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Looks smart that, tort on black is a great combo for F style basses.

Your 3B will be the volume (push/pull), blend and stacked bass/treble if it still has standard Corvette controls won't it? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1941/7837/files/2B-3b_epoxy.pdf?744051323792808354 Does your output jack have two or three lugs on it? With active basses the jack is used to complete the circuit across the sleeve and ring so when you unplug the cable it doesn't drain the battery, that's why they use a 3 lug stereo jack (tip, ring and sleeve) rather than a standard two lug one. The negative terminal of your battery should be wired to one and the other should go to the preamp somewhere.

It was there about a week ago in the accessories section, funnily enough checked earlier today and it's gone. Wasn't anything in there the last few times I've looked though.

I didn't disassemble the pickup, just removed the tube thing. When I spoke to Soloette they just said they were active stereo condenser mics inside the bridge tube, just looked and I no longer have the email though. Annoyingly I seem to have misplaced the pickup tube, still have the rest of it. @Richard R I have a piezo strip in mine and a preamp from Analog Workshop. I modified a cheap acoustic bass bridge from AliExpress and fitted a cheap Fishman Sonicore copy (AliExpress again), looks like this now: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QH7fhzkttwpsXcU6LLxjXsxPTBU3BuqO/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QEIshaB9uS3yR_B5eLN_JISpOXn01K-V/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QDio8TexXWOQ-bVlluD5FLkBGHSI2nrq/view?usp=sharing

Well worth it, a Peavey Microbass is a very nice little practice amp and the Indian Encore (prob 90s?) is a solid bass.

I had a broken screw removed and some scruffy neck holes repaired by a local guy, he made maple dowels with the grain in the correct position. You can probably buy suitable dowels online or use a plug cutter bit to make some. Tuners you can get away with cocktail sticks or matches but I'm not sure I'd want to risk it with neck bolts.

I use IEMs live but still own a little TC BH250 head for home use and rehearsals. I like it because I'm very lazy and it has a tuner, mute switch, aux in and compression (via Toneprint) built in which means I don't have to set my preamp pedal up at practice. I also modified it with a Speakon combo jack, again out of laziness so I can take a single cable and use whatever cabs are at the rehearsal room.

Btw with my Ibanez (9 piece laminate neck with graphite inserts) the neck hasn't moved once since I first set it up over a year ago, no need for seasonal adjustment. Truss rod adjustment was quite gradual as well, if you're used to seeing a change straight away it might be a bit of a shock.

Weird how plenty of people who have put serious money into boutique basses also own mass produced instruments and hold them in high regard despite them being utter junk. Ibanez often build laminate necks with either carbon or titanium rods, very stiff necks and probably built that way to cater for the metal players the Iron label instruments are marketed towards with very little relief and a low action.

Best option is to get an adapter and use whatever strings you like, Thomann sell them.

These are meant to be surprisingly good: https://www.thomann.de/gb/joyo_ma_10b_portable_bass_amp.htm Add bluetooth capability via an adapter in the aux input: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134771428268? I have one of those little BT adapters connected to my amp, I added an adhesive magnet to it so it doesn't move around. EDIT : This one is a quid more and has bluetooth built in: https://www.thomann.de/gb/yuer_portable_bass_amp_bluetooth.htm

Have two regular and a dual concentric, they're off a Hohner JJ Pro so probably the same as other Korean Cort built Hohners

Might have some, will have a look when I get a moment.

This is the one I bought: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzRzvh5

Have a look on AliExpress, you'll probably be able to get exactly that bridge for not much money. I've bought 2 very similar ones in the last year or so for projects, I'll check my purchase history

I think all the Chinese Arias I've played have that slim P profile, they all felt very similar anyway. Really comfortable necks IMO.

Someone on here was selling one of those cheap Uke bass 5ers a while back, they'd spent a fair whack of money trying to get it to sound ok with more conventional strings and admitted defeat to the inevitable flub so looks like it'd be poly uke strings or nowt. EDIT: Thread here:

I have a cheap fretless Uke bass, the same Batking one mentioned above and also an Ibanez Artcore Parlour bass which is 24" scale and uses the GS Mini strings. They're wildly different instruments really and each uses a unique type of string, neither are like a traditional bass and choosing between them depends on what you want it for, both are fun though especially the Ibanez. For upright style thump in a supportive role the uke bass might be what you need as the poly strings will get you there, the GS Mini strings on the 24" basses are basically like the wound strings on a classical (filament core with bronze wrap) and have a sound all of their own. Btw this is a good demonstration of what sort of sound the mini basses with D'addario GS Mini strings can produce, a lot of videos (including Taylor ones) are of guitarists making them sound terrible! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1854447407928406

Beautiful finish that, really suits the bass.

I guess if you like the shape and want a 7 then why not go all in? I always hated the Vampyre but it did really suit the fella from Nightwish One of those basses that has the right look for the right player and gig, probably look a bit silly running through tatty old covers down the local like.

Aria were always good, the shift to Korea and then China did diminish the brand but they were still churning out some nice entry to mid level basses. Well built, great necks, decent pickups and always nice to look at. Alongside the usual clones they still do some really eyecatching instruments like the FEB acoustics and the SB reissues. There's a really nice PEB65 LP style bass that I keep seeing on Facebook

I still have an early Korean (Samick made) Integra which has the body writing but the short/broad headstock, again bought because it was a cheap way to get the Billy Gould connection! If you get lucky they still have the MIJ Aria bridges as they used some of the old parts. The pickups in mine are brutish, sound ace for anything heavy.

A mate of mine had one of the high end Japanese TRBs many years ago, that was a 35" 6er with 19mm spacing and a pretty much flat radius. Was just a phenomenal instrument and surprisingly easy to play, looked really daunting though as the fretboard was huge!