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Why else would you sand then name off the headstock? I've heard of people sanding off Squier to put a Fender decal on but never ever sanding the Fender decal off

Mustangs are one of the few fenders that I don't know a great deal about but I'd begin with the chrome covers which shouldn't be there. The neck has that nasty pale Bronco look and the sticker on the Mustang pickup looks brand new. Maybe the truss rod at the wrong end and 4 bolt neck instead of 3? The last two are complete guesses

Personally, the Orange Terror Bass has too much bass, even with the bass completely turned down as far as it would go. My band headlined the Scottish Beatles weekend in Dundee last Sunday night and I was using one of those into an Eden Nemesis 4x10". Even with the bass completely turned down, the neck pickup of my Thunderbird completely off and playing right at the bridge where I normally do, there was far too much bass. The RB cabs are cheap cabs but are still pretty decent for the money - how many cheap cabs have Celestion drivers? At 31kg, its still lighter than the equivelant Ashdown 4x10" Laney aren't trendy and I doubt they ever will be but you would have to offer me something pretty amazing to take my Nexus 15" cab from me

That's exactly what I'm after but wanted to make sure it was safe to use something like that. I'm no expert on electronicsand didn't want to use something that might damage it

More specifically I want to run my incoming Sonuus B2M using my existing multi power supply rather than on batteries but it doesn't have an adapter input. I was wondering it I got one of those connectors that had a 9v battery clip on it at one end that could be attached to one of the outputs on my power supply I could use that instead?

I'll add that I've now put my Laney cab up for sale here about 3 times now but you'd probably not have noticed as I have changed my mind within a couple of hours of putting it up as I just can't bring myself to sell it.

If your amp goes down to 4 ohms then you get the full whack out of your amp but most people would say that there isn't a great deal of noticable difference between what you get at 4 and 8 ohms. Plus from what I've read, your amp will run hotter as well. Possibly the most noticable difference I think would be if you were using something with lots of speakers like an 8x10" at 4 ohms compared to 8 but then I have never seen an 8 ohm 8x10"

Either a 4 to 5 string conversion which is easier than it looks or one of the few I have never tried - the Yamaha BB5000. Lovely

I don't know if this has been posted before but it looks like the once mighty Bass Centre with their centrefold spreads in Bassist showing hundreds of basses don't seem to do amps any more. In fact it looks like they only do their own Bass Collection range and accessories I also think things like Ebay and this forum have been bad for shops as well, certainly for me, as we are able to buy something we fancy second hand. If we like it we keep it and if we don't we can generally get back what we paid for it. How else would I have been able to afford 70 odd basses over the past few years?

[quote name='barneyg42' post='1343097' date='Aug 17 2011, 01:44 PM']So here I am on my day off watching Pulse for the umpteenth time and loving some of the work that Guy Pratt does, but it's brilliance in small doses, the rest just sitting on the root in very repetitive passages of music whilst [i][b]Mr (don't call me Dave) Gilmour[/b][/i] gives it the beans![/quote] Isn't that Sir David of Coverdale's middle name? I believe he also hates being called Dave Totally agree with you, nice and simple, its all that is required. It is after all, generally relaxing stoner music so a big dirty bass solo wouldn't work ( I am a huge Pink Floyd fan by the way)

c'mon it also has its own number stamped in the arm head

I was just saying how good the standard HZs were in my Epi but I'd have put them in any bass that they fitted. Just pointing out that they are the same pickup in a different casing

The best part of the JVs for me were the necks with the rolled fingerboards

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1340883' date='Aug 15 2011, 05:09 PM']Funny how in some threads the Ray 5 is classed as boring because it's been around so long yet to many has become the industry standard 5 (not my words btw) yet no one has mentioned them yet unless I missed it? Full mass Market afaik production models start from 1987 [/quote] [quote]Posted Yesterday, 10:24 AM The Peavey Tim Landers TL-5 & 6 basses were about in the 80s and the Stingray 5 was released in 1987 as well[/quote] The very first copy of Guitarist I bought when I began playing in 1987 featured the very first UK review of the stingray 5 in a lovely transluscent dark red

They're Thunderbird shaped HZ pickups. Exactly the same as far as I am aware. I use HZs in my Epiphone Thunderbird and they are fantastic pickups

The Peavey Tim Landers TL-5 & 6 basses were about in the 80s and the Stingray 5 was released in 1987 as well

Try and relax as much as you can. I did a lot of octave runs across the strings when I was young to help improve my stretching ability

I can now confirm that Roto flats on an EB-3 do indeed sound the bollox

From memory the pickup one is almost but not actually touching the scratchplate and the bridge one is almost at the end of the body. Usually a bit of masking tape over the paintwork but if you use a small drill its not going to chip anything

[quote name='mcnach' post='1336916' date='Aug 11 2011, 07:54 PM'] yeah, and we play RHCP songs sitting in a chair wearing a tuxedo [/quote] Why would a chair wear a tuxedo? And that must be quite a big chair

I'm lost. I know that certain genres of Metal etc use really low tunings but in my 24 years of playing I've only ever downtuned an entire bass once and that was because I was depping with a band, had to learn 40 songs I did not know and then just before we started was told that they tune down a semitone for everything. Pass - learn to transpose the songs your doing?

The body is too skinny to fit a preamp in there. In fact, the 3 pots and jack barely fit in there so the only way would be to use pickups with a preamp built into the pickup and route a separate battery compartment. What size is the pickup route with the pickups removed? I thought they would've just used the same bodies as the standard one with the same routes. I thought that was what the pickup ring was for - to hide the gap round the sides of the smaller pickup. And its a Hipshot Supertone bridge. Makes a huge difference to the balance and sound of the bass and it was already on the bass when I bought it last year. They are pretty hefty in price - around the £70 mark

I have EMG 35 HZ pickups in my Goth Thunderbird and Roto flats and its clear and punchy as hell As you can see from the second picture, they fit perfectly width wise and only have a bit of a gap top and bottom

Been using Roto flats for the past 9 monts. They're the bollocks but I need to go back to rounds for an 80s project I'm working on

Just cos you've got the power don't mean you've got the [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHw0yzxHbQ"]right[/url] You need to do more than change two 100 speakers for two 200w ones. they need to match the cab that they are going into or they will sound really sh*te