Recent content by laklandplayer

Marty McCann, the product manager at Peavey back in the day, told me the TNT 130 was a 50Hz Box, they lowered it to 40Hz when the 150 came out to better accommodate 5 string basses that were emerging in popularity then. And if you read my comments I noted the DDT compression worked on the power...

I sold Peavey equipment for over 30 years. It sounds like a bad speaker, the amp has the DDT power amp compression circuit to guard from overload distortion. It either has a 15" Black Widow that you can just replace the basket/voice coil assembly or an Eminence. If you replace it you'll want a...

Get the NUX MP-2 Mighty Plug. It connects Bluetooth to your phone and the app gives you tons of options. I use mine all of the time and it works great, $69.00 on Amazon

VAT is a tax unique to the UK. Shipping and tariffs on my last order of 2 sets was around $21.00. I use my balanced tension gauge numbers from Kalium along with tapered cores on my B-D strings and with the Newtone's the feel is spot on. The G string has the same tension as the low B and all...

I had a brand new set of Extra Light Pino's to put on my P bass and the D string was defective right out of the package, the outer wrap had a break in it. I contacted Ernie Ball with a photo of the damaged string. I was expecting a replacement string but they sent me a whole new set, great...

I got frustrated with Kalium years ago and took my custom gauges and started ordering from Newtone Strings in England. They offer every gauge you can think of on either a hex or round core wire, 2 types of stainless or nickel wrapped and tapered ball ends. Also, they will make any scale length...

Absolutely the best, I've put them in all of my Ibanez SR bases that use barrel jacks and they make excellent contact and firm up the physical connection to the 1/4" plug.

I've been a big fan of Bill Lawrence bass pickups for decades and I still think their P46 is the best sounding P that I've ever played. I had a problem, and some of you have too, using the P46 in a 5 string bass. The way the coils are constructed, and using them on a 5 string, the A string...

To add to this, make sure you have a good break behind the nut too with strings wound to the bottom of the string posts. Add a good string retainer if you have to and try to have them the same angle behind the nut. This also contributes to sound, sustain and feel

Tone is so elusive and the environment you are in will have an huge effect. I just installed a Bart b-axis P pickup in my Ibanez Mezzo 5 with a 4 band Audere preamp and it sounds killer in my room and on a church gig that I do... but like total crap in the pit of the show I'm playing now...

Check and make sure the core wire in the string isn't twisted. It's a very common thing, especially when you use a crank string winder when installing strings. Just loosen the string as much as you can, so it doesn't come off of the tuner post, and run your fingers from the post over the nut...

If you can find a used Zoom B3, they sound great and are well made. I've had one for years and use it when I don't need my big board, it has never let me down

I worked in a music store back in the 70's and those plastic Gibson saddles were crap. They deteriorated quickly and would just crumble. If I remember, they were made of a hard styrene plastic material. Gibson switched them to metal because of the dealer complaints. Those EB series...

I've probably used every kind of bridge saddle made.... brass, steel, aluminum, zinc, synthetic and I honestly can say that I can't hear a tonal difference between any of them. The overall mass and weight of the bridge play a bigger role in sustain than the actual saddle material. I've also...

I own a Rumble 40, 100 and a 500 and from personal experience the 40 is okay but it lacks depth. The Rumble 100, it is a much better and bigger sounding amp than the 40 and it can handle a B string just fine. The 40 rolls of the low end pretty steeply and it takes a lot of eq to get the tone...