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I stopped by the 34th St store in Jan. to get a cheap keyboard gig bag and had a crazy negative experience. Salesman who claimed they didn't have what I knew they had, manager who went off on me when I tried to get him to do what the salesman was too disinterested to do (that was only after...

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I'm guessing it has more to do with what is happening at the spot the drummer is sitting than what is coming from the side of the cab facing him, that there's a frequency disaster from the acoustics in that spot. That said, I once puzzled over a sealed Ampeg 2 X 12 cab I was using for organ...

Me! :) But I only ever bottom feed for them. Me in '76, with my butchered Blobocaster!

Visually I love it. The colors and lines are really nice to me. I love what it evokes while not looking like a hatchet job. That said, doing it with any Fender older than 1998 is brainess. The bass has minimal value beyond the pickups and bridge. The neck being described as "heavily modified"...

No. The most brandesending thing anyone who notices will say will be "That bass player had a really good sounding Squier". Anyone else saying anything demeaning about the fact that it's a Squier is only telling the world that they're far below you on the bass smarts.

There are a lot of ways to look at the P vs J thing, but one thing I feel 100% about is that the more acoustic a gig is the more I want a P in my hands over a J. Hands down.

My solution for the mute raising the pitch is to use a cut of loose fabric instead of sponge. By loosely running it over and under the strings there isn't the need to have it pressing against them hard enough to move them perceptibly. I use a 3" wide strip from a T shirt, and found that...

Nah. I can think of several great reasons to put the drummer on a platform just short of the roof and out of sight but uncoupling the kick isn't one of them. A beater on a kick drum, before it's processed, isn't nearly the low end force that an amplified bass cab is. It's actually a weenie bump...

First order of the night is whether I care about the floor resonating me. I usually want it, unless the house is providing the gist of me to the listeners (which is rare), in which case it doesn't matter so I can tilt or raise higher. Getting it off the floor always changes things, not...

Since I broke down and got headstock tuners I've barely touched my tuner pedal or the tuners in assorted multifx pedals. Nothing extra to stomp on, and since it's tuning by vibration you knob down the volume on the bass, tune up, volume back up. But it's a major sin to leave it on the headstock...

Wow, rockambo, thanks for that site! I used to collect guitar and bass catalogs as a kid and spent many an hour just staring at those very Kustom pictures! I could stare at a good picture of a layout of Fender amps for a few minutes but a Kustom layout I could lose myself for 15 minutes in...

I've found threads with plenty of info but not exactly the difference between the NEO MBE-II and the discontinued NEO MBE aside from wattage. Can someone humor me? Thanks !

That's how I feel. The look of my amp is only kind of important, extremely, in that it can't be a distracting negative. But anything that's not is fine. I have no qualms relating that I once did a gig on a good sounding provided MarkBass rig and I was miserable the whole night. No, sorry, nope...

Ah, gotcha. Somehow that didn't make my radar. Thanks.