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Not sure where to put this thread… One of my cats loves basses. Whenever I put one down on the bed or a flat surface she always lays down next to it and rubs herself all over the neck, sometimes cradling it with both paws. She doesn’t bite or claw them, but caresses them. I find it...

Hi my dudes, Let me show you some of my founds on the Ebay, what do you think? Worth buying? 1. Warwick GPS Thumb BO 5 Bass Gitarre - what is Warwick GPS? I know for sure, that Thumb series are still made only in Germany. What is the difference between GPs and a "normal" Thumb? 2. Warwick Thumb...

Seen one of these on a guitar forum before but not on here. Make the most garish bass you can! Halo® Custom Bass Guitars Here's mine:

So the other day a drummer acquaintance asked me to join them and a some musician friends for a jam at a local studio. Now, the dude is a tad out there and spacey, but a nice person and can play well, so I agree. Sounds like fun, I haven’t had a chance to play bass with others in a minute and...

Just a few hours ago I was setting up my Cort P-Bass and I took the neck off because I had to add a shim to the neck, when I bolted the neck back in place everything looked good and straight and there were no issues, however, when I put tension on the neck via the strings, I was treated to a...

A longtime friend of mine recently told me that, Patchouli, of all oils, is an excellent fretboard conditioner. Now I love the smell of the stuff, and it makes my skin mighty soft but, on a fretboard? Does anyone know if this is accurate?

So I am in a band and the guys are getting old and having health problems … it got to the point where we play about once every 3 months. So I looked for another band. I found a band near me. Female drummer, 2 guitars and me. Things started ok. But then the drummer started only getting some of my...

So I was trying to find a past thread on the "Bass Whoosh" from earlier this year (wanted some fun examples to practice).. Needless to say, this wasn't what I was expecting to come up! :wideyed::confused::laugh: What are some of the strangest threads you've come upon digging in the ever so deep...

What would be the cheapest head you could possibly think of? Should have about 200+ watts. An very intense overdrive built in would be great. Size, class, tube/solidstate and weight is completely irrelevant. Ugly and weired recommendations are welcome!

Seeing all the gig reports over the last few days has inspired me to share my own experience at the PF Bistro. I will do my best @BassCliff impression and try and fill you in on all the details. The PF Bistro is one of 2 places that we regularly play, so it's an easy gig to book and do. It's...

Bought my Jazz bass in 1985. Was a trade-in at a music store where I worked part-time. It was in mint shape and thought it was an '84 bass. My bass serial number says late '77 to early '78, but it has a bunch of features that weren't available then - white binding on Maple neck, white pickup...

Can anyone help me make some sense of this? I've had this bass for years, and I fineally want to do something with it. it's super old, beat up and some parts seem very cheap. but it looks cool and when I can get a sound out of it, I quite like the tone... I only recently got into wiring and...

Let me start of by saying I've always had very vivid and realistic dreams. I practice lucid dreaming, and last night I dreamt I was playing a cello like an upright. Never played one, but I new how it was tuned (like a violin in fifths, right?). I was thumping along to this jazz progression...

Hi I am concidering buying this 76 Precision, but finds a couple of detail thats make me think if it is original. Current owner has owned it for 25 years and dont know much about it, other than it plays nice. * Serial number is positioned in another place on the neck plate than the other old...

So I have a Squier Dimension 5 string with an active pre. It sounds great for a while, but after it’s been plugged in for a while (30 mins or so) it starts to clip and distort. If I play SUPER light on the strings, it’s clean, but if I dig in at the slightest it distorts- a lot. I’ve changed...

For about a week now I've been seeing something new in the forum posts. Whenever someone quotes a post that has a YouTube link in it, the ghosted thumbnail covers the unquoted text and you have to expand the quoted post before you can read the new post. Here's just an example but I see it in...

I have Multiple Sclerosis, and have a pump implanted in my abdomen that feeds medicine into my spine to help with spasticity. The pump is in a location that puts it right behind the control cavity of just about any guitar or bass I play. When I'm playing, it causes a "beep" about every 20...

In an earlier thread I stated that my right hand's I and M fingers seemed to correspond in my brain as right and left hands; I being a left-hand substitute and M being the right substitute. Being a relative newbie to 2-finger plucking I was curious as to which finger one should start with. As...

Greetings, TB. I'm hoping y'all can help me salvage a cheapo bass I thought I'd rescue. When I bought it, it didn't play well at all and it sounded like crap. I gave it a set-up and fixed the playability; now it's actually a pretty sweet player... but it still has electronics issues. Here's the...

Hi TB, Just got an Ampeg PF-50T. Great amp, love the tone! (Ampeg fanboy) However, after about 15 to 20 minutes of playing, the amp starts to make a sort of rattling sound. I recorded a short clip this weekend: (kids were in the room, that's NOT the sound I'm talking about ;)) I have tested...

So, last summer I routed out my brand new American standard P for a J pup and installed a brand new Wilde PJ set of pups wired vol/vol/tone and installed a side jack on the body. After installing the Pups which were and still are a sonic upgrade to my ear... I noticed that the J pup is...

So, last night after work I decided to stop by one of my usual eateries for dinner. I'm a frequent-flyer and most of the staff knows me by name. It was about 7pm and they were a little busy, so I grabbed a beer and picked a quieter 2-top to unwind while I waited for my food. (FWIW, it's a...

For some time now Talk Bass has been producing strange error notices on my account. Typical is when you click on alerts and you suddenly get a red error message popup saying there is a "security" error. if you go back and forth one or more times the problem disappears. Also when I put the...

I am considering having a custom guitar (not bass) neck built for a body. I have a couple of options in terms of the body and the original scale neck that goes with it. Option 1: A guitar with a 25.5 scale length neck with 22 frets. Option 2: A guitar with a 25.5 scale length with 24 frets...

Hey guys, looking for some technical help with a bass cab I built. The issue I'm having is that once the amp is wired in (using a basic mono 1/4" jack from AllParts and an Eminence Legend CB158), the tone coming through the speaker is very faint and distorted. Even stranger is when I place my...

I got a new mim pbass for Christmas. I decided to change out the cap on the tone control and when I took the pick guard off I noticed a partially drilled hole above the control cavity that seems to have a small piece of red paper in it. The paper appears to have someone’s initials on it...

Greetings, I am looking for help with a Warwick Corvette STD 2008 passive 5 string Just a couple of weeks ago a strange hum noise like a single coil hum started happening. Now it is so bad that it will cause feed back when any amp is at higher volumes, band playing volumes. The hum goes away...

My new band is auditioning for the lead guitar position. We have a talented group, singer/guitarist, keyboard, drums and of course bass. The band is talented enough that a lead guitar is just icing on the cake, so we can take our time and find the right fit. Last night I think we found the right...

... that I enjoy playing my Jaguar, as Much as I do My VM-4? Neither, are My "Go To", but...

So... this will be an odd inquiry... for a VERY small set up, mostly non-drum gigs, or, alternately, quiet jazz-volume drum gigs... SMALL being the operative term... I have a Behringer B207 mic-stand-mount 150 W powered monitor w/ 6.5" speaker, 3 inputs ... pictured below... I want to be able...

Hey y'all I usually just creep around with the search button but I believe I have a problem that I don't think I've seen posted about yet with these bitter sweet 121p'. My amp is a few years old (5 or so) it gets a lot of PT. My first problem with it was the whole power supply issue where it...

See the below link for a recording of this strange sound I took from my phone's mic. Dropbox - Bass Sound.m4a The bass is a yamaha TRBX 504 with active dual coil pickups. The PA is a power EV ZLX-12P. I am plugging directly into the powered PA, but I've tried going through a DI Box, mixer etc...

Was just looking over my Rumble 150 into a KB 60 rig and was wondering if there was any others out there with some "unorthodox" amp/cab setups out there. I own a Rumble 500 and matching cabs, but there's just something about these two devices together that just sounds so crisp to me... even with...

I got a 5 string Cort Action V DLX a couple of months ago. Even though it's very well assembled for it's price and feels comfortable physically (the main reason I bought it), after a couple of rehearsals with my band I found it's sound hollow, lacking good attack and too soft, resembling rather...

Hi everybody. I'm experiencing the following thing. On my 4 string bass, when I press E string on 8th fret, it's upper half (from the nut to the finger) resonates and buzzes when I play C on 2nd string (one octave higher). Otherwise the neck is okay and plays comfortable. When I mute the upper...

Hello, TB, My girlfriend recently had me restring a guitar left to her by her ex (he passed away at a very young age). The strings were original and as she went to throw them away, I stopped her and mentioned memories and mojo and whatnot. My question is this: Is there anything cool that I...

I am a beginner bassist and i want an upgrade from my crappy squier jag bass. I am looking for some thin withing the $800ish area but i also want it to be non traditional like a p bass or jazz bass I have thought about one of the new bc rich mocking birds and tjose ibanez dtb400 destroyer...

Hey all, Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction. I've been tinkering with spare parts on an old SX Jazz that's been sitting around doing nothing. I put on a fretless neck, an Audere preamp, Schaller roller bridge, decent tuners, etc. Sounds really great an is fun to play, but...

Saturday night we were booked to the our local pub. It's a pretty nice place to play and we've played this weekend 3 years in a row. We usually get a very good crowd when we play here, lively and full. The weather didn't help us at all this time around. Friday morning the weather forecaster...

Noticed this thing on the neck while watching this performance, what could it be (1:03)?