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I have come to love LaBella Gold White Nylon wrapped strings. .050 - .105. They have great sustain and ring, they sound great for multiple styles of sound, and they feel really good. I had been a D Dario half round player for a long time. These feel best and sound great on my Fender Custom Shop...

This was excellent information, thank you. I've only experienced ivory pegs on my acoustic six string and this is the first bass ive had with these. Thanks again!

My Fender Kingman came with round wound phosphors. I went to put on LaBella gold tape wounds. When I put the pegs in and began to tension the strings, the retention pegs pop out. I have tried sanding the pegs and scoring the pegs for more resistance to slip along with pre-bending the strings at...

I think it does matter what each poster thinks or prefers. That is what the initial poster was asking for. They key is to get a bass, strings, and tone that fit your technique and style. I have played flats and half rounds for many years and I now play LaBella White Gold Tape Wound Standards...

My preference is LaBella White Gold tape wound Standards. They really have and hold good brightness and the feel is awesome. My base is a Fender Custom Shop Active Jazz Bass with a rosewood finger board. I played half round D' Addario's for most of playing life to try to find good sustain in a...

I would also say that , depending on the speaker designers, there may truly be a sweet spot where a speaker could allow an amp and speaker to handle bass as well as guitar and sound OK. There is no doubt a trade off in sound in some way for each of those instruments. I played my Tele through a...

You raise a great question though lowplaces and I wonder how the manufacturers address this..... that is.... adding a parallel speaker as a feature. You can imagine the variety of cabinets that might get plugged in there and it causes me to wonder about the how those are accounted for when...

I actually do carry an "identity crisis" wire as above in case I have to switch an amp head though. That's a nice cable above!

I simply use Neutrik because I don't want anybody to use an instrument cable where I'm connecting my head to a speaker cab. I use a dedicated cable of 12 gauge OFC wire terminated in Neutrik ends. Instrument cable can easily find its way into a cabinet and that is not good for sound or amp...

The Tele was built by Danny Gaton's guitar tech, Jay Montrose, just after Danny died. Jay went into business with his company Vintique, which this guitar is. It's called a DG5394. It has the Joe Barden pickups. They were a pair from the prototype group built for the Fender Gatton...

Thanks Beans OT....I've have been so lucky to have found them. The 5F6A came from Minneapolis in 1998 and the B15 came to a music store in Wisconsin just this past Summer. THE Sunn 200S has been with me since my second band in 9th grade!

I would like a number! Here are two of my favorite rigs. The third favorite is my Sunn 200S which is from 1968 and was owned by the bass player of Soup, a damn good band from Appleton, WI!1960 5F6A, 1967 B15NF

Definitely use the rebuilder's recent work to take it back for a look. What was rebuilt in the amp?

Here are some test results that I obtained from altering the bias voltage on my B15NF. Conclusions are that all settings still produce plate voltages that seem high. Adding bias (more negative) moved to a 70% power target but at the expense of higher plate voltage. I need your advice... 1. Which...

I posted the schematic earlier for reference.