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Question for luthiers: Maybe stupid question but just wonder if no more simple to install a transversal sturdy dowel anchored on sides and hook up the strings on it, like that...

I can imagine very creative uses of that bass in the next John Wick movie.

When trying to do a Search with the Search icon button, it usually says ‘No results found’. You then see < Search. When you hit that and retype key words in the space, the Search works. Maybe a Moderator can look into this.

Michedelic said:

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/25/519445169/sonny-rollins-colossus-of-the-saxophone-has-died-at-95

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There was a thread about this posted on 5/25/2026.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/sonny-rollins-r-i-p.1687391/

Seems like I was unlucky and got a wet noodle with nice frets... Understand there is no magic fix but was hoping for a partial remedy to improve the situation somewhat- something to do short of a new neck or bass...

Thumpin6string said:

it sounded way better than any of my class D heads.

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Thank you.
I have a GX5 serving my computer audio, and a PLX2. It's overkill, but the price was right, and the sound is perfect.

Thanks, mate ! Iv amended all needed.

I had the good fortune to spend last weekend at the Pickathon music festival in Happy Valley, Oregon. So much great music all weekend, this video is from 3am Monday morning, final set of the festival. Hogslop String Band did a completely unplugged set, and I landed front and center. Great band, great vibes, and their bass player Pickle is a joy to watch and listen to! This song is an old Doc Watson tune, "That Was the Last Thing on My Mind".


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Dom Amato said:

If I didnt already have my TT, I wouldve gotten the BD800 no doubt about it. But im very thankful I got my TT. What I love the most is how well it works with my pedals and how it gets super clean with flavor. Im still fiddilng around with the subway channel. I got it set to the reggae preset from the manual at the moment and found that my ray5hh that Ive been really considering trading/selling really sounds good through that channel. EB Coblalt flats and soloing bridge pickup sounds freaking amazing through the subway channel.

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Iv owned a tt800 for about 2ys (?), I'm still 'fine tuning ' both channels, with my 3 basses. I recently bought a Walla Walla Maverick,which iv strung with the new Labella Super Polished (presure wound type). That Maverick was made for the Boogie channel. It's replaced my trust old LPj DC with flats, for my old school 60s tones.
The TT800, sounded great, out if the box, but iv found, with time and a continuous tweaking, it just sounds better, and better.
Iv mainly played guitar, for most my life.
And, think of my experience with the TT, it mirrors my experience with the Boogie guitar amps iv owned (mk2, mk3, and a mk3 simuclass) . The were all very responsive to settings, they all took time to dial in great sounds, as opposed the Marshalls , Voxs, ect, that gave u 1 sound, no matter what eq you dialed in.

How does this sound with bass?

I have a BBP34 which, i believe, are the same pickups (without a preamp installed), and have had a set of TI flats on for years and it has been great.

Very cool, have you by chance compared these to a fender japan pb331 from the 80s? I wonder how the body size and neck matches up

FenderB said:

Thanks Sissy. I ordered one in September but never received it or any type of response from him. I emailed him yesterday but haven't heard back from him yet. We'll see, maybe he'll see this post and respond.

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Welp; THAT didn't work.

Ugh, insurance. Mine’s always treated me well but I knew a guy whose ‘63-1/2 Ford Galaxie 500 XL Fastback was stolen, maybe ‘78 to ‘80. Factory 390 automatic, factory air conditioning and power brakes. At that time the car had less than 50,000 miles because Fred (retired by then) lived a block from his work and walked. That car looked exactly like it was sitting on the showroom floor and they gave him something like $300 - the average price of a ‘63 Ford Galaxie. Fred used to trade with my father and he’d come sit at the counter for an hour or two, and his favorite pastime was pretending that (A) he was thinking of selling it and (B) that he had no idea of its worth so I’ve seen him turn down up to $10,000. He used every offer as a chance to list where he bought it, every option it had, and why he didn’t buy the 406 or 427 engines. (I seriously doubt that Dayton TN’s Ford dealership ever saw one of those engines in a ‘63-1/2 but in Fred’s version it was a conscious decision to pick the greatest version.) Worst ripoff I’ve ever seen in auto insurance. He always told me “One of these days I’ll come down here and let you drive it” as though he and I and the car weren’t all there then (and pretty much twice a week) but never did. He’d also have me look up and price parts his car didn’t need, if we weren’t too busy, just as an excuse to talk about his car. Great old guy and they gave him less than half a year’s premium for that rare, showroom condition Ford. Ought to be criminal.

Thanks ebozzz, again i stand corrected. You are correct. After checking the listings again today the sale is over and prices are back to $850. What a difference a day makes. Good looking out. Peace

blowinblue said:

16 posts and not one pic or personal video so far of someone going down the slide. I'm so disappointed.

M. M.

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We ate at the cafeteria with a direct view of it and noted that nobody used the slide.

Maybe have a look at MagSafe mic stand mounts? I don't have any but a Google search can presents some.

Update: So after I had the Fralins installed the bass was really noisy. After contacting Fralin, I got a call from the man, Lindy Fralin himself. We had several conversations trying to troubleshoot. Amazing customer service.

In the end, it just needed shielding. Now it's dead silent! In the process I learned how to shield a bass and how to solder! So good stuff all around.

Now I am officially very happy about the switch.
(picture taken while in process, I finished the pickup cavity and did the pickguard around the pickups - making sure the foil touched the foil already behind the pots)

Yes on the grounding and it sounds like a good setup is in order. How old are those strings? Lower your pickups.

I’ve been thinking about a P bass. And played a bunch of Fenders, Custom Shops and Squiers at Dave’s in Milwaukee. My favorites were the James Jamerson Sig and the Squier 51P. The Custom Shops were just ok. Long story short I’m a believer now that the best P bass is the one that fits you best.

So I think I’m gonna go MJT and get a 62 neck profile. Choose my own colors pickups etc. seems like the way to go

Swamp_Ronin said:

It's always open season to mock the Amish. When will they learn to sit in front of a screen for 14 hours a day like the rest of us?

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The more days I run through this grind, the more I feel I got it wrong, and they are closer to right.

winegamd said:

All I have to ask is, what is so special about drummers butts that drum thrones are so expensive?

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Brains are fragile.

Ptransodactyl said:

My main thing is size. Since I play mostly in my little Jeep Renegade on my lunch break, I need something small enough to not have to roll my window down in the heat or cold of Oklahoma. I tried using the purple electric bass in my PFP but it was too long, that's how I know about the window thing

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I get ya. I've got a 3 year old and a 20 month old.

I'm building a bass to take with me wherever, since I can't justify spending too much money.

If you want to encourage your kids to make music, try the "Cardboard Musical Instrument" book.

frankie5string said:

Now go look at some of the most recent videos he has posted or is in... A lot of those videos have him playing one of his 55-XX model Laklands... Sean is going to play what he feels is needed for the session. But you're not him. You don't have his fingers, his technique, his studio dates, his producers, etc. Don't get too hung up on EXACTLY what he plays or doesn't play.

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Sean is a consumate session player, and knows who pays him, and recommends him for more jobs. His prime goal is to be:
1) easy to work with, and
2) make the paying customer happy, and
3) get lots of referrals. That does not happen with his own opinions as his own god.
In almost all the interviews I have seen he always says he takes his basses (P - flats and rounds, others) and ASKS the producer/music director what they want. Or he plays them all and lets them decide. Sean wants the producer to pick if they will. If they do not, he goes with what he thinks serves the song best. Not every session is John Mayer saying he wants a P with flats. And not every Mayer song has a P with flats on it, either in session or on tour.
As it turns out lately, most pick his P with nickle rounds, about 80-90% of the time. Thier call, not his.
Reading many of the comments on talkbass, this seems to be a strange concept to most chatters.