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While riding out Hurricane Florence today, I decided to clean my Fender Precision bass. When I was polishing the machine tuners, I noticed a screw and washer were missing. The bass is an American Standard. Does anybody know if I can just buy the screw or do I need to buy the whole tuner...

That makes sense.

I thought it might be product advertising, but I can't believe there are that many bass players watching Idol to make it worth Aguilar's while.

I was just watching American Idol with my wife. The stage band all had in ear monitors and there were two bass amps on stage; an Ampeg SVT with 8X10 cabinet and an Aquilar head and cabinet (looked like 4X10). When I saw this, my first thought why does the bass player need two amps. Even if...

OP here. Wow, great advice. I wasn't even go to post this, but I'm glad I did. I took everyone's input and really examined my fretting hand technique. These are my thoughts. 1. I'm using way to much pressure. Mentally I'm thinking my pinky isn't as strong as the other fingers, so i need...

My current technique to is use 1234 fingering on frets higher than 7, and 124 on lower frets; this is common from what I read. That worked great for many years, but I wasn't playing that much. Now that I'm back in a band (and older), the 124 technique is starting to hurt my hand. From a...

Thanks for the responses guys. We ran the monitors without the mains tonight and it worked fine based on your feedback. Thanks derrico1 for clarifying my question about the headphones, that's exactly what we want to do in the future.

Hi Guys, We have a Mackie DL1608 digital mixer running all active speakers. For rehearsals, we want to run our monitor speakers off the aux sends of the mixer so we can get independent mixes without the mains. We will not need the main speakers since the monitors will be plenty of volume. Is...

I've been looking for a pair of active 12" PA speakers for my band. The price of the JBL PRX712s have taken a big price drop to $549. This seems like a no brainer at this price. My only concern is am I buying a speaker that's going to be obsolete. Is JBL clearing out the PRX stuff to focus...

Thanks, great point. I could probably get away with a quality 10" monitor vs a cheap 12".

I'm putting together a PA system for my band. I already have the mains, now I need monitors (the band is not ready to go to IEMs yet). My question is, I would like to get 10" monitors to keep price down and an easier load in and out. However, it seems like most monitors are 12". Our stage...

I've been rehearsing with a new band for several months. Lately, I've been noticing the lead guitar player is getting lost in the mix during solos. I just happened to look at his amp tonight and his treble was on zero with the bass cranked up (which explains why we can't hear him). I pointed...

Yes!

Hey, Just wanted to share some information. I've been looking for an effects box to simulate the low B string on a 4 string bass. This is only needed for two songs in our set, so I don't want to buy a 5 string or tune BEAD. After reading the forums, there are a lot of people in the same...

OP here. You guys gave some fantastic suggestions. Our main goal was to lower stage volume and take some of the load off the mains and it sounds like most of you are in favor of that. Thanks!