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Tell me guys, which type of glue is best for replacing a rubbish plastic nut with a nice smooth graphite nut? Wood glue? Super glue? Gloy? I must have answers! Fanx.

I have a passive p-bass and an active ATK310. I play in a band which deals in "classic" rock (Lizzy, Oasis, Beatles, The Who, Spencer Davis....I could go on...) and I play the P-bass exclusively because it just sits right in our set up. I'll tweak the tone control depending on the song, but most of the time it's rolled almost all the way off. I do love my ATK - it [i]feels[/i] right and sounds great on it's own, but does tend to get lost in the mix on most of our songs, so it's currently relegated as a back up, which is a shame as it's such a nice bass. I think I'm going to sell it and get another precision.

Excuse my ignorance, but are Fender Mexican P bass pickguards the same dimensions as Squier ones? I know the USA ones are slightly different, but I'm going to swap my black one for a brown tort for my VM P bass. Show me some info....

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1379332366' post='2211288'] Good ol' Fender (or "House of Fender" anyway) consistency and quality control! Not. [/quote] I have a VM P bass too and I am looking for a replacement pickup for that as the output on the g string is substantially quieter than the rest. Perhaps it's an issue with SD?

I had one of these with the DD pickups, and compared to the standard pickups in my Mexican jazz, they were indeed quieter and slightly wooly sounding. Stick some Basslines in there or even some Wilkinsons.

Alex James from Blur has just been on the telly. He said this: "You don't have to play in front of an audience to enjoy music". Wise words.

The band I'm in now will be my last I think. We're pretty busy, so much so in fact that the money I'm earning from it is going to pay for a family holiday abroad next summer. I hate to say it, but I'm only doing it for the money at the moment. Never thought I would say that. I enjoy it, but some weekends I think "I can't be arsed". Other times I actually look forward to it. It's weird. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks like that...

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At home, individually. Two of us work shifts so trying to get us all in the same place other than for gigs is not really possible most of the time. I've been in this band since January and we have managed exactly 7 rehearsals together. We all make sure we're learning the same version of a particular song (i.e. the album version and not the live version or someone else's version) and it works. The downside is that we don't get the opportunity to extend or "jam out" songs, but it's not really a problem for me - that's a guitarist's little ego trip.

Weird. We're a four piece down to a duo last night as one of our guitarists is in India and the drummer is in Cornwall, so I half jokingly said myself and our singer/guitarist should do it as a two piece. After a hastily rearranged setlist and a blast through it on Friday night, we knocked out a reasonably decent set last night in front of a British Legion crowd with an average age of about 65.... They danced, clapped and smiled so it couldn't have been too bad. Quite scary when you're used to having two electric guitars and a drum kit to hide behind though.

My 310 is the mutts nuts.

Need to replace the pups on my VM P-bass, low output on the g string which no amount of adjusting seems to solve. Rest of the bass is quality.

Mine are up on the FB page. [url="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151593058976625&set=pb.21256506624.-2207520000.1377786946.&type=3&theater"]https://www.facebook...&type=3[/url] [url="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151593058971625&set=pb.21256506624.-2207520000.1377786946.&type=3&theater"]https://www.facebook...&type=3[/url]

Nope, it has to be an Aria SB - strapped up right under the armpit, wrist at a painful angle, just ask Guy Pratt, John Taylor, the bloke from Haircut 100....

Submitted my efforts tonight, so probably won't be available to "like" until some time tomorrow at the earliest. Not sure how it will look printed on a t-shirt as there might be a bit too much text. We'll see... [attachment=142592:Final Rotosound GOLD.pdf] [attachment=142593:Final Rotosound RED.pdf]

I'm pretty much exclusively a pick player these days, after I started to get pains in my right (plucking) hand the morning after a gig. A lot of constant eighth and sixteenth notes over a couple of hours did for me. I have found however that using a pick has given me more note-for-note consistency, clarity and a certain amount of attack which I can temper by rolling the tone control right back when I need to. I use Dunlop .71's. They have just the right amount of flex in them so that the pick doesn't ping out of my fingers. I also use a hole punch to..er... punch a hole in the centre of the pick for added grip.

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1374483723' post='2149086'] [sub]Nope, never played a P/J...... Apart from this one which he used more than the Black/RW Precision. Granted the Headstock isnt black. Closest to a semi-official "tribute" bass was the Bass Collection "Lizzy" Bass. [/sub] [/quote] I stand corrected...

Apparently, this bass is "known as the Phil Lynott Tribute bass". Yeah, cos he played a P-bass with a jazz pick-up at the bridge and a black headstock, didn't he? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Phil-Lynott-Tribute-Fender-Squier-Standard-Precision-Bass-/231018258654?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35c9c2e0de

It's had new strings a couple of times recently, but still the same problem. I think I'll go down the new pick-up route. I've been thinking about it for a while... thanks for your help chaps.

The G string on my VM P-bass has a low output compared to the rest of the strings. I've tried adjusting the pick-up height, the bridge saddle and pretty much everything in between, but the G still sounds very quiet. Is it the pick-up (Duncan Designed)? Any ideas...?