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My Jazz bass is butterscotch blonde natural ash, black pickguard with a maple fretboard - Very traditional. My Jaguar is black on black with rosewood fretboard. My favorite Fender colors - aged white or cream with tortise shell pickguard, seafoam green with white sparkle, Daphne blue, with...

I want to buy a acoustic bass guitar (not a double bass) to play without an amplifier. What's the best bang for the buck? I like both Martins and Taylors in acoustics. Price doesn't matter as much as playability and sound. I have 7 semi-hollow body bass guitars and 3 solid body bass...

In the last couple of months I added a ('63?) Panaramic (Crucianelli) semi-hollow body bass, another '67 VOX Cougar (by EKO, I now have 3 of these VOX EKO Cougars), a Conrad ('69?) semi-hollowbody buckhorn bass (MIJ) that is probably the best made semi-hollow body bass I have ever seen. I...

You can borrow my wife anytime, but you have to keep her for at least six months at a time (longer please). She's 8 years younger than me, a real natural blonde and sports real big uns in D cups. I'll throw in a USA Fender Jazz bass. I have never had anything good happen when I loaned...

My FB is about 150 and I have bought about 20 guitars on ebay. My luck has not been good with ebay as since they make all of their money off of the sellers, they always side with sellers. Out of some 200 buying transactions (quite often the seller does not give any feedback), I have had 3 no...

Not all flatwounds are the same. I like "chromes' by d'ardaggio (sp?). d' ardaggio also makes ground rounds (aka half rounds) which I play most of the time as you can switch to the neck pickup turn down the tone and get a fat tone very like a good flat wound. As someone said previously, you...

New in mid 1960s A***g B-18 Fliptop - Never pushed it past a 5 but needed a new speaker every third gig; and 18" A***g speakers ain't cheap. Traded it when it blew the 4th replacement. Now have a 4 x10" cabinet by same manufacturer that is bulletproof. Vintage early '80s R*****l 60 watt 15"...

I just bought a Conrad semi-hollowbody, double-cutaway (horns) bass in sunburst. The wood, finish and hardware is all in excellent condition. Conrad was made in Japan and I believe was associatied with Baldwin. Everything I have seen on Conrad indicates the brand sold between 1966 and 1972 or...

Finding someone who has done exactly what you propose is probably one chance in a billion. Up until the mid '90s just about all half stacks had 4x12 configuration. As I recall, until the slap/pop method of playing became more common place most people preferred larger speakers for lows that you...

I have four at present. Ampeg SVT & Extended Low 4x10 Ampeg cab for bass, VOX AC30 2x12 Cel. Blues combo for vintage sound, Bugera 333XL with 4x12 cab for bigger venues and a Ultrasound 30 for acoustic. I'm short a guitar recording amp at present and shopping, but seriously looking at a hot...

My preferences: 2 stacked 4x12 stacked 4x12 over a 15 2 stacked 4x10 4x12 4x10 nothing less I started with a 2x12, tried two 2x12s, tried a 2x12 with a 15, tried a 2x12 with an 18, tried a 4x12 aloone, then stacked 4x12s. I did all of those before any 4x10s were used much for...

I plugged in my alarm clock to one of these power supplies and the sound of the alarm buzzer is incredible. I actually woke up in a smooth groove to the loud "graaacccckkkk" of the alarm. I then plugged in my electric razor and found myself dancing as I shaved my beard. An you wouldn't...

I have a new Fender USA Natural Ash Jazz bass, which is one of Fender's most expensive basses, and a MIM Fender Jaguar bass (black) that you can usually find new for about $600. You cannot compare a MIM Jaguar bass with a custom USA Jazz bass. Except for that killer deep gloss finish that...

In regard to bass only... One simple way to get more volume from your rig is a pre-amp or a bass with a pre-amp ("active electronics"). The observations on speaker/cabinet efficiency need to be tempered with the necessity of matching your speaker/cabinets to your amplifier's capacity...

The "vintage" thing is mainly a teen nostalgia trip for mature men in the 50-60 age group. I know because I am 61 years old and now can afford all of the things I wanted when I was a early teenager (except more teen age girls, but I had more than my share in my time). I wanted a new Corvette...