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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.

That is a common “feature” of the Gibson/Epiphone 3-point bridge (same issue on the Casady bass or most Gibson/Epi hollow/semi options). It’s unfortunate they haven’t modded the design over time to just add that extra little afterlength behind the saddles to remedy. There’s a guy who makes a...

intonation issues are one of the main negative byproducts of the traditional muting approach, and there is no way to totally eliminate issues. If it were mine and I wanted to keep the same muting approach, I'd try to experiment with the foam position (the closer to the saddles the less effect on...

Pretty sure it was Rotosound 66s on Burn just like most of the gritty rounds players of the time were using- this article from 1975 supports that ("wire wound" being roundwound): ARTICLE ABOUT Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) FROM Sounds, November 8, 1975

Unfortunately there's no easy way to get complete phase-coherency even with the Blend as it is (EQ/filtering and many amplification circuits affect phase in different ways)- this is why I think full-frequency blends are not that useful in many cases (sometimes maybe the phase-incoherencies might...

The Clean is affected by only the Output, "Amp Out EQ" and Cab-sim of the Bassrig pedals (they actually missed the "Output" on the diagram, but it comes after the Blend):

Ric hasn't used nitro finishes on their basses since maybe the early-60s that I'm aware of, I think it has been some variation of a conversion varnish (CV) since then (that has changed recipes over the years). I had a 4003SW soon after they were first released and it was a beautiful bass and...

Honestly I'm so used to preferring the Blend maxed out on bass preamps/dirt I've owned that I've never even tried blending in clean signal on either my Fifteen or Super Vintage. My experience with Blends is that you usually pay for a bit of added dynamic flexibility with the consequence of some...

I know the short-scale and medium-scale Rotosound 66 steel strings come with blue silk- could be those! Do the ball-ends all have different colors kinda like D’addarios? Modern Rotosounds have those different color ball-ends as well (but D’addario rounds don’t have silk at all). If they are...

I really disliked Morrisey and by extension the Smiths when I was younger. Then I was asked maybe 20 years ago to join some friends of mine for a “Smiths/Joy Division” tribute night at the warehouse we practiced at- I was a HUGE Joy Division fan at the time, but the stipulation from my friends...

Imagine what they'd sound like with a set of old LaBellas (kidding, I know its all subjective and they probably chose those strings for some reason- could well just be that they are the most available option on the road)! Also to clarify I don't think old Chromes sound bad, they just don't have...

Chromes or Fender flats (maybe not surprising since the Fenders are made by D'addario). I don't really care for the new tone of Chromes, but they are consistent out of the package for me. Fenders I really like all around. That's my experience with Chromes too, just never really settled in to...

Kinda hard to tell if it is designed to "float" like the stock bridge or sit against the body like the Hipshot bridge

As someone else mentioned, I'd suspect a bridge ground wire that came disconnected either under the bridge or from its ground connection in the control cavity. Can you point out which of the wires in the control cavity this is?

I just saw this used one for a great price: Pigtronix Used Pigtronix INFINITY 2 Pedal

This one is pretty new, I think just released a few months back. I think it looks cool aesthetically (hard to say how it might look mounted though), but the only things I see it bringing to the table vs the stock bridge are the individual height-adjustments per saddle and maybe a longer reach to...

I assume the MIDI interface is also selected in the Settings of the FI Editor? FWIW, I’ve been using this one for my FI4 without issue: https://a.co/d/01RcECA6 My audio interfaces also have MIDI in/out but it’s convenient for me to just have the separate cable for the FI personally. I have...

Do you have the new FI4 Editor program downloaded? IIRC, you need to download this fresh, it isn’t a matter of updating a previous FI v3 Editor software. Then make sure both the editor and pedal are currently on the newest firmware

It’s so easy to do it these days, and the algorithms have been improved to the point that pitch-correction is barely even perceptible to even trained ears, that tons of people use it for minor edits on the regular. Its definitely been used on occasion on some records I’ve been a part of, though...

I strongly agree with the Labella Chicago Nickels- I took a chance on those 4 years ago or so on my VI and haven’t felt any reason to change. They have warmth and twang and feel really nice too. I found LaBella flats a little two 1-dimensional for the instrument though they do that one thing...

I think the old Bill Lawrence bass humbucker was the EB-50, which was the bass version of his L-500. I had one in a bass maybe 20 years ago and loved it. Wilde currently makes a blade guitar humbucker called the L90 that I know Bill himself recommended as a bass pickup too when asked (apparently...

“P5” meaning 5-string? I haven’t tried the Fralin 5-string so can’t speak to that, but I’ve never heard anyone call the Fralin standard P “dark”- if anything I’ve heard people say it’s either too bright or even “scooped” (probably because the resonant frequency is actually higher than typical P...

From your original photo, if the orange wire were grounded and white sent to hot then you'd get the two coils in parallel and if the white was sent to ground and orange sent to hot then you'd get a single coil (assuming the bare wire was grounded in both cases). It's impossible to guess whether...

I've tried quite a few P pickups, and the Fralin and Lollar stock-wind options are my favorites (also love the G&L MFD, but its output makes it kinda its own thing). The Lollar is tighter and more aggressive in the upper mids, the Fralin is fatter and I think extends a bit higher up but also has...

So you're saying that you dropped $700 on this DI (from a company with previously very little respected bass gear output or reputation) sight-unseen purely based on the Youtube demos with no mind to who was talking about it or why? Or were you one of the few that actually lived next to a store...

The pickups are passive EMGs, so it wouldn't be big deal to rewire it passive! I suspect it would have a similar weight range as the Casady bass