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So, I've been playing in working bands for nearly 20 years straight. I used to work (years ago) for a music shop buying, selling, and trading instruments and teaching a ton of lessons so I played guitar and bass constantly. It wasn't something sustainable in terms of getting benefits, increasing...

What is sufficient break angle at the nut? With the current MIM tuner posts it's not possible to increase the breakover angle across the nut for the _A_ string beyond 3.5 deg without winding it out of the indentation down the post. IF it had tapered or even straight posts it would be possible...

Admittedly a somewhat crazy idea: Travelled to Sicily as part of a longer work trip, staying for a week-long conference and then a few days of holidays. As I have gig coming up right after my return to mainland Europe, I sourced and bought a used Squier PB. Has few scratches and minor set-up was...

beware of these Ernie Ball Cobalt Flatwound strings. Tuesday May 29, 2018, reveived a set of these. Put them on my bass, followed the included instruction on how to properly wind these strings. When I plugged into my amp, I was like really excited because these really did have that crisp and...

I shoulda known better. I have been trying other strings for decades. But I keep coming back to D'Adarrio XL Nickels. I should just stick to what works for me. But based on a few recent threads, I figured the Lo-Riders would be worth a shot. They FEEL great. Not much different from the...

Been busy with new job (my day job is my real job :whistle:) and some other things. Had not picked up a bass for about (shudder) nine weeks. I imagine many of you have been there at one time or another. I finally said, well, gotta get back to it. My fingers are a little slow and a little soft...

Hey guys, I'm looking for a exp for my Moog low pass filter, the Moog is an obvious choice but I have broken a plastic zoom exp pedal in the past, and a cheap M audio one as well. The pedal won't be on my board but adjacent to it, so it'll get moved in and out of pedal bags a lot. Cheers, Sam.

Just put a set on last night and my goodness...the D and G felt so much different than my D and G plain gut. The felt quite a bit more stiff and well, less gut-like. Do these break in drastically? I already put my old strings back on and may sell the red diamonds depending on what I hear back...

This was a first for me in nearly 1100 shows. I'm not sure exactly what caused it (other than alcohol, obviously), but Dude A walked up and sucker punched Dude B in the face (a coward move, to be sure, but in all fairness that punch was executed with perfect form and connected HARD). They fall...

Howdy folks, So I've been thinking again... (I know, it's a filthy habit that's going to kill me one day ;)) I'm working on a piezo-only fretless with GraphTech saddles and Richter buffer + EQ (individual string inputs). I'm considering bridges (perhaps fabricating my own) and came to the...

I have to down size to a large RV. Need to let some of the kids go. But I did want to share a family picture before the break up. Fare well my children. Which do I keep and which go on the block. That is the question!

Nov 2012 I purchase an Ampeg Portaflex Amp PF 500 with two matching Ampeg PF-115HE cabinets. The head dies on me after one hour of playing it. I bring it back to guitar center and replace it along with a 2 year warranty. 3 years later it died. :-/ Ampeg offered no help at all. I replace...

Hey! I wanted to know some tips and tricks that you may have discovered to get past that annoying phase in your bass career. You all know what I'm talking about.. That phase where you keeping playing the same lines and can't seem to add something new. I personally struggle with this issue. I...

I'm going to check out a 50 year old John Juzek bass that is for sale. The owner posted the picture below, which shows a repaired break in the neck below the nut, which he said occurred before he purchased the bass 6 years ago; he said there have been no issues with the repair. Is this a...

Hello there fellow groove producers! I recently posted a thread where i complained that my Ernie Ball Strings were constantly breaking.Almost all of you told me i just check the saddles for burs and I did find them.I went to a guy that is known as the best Guitar/Bass tech in Town to seek...

Hello, Does this string break angle on my Mikro look a tad low? I detect (I think) a buzz around the bridge if I pluck to heavy. Would a full non tapered shim be better than one at the body end of the neck pocket? I'm happy with the current action/setup... Thanks

So my band is throwing around the idea of doing our bar gigs without breaks. We find that we get people pumping, and then next thing you know, we take a break and the energy level of the place drops and it might takes a songs or 2 to get the energy back up after the break. But, where we're most...

I've run some decent, some good ..... but most bad...... wireless guitar radio systems and would like some info on what price range indicates a system that will actually carry a bass signal without greater-than-nuanced losses on the amp side. Even a wireless system designed for bass seemed to...

I am not sure if I am the only person who has gone through this but for the first time in my life I have been taking a break from listening to music. I have been in a rut with music for a couple years and have struggled to find new music I enjoy as far as listening. I am a truck driver so I burn...

never been to the humor page and maybe this is infamous but it's too good not to share my new favoritest tequila swillin' doghouse bronc bustin' bass play'n crazy man ...OLE!

Is there a one 10" 8ohm speaker, that will keep up with the 15 in my MarkBass Jeff Berlin 151p combo, i am bound and determined to use the Pomethean P110C cab. I have taken the MarkBass combo II head of my Jeff Berlin, and it sounds great but i am afraid to run the speaker, I have even hook it...

Hi, I have a 5 string bass with Ernie Ball Power Slinkies on it. The guages are 50 - 70 - 85 - 105 - 135. I want to tune to drop A#, but I'd have to tune the bottom 4 strings up a half step. Would this break a string? Also, I'm trying to make the tuning match the guitars because that makes sense...

Hi Gang, I have a Fender P5 and am having tuning issues caused, I think, by friction on the string trees due to a steep break angle of the nut. Any ideas?

From 2009-2014, my wife and I were in a pretty successful pop-rock cover band, which came to an ignominious end in the fall of 2014. Long story. A general economic downturn in our area, and little chance for advancement at work, led us to search for greener pastures, and off to Florida we go...

I've been a music lover for as long as I can remember, have been deeply passionate about it. And for the last 17 years or so I've been involved in a music project of some kind at any given time, sometimes multiple bands, originals as well as cover material. Lately though I've been becoming...

As a way to improve my skills, i'm thinking about getting a small bass and mini amp for discrete practice in my office while on lunch. I get an hour and since I bring my lunch (to save money/eat healthy) I basically have 5 hours of spare time that could be better spent practicing than...

I've lurked on these forums for a while but never made an account until now. The neck on my bass just spontaneously snapped off. I had played it about an hour ago, and it was sitting on the floor as normal. I heard a loud pop, ran into the room, and saw this: I loosened the strings, as...

I have been culling my bass herd, but couldn't sell off my SX without taking a loss, so I decided to refinish in a color I have always liked. Took a 3TSB Ursa 4 jag copy and painted it seafoam green with a matching headstock. (Pic looks blue, but it is green.) Filled in some pickguard screw...

Yeah, I know. Just play the damned thing and report back, right? C'mon gang, how much fun is that? Plus, its not here yet. OK, so I've been on hiatus from G.A.S. and Talkbass / BFM in general and have been focusing on playing style (I still basically suck) and work and family. I forced...

i am on what seems to be a never-ending quest to find a good bag for all my gear. i have had some luck but am not perfectly happy with my setup. i'd like a backpack like the gruv gear stadium bag, but $200, that's a little steep! what are other options? i just checked out the phitz stuff...

I had to stop playing because of an instruments injury and a following 'bigger than life' flu that I luckily survived. I never had such a long break in the last 10 years of playing. All callusses went away and it was really hard and hurtful to pick up again with my usual high action setup...

I'm having such a bad bass week... I was following the instructions given to me to remove a bolt-on neck from my bass and have it sent in to de-fret it. I didn't realize that the cirrus was a dual action truss rod or understand how it worked until now. As I loosened it, it became more tight...

I just snapped my G string after I tuned down a 4th and tuned back up (I learnt my lesson), and I've had the set of strings (my first new strings) for 20-ish days. So, do I get new strings and replace all of them and set aside the "old" ones for spares (Which I am more inclined to do, but I'm...