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Got an email and a text this morning that my shorty and five string acoustic have shipped ;-)

Got an email and a text this morning that my shorty and five string acoustic have shipped ;-)

Ah yes, I know that as I'd read all this thread beforehand..! Quite happy to take a punt at under 20 quid for a shorty P bass and 50 for an acoustic 5 string, and appreciate that they may have varying faults. Got confirmation email for both immediately after ordering and so I'll update thread when anything arrives :-) I'd imagine that it's quite common for them to run out of stock mid order if they only have a handful of items for sale each time. Unless their online stock shows stock as taken when it's in a customer's basket prior to checkout then it probably happens a lot. I wonder if they update this at 11pm because by that point chances are I'll have had a beer or three and be more likely to hit the order button...?

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1431989995' post='2777125'] Good luck on getting the instruments, and for them being in good usable nick when you get them. You might want to consider turning the PB-Shorty into a PJ-Shorty: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/253875-turning-a-harley-benton-pb-shorty-into-a-jb-shorty/"]http://basschat.co.u...to-a-jb-shorty/[/url] I was wondering if anyone else was awake. (I'm watching the entire series of Z Nation on Netflix, so am awake). [/quote] Appreciate I'm taking a punt here but is there any reason to think that I won't receive what I've ordered, or do you have some negative experience?

I've just bagged the shorty and the acoustic 5 string... Let's see. I'm hoping the shorty will be good for terming my daughter bass guitar!

What are these like compared to mid-90s MIJ Jazz pups? Am I likely to need to do any routing to get these to fit? Quite tempted...

Hi All, I've got a Fender MIJ 70 RI from the mid 90s. I fitted a John East J-Retro about 15 years ago along with a Badass II bridge. I've just downsized my amp to a TC Electronics BG250 208 which doesn't have an input gain control - it has passive and active switched input. With the preamp on, the volume is a little high for passive, and a little low for active. The J-Retro does have pickup output volume which is currently at the factory 70% volume (i.e. default on the pots inside the cavity). Q: is there any practical difference between me either winding down the output slightly and using the passive input, or winding it up slightly and using the active input? The J-Retro is powered by 9V rather than 18 if it makes a difference! Cheers Ric

Heavy duty Velcro?

[quote name='tonyquipment' timestamp='1431714863' post='2774333'] I like to squash my signal because I'm a lazy sloppy player Subjective to the player! [/quote] <Raises glass> Amen, brother!