Recent content by PaperbackRyder

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    P Bass Upsides?

    #2!
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    NBD - Fender Mod Shop Precision and my Mod Shop Experience

    I am mystified by this. It would seem the simplest thing to offer.
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    Apartment dwellers who play gigs

    I usually use a single Barefaced Super Compact 1x12 that weighs 20 lbs and can get loud as f@k. I have a second Super Compact foe large stages. SO an easy, light, one trip load with Bass in a gig bag Amp, cables, K&M guitar stand, etc in a back pack Cabinet in a slip cover Easy as pie...until I...
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    Billy Idol White Wedding bass tone

    yup all down strokes and excellent consistency. I used to be able to play like that for hours, but that was 40 years ago.
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    Fender Custom Shop: Life long customer soured by poor customer support; A Cautionary Tale!!

    I would think they could simply replace the neck...***?!?!
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    P-Bass Tone Chasing Advice Needed

    My tonal benchmark is a mic'd B15. The PB90 gave this bass an authoritative voice. Now I set my amp (Sisma) basically flat. I can deliver upright-like lows with palm muting, Midrange bark with fingers and aggressive bite with a pick. I found the right pup for this particular instrument. Your...
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    P-Bass Tone Chasing Advice Needed

    CORRECTION: I got the PB90 (not the PBCC) and it slays. Going by the description on Novak's website, I wanted to keep the mids. After all, it IS a p-bass!
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    P-Bass Tone Chasing Advice Needed

    I have a parts bass which has become my number one. It started out like you described, too polite. I had the 57 reissues pickup, raised A, that the body came with and replaced it with a std Lindy, then an overwound Lindy and finally tried the PBCC from Curtis Novak. Bingo. Now, even guitar...
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    An Embarrassment of Riches! Aguilar Quilter and Mesa

    That was a long time ago, so I really cant say. I was using the Rev 210 as my only cab back then. There were several times on large stages, when it just ran out of gas. The BF Super Compact 1x12 was a direct replacement for the REV and ten lbs lighter, so I bought two of them and havent looked...
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    The Rickenbacker Club Part Twelve

    The Noir Basses sold out in a day...please make more!
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    Official Barefaced Bass Cab Club

    Someone's going to lose a filling!
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    Fender Custom Shop Club

    Can anyone tell me the current lead time for a FCS order? I wont be getting customized, just menu choices without heavy relic'ing.
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    The Rickenbacker Club Part Twelve

    Absolutely gorgeous. Nice work Mikaelbass.!!
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    Adam Clayton playing a Shuker bass

    From thier website: "The neck is a single slab of rock maple, central is a two way truss rod which adjusts the neck in both planes. Its adjustable at the body end, a small cover in the scratchplate lifts out."
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    Wiring help needed. Humbuckers to VVT (J Bass) style, w push/pull V's for coil splits

    I do not know which wire is which I want each of the two push/pull volume pots to split one (either neck or middle) pickup Thanks!