Recent content by BassGlenn

Thought I would post pictures of my Samick SAKB 477 here for reference before it's gone (selling locally). I bought it new in 2001. I went to the Arlington, Texas, guitar show in 2000 and played one in the Samick booth. I liked its looks and lightweight, balanced body. There were none for...

My theory is that the original jack got just dirty enough to create electrical resistance, reducing the output voltage. Or possibly the tip contact was cracked and hanging on by a thread of metal. It's got nothing to do with the brand of jack. The original was MEC, the replacement...

Special thanks to FunkHead for suggesting the jack. Replaced it and the growl is back! It's odd because the original jack passed the ohmmeter test. But when I bypassed the jack with a couple of jumper wires, I noticed the improvement. I also tried tequila, which worked temporarily, but the...

The strings are old, but they couldn't have suddenly got older during a break. I'm hearing other sounds normally, including my other basses, so hearing impairment is not the cause.

Here's a shot of the control box. Left to right: Volume, Pickup Pan, Tone.

After a break in the middle of a gig, my passive Warwick Corvette Standard lost its growl. Suddenly the sound went all muddy bass with little treble and midrange. I tried to restore the growl using the amp tone controls. This improved it some, but nowhere near its original tone. Later I...