Recent content by Stephan Matthys

Play flats on my fretless basses & tried a set on a fretted one. Like it there, too. Will try nylon tape wound on my 5-string fretless next time…

1982 EKO B-55/S (next to his little sister EKO C-02): my first bass; still love it…

Probably the most unknown song our cover band does is "Out Of Our Minds" by Melissa Auf der Maur. :-)

My first bass amp was a self-made 20 watts Edwin amp (actually a DIY guitar amp set, which I combined with a bass speaker & built a box around it). When I started playing in a band I needed something bigger & louder respectively & bought a used SMS 150 watts conbo… Nowadays I mainly play using...

I’m pretty sure it’s a Japanese one from the 1980´s :-) Go for it!

Here‘s my new baby :cool: It seems to be made in Japan in the 1990’s from Korean parts. Feels great & sounds great, but to be honest I didn‘t expect anything else from a Maniac Almost the complete family; one further Maniac residing in our holiday home… ;)

Thanks! It looks to me as if it's the same catalogue I got together with my first Maniac (pearl white fretless TB-02PJ/B-A) which I bought used back in 1993. Still one of my favourites...

This is my only Piezo only bass... (However, I'd love to have a Tune BassManiac TB043...)

Do you mean the three potentiometers?

Wow, this looks nice! How does she feel & sound? & which string spacing does she have at the bridge? I'm thinking about getting one of these...

I would love to release you from this, but I can’t afford it at the moment... ;-)

Just send it to me & it will get more attention... ;-)

I know that the modern Korean ones come with "external" strap buttons; but all of my 1980's Japanese Maniacs have the pre-installed system. :-)

But the Maniacs have "internal" straplocks, thus the outer part is inside the body. In order to use the Schallers (which I use on most of my basses & guitars) you'd need to fill the hole first & then screw the new strap lock on...

Maybe these could fit, at least they do on my fretless Maniac: https://shop.warwick.de/de/ersatzteile-fuer-instrumente/framus-ersatzteile/strap-buttons-straplocks/framus-warwick-warwick-style-security-lock-systems However, I'm not a big fan of those, as I find them mechanically questionable...