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  1. shoulderpet
    Exactly, to expect people to remove the neck to adjust the truss rod on a bass that is produced nowadays is ridiculous
  2. shoulderpet

    Oh band dramas, the sh!@ has really hit the fan with this one, honestly I sometimes wonder why we put ourselves through this

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    2. Marc S

      Marc S

      Oh dear - band "troubles". I'm in several outfits myself. It can take quite a bit of planning ahead, to make sure there are no clashes. But generally, I let everyone know when I'm playing with other bands / duos. Most of them have met each other, and seemed to get on pretty well. But I've had this sort of thing with other bands in the past.
      Hope it gets sorted - but it sounds like guitarist #2 was either not informed, or is unhappy with the 2 of you having another project.

    3. shoulderpet

      shoulderpet

      @prowla I think part of the issue was that the guitarist who was whizzed about it felt like we had stolen the gig from the rest of the band, also probably doesn't help that he is friendly with the people we did the gig for, I am guessing there is a bit of wounded pride/ego going on there

    4. shoulderpet

      shoulderpet

      Anyway,  I had a phone call from the drummer yesterday saying that the guitarist had phoned him and was ranting about it, the other guitarist is now saying that he has now admitted he was told about the gig but now claims that this was all part of a plan to steal the gig from him, on Saturday I was like omg this is awful and now I am just sick of hearing about it and am thinking that this situation is just pathetic and sad now

  3. shoulderpet
    I get what you are saying but people dont always buy because because they want a carbon copy of something, people are often attracted to an instrument primarily by looks and then if they play it and they like the way it sounds and feels they might buy it, also on mine it does not say anywhere on the headstock that it is a 50s precision bass so if I had not looked up the serial number online afterwards I would not have even known, no labels in the shop declaring it as such either.
  4. shoulderpet
    Yeah it's just sad that Fender have gone so far in trying to stay faithful to there old designs that they have made it so that you have to remove the neck to adjust the truss rod, then if you find the first adjustment was too much or not enough once you have the strings back on you have to take the neck off again
  5. shoulderpet
    I could do with that feature on my 50s p bass, I mean who thought it would be a good idea to have to remove the neck to adjust the truss rod
  6. shoulderpet
    Not tried them but they sound interesting, I have always been intrigued by(but never pulled the trigger due to them being US based) the GFS hot precision pickup, is wound to 16k so should sound nice and beefy. https://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Pro-Series-HOT-P-Bass-Pickup-Pickup-OUR-BEST_p_10978.html
  7. shoulderpet
    Damn that's a shame, I love The Mission, such a shame to hear Wayne is still overdoing it on the booze. I totally get what you are saying about large venues, for some reason the sound person always seems to think that bass should just be a subsonic mush that no one can actually hear properly, I think in the past few years I have been to about a dozen gigs, probably 2 of those gigs actually had a decent bass sound
  8. shoulderpet
    If the pickups on the jazz are precision pickups then yes
  9. shoulderpet
    P bass: Bass with one pickup either split p pickup or single coil p pickup Bass with 2 or more pickups that are split p or single coil p pickups Not a p bass: Any bass that does not have p pickup(s) Pj basses
  10. shoulderpet
    This!!! Was about to suggest the same
  11. shoulderpet
    Yes no problem, The first one was aesthetic, the neck was a lovely amber tone until you went further up the neck where it was pillar box red were someone had gone mad applying the finish. Even my wife thought it looked dreadful. The second one the frets were completely knackered, no amount of adjustment would get rid of the buzz and I think they realised this in the factory as the action was jacked up sky high It was a shame the first one was so aesthetically jarring with its dayglo neck as it played well
  12. shoulderpet
    I have one of these in honey blonde and with a slightly different neck(mine is a vintage tint yellow-ish kind of tint and yours looks more like a roasted maple) and they are great basses. I actually nearly took it back, I brought it used from a local shop and didn't spot in the shop that there was a crack in the finish running along the bass side horn. Anyway I went to the shop to take it back and change it for something else and after playing a bunch of other Mim p basses and jazz basses I realised that this bass was in a completely different league to them,I returned home with the bass I had intended to return Btw those anodised pickguards look great but they are lethal, I took the pickguard off mine to change the pickup and sliced my thumb open...ouch!
  13. shoulderpet
    Anyone have any experience of this pedal? For just under £25.00 it has to be worth a try SubZero Swollen Thumb Bass Compressor Pedal
  14. shoulderpet
    Honestly I think a tuner upgrade is one of the most worthwhile upgrades, if you play entry level Fender or Squier basses the tuners on those basses will do the job but that is the best I can say for them. Having used those type of cheaper tuners they go out of tune more easily, I would find when tuning I needed to approach the note very slowly otherwise it would be very easy to overshoot and tune the note sharp or flat. Using higher quality, higher ratio 27:1 tuners they are much more precise, no more overshooting and tuning sharp and they stay in tune for longer, I can pick up a bass I haven't played in days and it will still be in tune
  15. shoulderpet
    I haven't owned a compressor in eons but the place my band rehearses in has an Ashdown rm-500-evo ii and whilst the general tone of that amp is a little wooly for my tastes the compressor on that amp is a game changer for me, last rehearsal I had the compressor maxed and whilst it might have sounded a bit squashed on its own as soon as the rest of the band started playing my bass tone was really punchy and the more staccato bass parts sounded fantastic, there is literally only the one knob for the compression but whatever preset settings they used sound great Probably worth noting though is that I didnt have the input section of the amp turned up that high and it was not going into the red but still high enough that the compressor was triggered with whatever I played I know a lot of people say that you should not be able to hear compression, is there anyone else here who finds they like a lot of compression?
  16. shoulderpet
    Thanks, so if I was to use the below diagram as a reference I am guessing the red wire takes the place of the short wire linking the volume pot to the tone (except in this case this would be linking the volume pot to the varitone) and then the black goes to the ground on the output jack?
  17. shoulderpet
    Am interested in one of these but my electronics and soldering skills are limited, I am a bit of a wiring simpleton and I can't see how this would connect in a normal two control p bass, obviously this would replace the tone pot, has anyone fitted a varitone that can advise me as to how these are wired, thanks
  18. shoulderpet
    Ohhh 48:1 ratio on the E string!!! The tuners that came on my P bass are 28:1 and honestly going from 20:1 to 28:1 was a revelation, no more overshooting when tuning and accidentally tuning a quarter step sharp
  19. shoulderpet
    This!!! I have filed nut slots wider before and more often than not when I have gone back to lighter strings they have been fine
  20. shoulderpet
    Sorry you lost me there, apologies I am a bit of a newb to all this, would you be able to elaborate on what you mean by this, thank you
  21. shoulderpet
    Ok thanks, I assume also that soldering a capacitor to the copper tape should also be fine? Another thing that I have just thought of is that most of the time there is a ground wire soldered from the back of the tone pot to the underneath of the bridge, could I instead have the ground wire that would usually go to the back of the pot to the bridge wired from the output jack to the bridge?
  22. shoulderpet
    I have always found soldering to the back of a pot to be tricky, I found a couple of cheat methods on Youtube and wondering if these can work, hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can advise Method 1 - This method I saw the person said you solder to some copper tape, the copper tape then gets attached to the back of the pot, does this work? Is this a good way of attaching ground wires and could this also work with capacitors which usually have one of there legs soldered to the back of the pot, could you solder the one leg of the capacitor to the copper tape and then attached that to the pot? Method 2 - In this method the person soldered a thin guitar string from one lug of the pot to the back of the pot, does this work? could you use this method to attach a ground wire by soldering the ground wire onto the string rather than the back of the pot(I am guessing it needs more direct contact with the pot)? Can you use this method to attach a capacitor by soldering the capacitor onto the string rather than the back of the pot? Thank you
  23. shoulderpet
    I have a few 1. If I buy a bass and the setup is good, action is low and no buzz then I wont even bother checking the neck relief, I will give the truss rod a quarter turn to check it turns and then give it a turn to revert it back. 2. If I buy a bass and the setup is good, action is low and no buzz and I dont hate the stock strings then I will try and find out what strings it has on it already so that I can either but the same or buy something with the same tension so I dont have to adjust the neck 3. I dont bother with intonation above the 5th fret on the E string, the other strings I do but unless you are playing a Fodera then the E string does not sound pretty when you play high up the neck 4. My knowledge of theory is pretty much non existent There are more but I will leave it at that
  24. shoulderpet
    Seymour Duncan SPB-3 Quarter pound for sale £30 shipped, works fine but some cosmetic blemishes as per the pictures (hence the price) there is a gouge on one of the covers which thankfully is the one without the Basslines logo and Axesrus sell covers for p pickups with holes for 1/4" pole pieces for less than a fiver should you want to replace the cover, the other thing is that the black pickup wire was trimmed too short so I soldered a wire onto it to extend it and covered the solder joint with electrical tape
  25. shoulderpet
    So I received my transparent pickguard, unfortunately the screw holes are in the wrong place if it was a solid colour pickguard I would probably just drill new holes but as its transparent sadly I cant do that. I have decided that I am going to get a bunch of cheap pots, jacks and capacitors and use these to practice my soldering on, I have a spare P pickup that I can use to test that the wiring all works, I will continue to use solderless components in the meantime but I feel like learning to solder is probably an invaluable skill to have.
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