Recent content by JapFend32Scale

I'm back in business. The solder joints looked ok visually, but reflowing them fixed the problem so one must have been bad. I now have an extended earth wire to the bridge too, so any repairs in future should be easier. Thanks for the advice guys. :thumbsup:

In my defence, I've never tried it before, and probably never will again. I blame Seinfeld for this...

Hopefully somebody with wiring experience might recognise the symptoms here and suggest a solution. I was playing quite hard slap on a fairly new Fender jazz bass (a Japanese 62 reissue, with stock passive pickups, stock wiring, no mods anywhere) and after a particularly hard thump the output...

Thanks guys. I find it difficult to palm mute consistently for an entire song. Would it sound the same if I got some foam rubber to put under the strings near the bridge, or is that a different sort of muted sound?

Hi, just joined the forum. I'm not very experienced at playing but I know the kind of bass sound I like. It is the kind of bass sound featured in Stereolab's "Miss Modular": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSBrNttSVpI A warm and full sound but with a soft click in the attack. Can anyone tell...