MoonBassAlpha

Just out of curiosity, what do those studs do?

Is it called the "Swift"?

had this with Chromes. I suspect it's the residue from the polishing process on Flats, could be similar for rounds?

As these speakers are subs they may not have enough mids to sound good. I've never heard one, so couldn't say for sure.

Excellent write up, thanks for that!

I'm more of a drum owner than player, and I find my hand gradually works its way towards the butt end of the stick during a tune. This process stops when I get to the end of the stick (usually!) but this gizmo would help that enormously. I should really get some technique, but that ain't gonna happen any time soon! This has got me thinking if a rubber band part-way down the stick to form a slight ridge might help me? Might have to try this out!

I don't quite get the sentence about the bass response.

Good to hear real life experience of this. Thinking about it, I think it was specifically the Cool Rails ones that are widely lauded for Musicmaster/Broncos.

The original Musicmaster pickups were 6 pole guitar pickups, so go figure. People use them (Rails pickups), and apparently sound great so it's just good information. Sorry if you considered this comment a de- "rail"

As long as you don't forget the battery....

Don't most people use a blade style strat humbucker (Hot Rails or Cool Rails, or some similar clone)? No worries about string spacing then! Can be found for under £20 on the Bay of E.

Result!

The Bevis Frond, actually, last night!. Mainly went cos the guy my band backs up occasionally did an album with them, and I've had to play some of Ade Shaw's basslines. They were good in a psyche wig-out sort of way. 2 guitarists soloing at the same time isn't something I see a lot of these days!

As used on the Bass d.i.+. Anyone know if and where you can buy them? cheers MBA

Might be worth checking the soldering of the sockets to the board. if the ground has disconnected you might well hear just this. PCB mounted sockets can be prone to this. Both my old Zoom multitrack recorders had this on the headphone socket, an annular fracture of the solder round the pin.

2 issues, you are right ! 1 tension - the strings will be looser. Heavier gauge of the same brand, or another brand designed for higher tension will help. You may need to adjust the nut slots to accommodate thicker strings 2 Setup - less tension on the strings means the neck will relax into more of a back bow, so you won't have as much relief. You'll need to slacken off the truss rod a bit to get the relief back HTH MBA

Is the jazz V 35" scale by any chance?

I use a plastic credit card as a fret rocker. Straddling 3 frets at a time only, the long side does the lower frets, and then switch to the short side as the frets get closer together. You should rock at the bass and treble sides of each fret, and the middle for good measure. High frets will often be at the edges and less so in the middle. Hope this helps!

I've got an EDA905 to look at. Complaint was that it was making a farting noise. It all checks out ok, turns out they were playing it through a guitar cab! It's a 5 string, and I think they were using a drop tuning too... Anyhow, the action was also 7mm, so I've shimmed the neck and now got it playing nicely with <1.7mm top to bottom! It's a really good neck! The remaining problem is one of the tuners has broken in the slot where the string sits. It still tunes and holds tune but doesn't look right. I can't find a single (not a set of 4) replacement in that finish, a smokey chrome. It's a Gotoh style right handed one (these things string up oddly). I'm wondering if anyone has better Google-Fu than me or has a spare knocking about in their parts drawer? Don't mind paying, of course!

6 pages in, in a topic covering loudness of cabs, and the expression "volume displacement" hasn't surfaced yet? Shame on you lot!

I was air bassing along to Good Times in my head at our morning stand-up meeting. My boss asked if I wouldn't mind stopping doing that. He's a bass player too, but I suppose there's a time and a place

Some pain killers can do that!

Another useful tip for while you're playing with the neck pocket is to slacken the neckplate screws off very slightly with the strings up at full tension (normal pitch). This uses the string tension to pull the neck hard into the end of the pocket, and can improve sustain and evenness across the strings. I recently did this with my Telecaster (guitar) and it made a noticeable difference. Obviously, do the screws up tight once you're done! Hth MBA