andruca

Top notch tribute act. Thanx for sharing.

I've been a "pro" for some years (meaning "made a lousy living playing music") and got 2 string endorsement deals, first one with Spain's Ernie Ball distributor, then with Magma (argentinian string maker, much better than Slinkys). After that I had strings left for some years. When they ran out I was looking for a cheap nickel alternative. I hated the Red Labels (steel) I had tried, but then I became aware of the existance of Red Label NICKEL strings (only available from thomann AFAIK) and they're GREAT, good tone, durable, lasting brightness and sustain, not coarse at all. And 12.50€ per 5 string set last time I checked. Many tend to hate on the sole mention of Red Labels but only 1 in every 1000 bassists knows there's the steel ones (the ones you see in every store, harsh on the fingers, short lasting) and the nickel ones, the good ones 😉

So much fun! I'm about to turn 44 and (you guessed it!) deep into dad band territory by now. To make it worse we're an originals HC dad band (we just like to excel in uninterestingness). Time is scarce for all of us so we don't "hang out" much (much less on weekends). Me & one of the guitars just do the composing, demo the songs and every couple years we pass them along to the other 2 guys so they can learn they parts, we rehearse for a couple months, record the new songs and do a few shows. We have no expectations at all, but still like to stay fresh in regards to our own challenge and pleasure. DAD PUNK IS NOT A CRIME!

Megadeth & Kiss 2 weekends ago. We got approached by some Kiss' tech and my 5 y/o boy (in Catman makeup) got a lightly used drumstick from Eric Singer (with some hand gunk still on it). Fabulous.

So, I've been doing some testing with 2 P pickups (one from a 4 string thomann kit build and the Bill Lawrence P46) and the cheapo big pole J from AliExpress and finally decided on this last one (more on that in my TB thread about this, don't want to hijack too much). Here's a quick pic... Carving was a mix of my Skil rotary tool, chisel, drill, files and sanding (don't have a proper router -nor the plunge adapter for my rotary tool-), still came out very decent. Here are some samples of the 9 different tone settings it now has, in the following order (coil 1 being closest to bridge): - COILS 1 and 2 (STOCK, typical Musicman): parallel, filtered series, series - COILS 1 and 3 (jazzy, sorta'): parallel, filtered series, series - SINGLE COILS: 1, 2, 3 (this last one is the P'ish one, new pickup soloed) EDIT: sounds better explained in vid...

I'm on a sorta' similar project. I own 2 USA SR5s and would never dare such a mod on them, so recently got a nice used SBMM Ray35 to do the P+MM franken-thing, been updating a TB thread about it. I'm waiting for delivery of a Wilde (Bill Lawrence) P-46 pickup to add to this. Also trying other pickups I have at hand with a rather "ratrod" test rig (in this photo with a cheapo -Donlis brand- pickup)... My intention is to integrate it as much as possible into the Musicman scheme, preferrably thru' the stock preamp. In the case of a P pickup I'd route the lower strings part of the P in its "standard" position but move the high strings' part towards the neck, reverse P. I'll update as soon as I do the final install. EDIT: BTW, I've made all sorts of switching mods to Stingray 5ers (both 2 coil as in this case and 3 coil as my USA SR5s). Besides this pickup addition I'm all for full humbucker flexibility. I particularly love how the neckside coil of the stock humbucker sounds when soloed (something not possible when stock either for the 3 coil -single+dummy mode only uses the bridgeside coil- and 2 coil -doesn't even have single coil mode but the "filtered series", which I don't dig at all-). Just ask via a message (not to hijack this thread) and I'll point you to threads and sample videos I've made about it. Being able to solo the neckside coil of a musicman adds a great "P meets Ray" tone in fact, all the punch, authority and cutting ability of a Musicman, plus some of that distinctive P "clonk" we all love. The bass in the photo (a 2-coil humbucker SBMM Ray35) has in fact one of those mods, which simply cut either coil for real single coil tones when in parallel (or none for the stock parallel wiring -and for the other series positions to work-). Can do 2 more tones apart from the stock 3 settings.