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Ok, thank you! They were surprisingly bright and twangy as well as low tension. There was another identical bass with round wounds on it, and the tape wounds were noticeably brighter. Not at all what I expected, but I really liked them. A pleasant surprise. I want a set for a short scale that I...

No, they are just gold. 🤔

Does anyone know what strings these are? Thank you!

The neck is from an early TSB-350 or another bolt-on Thor Sound model w/a slightly modified headstock (see body) The fretboard is from the Univox/Aria Diamond (etc) violin basses of the era. So is one of the tuners. The other 3 tuners are from an Epiphone et280, but were probably also used on...

I found another image of it! And it has the reverb that he would need for the recordings that are on this album. I think you guys are right; thank you!

It does look a lot like the HH VS Musician that forum member SteveCS is playing in this picture. I'm not sure what is up with the upper left, but the rest seems to match. Thanks guys! I had never heard of these amps before today!

Yeah, it's from a video off youtube, probably a multi-generation VHS tape before that. I was excited to spot it at all; it is one of my favorite bass tones of all time. I feel like I am seeing a black rocker switch in the lower right, and some sort of script logo in the upper left. It almost...

This is from July 2nd, 1982; the night after half of the Birthday Party Live 81-82 album was recorded. Does anyone recognize it? Thank you!

Yep, you nailed it. Trutone just updated the ebay listing with updated pictures. Mystery solved.

If we order them both and ship them to the same location, when they arrive they will rip a hole in the space-time continuum. :bassist:

Nice catch. Guitar Center must be using an older photo; once someone sets an intonation correctly it usually stays that way. Maybe their listing is for a completely different SB1000 and used a photo from a previous SB1000 that they had, which has since made its way to California? It wouldn't...

In Santa Monica, CA Aria Pro II SB-1000 Reissue 4-String Electric Bass Guitar Made in Japan Oak Natu | eBay And at a Guitar Center in Hickory Corners, NC [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Shipping time is about the same. At first I thought that this "Truetone Online" ebay seller has a...

That's a beaut! I really like the black finish (is it a bit of a blackburst?) on the III's and IV's. If mine ever had glue, I never saw any hint of it. Enjoy your Magnum!

Back to really recommend this "Extreme Shim Makeover :laugh:"mod if you're an aggressive player, or like to leave yourself more room for tonal dynamics. I'm bashing the heck out of the strings and there's absolutely no peaky bass stuff. It's gone from "peaky bloom" to "beautiful bloom". Nice and...

Yeah, that's what I meant when I said I shimmed the heck out of it. :laugh: Honestly, shimming it THAT much was more to balance out the two pickups than the break angle. There is plenty of room on the back adjustment screw to make the break angle the same without having to shim it that much. It...