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Don’t know if this has been discussed before, but the G string of the La Bella 50-100 Beatle Bass set feels much rougher than the other strings. The windings are visibly wider apart, offering a scratchy and rough feel. According to a reaction from La Bella this is done on purpose for better...

Don’t like that rough G string. Different colour as well. My GHS Precision Flat G string is in comparison smooth as glass! Also on the “ Beatle Bass” flatwound set the 0.50 G string feels scratchy and feels not smooth at all., more like a halfround or pressure wound string. Problem is that the...

You realize that your name will be chiseled from the wall of honour in the great Ibanez hall in Nagoya, women will now cover their eyes and men will spit on the floor when you pass?

Mounted the ZS-18 Zero Glide. Needed A LOT of sanding on the underside of the nut. Also positioning the fret is tricky as the slot for the fret is very narrow. Note: the fret can only be positioned in one correct direction because of the spacing of the rib on the underside of the fret. The wide...

FYI using an old set GHS Precision Flats Light (45-95) medium scale. ( The newer medium scale of GHS offers a much longer winding length I believe). Used this set on a Fender Urge 32 inch scale, an Ibanez Mezzo also with a 32 inch scale neck and now on the Höfner and they just keep their tone...

Didn’t liked the very agricultural 1:14 original tuners on my Ignition. Replaced them by 1:19 WJ28 Wilkinson tuners with sturdy metal butterbean wings. A set of six ( they are guitar tuners after all) came dirt cheap on Aliexpress ( about $ 25) resulting in more precise tuning and a much nicer...

It looks a lot, but not exactly, like the bridge on my Italian EKO short scale bass from the eighties. A generic cheap universal bridge maybe, as this particular bass was a low end model in its time.

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I have two Mikro's, a Mezzo and a Talman, love the Mikro best of these three, but my favorite is still my 1993 32" Fender MIM Urge with light (45-95) GHS Precision flats. It offers, in my opinion, the best compromise of a slim two octave, 32" scale neck. I did have it converted to passive, I...

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GOTOH GOTOH BASS BRIDGE 5 STRINGS GOLD | Woodbrass.com

Riis, would you be so kind and take a look how this bridge is mounted? I can see three screw holes, but als a hint that there are two more a the the neck side of the bridge for a total of five, is that correct? Tks!

Tks! I had already the suspicion that there had to be something substantially wrong with the design, but you clarified it voor my. (Always impressed by your knowledge of bass matters). It's a pity though, as it looks really nice!

Has anyone any experience with This Goto GT-404-B C bridge? It's not present on the official Gotoh website (anymore). I love the saddles with a single adjustment screw. But maybe it's performance was less fantastic than its looks and therefore it was deleted from the Gotoh site? Love to know...