MoonBassAlpha

I've got a black Fender bridge up in the market place from months ago still up for grabs...

The blocks really enhance the figuring on the fretboard. Great choice!

Is there anything to stop the aluminium lines corroding? just thinking sweat might interact poorly with unfinished aluminium.

Yes please!

Any feel for the weight yet? Looks hefty somehow, but I know mahogany can vary a lot. But I hear Wals can be on the weighty side, so that would be authentic!

If you could mix the aux signal with the bass signal before going in to the interface, that would work, but still only be in mono...

You can use the r16 2 different ways. Record all your tracks together on up to 8 channels. Each channel will produce a wav file which you can then import into the daw either by hooking up via USB to your computer, or by removing the sd card from the zoom and reading that into your computer. OR Hook up the Zoom to the computer running Garageband. The r16 can then be used as an 8 input audio interface. You may need to load the Zoom asio drivers to get this to work properly. You do with a PC, I've no experience with a mac. This will also produce separate wav files for each track, as long as the zoom is set up correctly to do so. Which way you work will depend on your circumstances, and if you have the computer available where you record etc. One thing to bear in mind is that if you use the Zoom as an audio interface you don't have access to the built in eq, effects etc, but these things can all be done in Garageband anyhow. Hope this helps! MBA

Fantastic!

Cool, good info.

These are great basses, probably the most comfortable shape I've ever played. Had 3 at one point. 2 defretted ones, worked great as a fretless. Always used them passive, the Select Jazz pickups were good and pretty low hum but the passive humbucker ones sounded immense! Nice light weight too.

Hi @Mogens, welcome to the forum! The values you measured for the pickups are rather high, should be in the range of 2500 to 15000 ohms, measured when disconnected from the rest of the circuit.

It may not be the case here, but I've come across an odd case like this on a guitar that hadn't been used plugged in for a long time. Assuming it would be the contact to the tip of the jack, it wasn't, it was the connection to the ground of the plug, the barrel of the jack. I had to attack the bore of the socket with very fine emery paper wrapped round a screwdriver, then cleaned up with contact cleaner. Eventually the signal went from almost non-existent, to scratchy, to pristine again!

@WAYNESWORLDI'm sure there have been threads about suitable replacement tweeters for the Markbass ones that are actually a lot better sounding. I'm sure a search will turn it up.

Horrible thing to have happen to you, I do hope it was insured, but it's not the same as actually having a Bean. I've always had a big thing for those guitars and basses.

It's amazing I ever get an entry done (procrastination), and most of this one was an hour and a half leading up to the midnight deadline! (Got my deadline day mixed up). Feel free to say "it sounds like it", and I'd be the first to agree.

Good turnout! Maybe they've all been like this recently, I've ducked out recently, not been finding the pictures particularly inspiring, which is a big thing for me.

Just about made it! Last minute, as usual. It's a spring-like, yearning, germinating thing. Or something! ymmv! I found a guitar sound that sounds to me like it is straining and yearning to get out of the cold ground into the light. There's burbling nutrients in the soil too... Drums recorded into reaper, the rest done on my Zoom R24 and quickly finished therein, currently typing within an hour of the entry deadline (as usual) Featuring my new Aluminium Tama SLP snare, Gordon-Smith 12string, Godin Solidac and U.S. Masters fretless bass

Nice job!

Did you try the Renown snares? I'd really like one to match

Although it's a bluey-grey ripple wrap, in natural daylight it looks quite green! I think there is some lacquer (nitro?) that has just yellowed over the last 55 years! I won't miss the worn out hexagonal Tom arm though!

I had a sad day over the Christmas break- took my 60s UK Rogers kit back to the friend who sold it to me 20 odd years ago. I replaced it with a small Gretsch Renown, but have kept hold of the snare until I can afford to replace it, the Renown drums do sound great, but the snares don't seem to crop up 2nd hand... 😞