Recent content by knuckle

Heh. This bass is brand new. It's a cheapo, but I'd like to keep it 1/2 decent, but if I have to hack, I have to hack. Use to it. Everything I f'n buy requires modification.

Found them, thanks, didn't see those. I wish they gave you the specs on the damn things. I'll have to look elsewhere for measurements for these. Do you have a squire bass and did you upgrade your tuners? http://www.guitarfetish.com/Wilkinson-Elephant-Ear-Tuners-Chrome_p_878.html

Sure, my stock top screws are 1" apart, the bottom screws are 3/4" apart. Top to bottom about 1 1/4" apart

Well I took one off, it's an 11/16" hole. Any idea what would fit? I guess you're talking about the 4 screw holes correct? I'm going to have to fill and drill, right?

Have a 2014 Squier Affinity PJ Bass The tuners suck. I'm wondering if these are any good? Wondering as well if I'd have to drill. I mean I can do all that stuff, have endless tools, I'm just lazy. Invalid Link Removed

Cool, thanks, that bridge looks cool. I don't mind spending some money on this thing. It will be a cool project. A lot of the songs my band plays are in low tunings. Low E (one octave below E), B tunings, D tunings. If I play bass with my fingers, the bass gets lost in the mix, even when using...

Didn't think I was going to get away with buying a $200 bass and not having to do some work. Anyhow, let the hacking begin. First off the tail piece set screws are too long. I've put some allen heads in some in that had the same thread, but I had to cut some of them short with cutting pliers...

Well, what I mean is that I've read a lot about ABG in the past week and it seems that volume on the Low B is a problem for a lot of people. I realize this isn't an instrument you play unplugged. I've tried both tapewound and D'addario Phos Bronze strings. As you said, they are both nothing...

Well this thing doesn't sit flat because the Piezo is round, not flat like most of the fishman piezos that I've seen. On the B side where the piezo wire goes through the hole, it's not far enough towards the end of the saddle. So basically the edge of the saddle is resting right on the top of...

I'm not planning on using this unplugged. I initially got a bass as we do not have a bass player right now and my drummer bought a Fender T-bucket and I thought it was cool. Then I got the idea that when we get a bass player, it might be cool to have some prerecorded bass tracks for him to learn...

So it sounds like, for recording purposes, I'd probably want a 5 string electric bass and perhaps tune it to EADGC tuning and use the B on the 5th string for my Key of B tunes. I wish I researched all this crap before I went and bought a 5 string acoustic bass and wasted money on those tapewound...

but that will require a different set of strings right? I wouldn't want to be tuning up to E with a .130 on this ABG I wouldn't think. Don't want to trash it before I sell it.

Well as of yesterday, I have this 5 string ABG for sale on Craigslist here in MA. So I have on order an Ibanez Acoustic Bass AEB10-EDVS that will be here tomorrow. Then a whole another can of worms develops. I've been looking at BEAD tuning on that, which I'll have to research on that. Can...

Got these today, was advised in another thread to try them. I think it's going to be a waste of time right? Invalid Link Removed

I did a lot of research on this last night. It appears that getting a B string recorded is a whole can of worms by itself. Since a lot of my songs are in B tuning (Open B if you will) on baritone resonator guitars, I was under the assumption that a 5 string bass would be required. Now I'm trying...