AngelDeVille

Did someone mention a precision with flats?

39 minutes ago, Paul S said:

Can't read it on the headstock!  love it  

Yamaha BX-5

Dear Santa......

30 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Wait ... does this mean the bridge on my P bass is terrible. Looks the same as a jazz bass bridge. Sounds good to me though. 😉

The interwebz says it's inferior, so your ear may need upgrading.

On 10/12/2019 at 12:14, Pinball said:

Here's my back up, I've also used it as my first choice on a number of occasions as it has a really nice tone and plenty of oomph. It's the only white BX5 that I have come across too.

Who makes that? I can't read the logo on the headstock.

If you sell your bass later, you can charge more because it's "Upgraded"...

I think its a mental thing but I cant stand roundwounds on a fretted bass, they are making my practice sessions unpleasant...

Flatwounds will be here Saturday.  I hope the Extra Slinky are close to as nice as the Pyramid Golds.

An online retailer had a 20% off coupon and I missed out on stocking up on Pyramids, they are normally $55 US on this side of the pond!  I don't know if you can get them cheaper on your side.

Looks good, @police squad you are even rockin the Sting haircut!

I'm really liking this bass, it’s my only string through so I was hesitant to commit to flatwounds I can’t use on another bass.

I just ordered the extra slinky Ernie ball’s.

it looks like my MIM Pbass is going up for sale....  I wish I could justify keeping her.

The Fretless Jack..

The Tele Trio...

How long is the waitlist?

I didn’t set out to accomplish this, it just happened...

I had a Jr. scratchplate collecting dust and it covered all the ugly routes...

2 minutes ago, Sparky Mark said:

It depends on whether you use your ears or an accurate tuner to set intonation. Unless you're playing a lot above the 12th fret it probably isn't that critical and "good enough for rock and roll."

That, and if my guitar is properly intonated, I am then expected to sing in tune.

I had thought about removing the scratch plate, but there are some front routes for the truss rod and electronics that stick out too much to look good.

I definitely think it needs a darker one. And I want to add a thumbrest.

Maybe I'll make my own.

I read about intonation complaints with the two barrel bridge, but it seems to intonate just fine for me.

I gave Jazz bases a fair shake but they just aren’t for me.

The latest was a 2019 MIM Geddy Lee... I put it up locally, and got a trade offer for a 2002 MIJ Sting Precision.

The frets could have been charged with murder if I had played it like it was!  They were the worst I have ever seen!

But after changing the funky strings, cleaning the funk, and sanding the fret ends, she’s  quite the looker and in almost flawless shape.

I put roundwounds on her just because I didn’t want to commit a set of flatwounds to the string through body until I’m positive she’s a keeper.  

I’m thinking I’d like a black pickguard if I change anything, or maybe even a tooled leather one.  I have a bridge cover in my eBay cart as well..

@LeftyJ there... I fixed your picture for you...😇

This isn’t the bass I had started the thread about, but I just completed changing the controls.

It started out as someone else’s project, and had vol/vol/some kind of switch/stereo jack....

She has a Dimarzio Will Power in the neck, and I switched the Pbass pickup to the Duncan Design I had for the other project. 
 

Dimarzio measured 13k, Duncan design was a whopping 15k so I figured they would balance better than the 5k one that was in it. 
 

volume/blend/tone. I’m considering replacing the scratchplate in the future because there is an extra hole from the switch and I can improve the spacing of the knobs, but I’m not sure I can improve the color. 

I used a 500k volume, 250k blend, 500k tone with a .033 cap. She sounds beautiful. I was worried I needed a 500k blend and a 250k tone.

The Franklin is beautiful and of the color choices, you got the right one!

Having recently missed  out on a Hohner B2A, and not finding a backup to my Hohner Jack yet, I got these 2 on the left in the post today!

Post your Headless guitars!

I just had to do it....

I ordered a set of gold tuners....

I still need gold pickup screws, and I already have a gold jack plate on the way.

My Behringer arrived today, and I think it was the right choice for me, for now.

The more I read about some of the active and multi effect boxes I am seeing some don’t play well with active pickups, and 2 of my top 4 basses are active.

OK, I'll be following this thread closely on how to spend my money....

this weeks changes...

Both necks work equally well except for the gotoh “vintage reverse tuners” on the one piece maple tele neck. I’ll get used to them eventually.or trade them for a gold set.

I switched the bridge to a gold gotoh as well as the tele neck. I thought she deserved a new strap.

I guess she’s a TeleBird now.

I’m experimenting with the pedals I have so I added a bunch of drives.

I’m trying to chase down a synth pedal on Craigslist and my DI box arrives this week.

the old set-up

51 minutes ago, James Nada said:

Looks lush.

Out of interest, what's the difference between an EB0/EB3 and an SG?

congratulations on the new bass!

 In the most basic terms...

EB0 is the early version with the neck “mudbucker” only.

EB3 has a bridge pickup.

SG is the more modern EB3.

Gibson confused matters even more recently..

the bass on the left is called an EB, some have taken to calling it and EB4 or the 5 string version EB5

the bass on the right is my 2006 SG