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[quote name='TransistorBassMan' timestamp='1467889000' post='3087008'] They are out there. You just need to know where to look. Check out Electro 80s. They're very good Also...I play keyboards in a Gary Numan covers band, and we're approaching our 30th anniversary [/quote] Did you play regularly at the Flag in Wembley? There can't be that many long-lived Numan tribute bands...

The fretboard will most likely have to be steamed off, then the rod can be replaced. It will most likely be fairly expensive, but shouldn't be a write-off.

You'd be fine nudging him with an Ashdown - they are woolly, after all

I've got a 74 SG that was my only guitar from 79 to 04 that the nitro hasn't worn through in any spot at all. It's got its fair share of dinks, and every jot of the deep cherry colour has faded to brown. Maybe Gibson slapped on more nitro than fender in those days.

how about the Bass buddy into one of their powered cabs?

High nut also tends to play the first few frets sharp.

Have a great gig Blue - hope you don't get rotten sound just because you aren't "headlining" MBA

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1467535153' post='3084261'] And... nearly all of the drummers I've known have been called Mick. [/quote] I was in a band with a drummer called Mick. He was a builder and used to turn up to rehearsals with his kit (no cases!)on the back of his lorry along with the wheelbarrow, cement mixer and all the other building gear. Nice guy, and a good builder!

There is something a bit country and western about the scratchplate. Strange really, as I bet these rarely get used in that oeuvre...

Typical, one of the few bands I might make the effort of going to that London have 3 dates bang in the middle of my holiday

Playing in a 3 piece band does give you more room to be noticed, and I often get positive comments about my playing, but I'm not really sure why. One Beardie old fellow said he could hear the influence of Percy Jones, which I took as a massive compliment! I rarely get comments on the sound, and think my sound is quite ordinary.

How about a slightly loose tuner peg? It's surprising how much buzz they can contribute. Sometimes you do get a frequency dependant resonance, but some do it all the time on pretty much any note. I'm borrowing an EUB at the mo with a very loose tuner peg (it has had a whack at some point) I've wrapped a hair scrunchie round that peg and the next one as a temporary cure.

I think I've been incredibly lucky, over 40 years playing in bands, all bar one have been pretty much up together and ok players, some very good. The one that was flakey used to smoke a lot of weed, didn't have a drumkit (in this country), was a day late for a gig once, and also lost all the money he had taken out of the cash machine for the weekend in the course of a 200 yard walk from said cash machine to the venue.

With regard to chucking the guitar off the back of the stage, I'm sure there was his guitar tech there to catch it for him, after all it would be more work for him if it got smashed up! Everything else in their set was so slick and on-point, I'm sure that would have been too...

Maybe you're getting a build up of wax in your ears!

Let us know the outcome either way. Sometimes if you rap your knuckle on the back of the neck you can hear the rod vibrate. I've a couple of basses with carbon fibre reinforcing that make the neck very stiff. At various times I've found that I've had to loosen the truss right off to get the right relief, and the whole thing has subsequently buzzed like a ***********r, so I've had to compromise on either action, string gauge or relief.

A little bit goes a surprisingly long way. It's good stuff.

It sounds a bit like the truss rod is vibrating in sympathy at certain notes. Might be worth tightening the truss rod so the board is [i]more[/i] flat.You can raise the saddles a bit to stop the buzzing. I had just this on a Rickenbacker 2 weeks ago, it turned out the truss rod on the treble side was very slightly loose, so I nipped it up almost imperceptibly, and the weird noise was gone.

Looks great. Much more distinctive that boring old black!

There's some great dinky little amp modules on 41Hz, some of which can run off batteries. May need some kind of a preamp too though.

[quote name='GregBass' timestamp='1466688939' post='3077912'] I went from a full MB rig - 1x15 and 4x10 - to a pair of Big Baby 2s. It took a while to sort out the eq, but my rig has never sounded better. You won't be disappointed! [/quote] Just out of curiosity, what exactly were your before and after settings?

The Vintage brand with the Wilkinson hardware has a very good rep for the money. They've been around long enough to find second hand aplenty.

This may seem an odd query, but just because a band uses low tunings generally, why does the bass need to tune down? I must admit I don't really know the styles of music that use low tunings. At all.

How about getting plain covers for your pickups? Say goodbye to string-polepiece alignment misery!