Recent content by Saen Naen

A quick update - After letting out all the tension in the truss rod and re-tightening from the starting point, I seem to have gotten rid of the back bow. I am still tweaking it to find the perfect action height. Truss rod adjustments seem to catch up after a few hours. I took the bass...

@ seamonkey - That Grid1 looks amazing. Too bad it is $3,995, way out of my budgetary threshold. I looked into both the Roland Micro Cube and the Pignose Hog 30. I am not sure about the Micro Cube, I'd have to play out of it myself. Something about amps like those turns me off, I...

I think they need to be more selective about who they hire. Everyone and their grandmother's brother's father's uncle's nephew wants to work in a place that has musical instruments. If they want to hire high school kids, put them in inventory so they can at least learn about the products...

I was in this hardcore/metal band once. We had original songs, and we would make setlists. One show we decided to add this really heavy breakdown that we had been using as a practice drill between two of the songs. We planned to end one song and then just start the breakdown. Whenever it...

I've been thinking lately that I'd like to either purchase or build a battery powered portable combo amp. Tube would be awesome, but I don't know how readily available those are (or how a battery could handle that). Can anyone suggest some good ones to look into?

@ 202dy - I tried what you suggested about loosening the truss rod nut. I slacked all the strings and loosened the nut out almost all the way. I let it sit for a little while, gave it a slight crank of tension, then tuned the strings back up. For the most part the action was even...

The epoxy coating seems to be pretty even. When I first had it put on (when the bass was fairly new and played often) it was definitely smooth across the whole fretboard. I had it put on to get a more biting tone. It's a rosewood fretboard. The action is pretty low at the nut however. I...

Adjusting the truss rod only changes the action universally across the neck. It doesn't seem to get rid of the uneven spot where the bowing seems to start. I would have to raise it quite a bit to where there is no buzzing in the lower frets, but then my action would be way to high and...

I have a MIM Fender Jazz Fretless (circa 2002). Lately I've noticed that there seems to be some bowing in the area from frets 1 to 5. When I look at the neck, the action in the higher registers is much higher than in the lower. I tried to adjust the truss rod, but it just resulted in a...

A former teacher of mine showed me this one: --------1-5-1-------------2-5-2----------- ------3-------3----------3------3--------- --1-4----------4-1---1-5---------5-1----- 2-----------------2-3----------------3---- It's a major/minor alternating arpeggio. You would move it up the neck...