Recent content by Sam Becker

Dear Talk Bassers, I am interested in purchasing this Hofner 500/1 and I wonder if someone can help me identify the rough age/authenticity of it please? It looks to me to be a late 80s model because of the tuners and a few other features but any other help would be hugely appreciated! I have...

I own an Aguilar TH500 amplifier and quite a few times recently when I have used the amp, I have turned the amp on and upon playing the sound is extremely low volume and really badly distorted unless I really dig in and then the sound pops out and crackles making the amp totally unusable. On one...

I own an Aguilar TH500 amplifier and quite a few times recently when I have used the amp, I have turned the amp on and upon playing the sound is extremely low volume and really badly distorted unless I really dig in and then the sound pops out and crackles making the amp totally unusable. On one...

Here are some pictures sorry!

Hey folks, I have been offered a Tokai Jazz Sound - the neck is definitely original (Japanese) but not sure about the body - the serial printed on the neck plate is: CH051970. Any help at all here - what do you think?

Hi Ghastly, If you look on the picture of the back of the headstock you can see that it looks to have been filled in!

Here's a picture of the pots too!

Hi folks, I have been offered this bass and I am wondering if it is an authentic 1962 Fender P? I have attached pictures. It all seems period correct (apart from wrong label and refinished hardware, added pickup and all that jazz) but I'm not an expert on these things. Been modded like crazy...

Hi Boppingtheory, I know it's many years since your original post but I was wondering if you had any of these plates available? They look fantastic and like the perfect solution! Best wishes, Sam

I’m based in the UK and got a hosco 3 way selector on eBay and for the push pull I got a CTS from eBay too! I hope that helps!

I did have them in reverse! I switched it and it works absolutely great! Thank you so much to all of you for your help! My bass sounds massive now? !

Thank you so much for this - I've wired it up with this diagram and it works until I attach the jack to the control plate. When I attach the jack to the control plate the signal completely short circuits but there are no instances of the hot and ground wires touching in the circuit at all. Any...

Thank you all so much for your help!

Hey all, I hope you're all well during this time! So I would like to replace my VVT setup on my bass for Master volume, Master tone and a 3 way selector for neck, bridge and both pickups and I'd also like to add a series parallel switch element. I wonder if it's better to have the series...

Hi, Having spent a while playing the bass, the pop when turning the bass on in active mode and the pop wheb switching between active and passive mode is a problem. I think I may have to go with the non true bypass, but I don't know enough about these things to be sure. Can you or someone...