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Bolin NS by John Bolin and Ned Steinberger Used | Reverb The sickness continues, haha. Not an NS bass, but this is the the guitar counterpart to my precise NS5 (green flame satin, natural maple neck, etc.). It's far too unnecessary (and far too expensive!) of a purchase for me to come close to...

Hey all - quick question for you. Can anyone tell me what their experience has been with truss adjustments? Looking a little closer at my truss nut and noticing a less-than-perfect-looking hex shape (some of the metal looks slightly bent/warped) . I can’t remember if it came that way or not (or...

@lictor4 I figured as much. Not sure then how a piezo without a preamp works- I suppose it is, as you say, "always on?" Or it is essentially just a bridge, so it certainly still affects the tone. Might explain why even though I have no preamp, my bridge pickup totally has a convincing bright...

Another update after speaking with Jim Frost privately. Looks as if there were a number of basses that had the Piezo bridge but were NOT connected to a fishman preamp. It would seem like mine was one of those, making my controls a master volume, pickup blend, and then stacked treb/bass and...

Just finished some more testing and it appears that, as you just said, the mid stack seems to be level and sweep. So it looks like I have master volume, then two stacks: stacked bass and treble (both detent), then the mid level (detent) and sweep, and finally a piezo/soapbar blend. All of the EQ...

2 stacked knobs. So the non stacked I know for certain are master volume and piezo blend. The one set of stacked knobs seems like a bass and treble EQ. The other one is what is puzzling, the top seems like another EQ - maybe a mid shape, and the bottom has no "notch" at the midway point like the...

Hey guys - just wanted to update you all since my last post. After a wild internet hunt, I have found myself with nothing short of my dream bass: a Green/Emerald Bolin NS5, with mag and piezo combo. I actually would have been fine with 1 mag pickup, but having it fully spec'd with the 2 EMG's...

The blue 4 string you mean? Or is there a 5 string up there that I totally missed?

Hey guys. A lurker here looking for a Bolin NS5. Loved the thread, props to Lictor for the record keeping and of course to Jim Frost for providing some awesome history. Anyway, would love a 5 string version of this bass. If any of you are looking to get rid of yours, please do not hesitate to...