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I've done some internet searches for info on this bass, but come up with zero. It's a T.G. Pfretzschner, "handmade in germany", with an additional "Made in West Germany" label. So, it's probably at least 20 years old. :) This picture was sent by the seller. The other pictures show a fairly...

. . . for an old Roland D-50 (plus a couple hundred bucks). Just because I wanted to do something different, to learn how to program a hardware synth. Because you know that eventually, I'm gonna try to run my bass through it!

So I took my "new" Laguna to rehearsal this morning to see how it does in a band setting. It's a real nice player, but I have to say that it's quite dominate in the midrange in the mix. It would be a great slapper - if I slapped. Because it is a nice player, I'd like to do something...

Nothing particularly special, just something different. This past Saturday I traded an older Washburn acoustic 6 string even up for a Laguna LB224, black. It's already got more playing than the acoustic did in the past year! The bass is mint, still has the plastic protective sheet over the...

I was contacted by a guy who has an amp for sale. He claims it is an old tube Peavey (doesn't know the model), 700 watts, and has a 4-feet tall cabinet with a 20" Black Widow speaker. I suspect he's mistaken about some particulars. No pics. Rather than drive a fair distance to check it out...

I had some time today and nosed around a few music store to see what I could find. Now I have questions. One place had a used sunburst ender Jazz, MIA. It was inpretty good shape, no bad dings, scratches, marks, etc., and the price wasn't too bad for a used MIA in good shape. It was strung...

A problem with my MIM P-bass. Maybe. Over the past couple months I've notice a fair amount of noise when I tap on the chome pickup cover. Not so much noise when I tap elsewhere -- bridge cover, pickguard, body, etc. I don't remember noticing it as much right after I installed the cover...

The band I gigged with often does shows with multiple bands, and often shares bass and drum setups. (Never guitar setups, though -- wonder why?) In fact, I usually bring my amp to gigs and have been actively discouraged from using it. Anyhow, we did an early evening outdoor show today booked...

. . . where the guitarist "was" the band's old bassist. :eyebrow: Not gonna have a good time. Live and learn. :(

I have a couple Behringer K3000FX amps I use to play bass through. I like them, but they never seemed very loud (like the 75 watt Peavey TKO-80 I have), but since I use a stereo pedalboard, I plugged left/right into channel one and fed a hot signal, and it worked fine. Recently read that...

After being outbid on eBay for several Roland offerings, I ended up getting a new Studiologic one-octave pedal board midi controller, which seems rugged enough and has the features I was looking for, and nothing more. (And surprisingly, made in Italy -- not China.) What it is not: it isn't a...

Such as the Roland PK-5A or the Studiologic MP-113/117? What do you primarily use it for? What genre of music do you think it's most suited for? I ask because I'm considering getting one (midi controller type) to fill in simple root note basslines when I do an occassional solo in my trio...

I've been posting an ad on the Philadelphia and NE PA Craigslist, and received a response suggesting I do the same on TalkBass. It hadn't occurred to me, so here I go. I'm trying to track down a bass I lost sometime in early 2002 in south Philly. Short story, I left it in the care of a...

This is a DB question specifically, but applies generally to recording. I'm doing some recordings of a friend doing acoustic guitar and vocals, and playing the bass parts myself. In the playback monitors, I get a nice rich bass sound that sits really well with the guitar, and vocals layered...

I just bought a used Peavey TKO-80. It pumps 80 watts into an internal 8 ohm 15" speaker. I could connect another 8 ohm speaker cab to the combo to reduce the whole load to 4 ohms, and increase the power output. But would this damage the power stage of the amp? I haven't been able to find...

I've started looking for a smaller rig to drag to rehearsals, one that is light enough for one person to carry comfortably and loud enough to hear. My cover band doesn't rehearse very loudly, so it doesn't need to be hundreds of watts. And I don't want to spend a lot. I came across a...

My new SX arrived yesterday -- this thread isn't about that, specifically. But as I was tweaking it to my liking, I made an observation, and wonder if others have noticed the same thing. All of my instruments have been bought used (or NOS that hung in a shop and was "tried out" enough to...

So the recent thread on extended range basses got me curious -- again. I pulled out the dusty Rondo fretless 6 string I bought a couple years ago and used it for a recording project last week. I really was able to get some sounds and fingerings I couldn't with a 4 string. But it is strung...

Has anyone ever added a powered subwoofer to their amp stack? Say, from 80 Hz down? How did it work out? Or is it just a dumb idea?

So I was surfing the upper channels on TV this morning and came across a music video that sounded like a lot of the "hair band" power-ballad genres songs from the 80s. It was CMT! I remember when Dolly Parton was considered the queen of crossover, but this . . . :confused::confused::confused:

Yesterday I picked up a 2002 Standard Precision from a flea market. It cleaned up and tweaked out really well, with just one cosmetic flaw on the front. More importantly, everything mechanical and electrical functions smoothly. Black with a white pickguard, like my Geddy Jazz, but with a...

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Someone in another thread said "If you want to get good at something, spend the time!" Although I feel like I know how to play my instrument well, and often get compliments from audience and other musicians alike at shows, I've felt stagnant for a long time. I practice often, most every...

The "boss snobbery" thread got me to thinking about something that bothers me . . . We all want to get the best sounds we can, and different songs demand different sounds. Well, I have three different basses that I regularly use to practice with, each with their own unique characteristics...

Hello, looking for some basic information and education. I searched the forum, but everything related seems to address jazz bass wiring setups. I got a bass from a friend that she made several years ago. It has 3 pickups on it: 2 J and 1 P. Each pickup is switchable from single-coil to...

I mentioned in another thread that the old Cort I gave to my son 15 years ago came back to me last weekend. Well, this evening we got a message from a friend of ours who needed some money fast that she was trying to sell her bass. She built it over 20+ years ago, using an old Precision neck...

This is a blast from the past. Although I used my EB-3 for many years after I got it in 1972, in 1983 or so I bought this Cort bass, a copy of a Steinberger headless bass. Well, it was the 80s, after all. :cool: Anyhow, after I "retired" 11 years later, I gave it to my son. And now it is a...

Lots of people have warned of allowing the guitarist's tone to intrude into the bass spectrum, and although it's usually not been a problem for me, I found out that it's true. We auditioned drummers (again!) Friday, and during the first session, I could not hear myself. I could tell that...

Maybe someone can tell me why this happens. The F-hole on the bass side on my plywood upright has deformed. Meaning that the lower curve has lifted above the surface of the top a little bit. I've seen this happen on other instruments before, and wonder what causes it. Is it cause for...

The originals band I work with played a pretty hopping venue in a nearby city, opening for a national act that released a string of albums on the 80's but only recently started touring again. It was one of our guitarist's fave bands, and he set it up and handled the details (as far as they...

I've done a search on the forum and haven't found a complete answer, just snippets of stuff. My cover band project has been practicing for months and is planning on doing a "dress-rehearsal" to check out our accumulated equipment, see what works and how well, so we can get what we might need...

When I bought my Geddy Jazz (used), it came with a nice set of strings already on it, and I liked their sound so much, I just left them on. Now I have to change them and want the same thing. Problem is, I don't know what they are! They have a bright sound (probably stainless steel?)...

Just got done picking through my mp3 collection looking for covers to do and ran across my Grand Funk file. Couldn't resist, and OMG!!! I'd forgotten what I saw in Mel Schacher's playing -- "Please Don't Worry", "Inside Looking Out", even "Time Machine." Now I remember why I was so infatuated...

I don't make a habit of trash picking, but when I see something interesting sitting on the curb -- well, I just gotta look. On my way home from the supermarket this evening I spotted this laying on top of a few matresses on a neighborhood curb: A little small for a guitar, so I glanced...

This has happened twice now in the past month or so. The skin toward the outer edge of my right middle finger tip splits wide open. Like someone took a sharp object and opened it up from the nail bed under the end of the nail forward. It's happened after a gig or a practice, but not that I...

As my regular gigging setup, I've been using a Digitech effect/emulator pedal board plugged into a Behringer K3000FX -- a 300 watt keyboard amp. It's supposedly a stereo amp, but with only one 15" driver and horn, that's kinda moot, although there is a stereo link setup. It's usually plenty...

In another thread I mentioned the guitarist in one of my bands who had a jazz and a ric 4001 he was selling to fund another purchase -- a 1974 Rickenbacker 4005. Well, he got it this week, cleaned it up, and asked me to play it on a couple tunes at practice this morning, because he hadn't heard...

A less-than-pleasant GC experience turned out all right, and I ended up walking away with this: Long story made short, I got the price tag switcheroo on a new model I'd been pawing over for about a month, and what with our sales tax, it would've made more sense for me to just buy online...

So the GAS bug bit again a while back, and I was itching for something different, yet familiar. But I didn't want to lay down a lot of money to satisfy what was essentially a whim. What finally caught my eye was a Douglas WEB-846, a fretless 6-string bass from Rondo Music. I ordered the...

Arrived in the mail a few days ago (having been backordered for months), and I've been having some kind of fun with it every evening since: I've noticed that there is a lot of variance in available bass styles (i.e., upright/electric bass/guitar, fretted/fretless, 4-5-6+ strings, etc.)...