Recent content by Pikal

I've actually been looking at doing this with my midnight wine j-bass. It's actually MIM as well. I remember when I was first playing it, I was getting a slight distorted sound like the pick ups needed change. I played it on my amp and it sounded much better coming from a better power source...

As far as I'm aware, if you don't want auto wah, a standard bass wah is what you want. The mxr phase 100 is just an effects pedal. With a standard wah, you control the speed and depending what you get, where you control the wah will give you different depths. I use a standard Crybaby just to...

I've played plenty of gigs where we booked the hall and rented a PA and I usually break even. The goal is make sure you have a recognizable name on the bill whether it's local or out of town and promote the hell out of it. My band usually were the one's to fork out the hall rental and we take...

I know a car detailer who will paint guitars for people if they ask. If your ok with a MIM, I say get a hold of a detailer and see if they do that kind of work.

Beautiful I say. I was always a fan on natural finish on the Stingrays.

Ohh man is this great. You know exactly what I'm dealing with then. Those two house next door to the shop are his and has ton's of instruments. I haven't had the chance to go in there but my friends have told me that he has Fender Strats from the early 90's still sitting in the house's next...

Yea, that's a huge difference. Where did you buy it from? I wouldn't mind paying maybe $500-600 but I think $850 is him trying to stiff me.

I was talking to a buddy who works at a local shop and he pulled a bass for me to look at that has been kind of.... "kept away" from the rest of the stock. It's a DeArmond Pilot Deluxe 4-string and as far as I can tell has had no owners and has been handled very little. It has great sounding...