less nuts too, just right. It is when I went to the London yamaha store to have their tech look at the nut on my Pacifica guitar I learned from him they are pre-cut, the one he put on as a replacement came from a tiny zip bag from a drawer with pre-cut nuts, I loved this japanese efficiency but it might be that this is how it is done in the industry, not just their idea of making it human-error free.

  3. If I understand this correctly, these days most if not all mass produced instruments have their nuts pre-cut by machines and so are pretty much error-free for the factory strings and set-up. So don't think there is ever a need for re-doing this job unless something went awfully wrong and didn't get picked up at the QC.

     

    Funnily enough I had mine replaced by a yamaha tech, turns out unnecessarily as it didn't fix the issue I was having.

     

    But something else came up and apologies for piggybacking on this thread but when changing strings recently it turns out whatever glue the chap used is now all but gone and the nut is loose. I didn't care and assumed string tension would hold it in place - alas, I use roundcore strings and thin gauges and so when I bend like there is no tomorrow, the nut moves 😮

     

    How do I attach it back without going to a tech, is superglue just fine or do I need something more special? Please advise, thank you!

     

  4. if there was an instrumental version of the new record I'd be happy to pay for it, I just don't get why Anthony thinks he can write lyrics or sing, and if he needs to front the band, ok but dude, have mercy, fewer words, less, less 'singing', I beg you

     

    i like it, the music on the new album i mean, feels like there is less/no pressure to write stadium bangers anymore so most of it is interesting and fun, and I like flea's sound, not sure what your complaint is chaps, it sounds solid with a bite where it needs it. john f is back and I am happy, couldn't get on with the minimalist quirk of klinghoffer (tbh, past californication i stopped listening, so much radio friendly filler it hurt)

  5. I have one exactly like this one, absolutely love it, your son should consider himself lucky - awesome bass for not much money. Set of fresh strings, intonate it properly and you have an insanely good 24 fret jazz bass.

     

    I posted mine here:

     

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  6. i love the octamizer too - as you say, being analogue it is organic in sound and feel, you learn to play it with the way it reacts to your input level (I absolutely love how it sings with my L2k, two humbuckers both on with bass backed off a little, I can dig in and it doe snot choke, and then a totally different sound and experience when I play a passive PJ squire with geezer butler emg's, right settings and P only with tone rolled off I can almost pretend a doublebass-like sound)

  7. Fair enough, but apart from the not so perfect graphs and charts there is some interesting stuff in there which kind of surprised me, for example people listen to music much more than I thought, people seek out music and also as seen on pp10-11 during the pandemic people used music for their wellbeing. Now this may be obvious to musicians and people who are into music on a daily basis, and I was very much of the belief people don't care about music as much 'as they used to', etc, turns out I was fortunately wrong. 

     

    What also rather surprised me is the extent to which people use illegal ways to listen to/obtain music, still, despite availability for free or tiny amounts for streaming services subscriptions. It's rather sad too, considering this was the year that showed how dire the situation has turned out to be for musicians and the army of people employed in sectors revolving around music - still so many people want music for free.

  8. 46 minutes ago, lee650 said:

     My first 5 string was the BBN5! Great little bass, as i recall i spent about £400 new vack in 1996. I liked it so much I bought the first Nathan East signature about a year later.

    how do I end up checking out a BBN5 II on ebay... you guys are a bad influence.

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  9. 12 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

     

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pDvG2qqj_KVjm1Ef8AcG2W7xmVj9ty4m/view?usp=drivesdk
     

    Right, so the main body of it is 100% on bridge vol/tone, 90% neck full tone. Humbucker mode.

    Theres a noodly bit which is just bridge humbucker. Think I added reverb.

    Slappy bit - single coils both on full vol/tone.

    sorry it’s scrappy - 3 year old playing up so - but yeah, It does a lot and it’s nice, looking forward to band context.

    killer looks, passive, humbuckers and split coil delight and separate volume/tone controls for each pup - thanks Andy, I will now, like you have, obsess over it and not get any sleep, yeah, cheers ...

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  10. 11 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

    Angle - regular thickness 

    @Al Krow Andy is obviously right, what is quite special about this cheap BB is it's a smaller body than the more fancy (or later) BB models but more importantly, it just seems perfect: light, super-well balanced and for the money I paid for it on here it's ridiculously good in terms of every note ringing like it was a £1.5k instrument. 

    I bought it on here from a chap who in the advert said he bought it on here as well so it's changed hands a couple of times, I think I'm not letting it go. Adding shielding in the cavity would make it tour-ready. Yamaha FTW.

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  11. some of my favourite rock and roll songs in this thread, love it! from Ministry's Psalm69 album Jesus built my hotrod is awesome but there is also TV II, my earliest memory of thinking WHAT WHY HOW YEEEAAAAH!!!, also completely relentless:

     

    There is fresh p****d off music too, I really don't want anyone to miss out on this London's trio righteous anger, and yes, my colleagues can get me worked up on Teams too, I am struggling to imagine what it will be like when we're back in the same room...

     

     

     

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