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    NBD - 12 Years in the making - 39" scale fretless

    Love the headstock. Wish more luthiers made them like that. Makes the most sense to me.
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    How bad (or good) was your first bass?

    Ah the Roland GR-77B A cool looking bass and pedalboard. Huge heavy and I didn't have any good chops at the time. Was able to sell if off for 300% of what I bought it for! Then I got the Peavey Cyberbass and Midibass. All sold after Source Audio came out with their C4 synth pedal. They solved...
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    is it worth buying a 5 strings ?

    I've heard from more experienced bassists than myself that if you ever get good enough to do pit work in a theatre production or maybe that cruise ship thing that having that 5th string will make playing those parts a lot easier. So if you want to do the cruise ship thing or especially the pit...
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    What's the most significant thing you've learned from Talkbass?

    I've been looking into doing that with my recently purchased old G&L L-2500 Ash/Maple. Could you please share the link for doing that mod? Going to Series / Coil Tap / Parallel would be awesome. Thanks!
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    New GP Lightstone "Emperor", 2-channel full tube preamp

    I just emailed Gunnar in the past week (First week of February 2022) and he responded within 2 days. Very polite guy. Long good English email. I'd suggest you try again. I'm debating whether I'll be buying the Emperor or not. I haven't heard any other bass tube preamp that comes close to...
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    You're limited to 2 basses, what are they?

    Owned 6 basses before the 2 I have now. Roland synth bass, Steinberger Honer bass, Peavey Midi, Peavey Cyber, Lightwave bass, Spector and then finally the MLB-1 from Chapman Guitars and recently the B.C.Rich Mockingbird. So the MLB-1 I've upgraded serveral times with more to go and the...
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    Should a left handed person learn to play right handed bass?

    I find the whole left-handed thing concerning left handedness and right handedness to be not thought through very well. I played Trombone for decades and was never taught that there even existed the possibility of playing trombone left-handed. There are left handed trombonists but I didn't know...
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    Ever write off an entire brand?

    Wrote off a Bass guitar brand after I had one setup in a big box music store. The technician said that oh the strings make noise but you won't hear it through the amp! Don't ever want to play that brand of bass again because of that poor setup. But I have since learned how to setup my own bass...