Recent content by ShadowOfLight

When I started bass about a year and a half ago, I had 2 four string Jazz basses. I saw a 6 string in a music store and though "Why the 'ell would anyone want to own a 6 string bass with a fretboard so wide you could land a plane on it?"! Now I own 3 and love them all. It was a challenge...

My 1st 2 cabs were the Fender Rumble 15". They weigh 37 lbs each and you can buy vinyl covers for them cheap! They have in them 300 watt Eminence special design speakers made just for that cab. Features include a front port, neutrik & 1/4" inputs, removeable grill and included pop out casters. I...

I've owned two. The 800 watt Marcus Miller and the AG1000. Got these used and both of them had a background hiss / bubbling noise that was present when not playing even with the volume turned down and nothing plugged in. Also the Marcus Miller didn't fully 'mute' the signal when the button was...

A metal one. Plastic shells don't resonate as well as metal ones do!

The Fire J's / The Fire Jays.

I have 4 basses in my cache. 2x Jazz. 1 natural, 1 black both with maple necks. 1 sunburst Precision that I've made into a Jamerson Funk Machine with the chrome covers and thumb rest. 1 Stingray 2x HB in burgundy. I'm not gassing for any more basses. I like the necks on what I have although the...

I feel the OP's pain. I want to turn my sunburst P bass into a Jamerson Funk Machine with the chrome pickup and bridge covers along with a thumb rest. It just pains me to think of drilling into the wood, but apart from sticky velcro-ing the parts to the body, ya just gotta drill into it to make...