barrycreed

Is the Dano short scale (non longhorn) any good?

Decisions decisions! About to get some upgrades done to an Epi EB0 and a Squier Bronco. Keep flats on the Epi or put them on the Bronco... 

Epi sounds good with the flats but curious as to how roundwounds would sound too...!

@BCH stunning! Works of art!

My Mexican telecaster is 4.3kg

23 minutes ago, bnt said:

 

Do you have any more details about that? I'm curious about what's going on structurally that would eliminate neck bends. (I have some ideas of my own about that problem.)

It's a neck through from a company in Luxembourg called Tttides: https://tttides-guitars.com/gallery-infos/ 

From what I have seen, their guitars seem to be pretty flexible in terms of specs.

Tempted with one of these, to eliminate neck bends forever!

30" scale.

@BassApprentice That looks nice. Did you treat the neck to give it that darker colour, or is that a photo filter?

1 hour ago, Obrienp said:

I had never heard of those. I had a quick squint at the website. I can’t see any that look like a direct replacement but maybe there is old stock around? All the dimensions seem to be in inches, so I am not sure if they will fit without modification. The standard Bronco peg holes are 12mm. All the Kiesels seem to be 9/16”, which I think is just over 14mm, so you will have to enlarge the peg holes. Also you are going to have 4 redundant screw holes per machine head, as the Kiesels just seem to have screw in bushes, although they may have a pin, or tang to stop them twisting.

 

I am not saying it is a bad idea but there will be some modification and cosmetic tidy up to do. I found cocktail sticks pretty effective for filling the screw holes but you can see them close up.

Sorry, I should have included the link here at the marked 7:40 .

The Low End Lobster Video has now put me off contuing the mod idea. He just slated it, but I suppose I should go on what I like.....

On 31/07/2021 at 00:51, Obrienp said:

Yes, understood. I am certainly not recommending the Northwest Guitars tuners over the ones from WD.  If I had known about the ones from WD beforehand, I would have gone for them. Much easier to be able to go for the drop in tuners, as long as they are genuinely better than the stock items. Unfortunately, nobody has reviewed them on this forum, so they are a bit of an unknown.

I did come across another mod video which suggested some Kiesel ones, so might go for those.

Just came across this unforgiving review. I mean, I know it's a cheap bass, but it's not that bad!

I had the Kala U Bass, the fretless one, and it was a cool little thing. Tipped the hat to an upright bass I thought, and I was using it for home recording.

Big issue I had was with the rubber strings. My fingers would stick to the strings so sliding up the neck was not as "fluid" as on a regular steel string for example. 

I am not sure if it was the heat at the time or not. But when I went to slide up, my finger would be "sticky" on the string, and sometimes it would make a little noise while sliding due to the friction. I did like the idea of it though and was a useful little tool to have around for ideas or easy recording etc. 

Nice, though I have not played one, I like the PJ look even though I often think 1 pickup is plenty!

I noticed the sentinel ss is more expensive than the decision p bass. Sign of the times?

Correction. Wrong.

@ObrienpI am hoping to avoid any work to be done, drop in tuners if at all possible. I am in Spain, so don't want to get anything lost in translation when I take it to a luthier, though I would imagine they will know what they are doing anyhow...

@Obrienp Thanks ! These look like a good fit but the same thread also mentioned regular Squier P or J machine heads.

https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/hardware-parts-c1/tuning-machines-c28/bass-tuners-c33/wd-music-enclosed-4-in-line-bass-tuners-chrome-p4987

If you want something a bit different, New Perspectives Music can put together a fretless bass, and use reclaimed materials while doing so!

Can't wait to see more demos of this. Saw some vids of MW with various bands and some crack off his Wattplower with the P config.

I have GAS for a Ric 4003s (keeping an eye out used) but one of these or the Sentinel also barged its way into the reckoning. Must not break... must not crack.....!

I have some upgrades waiting to go on a Squier Bronco bass. I don't have new tuners or a nut. Worth looking at these? If so what could I replace tuners with? Seeing as I have a new bridge, wiring, pickup, and pickguard, and I will have to replace the stock strings too. I may as well go the whole hog...

@Mikey Dyep it was the 4 string I was on about in my query.

Had one of these, sold it, tempted again.

Is the J pickup on these standard size? Thinking about one of those oil city Ric J pickups in the J position could turn one of these into a monster!

7 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

If the guitar combo works for you then no point in spending up on gear until you need a rig.

True. I was thinking the same. Thought I did look at the likes of the TE Elf and the Ampeg Portaflex 350. I could put my pedal board through them, and use headphones etc, or I could use them as a head for recording and just apply a virtual cab. But that is possibly just putting something else in the chain that doesn't need to be there for recording.

But the Ampeg Portaflex 350 for example could be combined with a cab once I get back to gigging, and could be used for home silent practice as well.

1 hour ago, Dan Dare said:

You can run a bass into the line input on a mixer if you push the input gain sufficiently. A Di box is a better option. 

Ah yes, I forgot about the DI option. Something with a headphone related might be more suitable. I just don't want to be unpacking the audio interface, computer etc all the time to set up, but yes, the DI would be the easiest option into a mixer....

57 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

If you only want it for bedroom use, a small mixer with reasonable eq is a good option. You can feed the music you want to play along with into it, balance it and your instrument and listen via headphones, an amp or even your hi-fi. Plenty of cheap used small mixers to be had.

Didn't think of it. A bass straight into the mixer would be a bit odd sounding though? Or do you mean I go into the nano battalion and then into the mixer etc.

Hi all. I have been looking around at some small bedroom amp options. Current scenario is the following: I have a small Orange Crush guitar amp, and I plug bass into it sometimes. I keep the volume so low that I will never blow the speaker with a bass. I am living in an apartment with tiled floors, so a small bit of volume gets loud pretty quickly.

I don't want to have to set up and plug into the laptop etc just for jamming.

I was thinking about one of those headphone amps like the Vox amplug 2. Seems useful. Maybe.

I don't own a bass amp, so could kill 2 birds and get one with a headphone input, and once gigs are back, I could use it for gigging.

Other option is one of those small 108 or 110 combos. Are those Roland Cubes any good. Always thought the guitar and vocal Cubes were decent enough for the money and for what they were.

Finally, another option could be to buy a powerful head, say 200w etc, with a headphone input, and just use this as my bedroom amp, and purchase a cab when I get back gigging. e.g. the Trace Elliot ELF head. (or combo)

There's a lot of gear out there, and I'm just looking for something basic and don't need effects etc. I have some pedals knocking around for that. I also have an EHX nano battalion.