Recent content by maphiles96

He didn't claim that about the machines specifically to be fair. I'm asking this cause I don't know stuff and want to learn. While I appreciate the concise answers, they also feel somewhat hostile. To me it doesn't feel like the poly finish on my electric bass for example, but obviously that...

Alright thanks! I was wondering about the "missing" outside linings though I've seen a couple of old basses that also didn't have that. The tuners I have by now found pictures of on basses that people claim are from the 40s to much newer ones. What I don't quite get is that mist newer Basses...

So from the 70s, how can you tell?

Hi, I have this older upright that I've been playing for a bit now (also posted about it once, that issue has since been resolved luckily) and I have been wondering if anybody has any hunches on age and origin. A luthier I took it to suggested it was German built somewhere from 1900 to 1930...

I've had someone touch parts of the bass while playing and when touching the c bout it get's slightly more quiet, however when I press on the lower to mid part of the back it seems to vanish conpletely. The brace the luthier said might be coming loose is the top one though and touching around...

Hey, So first off I hope this is the right part of the forum to post this. I've somewhat recently gotten my first Upright. It's a carved flat-back of unknown age and origin (the luthier I took it to assumes it's German and was made sometime between 1900-1930 but who knows) I've had some...

Since yesterday I've played around with a couple of things. First it seems one of the connections of the neck pickup was slightly dodgy and maybe shorting to ground or something, cause the pickup was way more muffled than it used to be. After redoing the connections there its sound came back...

Okay, time for a progress report! I've now shielded the bass completely with shielding paint in the cavities and foil on the back of the pickguard. I've also redone (and simplified) a decent amount of the old wiring and and the results are promising... mostly. With both pickups turned up the...

I'll try and go through these steps, maybe I have some loud or faulty equipment around somewhere and finding it solves it. However I've also had this happen at gig venues (which is where it becomes a slight problem). so if there's something else I can change in case I don't have faulty...

Here's the promised sound bite! (I hope this is the proper way to share sound, if not pls let me know) This is recorded with high gain and I'm turning roughly 90° back and forth which makes the noise increase and decrease. You should be able to hear me turn the pickups on and off, in the first...

Thanks for all the tips! I will check out the video about shielding and try to improve the one in my bass (it's pretty lackluster from what I understand) I'll also check my cables and see if turning off stuff improves the issue. It's currently the worst when I'm in my rehearsal space, so I'll...

Thanks for the reply. I am using both pickups and a decent amount of noise goes away/gets more quiet (the bass has very little cycle hum for example) when turning both of the up, however the high pitched sound doesn't go away at all except when I bleed it off through the tone knob. I've...

Hi all, first post here. So I have an old Jazz bass that I really really like, however it sometimes produces a pretty unpleasant high pitched noise. It's worse in some spaces than it is in others, seems to depend on where I'm facing and goes away if I roll the tone or both pickups completely...