Recent content by McHenryBros

I still on the lookout for a silver "J" to adorn the headstock. But my truss rod access hole is the best thing about it - don't ya think ;-?

I see the point about pickup heights. Thanks. But, sorry ... I really don't have the time for this - sounds exhausting, if not exhaustive! Paul

No - the strings were different. Both fretlesses had flatwounds, the others roundwound. The 4003 strings are fairly fresh, Jaybird's were new, the other three were older strings. Paul

Also in answer to others including Beej ... I did both a moving average on each of the five samples of each string, and then normalised - so that would be similar to what you suggest. Only after that did I align the five samples before getting a final average for each string. I am not...

I suspended each bass using a Hercules stand (so they could hang from the headstock without the body touching anything). I used the same pick to pluck at the midpoint (12th fret) so that the amplitude did not saturate in Audacity. I normalised each WAV file to ensure there wasn't any bias from...

I used Audacity (free) to capture and save as a WAV file; then extracted from the WAV file to a TXT array. After that is was just processing the data - which can be done in spreadsheets like Excel. The processing was basically taking a moving average of the absolute values (a low pass filter can...

My first build (Jaybird - posted earlier) had much better sustain levels than I was used to on my regular bass (a Vintage fretless). So I was curious to see if I could measure it. I could beg, steal or borrow five basses for the comparison: Rickenbacker 4003 Fender 50th Anniversary Jazz...

Many thanks for the positive comments. I have now worked out how to include an image in these posts - which I should have done at the outset! So I put it into my first post (with an edit note). Also, played a gig with it on Saturday: the clarity of sound was much better than my shop bought...

This is my first guitar build. It started as a joint build project last summer with my son when we decided to build our own basses. I have managed to finish mine; he needs more time as he was off at university. No previous carpentry experience apart from DIY putting up shelves, etc. There are...