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    best strings for maximum attack in an EB stingray SUB?

    i need attack, definition, clarity, thickness, and not so much treble. I've been using d'addario nickle wound exl160 and i'm thinking of switching to halfwounds. i'm not sure though. thoughts?
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    so my bass got stolen a month ago and i just found it on ebay.

    wow this is really weird. i didn't expect to find my own bass on ebay when i was just looking at prices for stuff. who ever put a big picture of the serial number on there without editing it is an idiot. can you say second degree burglary?
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    In my opinian, FRANK BLACK DOES NOT GET ENOUGH CREDIT

    that's one of the songs he's in. Frank Black is the bassist in the fall of troy. in my opinion, they are the emerson lake & palmer of today. what does TB think?
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    who else thinks marcus miller looks like snoop dog?

    snoop and marcus doing what they were born to do. Invalid Link Removed vs Link Removed
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    brands of basses that i've probably never heard of

    i know all of the big brands like MM, fender, epiphone, gibson, lakeland(sp) yamaha, SX, ibanez, warwick, spector, vox, hagstrom and the like but there are a lot of cool basses that i've never heard of. i've just recently heard of dingwall basses and clover basses and i just want to get in the...
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    bass players who play music like this(link in thread)

    whoever that guy is, he's really really good. i like the way he's playing. at night when i'm laying in bed i listen to jazz on the radio and i really enjoy it when things like this come on the radio, whether it be piano, sax, trumpet, guitar, flute or anything at all doing the lead. this is...
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    keyboard players can't seem to stop ruining things huh?

    friday night. fog machine, check. lights, check, 700+ crowd, check. tuned up, warmed up, pumped up. four kids ready to melt some faces... but one isn't lights start flashing but the band doesn't start. why don't we start? "hi I'm ben and i play piano and i don't know how to shut my gosh darn...
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    weird truss rod nut, help please?

    so my neck is straight as an arrow, but the nut on the truss rod has two problems. 1. it is at the bottom of the neck and there is no groove in the body or pickguard for easy access. i could easily fix this on my own, 2. the nut of the truss rod is a phillips head screwdriver knotch...
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    Bass Face 2009

    uyjkdy delete this
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    halfwond strings in pop punk.. sort of weird if you ask me to think about

    i'm having problems with my bass sounding floppy. i play in a pop punk band and we played a show the other day in which my tone was less then satisfactory, contrary to my usually thick and low sound. i play a copy of the fender mike dirnt p bass. i have everything that the dirnt has except my...
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    fanned frets.. what the freak?

    I've seen some basses with frets that come out from the one side of the neck and fan out. i have no idea why anyone would want that. can someone let me know what thats all about because it seems like a stupid idea to me.
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    last nights gig

    last night i played a gig with my band isn't it always opening for a couple of other bands like us, they told us to store our things out in the back room which was very cold. when it was our turn to play bass kept on going out of tune! i guess the strings were expanding because they were getting...
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    fender mike dirnt p bass

    is it american made, mexican or japanese?
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    my frets are bothering my fingers

    they're a little bit too prominent and they're scratching my fingers. i can just file this can't i?
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    Squier Classic Vibe Precision '50s Bass

    i don't have a bass anymore because it got jacked. if i buy this bass am i going to regret it? i need something with a lot of low mids thats not going to look doofy on a kid in an emo band. i've always liked this one Invalid Link Removed although i'd like the fender butterscotch blonde...
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    HELP i just got my bass stolen and i need to replace it

    i just had my ernie ball sub bass ripped off right from my practice space. i'm going to get a new bass tomorrow but i don't know what would be able to replace it. under 700 dollars, something with a nice full growly tone. look at the links in my signature for the style of music that i play and...
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    jazz and blues

    who should i listen to to get up on the jazz and blues styles of playing
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    jazz music

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    jazz music

    i'm really heavy into expiremental punk right now, like the receiving end of sirens and say anything. i'm 16 years old. the other day i was in the car with my best friend and guitar player jeremy and he had on a jazz radio station. i've been listening to it non stop in school and i'm begining...
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    harke problem

    i've got my harke head paired up with my harke xl 410 and my GK goldline glx 115, the head isn't matching up to my high output ernie ball. any head suggestions under 500 dollars? i play a musicman SUB and an american standard jazz bass with no pedals. expireneced insight would be much...
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    painting

    i have a bass that i want ti change the colour of, but there is already paint on it. i don't want to take the paint off of it because it would take forever. would it be a good idea to just paint over the paint thats on it right now with spray paint?
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    replacing some tuning keys and i would like some insight

    should i put hipshot keys on my musicman sub bass? it seems like a good idea to me, the ones on there right now get a little easy to move, my band tunes to dropped C# and i don't want the problem of the strings going out of tune when i'm down tuned
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    converting my combo to a cab

    i have an ampeg BA115 and i want to know if i can convert that into a cabanet and use the preamp in it as a preamp eq for my rig. if anyone has a diagram or any advice please let me know. :) i really don't want to sell it and buy something that i'll never use. i figure that if i can turn my...
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    my frankenbass

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OftLR5ld-rI theres the video, forgive my fingers for sucking, i don't know why i'm so bad today, it's probably got something to do with why my fingers smell like fish but who knows. the bass is half t bird half p bass, p bass body and splitcoil quarterpounders...
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    modding my MM sub bass

    so i've got this musicman sub that i want to mod up. i have 150 dollars, i've got the standard 2 band eq with the stock humbucker. i don't plan on changing the bridge because i love it so. i may want to put a cover over the bridge however, for looks and to protect it. i don't know if i should...
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    electro harmonix bass balls

    i've got one of these puppies, what sort of song would anyone recommend writing using it?
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    the geddy lee

    i don't understand what is so great about it
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    rate my bands recording quality?

    the URL is Link Removed the first recording was done the most recently on apple logic pro, the second song was on protools (ew) and the acoustic song was recorded on my singers fostex. "new jersey's closed on sunday" isn't the final mix, the masters are being sent away to be mixed in...