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[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1416579094' post='2611645'] The dual J looks like the old scheff model could yield some nice tones with the pick up placement [/quote] The pickup placement does look very close to the Scheff model. If you popped in a couple of Kent Armstrong lipsticks then would it be a Scheff without a preamp?

We understand that matched sets is good but if I want a quadset of EL84s and three ECC83s (one hi-grade and two standard) and the guitarist concerned likes a clean sound what manufacturer should we be buying? Thank you. Laney manual here: [url="http://www.laney.co.uk/uploads/6e5d65fafa037bb79a8cc5080ce11fa6.pdf"]http://www.laney.co.uk/uploads/6e5d65fafa037bb79a8cc5080ce11fa6.pdf[/url]

The EQ you need is dependent on the room you are in and the sound of the other musicians, I have had a Mesa Walkabout for about four yesrs and the parametrics almost always remain flat,

You might try Pyramid Gold flats.

The youtube link in the OP was no longer working but it's now replaced with a working link.

Ernie Ball buys Music Man in 1984.

Deacon is the first bassist I can remember seeing with a Musicman, way before Ernie Ball of course. Probably about 1976-77.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1415813528' post='2604055'] My initial thought was, the guy that wrote the ad is new to gigging and is probably under 25 years old. Blue [/quote] People under 25 (in the UK and in my experience) just do not speak like that. It sounds more like a forty to fifty year old living in the past.

Just email La Bella telling them what you want. I've bought several odd strings from them that way. It's worth doubling up your order because of the postage. EDIT: Actually, now I think about it, I didn't email them, I phoned them.

[quote name='Etienne' timestamp='1415648803' post='2602413'] I agree, that would have been silly and pointless! No, I reinstalled the pickups in their original positions before having the routing done- the magnets line up pretty much perfectly in Jazz Bass position as they are now... [/quote] Gotcha.

I'm a poor enough player that I'd assume it was me before I assumed it was the bass, upright or not.

Ah, OK, I see what you're saying. The original Decades with Dark Star pickups were oriented like that too: Actually I don't quite get why you would want to turn them round and put the coils so close together. It might as well be a single pickup bass. Not that there is anything wrong with single pickup.

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1415645449' post='2602363'] That does sound more like personal preference to me. I find a wide P bass neck and high action very, very hard to play, yet I know others love this set up. [/quote] When you've just got off a double bass, the wide P bass neck and high action seem neither wide nor high.

Even if you were to turn round the pickup you would probably find a stock scratchplate still didn't fit properly. Even from one Fender to another the screw holes don't always line up exactly. I'd say the best bet is a custom made scratchplate using the old scratchplate as a template.

Do you mean that the neck pickup and the bridge pickup are different?

[quote name='Etienne' timestamp='1415562846' post='2601514'] [attachment=175998:IMG_0980.jpg][attachment=175999:IMG_0981.jpg][attachment=176000:IMG_0989.jpg] I put a couple of pics up in this thread ages ago when I first had this modified, but thought it justified another round... this sounds the business through my Walkabout head! [/quote] I played my Decade through my Walkabout combo on Friday - it did sound great. My pickups are both still in the original positions.

Two stacked knobs with rear entry plate is the norm.

Fender Cowpoke, so-called,

http://youtu.be/cIzV9462xeE http://youtu.be/D4MdWzN_100

If you are into soul and blues, and you liked fourteen year old dead strings then you're a very good case for trying some flatwounds. But whatever strings you use you should expect to do at least a little setting up when you change them.

When I had a Starfire with those large single-coil pickups people usually mistook them for humbuckers.

Very nice. I have looked at these often. I used to have the DeArmond version with Hammon Dark Stars fitted. Very nice.

With short scale, subject to the construction of the string, a slightly heavier gauge is usually a better bet. If you use same gauge (and make etc.) as on long scale then the strings will be floppier and if you go lighter gauge then floppier still.

Ed Friedland's books, Blues Bass and Building Walking Bass Lines, are both very useful.

'Day of the Dead' not 'Halloween' but here are [i]Bajo El Volcan Con Los Bastardos Ingles[/i] - that's [i]Under the Volcano with the English Bastards[/i] for anyone without Espa[size=2]ň[/size]ol - guitar, piano, bass, drums, two percussionists, and male and female vocalists but female vocalist gone missing here: Set list was: Call of the Dead Canción de Mariachi Season of the Witch Alberta Chan Chan Trece Dias Que Bello La Llorona Jambalaya Big Chief El Raton Algo Esta Cambiando El Rey De que Manera te Olvido La Diferencia Un Puño de Tierra El Liston de tu Pelo El Quarto de Tula La Bamba Earlier, the drummer, two percussionists and the guitarist wait to for the dead to be called: I was waiting too: ... and the return of the other vocalist and pianist making an appearance at the back left: