Recent content by Remguy

Thanks everybody for your responses. They were all good and wise and basically telling me I’m being an idiot for thinking such things. (but I can dream can’t I?) I guess in the final equation, you basically get what you pay for, don’t you? Thanks again for your time. Really appreciate the...

That was a really good response. Thank you!

Now I may be totally naïve - and I am - but I have a stupid question for y’all: Why can’t you take a cheap @$$ bass, and have a luthier do a top notch fret job on it, and make it play like a $10,000 boutique bass? (Told you it was stoopid)

YEARS later... Yeah, that's a nice idea, especially if your pre doesn't have an LED for battery level already (Audere does). Aside from that, you can tell when your bat's on its last legs 'cause it starts effing up, i.e. distortion, sometimes popping, volume drops out, etc. I don't gig...

15 years lay-taire... Just my 2 cents: If your output went up, I'd say you are now in SERIES and not PARALLEL. It's always louder in series.

The problem is it's easy to make something that LOOKS like a bass guitar in a webpage photograph, so buying online I have always considered treacherous. You have to sit down and PLAY the thing, to get a FEEL for how it plays, and of course, see how it SOUNDS. Mostly, I feel like there are no...

Oh, I'm sorry - on both counts, that is. In the meantime, let's keep rocking the Low End!

At last, the solution is clear! Get ahold of your uncle and get him to sell me his 63 P with factory flats on it. Simple. Actually, I just inherited a 72 Jazz with old flats on it and action so high you could park your RV under there. Not quite the same is it. I will probably look for a...

Thanks, Guys. Interesting that you mention EMG pups, Beast, that's exactly what my MIM Fender Zone has in it. I don't think there's a passive option with those, but I'm not sure. Sounds like I need to find something with passive Precision pups in it and do the whole "preamp thing" in a pedal...

At the risk of sounding like a total MOE RON (!) by apparently repeating the OP's question, could I sneak in here to ask a long-standing and closely-related question I have, which is: How come my active PJs** JUST DON'T SOUND like a P when I turn the J pickup down/off? I saw all the...

THAT IS A FRIGGIN GORGEOUS BASS!!!! I think I could die happy if I got one of those. I'd have to put frets on it, but other than that, everything's PERFECT! Roasted maple neck...ebony fingerboard...quilted maple done in blueburst/purple, I mean you just couldn't spec a bass out better than...

Hey Jimmy, fellow Jim here. I gotta question. Okay, I don't own a P-Lyte, but I DO own a Fender Zone (MIM), which is pretty darn close (pardon my off-colour language!). My Question: How come my P-bass +1 don't sound like a REAL P-bass when I solo the split pickup? I know it's close - great...

WHAT THE HELL!!! 300 DOLLARS?!! i live in the wrong country, decade, century, solar system... DAYUM!!!

It probably does the same thing as Steven Wright's wall switch. He said he had this switch in his house that didn't control anything. He used to flick it on and off for no real reason. Then he got this letter from a lady in Germany telling him to knock it off...

Schwinn: Almost a decade later... I wonder if one could use a multi-effects pedal with different patches for different songs? Just a thought, mostly I wanted to say "hey" cause I saw you were from Sarasota. I've got a place out on Siesta Key and get down there 2-3 times a year. Not often...