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I actually use a old cheap Noise gate pedal to do this for my own personal Bass Mix ,into my IEM's headphone amp you might have one laying around to save you buying the behringer one. but its super cheap ... so maybe just go that route and then she doesnt need a dedicated IEM pre-amp

Dean never seem to help themselves , they have so many types of " EDGE" , but then don't mark them on the blooming truss cover. There's an Edge "1" , 2 , Select , Premium , special models , Edge Pro , its almost as bad as saying " P" bass" hey even made a european model in the spector plant >.< . That looks like one of these to me , if its definitely Passive , it is still a Korean model .. so good Qc and build but definitely closer to entry level than one of the upper edge models , giveaways are the Die cast turners , and a basswood body , obviously yours's not in Trans red 😉

Im in west byfleet , So near Woking .

So , We bought the bullet and got Pair of EV active speakers , which sound Amazing and do everything under the sun. The working Mackie becomes a rear stage monitor , we have front wedges , the old one is in my Garage area to take down to the Tip when I get some time ... i cant justify keeping it for spares unless anyone local, wants to claim it , ( I might post it in the freebies section ) Unfortunately I don't feel like getting it working would save it for the band at this point its " tainted " as far as the guitarists are concerned.

Horses for courses sir , I despite Black with a white scratchplate something chronic ... reminds me of cheap nasty argos catalogue instruments , so I wont try and change your mind ... our bands called " Limewired" so manky green is par for the course.

It looks weirdly good under odd Stage lights , taken this weekend 😛

I bought the recent Classic Vibe " re-issue " its REALLY grown on me i wouldn't have picked it over any other finish but playing wise ... through luck or setup kicked the crap out of all the other options and i needed to leave the shop with a bass or i wasn't playing the wedding . Changing the Antigua Scratchplate to a black one was a massive improvement IMHO , the " colour matched" one is going begging if anyone is DESPERATE for Antigua on Antigua . Its Standard Fender screw pattern.

Well , considering the confidence that was lost in the two guitarists eyes and the fact that a new one has just arrived , If anyone who wants to have a Go at fixing it is very welcome to come get it from me in near woking , Stew our guitarist was asking if he could go at it office space style.

Last night ... " well saturday" ... our PA failed , We had to spin our Monitor round and crank it to make up with it ... as a Fully ampless band this was a bit of a disaster. The right side of the Mackie Industrial ART 200A would not transmit any sound from the main speaker ... the Horn/Tweeter was producing sound confirming that it wasn't a power issue or a mixer send issue , I confirmed this swapping it and in my post mortem testing sunday ... when i cracked it apart hoping to find a simple issue like a loose terminal connection and within my cack handed ability to mend. Sadly is seems one of the EQ block's is soggy / rotten 😐 Annoying ... but we've had to rush order a new EV PA ahead of next weekend's gig , the band voted with their wallets after being let down by used gear.

This would probably be fine if the wrap was over a bass that wasn't cut for a scratchplate ... that Bitsa's body had a blooming great swimming pool sized rout underneath the scratchplate which was great for weight relief considering im sure the body was MDF ... but one assumes the maker used the same jig for Soapbars , P's etc ... so i left the plate on for support it .. If you had a solid body / no scratch plate i'd expect it to be fine ..... It was more hard wearing than i thought it would be ...

Yup , works a treat ... I had a jazz bitsa with a rather weird layout scratchplate and it was white on white pearl 😐 not for me ... wrapped it black worked a treat. From this To this

So , it will depend on the finish of the bass itself , Poly / VS Nitro ... i would avoid trying to stick anything on Nitro finishes ... that way lies ruin. I've had pretty good results with this Clear mounting tape then cleaning off any residue with Isopropyl alch but this was on THICK Glossy 90's Poly on an old Aria .... I think kiwi's carpet tape solution looks like it might work pretty well too ... Again clean off residue . with Iso or non acetone based nail polish remover WHOOPS its removed the link it was Clear Gorilla Double-sided mounting tape from Amazon.