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Yes because the strings are anchored through the bridge and there are the ball ends, and even if you have a string through body, you must take it off to actually mount the strings, and if you try to remove the strings with the bridge cover on, you will scratch the inner area. (with a...

Aw man, I officially have a user number ? Cool. Hope I will have time to get to electronics soon.

Invalid Link Removed Invalid Link Removed My MB-4 just arrived yesterday! yay! (really nice feel to it, no problems at all, great neck bow and string height out of the box) (even intonation almost spot on.) Test fitted the Artec preamp inside the cavity, but didn't check the battery...

@andruca - very nice review, a lot of people looking into HB basses will appreciate that. I too was thinking about an MM84 but chose the single pickup way. (And it's a way lot cheaper) @kodiakblair / and everyone interested in the MB-4 SB, I will do an extensive review with a lot of pictures...

Checked out retrovibe.co.uk, they have cool stuff over there. If everything goes right, I will try different pickups if the original doesn't fit the audio timbre I am after. (+ a Stinger preamp, it is pretty cheap and from the comments I read it's almost spot on as the original Stingray...

Nice pair of HB's! Pulled the "trigger" on an MB-4 SB today, hope it will arrive by Friday. Will try to get a Stingray(ish) sound out of it, ordered an Artec SE-2A with the bass, hope I have enough room in the cavity for the battery. (doubt so) I have been following the Thomann activity for...

The first ever tone I started picking up consciously was Flea's Modulus on the By The Way album (which I was listening on cassette in my parent's car in the early 2000's) After I started playing bass and widened my musical styles I got to know the wonderful tone of Joe Lally from Fugazi. -...

Hello fellow TB-ers, bass players, bass enthusiasts. Wanted to say a discrete hello, and props for creating a Harley Benton club. After two consecutive fails with basses that I bought, I decided in 99% to buy a HB MB-4 Sunburst. (always loved the Stingray shape and sound, and one of my fails...

Surf Green for boy, Plum Crazy for girl :D / plain white or pearl white pickguard on SG, black pickguard for PC.

Joe Lally's pickguardless black Stingray, maple neck. Flea's '62 Jazz, and the Damien Hirst customized butterfly Jazz.

Recorder since I was 7-ish to 13y/o. Got a classical guitar for Christmas in '99 when I was 6, my dad really wanted to see me play the guitar but that didn't pay off until I got hooked on bass, and started playing bass lines on my classical when I was about 16 and got my first bass a year later...

Most of the shops here in Romania sell Fenders for example at the U.S price which is 1.350$ for the American Standard Jazz Bass (correct me if I am wrong). The problem is that the minimum wage / monthly medium income is so low that most of us can't afford something at that or around that price...

Since I remember my first contact with music, listening to vinyls with my dad ranging from Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath to the Beatles and beyond, I realised that I was listening especially to the basslines. This became clear to me when later on I got hooked on RHCP, when my dad saw that I was...

~120euro (150$) german Pbass copy, Tenson if anyone heard about it. Pretty good value actually for the money, I am quite surprised after I started learning a lot of things about basses, from setups to electronics and the mods I have done in these 3 years since I started playing bass (my first...

I'd go with a white pickguard, but depends on the shade of the colour. If it's darker I'd choose black or tortoise. Check out Flea's Jazz Bass in the official Can't Stop video. Good luck!