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I've got a music man style bass and I've heard you need different machine heads depending what side of the head the tuning key lies and what string it is. Is this true? I thought I could flip mine around but I've then seen differently online 

14 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

I've had a few bits of Vintage gear over the years and I've always found them to be superb. They punch well above their weight in terms of quality / cost. Especially the stuff with Wilkinson hardware. Which imho is 95 percent as good as anything out there, at a tenth of the cost. 

I'm currently having massive sellers remorse over selling my Vintage Les Paul guitar. I shouldn't have let it go, but I figured as I was never going to be a guitarist I may as well put the money into bass gear. Now I'm getting into recording and I need a guitar again. 😩

Reckon it was a pretty good purchase afir £30 then? 

9 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Something of note with the Vintage MM's is that if it has three knobs it's passive, if it has four knobs it's active. The OPs is passive. 👍

Nicely noticed, what does that mean to me? 

Thanks for replies. Any opinions on what the build quality is like? I bought it to replace an old encore p bass which might be nicer I don't know 

Picked up a banged up old bass. Seller had a note saying vintage on the post, not sure if he meant the brand or if its an old bass. It has no branding on it other than a serial number (K3656) which I have searched for but nothing has come up. Any ideas?