Recent content by MfEuTnAkL

Well, right off the bat: the ball ends of your strings are not where they're supposed to be (bottom of the keyhole) so the bridge is providing no downforce on the saddle height threads in this case. Loosen the strings until you can push the ferrules down into the circular part of the keyhole at...

ZenBlades and BigBlades are not remotely the same. BigBlades have one huge single coil with a bunch of copper. Zens have two coils mounted orthogonally to the blade and are designed to be used in sets. They benefit from a preamp that has gain that can be trimmed up a few db, and a very small gap...

Hi! I'm Nick and I do in fact work at Nordstrand answering questions and phones among other things. I'm here to do my best to straighten out what looks like a number of compounded misunderstandings. Nordstrand Pickup Instruction slips are not specific to any model. Any pickup with a 4+ lead...

By all means, man. Send photos and samples. -Nicko

Thanks Mike. No hard feelings. TB can get out of hand when things are not cleared up. -N

Hi Mike. If you want a mute, you'll have to pay for it. You bought from a dealer. They did not provide you with a mute on your already heavily discounted bass with the free gigbag and no tax. There's no reason to ask publicly on talkbass. You told me three times you were "not just looking for...

Glad you like the setup. I play them all before I put them in the box. ;) -Nick

Greetings Nordstranders Many of you may not be aware: over the past several months we had an intermittent but increasingly more consistent problem maintaining email contact with our customers on Microsoft-operated email services such as Hotmail, MSN, Outlook, Live and at times Gmail and others...

semi pro unofficial opinion: because bass is a low-frequency fundamental instrument, headphones will always only provide a disappointingly incomplete experience. Bass waves are so big that you can feel them with your whole body, so yeah. You need an amp. Even with a laptop, you'd need to run...

:bassist:Hi I'm Nicko and I am probably the person who last touched your Acinonyx if you adopted it this year. (If I forgot your tools, I apologize. Order stickers or merch or something and make a note mentioning them being missing from your Cat order and I'll add them to the items you order...

I'd like to try to be helpful in this thread even though it's kinda aged. That screenshot isn't from nordstrandaudio.com it's clearly from a dealer because it lists the item by sku, which we don't do. Here's a simplification of how our build queue works: Stew handles business to business...

Make sure you use a multimeter to verify you have good continuity from lots of random points on your shielded surfaces and from all grounded bits. Check for cold solder joints and verify your bridge ground wire hasn't pulled out somewhere and broken the connection. If you don't have shielding, I...

Hi Barry: the only email I answered today regarding microphonic pickups decidedly did not express "that's the way those are" and we *do* wax pot our pickups. I asked for an audio or video with audio sample so we can properly diagnose the issue and make accurate advisement. How did you route the...

Hi Jim I think I responded to your email on the 27th of July but never heard back from you. We only have a single phone line and I'm the only support person on the retail side. Please hit me at [email protected] so we can sort you out. Cheers, Nick

technically, they're not lying. they're stretching the truth. new math, I guess. of course, 2001RBs are for stadium gigs... so are mesa 8x10s. I've never needed anything bigger than a 4x10