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I used D'Addario for decades because why not. They're everywhere, they make everything, why not. But there were always problems, always something wrong. So I switched to Ernie Ball Pure Nickel, and no more problems. .

I have a girl named Rama Lama Lamalama ding dong. I also have a Fender Precision bass with a Seventies-ish serial number, 644xxx. The pickguard is a little tatty, and I might like to put on a new one. Would it be entirely hopeless to expect to find one with all the holes in the same places...

I love how people tell people that what they want is not what they want.

I've got a roundwound Precision Bass and a flatwound Precision Bass. That's all I really need. But the roundwound one has those battery-operated EMG pickups that is seems everyone was putting in their P-Basses for a while there (many years ago). It sounds like I want it to sound but is there...

I was told that my contoured-but-tele-hardware one was a 1957 model. But yeah, the contours came before the hardware changed.

Well, "Rocket" is a legendary Ampeg name, so it's nice to see them keep it aired out all freshy fresh.

I'm not a big pedal guy but the Madbean Afterlife is a very smooth very transparent and subtle compressor.

If you're a geezer like me, you remember when you could buy toilet paper in your choice of six colors. Civilization has deteriorated since then.

Most of that weight is the big power transformer that is required for a big solid-state amplifier. Which prompts the question, has there ever been a popular bass amp with a switching power supply but an analog/linear audio section?

It took a long time for solid-state to get good enough to use. But then people flipped.

Eighty-five bleepin' pages. It is obviously obvious that Fender scored such a hit with the new Rumble series that other companies want a piece of that.

Well, I measured across the strings of a regulation Precision Bass that I have, and a regulation Telecaster that I have, and the distances weren't all that different, maybe a sixteenth of an inch, maybe. I think I'm going to give this cheapie a whack, just as a first-cut proof-of-concept. I...

I guess that that's a reasonable thought, but I've never liked any bass soapbar I've ever heard, which isn't a big number but it is a unanimous one. Nor does there really seem to be a ton of options, although if someone advertised that theirs sounded like a P-Bass, I'm willing to listen. Being...

Hello there. I would like to put together a Franken-P (not Al Franken) but I don't really want to fuss with carving out that wacky P-Bass pickup opening. There are all those rail pickups, though, and presumably they wouldn't care what kind of string they're sensing or where it is. Many of...