Bridgehouse

Drop him an email maybe? Hmm. Worth a go. I wonder what size knobs fit the p-retro knobs...?

Thanks all - not sure best way to go about getting Alan’s input - I don’t want to disturb him when I didn’t even buy this bass new from him! Is the p-retro Pre-amp available as a stand-alone purchase?

Some of you may remember I have an oddball ACG Finn 4 - it’s the one Alan made for charity, and I got it from Bigwan on here a little while back. It has one of the excellent PB pickups in, with a Series/Parallel switch and then passive vol and tone. It’s routed for a battery box and has one installed - so I’m thinking it’s time to upgrade to a Pre-amp. I like the two knob arrangement so I’m tempted to put a Bartolini HR 2.2AP/918 in which means volume with push pull active/passive and stacked bass/treble. I’ll retain the series parallel switch as I really like the tonal contrast - more than you’d think tbh. Anyone got any thoughts or any alternate suggestions?

Compact setup and FRFR is de rigeur. I start the trends others have been doing for years

It’s nice to see my thread running long term Welcome to any new FRFR converts as well. My K10.2 is still number 1 stage choice..

As the OP I kinda feel I should contribute again! Took it to a guitar jam day where I was bassing - range of rehearsal rooms, and a range of guitars/amps and all with drums. As expected it performed flawlessly.. loads of headroom and plenty of lower frequencies. Fitted in beautifully with some high end boutique guitar amps and some big monsters too

Just on bass response - I'm a 4'er so I can't comment on bass response on a 5'er at all..

Gibson are panic selling at the moment..

He might not move about much but saying he has a ply body is a bit harsh!

Hide glue or fake news

Again, don't blame me!

Pah. Big spender

Rock and roll is dead. Er, long live rap?

This is interesting information... time to do an eBay trawl

Wow, where do you get the crazy yellow foam from??!!

I find a chunk of the green foam from one of those washing up sponges to be best..

Don't blame me!!!!

You know, I started this thread to just post that I bought a new powered speaker, and look where we have ended up

You should try Kawakasaki next

The spacer will affect the break angle out of the nut - it might feel like there's more tension on those two strings. Sounds like the screw is cutting into a new hole if it's holding without the spacer. Ideally you want to get it to hold with the spacer. I would still go for the sliver of wood glued into the hole - it will give the screw something to bite into

I suspect the break angle over the nut will be insufficient and will mean the strings pop out of the slots. I would: 1. Not panic 2. As suggested, drop a sliver of toothpick in with a bit of glue, leave to dry, cut off So level with the headstock face, make a minor indent in to get the screw in and then re-screw the tree in. 3. If you have one, I'd use a slightly larger screw (tiny bit longer and tiny bit bigger diameter)

It played like flora. It sounded like mushy peas

It is great for keys (see above) same for guitar - in some ways a Helix would be the perfect front end for you to do guitar and bass.