Recent content by michaelandrew

For whatever reason, I’ve never had much trouble with 60 Hz hum, even with single coils. There’s no high end loss that I can detect though.

Swapped out an EHX Silencer for one of these - I’m much happier with the Donner.

FWIW, I've always set up my basses "by feel", for both relief and string action. I just recently got a string action gauge and measured the string height, at the 12th fret, just out of curiosity. It's consistent at between 2.0 and 2.5 mm. That's about right according to the table on the back of...

Excellent choice - enjoy!

Nice. Very nice...

Yes, but will it work on plastic input jacks?;) Okay, I promise, no more posts here except amp guts pix. Henceforth, I shall respect the purity thread! :D

My old-school bias would call for an open frame jack, mounted on the panel, wired to the circuit board - more expensive, of course.

In fairness, the amp is 15 years old and was gigged some; this is the only thing that's ever gone wrong with it. B-string makes a good point about the input jack nut.

Okay, okay - I stand corrected; not inevitable. I'll keep an eye on the input jack nut to make sure it's tight.

The Peavey Basic 112 is very basic - but a good little combo amp for practice. Unfortunately, this specimen had an intermittent in the input jack, so here are the guts: And here is the culprit - two cracked solder joints (centre and centre top): This is more-or-less inevitable with the...

Shouldn't the plural be "plectra"? :D

"Pretty darn good" is what I aspire to be, someday, maybe.

To me, it sounds like the same bass with different EQ. I like "B" better - more lows - but I have no idea which is which. When is the reveal?

This showed up in local garage sale ad - yup, it's a P-bass.

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