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Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me bassline

Had an opportunity to test the cab in a rehearsal. It has a crazy clean and clear sound with crisp highs. The lows are impressive but don't seem to move the air in the room like it's big speaker counter part. This cab is well suited for jazz, blues, funk, country...any genre that the guitars...

Hey Guys, I've got a dead Mesa Big Block Titan V12. It had a glorious death years ago in the middle of a show; smoke, fire and the works. A power mosfet fried. I removed the Mosfet block in an attempt to replace and fix. Three moves, two apartments, one exgirlfriends house and a whole bunch of...

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Hey guys, just returned from a weekend trip to Los Angeles. Any chance that I get I stop by the Sam Ash in Hollywood. Found my dream bass (MIA Jazz in natural wood), then picked up a few basses more in my price range and wasn't excited. Then I turned a corner in the back of the store and found...

As an experiment I swapped the Duncan SPB-3's & SMB-4A over to the natural wood bass. Totally tonally woke up the bass...like drastically. I really wanted to like the EMG's, I had a jazz with active EMG's and it was glorious. But these passive EMG's in this config in this bass was a total fail...

Tackled the neck & bridge threaded inserts. Also shimmed the heal of the neck to allow for bridge saddle adjustment for string height. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Also added another EMG master volume pot for a true V/V/T Ran into an issue with the...

Before cutting into, drill & dremeling the P body I wanted to see how the bass would sound & look by moving the bridge up to compensate for the scale length. I was most curious to see how a P pup sounded being shifted closer to the bridge and in my opinion the 'sweet spot'. It did sound good...

I am so happy with how the P/MM turned out I started putting together another. Combining two learner basses into one P/MM, this time with EMG-HZ P & MM pups. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] OLP stingray for it's neck: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Huntington P for it's natural body...

Thank you, to my ears with the MM pup dialed back a bit it sounds like the bass tone on A Perfect Circle's Magdalena on Mer De Noms with a touch more percussive zing in the highs. But at both pups full volume it's a brightness that Tony Kanal (No Doubt) and Tim Commerford (Rage Against the...

First set of pickup rolling, replaced the Duncan SPB-2's with Duncan Quarter Pound SPB-3's, visually a better match with the MM SMB-4A. Sonically... different, tough to say it's better, just different. Also installed a set of Alpha 1M pots set up for V/V. Which is way more versatile then the...

You know how it goes "Why buy something for $7 when you can make it for $92 in craft supplies" but really it would be tough to say, especially since I've used parts I've already had.

Hey Guys, wanted to share a few pics of a recent project bass. I am not a P-bass player, I've not been able to dial one in for a sound that I personally enjoy. But I was feeling the itch to try a P again. I started looking online for inexpensive P's and then remembered a company that made P & J...

Because I can: The JJ's did seem to excite the high's a bit more, has more of a bell ring to it. Which is great by me. The tubes start to come alive at 10 o'clock gain and are dirty by noon. However, all of my basses has BassMods 3EQ pre-amps on 18v and have a lot of output gain.

The head worked great for last nights gig, I do need to spend some more time dialing things in. But really it's a killer thick sound. Tube Rollin, trying a set of JJ Tesla ECC83's