Recent content by Marco Belli

  1. Marco Belli

    Sadowsky VTC?

    Yes this Is the box
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    Precisionesque Bass with chunky neck, 15" radius (quite flat) and 1 11/16" nut?

    Harley Benton has 12'' too. Yamaha bb 4 string 10''. Yamaha bb 5 string 23'' Sadowsky metroexpress 12''
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    G String Slipping Off Neck on My Fender Ultra II Jazz 5

    Also,from the first photo It seems that the A string doesn't pass under the string tree retainer, but this can be easily fixed
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    Practice amp for a small room

    I have a 3x4m room and a rumble 15. If I ply it at full volume my ear will be damaged. Don't worry about the volume of those amps.
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    NBD - Italian-Made Jazz Bass

    hello from Italy, I don't want to demoralize you, but if nothing has changed over the years, the basses advertised by "Bassisti italiani" should be cheap Chinese basses, resold under the name "bassisti italiani". Maybe I'm wrong, but this is what they say here in Italy. It's not Italian hand...
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    Pedals for lower tuning.

    Why don't you trqnspose the Song One or two semitono up? You don't gig
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    Beginner Bass Question

    It's a tied note as @Shenron explained. That said, transcribing this song as 6/8 is madness. This could be written and read more easily if written in 12/8
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    Would this grain mismatch bother you?

    would this grain mismatch bother you? I call it "Two-Face"
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    Sound is coming from the E string

    you changed strings and lowered action. have you lowered your pickup height too? otherwise your string are now closer to the pickup. When you lower the action you also need to lower the pickup to maintain the same distance between pickup and strings.
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    Fender Ultra Jazz 5 Review

    I noticed that in all Ultra jazz 5 I saw online, and in your photo too, the G and B strings are very near the fretboard edge. Much near the Edge than in other basses. Don't you have any problem with them?
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    Fender Rumble 15 distorting with Aff. PJ

    I don't understand. The PJ plus the amp shall give a very high volume in a room. It's designed as an home amp. It's nor big enough to gig with It nor to use in a reharsal room with a drum. But in a bedroom with your setting It shall give you too much volume. And I expect that with this...
  12. Marco Belli

    Maple fingerboard opinion poll

    I Just own the very same basso and I fell in love with his maple fingerboard. What's wrong with this one? It looks beautiful to my eyes
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    Damping technique/help stop ringing

    Hi @MuseChaser, I came from piano where when you raise you hand the note stop playing ( thank to dampers). I don't know very much about violin and his damping needs, but I have learned the hard way that on bass all the string want to ring. When I started studying bass, the difficult part wasn't...
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    First 5 string search (Squier, Ibanez, Yamaha, Sterling…)

    You can consider sadowsky metroexpress, Thomann and others are selling them with a big discount because of the launch of new models in 2024