Recent content by Stephen May

great post, loved your reply and appreciate the time you took to post it! I’m sure I’m not the only one that enjoyed it!!

Vertigos - I have no idea what it’s like to play such a classic (elderly) Fender, and I imagine there are so many others like me who may never have a chance to play one like yours. Could you take a moment to tell us what it’s like? What’s it feel like? sound like? what’s the action and frets...

Jamerson was a phenomenal bassist with incredible rhythm and sense of space. Melodically brilliant and yet somehow completely supportive. My funk machine is a bass that brings two of my basses together into one; a Modulus neck bolted to a Fender Jazz body with Bartolini pickups and LaBella...

Skyline, I appreciate your reply. I made a very small counter-clockwise turn to the truss rod; I’d say it was like “12 O’clock” to “11 O’clock”. And I raised the bridge guides slightly, and a smidge more so for the D and G. I am surprised at the difference it made. Truly I was extremely...

Thanks, I’ll try that. I’m not new to caring for my basses, and I’m comfortable adjusting my setup but I’m concerned that possibly the string slot on the nut on the DJ5 for the D and maybe also the G might be cut too deep since the B, E, and A strings are not behaving the same as the D and G...

This is my first post; I hope I haven’t missed anything as I searched through the forums. I recently purchased a Lakland DJ5 and the setup / action is remarkably low, which I enjoy, however this bass is incredibly telegraphic, meaning so sensitive. I’ve adjusted my touch to be precise and more...

Oh man!! I started reading this thread, and I was pleasantly surprised at the creative abs descriptive analogy, and do I totally get it! Yes. I’ve been back and forth like that on several basses. Like totally get you. Then, when I started reading all the responses, I was dying, laughing so...