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    Warwick tuning pegs breaking.

    I got replacements, probably NOS, from TheBassPlace.com. I ordered a set of 4, but they came as 4 individual boxes, like jewelry. One of them had a nasty burr the full width of the slot in the tip of the peg from when they cut the slot, like a little rectangular razor blade folded down onto the...
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    Warwick tuning pegs breaking.

    I just experienced this :( What I can see from the hardware failure is that the problematic Warwick tuner machines have too much slop in the bushing. This allows the string to pull the tip of the tuning peg against the top of the gear inside the machine on the opposite side. As you turn the...
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    Ampeg 410 HE sounds "blown", even with new speakers. Any ideas?

    Laugh all you want, but the weakest link in the signal chain of old equipment is always the connectors and the cables. Next check all the pots (should not be too crackly twisting back and forth through the entire sweep). The next step is to open it up and look for blown fuses or stains from...
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    An engineering question on sustain

    I'd vote for preamp and compression. No more digging in! Nothing on your axe (unless it needs serious work) will have as much effect as decent electronics fully tweaked.
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    Getting this sound.

    Maybe you could track down John Fleck and ask him? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standells http://mintyandthebeeb.blogspot.com/2010/06/standells.html This one has a Hofner violin bass... http://thehelplessdancer.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/nuggets-2-the-standells/
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    What makes certain basses expensive?

    :eek: Hahaha! :D A friend of mine, super smart guy, but has a gear fetish/addiction he often wrestles with, gave me a very sharp analysis. The highest price instruments are the surviving "cream of the crop" from bygone days when manufacturing was expensive, but quality/reliability was not...
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    Want: Serious cab modeling ability in the Chicago metro area. New cab venture.

    Sometimes modeling means, like "amp modeling", coming up with a functional facsimile of existing amps' tone without actually having the equipment. Sometimes it means coming up with a mathematical "profile" to describe something, in this case the state of the art is a dB response curve and...
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    How do bassist learn songs in 15 seconds at jams?

    THIS! The only thing I could add is that this is, in my experience, exactly the sort of thing that will get your money's worth out of formal instruction. It's not going to replace experience and practice playing, but IMHO it will demystify things and improve what you get from your time...
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