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,I heard a band at a restaurant this weekend. The bass sounded exceptionally good. I had to get closer to see what he was playing. It was a older ibanez sdgr with humbuckers. Nooo! I have never been a ibanez fan, i hate to admit this....but it sure sounded good! (Edit: it looked like a 405? )

I just bought two basses from Craigslist. The seller was recommended by a very reputable luthier. The first bass was a Fender '62 Jazz bass reissue from 1983. I checked the serial number (V008877) and it was in the right range. I checked the headstock and the neck (it has 6-5-83 written in...

So a few weeks ago I got a really great 1982 Greco PMB-800 - neck through. The truss rod was maxed out and the board still had a little bit too much relief. I should have left it alone though - it was pretty playable - but I was going to try the washer trick so I backed the nut off. (Even...

So we have a festival gig coming up in a few weeks. All our shows have been bars/ private parties so this is a first for us. It's at Hart Plaza downtown Detroit right on the river so it's a little bigger deal and I'm pretty excited about it. It is supposed to be backlined so the only things we...

Fender Introduces New Two-String, Five-Fret Design For Church Bassists

Maybe someone can help me with the following .... When I play with my main band, I normally use either a Rick 4003 or 4004 or a Fender P bass or J bass .... primarily played with a heavy Dunlop pick When the band is jamming, I like to throw in some harmonic licks but they don't cut through as...

I know this topic has been discussed before, but my experience last night brought it to the forefront again. The issue is excessive volume from a live bands' PA system. A musician I know is in a band I had never heard before and they were playing at a local venue last night. The venue is...

Funny this...I always considered myself a fairly solid bass player...People seemed to like playing with me, I've gotten some fairly decent gigs over the years and overall have received mostly positive feedback in the main genre I play in (rock/jam band). The past 6 months though I’ve been...

Been wondering this for while..Lots of us come on here and complain about our bands/bandmates. Has anyone ever had one those threads forwarded to said bandmates?

I certainly wasn't looking for another bass but a CL posting for a SUB bass at a great price was pretty hard to resist. The SUB bass was okay, but not quite in the condition I had hoped for but the seller according to the ad also had another bass up for sale, other than being a fretless, the...

Someone in the UK is going to be very lucky! L2000 in Sonic Blue 3A Roasted Flame Maple neck.

I hope I can explain this clearly! I've been trying to get better at fretless, but I notice that my pitch recognition below A (3rd string), it's very spotty. As an example, when playing a fretted bass, I started learning a few songs by ear, just listening and playing my best approximation to the...

I've installed my WD800 into a cool tweed-covered rack, but I've run into a dilemma... As the amp's power switch is on the back, I have to reach inside the back of the rack to access it. Arghh.. Yeah, big real-world problem, I know....:D I love the 8-lb weight of the amp (you big-iron freaks...

*asking for a friend* Thanks!!

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Gunther Smack Lightsky is an amazing bassist that has overcome huge disabilities and is still able to throw down!

I just happened upon this video and it made me ask the question. (My current max is only 8 strings)

For example a 410 is usually around 22"x 22" x 16". Can it get any smaller than that?

The dreaded question ... especially for those of us that like to collect basses and other related gear. I recently watched this Adam Neely video, I wanted to share it with the rest of the TB crew ... it's really quite good, just like all of Adam Neely's videos: And last week I watched...

I am being force to look around for another project and finding the resources for finding musicians and bands seeking musicians to be very lacking. Craiglist stinks something awful. The website itself works well enough, but the level of people on it are mostly bottom feeders that can't respond...

Long story as short as possible. I played a Rick 4003 with my band for about two years and love it, still have it. Then I got a precision 63 AVRI and started playing it and have been playing it for the last year, love it too. A couple of times in the last year, I played my Gibson Bird. So we...

Is it true that I can get lower action if I get the string slots in the saddles filed down? I figure that's the issue, because I've had it set up professionally and the guy said the saddles were as low as possible.

I know I'm asking for it here, especially with that title, so call this an "entertainment posting". No matter how small the percentage it could be .000000000000000000001 does the gene pool actually improve if dumb people die? I hear this all the time that when somebody dies who is doing...

I've been getting really into Ampeg recently, and I noticed that a 150 watt Ampeg combo is around the same price as my 500w GK. Is the Ampeg higher quality or something? I figured the one with the higher wattage would cost more.

Since I got my new Aguilar Twin filter, I am thinking about cutting down to 3 pedals. my three would be my Keeley Bassist, to my Aguilar filter twin, and my Boss dd-3. I would be getting rid of my Fuzz pedal a guy made for me nice pedal its a copy of the old Dallas Arbiter, and get rid of the...

I had a couple of Rumble 500 Heads for sale and one of them sold to a gentleman in southern California. He paid, I packed and shipped and then I began tracking the shipment. Here is the history: Things started to go sideways on 4/30 with the natural disaster delay but seemed to get back on...

So I started a thread about an Ampeg B-25 head that I was able to borrow. Got a lot of good info from my fellow TBers (especially @beans-on-toast, thank you!), and liked what I heard when I tentatively tested it out. Yes, it needed some professional TLC, but at the end of the day, I just had...

I recently condensed my Medium board. and my Large (silly) board and kept my favorites and sold off the rest. And without any intention I wound up with a board of mostly one brand. MXR. It’s good reliable stuff and it’s sounds amazing on my $150 Bar band gigs lol. I had some other really...

I just recently picked up an LTD F-205 from a local pawn shop for next to nothing. I purchased some new strings... .130 .100 .80 .65. .45. After putting the new strings on and making some major adjustments to the saddles on the bridge...the action on this guitar is still pretty bad. I even...

So an ad showed up on an internet marketplace for a new looking Ampeg V4B Re-Issue. Last week it was $600. Now I look and its $500. That's a great price, but I really don't need another power house amp. After all, I have a true classic 1970's V4B in the stable.... Damn that GAS!

sat down tonight to practice for band practice wednesday and I struggled hard I shoulda just stopped walked away and came back to it I was struggling with songs I know like the back of my hand and unable to learn anything new Oh well put it away for the night and come back tomm hopefully...

Over the last few weeks, I've been involved in a lot of threads, discussing quality of build and quality of sound. I'm going to leave amps out of this, because if you like Aguilar tone and I like Traynor tone, it would be silly to discuss what makes one sound better than the other. That's...

What do you practice that has made a noticeable positive difference in your playing?

Really a guitar amp question, but... I figure guitar forum people are useless at caring at this level anyway. So in my recent love for all things Class D, I've converted to Class D on guitar as well, and bought a Quilter MicroPro 12 HD, which is basically a 100W amp connected to a closed back...

I just recently had my Ibanez SRFF806 taken into the shop because I shaged up the intonation. When they restrung it they put on standard strings and not fanned fret strings. And now I have buzzing on the 6th fret of my C string. Would this be resolved if I put on Multiscale strings, or should I...

Dropping a Flexcore 4band Preamp in my Lakland 55-01. Preamp has a ground slot to screw into. So if you know about the 55-01, it already has a screwed in ground wire in each pickup cavity. So my question is based on if I really need to use those. Since my pickup ground wires will be screwed into...

Well, now there is :D "The Cloverfield Paradox" Interesting so far. Also Prince "Sign of the Times" which is one of my all-time favs (finally available on amazon prime)

OK, let's leave the political part of this out. Don't go there. But COME ON!!!!! Are any of you really so naive as to think that your information was "private" in ANY WAY on FaceBook??? This "outrage" over your information being sold might be the dumbest thing I have seen in a long time. Your...

Hey all, I'm about ready to send this song off to be mixed but I don't know if the bass is groovin' the way it should. I would love any feedback on the bass line mainly in the verses. Thank you!!