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I am a big fan of the cobalt flats once they lose their initial brightness. I have noticed these strings are regularly breaking for me between the string tree and the machine head peg. Once I get tension on the D string and it start applying upward pressure on the string tree notch, it gets...

Not to dig up an old thread, but there are not many for these old jazz plus basses. I have all the original parts for my jazz plus v, but removed the kubeki electronics in favor of a simple passive setup with 250k pots. I thought this was not natural sounding, but the lace silver pickups were...

Love my EBS multicomp, I leave it on in tube mode as a stand-alone pedal looped through the effects loop on my 800rb. It gives the amp some tube warmth and even better punch than the 800rb alone. It’s one of those “never go without” for me. Compliments this amp in biamp mode well. Running a...

I am extremely happy with mine, after owning it for about a year now. The previous owner installed a Stellartone Tonestyler pot in the back, and it compliments the 4 shifter positions very well. You can dial 40 different and distict sounds on a passive bass and AB’ed next to an EBMM, the...

2 wires, direct swap. These things are truly the real deal, I recently got a beautiful Godin Shifter Classic used, and was pleasantly surprised to see one of these inside. The shifter had the bridge , neck, series and parallel options for the jazz pickups, combined with the 10 very different...

Great thread, My guitar player just moved and gave me these 301 cabs in Rough shape. Little elbow grease, and they are doing much better. I was comparing the 370 against my Mesa 400+ and they were very different! The Mesa was smooth and warm, but the 370 was much clearer and almost “woody” by...

Great bass cabs. Have a second one comming. IMHO This was the only thing that could sound better than my dual (TL-606 deisel cab.) Great complement to a Mesa 400+, it must be something about matching vintage gear. The VMR really does project in a room the high frequency much more evenly, hard...

Thanks b-string! Didn't like that compressor anyway! I agree with you that the gain knob is a great built in OD. I love the simplicity now, I'm down to the gk channel/mute and a volume pedal in the loop! I hope this thing is not too sensitive to tube rolling because I'm running some dusty old...

In would agree a little boost into the tube preamp gives you more control of your breakup. I use a hot 18v active bass and get great control of the breakup just with finger pressure. I also ditched my compressor since using the 550, just felt like it didn't need it? Am I crazy?

Bob and the GK team clearly spent the time to get it right, blending tubes with the stellar Rb powerhouse. IMO this is a match made in heaven. I previously would not use the horn bi-amp with my 1001, but the 550's tubes mellow out the harshness, and now I love the horns. The simplicity is great...