Recent content by yuletide

Just following up… After continuing to complain to Adorama support, I managed to get $150 off for the damage. I feel pretty good about this bass at $350 assuming I can fix this with a bit of solder!

That makes sense. The support person initially said she would look into it when I asked about getting some money back instead of shipping the broken item, but then I got an email with a label so seems not! Back it goes

Thanks!! Oh yeah the shielding is not the main issue but having to totally resolder the electronics is a bit ridiculous. I have three guitars and two basses many for fractions of this price (hello $200 Yamaha TRBX and $900 Ibanez SRMS625EX) and this is my first instrument that showed up with a...

This is great stuff thank you. Can you share a link to the preamp you picked? It's wild a MSRP $1200 bass would have these types of issues even if we got them on sale but maybe it was a bad production run? I reached out to Adorama and they want me to send it back but I'd rather get some money...

Here are some photos of the insides for anyone curious. Not very impressive. One wire clearly was nicked by the soldering iron and the coating is off, heatshrink not actually shrunk on the splices. No obvious failing solder points, other than the stripped wire. I haven't weighed it, but it...

Yeah appears the Jazz pickup is dead. Damn. I'll email adorama but sending this back is gonna be a huge pain. Is it worth opening up the back and seeing if a solder joint failed during shipping? I could just take it to my tech or fix it myself if thats all it is. Spinning counter clockwise is...

Just got mine for $500 and it is amazing. Love how this neck feels and very happy with the sound. I'll consider upgrading the preamp to darkglass or aguilar at some point but for now I'm very happy to use it passive. One question I had which I didnt see covered anywhere and hoping its not a...

I ended up just packing my focusrite Scarlett for this trip — i forgot how much smaller it is than my stomp xl so might as well just bring it!

What did you end up getting? I am debating the same thing. I have an old irig HD2, but these new things sound even easier.

What did you end up getting?