Recent content by emmessevi

My Höfner has officially recovered! Preventing the tailpiece from vibrating totally solved the problem. I’ll let you know about the Mustang when I try restringing and lowering the pickup on bass side.

OP here. Thank you all for your advice, I'm gonna give it a go tomorrow since I haven't had the time. Meanwhile, browsing Talkbass I've found a thread discussing this problem on hollowbody shorties with tailpieces. Basically sometimes the portion of the strings between the tailpiece and the...

Hi, everyone! I have a problem with my Mustang bass and my Höfner violin bass, which are strung respectively with Chromes and the LaBella flatwound set for Beatle bass. On the Mustang the pitch is unstable all along the 4th string, getting much worse past the 12th fret. There's this weird...

Hello everyone, I was thinking of busking with some friends totally acoustically. I've read online and watched some videos of fado bands where bass seems to resonate and project much better in tenor tuning. Would my ABG blend well in a band with a singer, a guitalele and some small percussion...

I expected great things from this cheap flat top discontinued Takamine TB10 wannabe after reading reviews online and watching demo vids. Unfortunately, it wasn't what I ended up with. The bass is intonated very badly, especially on the E string. It's so bad that it makes it essentially useless...

Hello, guys! I've always been a lurker here so forgive me if I do anything wrong. Basically, I've been doing some maintenance to my beloved Ray34 lately after some months of disuse and I'm noticing a substantial lack of volume. If I plug the bass with full volume into my audio interface, I have...