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Which Multiac? Some of them are solidbody and heavy. My standard Godin Godin Multiac Nylon SA is quite lightweight like an actual thinline acoustic sans soundhole, I play with a guy with one of the solid ones and it is much heavier

If all there was available on the market were more traditional nylon "classical" guitars with a 2" nut width and flat board I'd definitely agree, but these days there are tons of nylon-string options with either steel-string dimensions or more commonly a "hybrid" design- including a number of...

A tone capacitor only makes a significantly audible difference with the Tone pot set nearly to all the way down. A Tonestyler uses an assortment of capacitors that range from standard bass values (0.1uf, 0.047uf, 0.022uf) to much smaller values. They are mostly meant to be used without a Tone...

You can buy individual Chromes C strings (product # CB032): D'Addario XL Chromes Flat Wound Bass Single Strings CB032

I lived near two stores in my life that stocked a bunch of Rics (Apple Music in Portland and Sam Ash in Hollywood) and I don’t believe either of them still exist! I’ve never seen more than maybe two or three new ones at a time in any other store that I can remember, though I’m sure I’m...

They used to make a bass-specific rail humbucker called the EB-50PB- no longer made as far as I’m aware. The below was from the non-Bill version of the company but it was originally his design that he sold in the early-80s if not before as there were a few basses that used them from the 80s...

m Can’t disagree that I prefer a good trapeze-type tailpiece. I personally haven’t had many issues with the adjusting the action or the cups pulling out but that is just one of the many aspects of that design that they didn’t really bother to dial in. A Casady with a Hofner-style floating...

My experience with Andras is that he is a brilliant circuit designer and programmer, but not the best at the business side of things- my understanding is the company is him and a couple other people from time to time who help out and do alot of the legwork and its mostly something of a passion...

Stupid question maybe, but I assume you have the Output Mode on Stereo by pressing the footswtich and turning the Regen knob full-clockwise? I didn't see you mention that step

I actually like the 3-point floating concept for use on a bass with a curved top like the Casady and (I assume!) Midtown, but they've had several decades to perfect it and just never bothered! Even Rickenbacker finally relented and updated their antiquated bass bridge design a few years back...

Yeah at some point I compared measurements of all the Rics I had and was somewhat surprised how subtle some of the differences were despite them all feeling very distinct- the actual measured depth between all were fairly close at least up the neck (the 4004SW was the deepest but not by much and...

I was a little nervous on my SW given it was a dual truss-rod model, which necessitate a larger neck in general. Given I had played a number of other Rics from the same era that were less “blocky” in profile I knew I could at least shave a bit off. It sounds like modern 4003s with the single rod...

A vendor has no control over a shipper taking time off.

Federally we can get "protected time off" when we have kids here, which is unpaid time off that mothers and fathers can take and not fear losing their job for- but only 14 out of 50 states have mandated paid familial leave (paternity or even maternity!) when a kid is born and for alot of couples...

A week is a typical paternity leave in the U.S., and that’s not even usually paid. The concept of people getting a compensated week off together to celebrate some shared history is totally alien.