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- Birthday 22/12/1960
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ead started following Fender Bass Bag (padded) - £12, ***SOLD***Barefaced One 10***SOLD***, Black basses and and 1 other
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Just acquired a strap from Tomas. Great to deal with, everything as described, top bloke. Thanks very much for an easy transaction.
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Great vid and all the best for everything. The saintly Mrs ead had gone through this a few years back (different version mind you) so keeping everything crossed for you bud.
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I went through Classic & Cool Guitars. Mark is super helpful.
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It's just a printed sticker on a std p/guard. I think I have a couple of spares if you want one.
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New addition to the fold.
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I hope it has lots of embedded LEDs and a sound/light system.
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Good replacement pickup to emulate a vintage Stingray
ead replied to ead's topic in Repairs and Technical
Oooh, not sure. Wasn't the HH configuration a later addition. I'm no expert on the subject though just wanted something close to a '77 Stingray for a few hundred quid rather than a few thousand. I can say that they are much warmer and a little lower in output than the ceramic versions that sound quite 'harsh' to my ears. -
Should probably have mentioned that the Black Labels fitted to my TT accompany a passive VVT electronics set up. They sound much like my Fender J but just a bit punchier. I have them screwed down into the body about 1-2mm lower than the std Jazz seup to get the tone I like.
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Good replacement pickup to emulate a vintage Stingray
ead replied to ead's topic in Repairs and Technical
The deed is done. Battery box fitted, Nordy MM4.2 and Stinger installed. Very pleased with the results. -
I have Black Label p/ups on my new TT but can't comment yet on live performance. Band practice not far away now so that will be the first test. From what I hear so far in practice I can't see there being any issues.
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Just acquired a lovely bass from Tom. Top dude, great comms and very easy to deal with. Highly recommended BCer.
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Agree tension and stiffness are two different properties and probably combine in the way we feel the strings under our digits. I have found through experimentation that if I purchase/construct string sets with pretty similar string tensions, then when I'm playing I get to expend (as far as I can tell) a similar amount of effort plucking each string. That works for me so I'm sticking with it
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Sorted. Very reliable peep too.
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All my basses have to earn their keep so even my much loved 1966 P bass gets outings.
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I think there is an amount of physics at play here too as has said above. For any scale length you can pick a gauge of string that works and it's not a linear relationship which I guess is why to me 45/65/85/105 strings give very uneven tension across the bass. I've bought 5-string sets from Newtone as you can pick pretty much exactly what you want in terms of construction and gauge. The last 5-string set I acquired had the following gauges (35" scale): 42/56/76/102/138T. This gave me excellent uniform tension, absence of mud and the tapered B made it a doddle to fit even for a relatively heavy gauge.