Recent content by primespin

Here's mine. Picked it up last November at a black Friday sale. I love it since putting Chromes on it. Though it's a SS, it is the longer scale of my two basses. Can I join?

I put the regular Aquilla Thunder Reds 91U on my GT23. They are listed as being for basses up to 21 inches, but they were plenty long. I ended up trimming about 3-5 inches off each.

I ordered a set of ThunderReds and a set of Pahoehoes from two different vendors. The ThunderReds came in first and I switched out my Thundergut A string which had an annoying buzz problem (see earlier posts). The new string has fixed the problem 100%! Since I don't have any issues with the D...

I talked to the owner of the shop re: my GT23FL with buzzing on the A string. Together, we went over it trying to determine exactly where the sound was coming from. We agreed that it was the fretboard. I tried placing a finger on different parts of the hardware (tuners, preamp, cable jack, etc)...

Thanks for the responses! I did try loosening the truss rod by about 1/2 a turn and it did not make any difference. However, it seemed to get easier to turn if I turned the nut clockwise, not counter-clockwise as I expected. It felt like it was getting tighter as I turned it CCW. So, I tried...

Hi folks. I'm new to this group, as well as to playing bass at all. I am coming from the uke world and just picked up a GT 23" fretless. Although I am really liking it, I have one problem with it that I can't seem to figure out. The A-string has a lot of what sounds like "fret buzz" from around...