Recent content by hambrew807

My gut feeling is that a capacitor in the preamp is dying. When you unplug the cable, it disconnects the battery and allows the capacitor to discharge. Note that I am not an electrical engineer... but if it were my bass doing this, I'd start by replacing all the electrolytic caps and see if...

I feel like I'm raising my kids right when all three of them they would have known who these people are!

I think Fender the company will be fine. They're going to have a rough few years (and some of it is due to the economy that will be rough on all music instrument manufacturers, some of it will be fallout from the C&D letters they sent). OTOH Bud Cole - Fender's current CEO - should probably...

Likely on the aftermarket de-fret. The nut was loose when I got this bass and was filed for tapewound strings (which are noticeably thicker than the strings on my other basses). The B string height at the nut is 2mm, I checked my one other 5-string and it's 1.5mm, and my two 4-string basses...

Where the neck meets the body is different (mine is straight, yours has that nice curve to it)

I have what appears to be a Tune TWX-51, but it's fretless. I don't think it came that way from the factory (if anyone knows if they did, I'm interested in knowing the actual answer, I reached out to Tune almost two months ago but received no response). The nut (which may or may not be original)...

Plot twist: all those artists have the same cheap keyboard that is tuned to A=432 Hz and cannot be changed. Apparently such a thing exists, a friend of mine has one (and he's smart enough to figure out how to change it... if it were possible without a soldering iron).

I know one that believes the aliens on Mars want to hear their guitar. It's a shame that I don't think anyone on Earth wants to hear their guitar and in order to get sound to Mars...

I think it's the world in general. I've seen it a lot on Reddit in both bass and non-bass (some engineering) subs as well as here.

I saw this a few days ago, but didn't really have anything to add... until now. I opened Facebook to be greeted with a post on the Worship Bassist group that says "Somewhere right now a Musician has the Praise Team muted on their P16 or Aviom". There's a bunch of like, love, and laugh reactions...

I ordered something that was supposed to be delivered Saturday and shipped "priority overnight + Saturday delivery". It wasn't delivered Saturday, they won't work Sunday, I'm pretty sure they didn't load it on the truck on Monday. It finally came at 5 PM Tuesday.