Recent content by Root 5

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    Double Bass Your motivation as a musician

    The chicks.. it's all about the chicks!
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    Can”t hear any bass at live shows anymore

    This is reason 8,586 why playing a $15,000+ bass guitar is a waste of money.
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    Not getting the p bass sound I want from my Yamaha bb234

    Quite sure they’re 250k however I’d check. Capacitor value too
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    Weird issue with hearing Radio Stations through amp

    You don’t know who you’re speaking to, do ya?
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    "Official" Jackson Minion Bass Club

    Well done sir! Well done! :laugh:
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    '62 Geddy signature Jazz bass coming.

    I’m on it!
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    DiMarzio Model P vs SD Quarter Pounder

    Yes the SD Hot P is excellent
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    '62 Geddy signature Jazz bass coming.

    Suhr, Lull, LSL. All of whom build a much superior J.
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    “I can’t stand them!” The voices you love to hate.

    1) Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. Very nasal tone and his facial contortions annoy me. 2) Geddy Lee. He can’t sing Rush material anymore. The guy is in his 70s.
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    Help with my Harley Benton BeatBass VS

    And you can probably find some string nut on here to buy your strings from you!
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    Help with my Harley Benton BeatBass VS

    What I do is this: to determine what length strings I need: 1) place a mark on the E string just past the nut, on the machine head side of the nut. 2) remove the string from the instrument and measure from the inside ball to the mark you made. If you measure, say, 33” then you now know you need...
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    Geddy's new red Rickenbacker (4000V?)

    Ya never know, Bonanassa might bust out his best Duck Dunn impression Sutton’ at home with the boys? :D
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    Markings for fretless

    I want dots at 3,5,7, 9 etc WHERE THE NOTE IS on the edge of the fingerboard. I don’t like them in the middle of the ‘fret’ as if it were a fretted neck. So many manufacturers do this. I don’t like that Rickenbacker leave the meaningless dots on their FL fretless model’s fretboard (currently...