Recent content by Kermit1845

I have a 1994 Basic Black. Take the "head" out of the combo (it's just a dozen or so screws holding it in) and you'll see the date exact manufacture date hand-written on one of the components. I discovered this while trying to clean some scratchy pots. I paid $175 for mine but it wasn't...

Mike Watt rewires all of his basses like that. A volume/blend combination makes more sense than a volume/volume combination in my mind.

If it were refinished filling in the pickguard holes would have been no big deal.

Who cares about resale value if you have no plans to sell it? I say get it professionally refretted. Sure you'll dump more money into the thing than it's worth, but if you like the instrument I say make it better and don't run the risk of destroying it.

You're right. I meant to say 3 o'clock with 5 being full on. Something is clearly wrong on the passive side. I was thinking the other day that the pre-amp tube is probably original from 1994. Could that be the problem?

I recently got back into playing and I found a used SWR Basic Black on CL for $175. Based upon numerous positive reviews I bought and have been very pleased with the tone, but I noticed at band practice that I have to turn it up really far (3 o'clock on both master and gain) to be heard. So I...