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We are learning a new song in church, it is in 4/4. The song has some bars which request "double time" from the bass and drums. I read the theory behind double time which sort of says, the melody and rhythm stay the same but some instruments are asked to play double the number of notes...

I wonder if you could offer any suggestions as to what you think would be a good color for a replacement pickguard for this bass. I have owned the bass for 2 years and have never been too crazy about the white, but I can't visualize what would be a good replacement. My artistic eye does not go...

My wife gave me an American Vintage Reissue '64 Jazz for my 60th birthday. The neck turned out to have a serious dead spot issue around the G of the low E which affected the other strings as well. A local Fender rep determined the neck should be replaced and ordered one from Fender. Fast...

I wonder if anyone has ever had a DI introduce noise on the line back to the board and if so was it something that was repairable. I am having a problem with my VT Bass DI. I am getting a hissing sound out of it, mainly out of the XLR output going to the board. My pedalboard is fairy simple, I...

My 1964 Vintage Reissue has a problem with the neck, the local authorized repair center requested a replacement almost 2 months ago. The dealer recently sent me an e-mail letting me know that Fender just responded, that the neck is on order and it can take anywhere between 3-6 months. I know...

I am in the process of "upgrading" my home made guitar stand to allow 2 more members to the herd, I wonder if you could offer some ideas on what material would be good to protect the necks. I recall early on using weatherstripping and for some reason it not working out, I ended up replacing it...

I am trying to setup a minimal pedal board to use in church and I wonder if you can offer an opinion on which would work better as far as order in the chain. There are only 2 effect pedals, a Keeley Bassist Compressor and a Tech21NY SansAmp Bass DI (old version), the other 2 are a Polytune...

I put GHS Bass Boomers in my 64 Vintage Reissue a month ago. I liked the strings a lot, they had enough brightness and growl to get through the mix at the church I play which as a horrific sound system and acoustics. Thursday night I went to rehearsal and righ away noticed that the G# on the...

I have this bass which I rarely use, strings on it are flats, the pickups have issues and I would like to replace them. I would not mind getting a little bit of the Motown tone on it. Do you have any recommendations on what pickups would be good fit for this? I will greatly appreciate your...

I play in a church that owns a GK MB 112-II, they are struggling that's pretty much what they could afford when the old Ampeg went. I have always struggled to get good tone out of the amp, I own 3 fairly good American P, Jazz and 64' reissue Jazz. I normally set the volume on the amp around 3...

A while back based on recommendations from here I put a set of GHS pressurewound flats in my American P-Bass, I love them, I was looking for some brightness to punch through the mix, I ended up getting some growl that really stands out. I want to put something similar in my American Jazz and...

I wonder if anyone can offer some feedback on this, I am getting some string clacking noise which seems to be the strings hitting the frets on the high end. For 3 of my Fender basses, 2 Jazz and 1 P, I like to setup the action fairly low, somewhere between 7/64 to 3/32 at the 12th fret for the...

Hello, I have a Fender '64 Vintage Reissue Jazz that sounds great, however G on the E string has very little sustain, it sounds fine when played, but it decays much faster than the others. I have the action setup fairly low, but I do not get any buzzing or strange sounds. I make sure to give...

Hello, I am fairly new to bass, have been playing in a worship band for 2 years more or less; I am still working on memorizing the fretboard on the higher notes. What I am doing is more or less using the 12th freet as a reference point and go from there, for example on the A string I...

So far all my basses have been Fender 4 string passive Jazz & P. I have been meaning to get a 5 stringer, my neighbor has a sweet looking Stingray 5 HH in Honeyburst in like new condition for a fair price, I am considering buying it. I am wondering what differences I would find, I know the...

I bought one of these back in May and still have not found a sweet spot for strings on this bass. It came with Fender roundwound, I just did not like it, way too bright and clacky. I changed them to the flats that came with the bass, I like them much better, but still they sound bright. I am...

I own a Bronco 40 which I use at home to practice, recently our church's old cheap amp crapped out and I am using the Bronco until a replacement is purchased. The amp is pretty much used as a monitor because we hook-up to the house, but I am enjoying using the amp because of the built-in effects...

I am fairly new at playing bass and still looking for my holy grail of string tone. My first approach was to use flatwound Chromes to try to get the Motown sound (I'm an old coot) and also to mask poor technique and avoid all the string clacking that comes with brighter roundwounds. Lately as I...

I just got this baby Thursday, I played it twice this weekend and loved it. The last time I bought a bass my wife said "the next one you buy has to be blue" yes madam! So I went on a trek to find a suitable specimen and have been casing this out for a while. Recently I found out that this...

I play contemporary worship in church a couple of times a weekend, a lot of the songs we do have a very upbeat lively chorus and sometimes we drop out completely on the following verse. I am having a hard time keeping the bass going hard one full measure and all of a sudden having to drop out...

I made a wooden stand for 3 bases and bought weatherstripping to use where the neck goes in the stand, but the stuff just is not working, it keeps coming off. I wonder if anyone has had the need to do this and if you found something that works well. I will greatly appreciate your feedback.

I figure I give Fender a shot at the problem with the dead spot(s) on my American Jazz; I sent them an e-mail and received a response that necks are warrantied for 1 year. In reading their Limited Warranty document for electric instruments it says nothing about the neck being limited to 1 year...

I have a 2010 American Standard Jazz bass which has always had a dead spot on C on the A string. I have La Bella deep talkin 45-65-85-105s in it installed about 3 months ago. Lately it seems the dead spot is getting worse and perhaps I am imagining it, but it is extending past the C fret...

Dr. FedEx should be delivering my new baby this afternoon, I can't wait. I'm a Fender guy, I keep looking at other higher end basses, but always get hooked into a Fender, I now have 2-Ps and 2-Jazz Someday I will break down and buy something in the $2.5k range.

Hello, I just ordered one of those in black from Sweetwater, the Fender web site says the fretboard radius is 7.25, the Sweetwater web site says the same thing, but the sticker on the picture that Sweetwater sent me says 9.5. Would you know which one is it? Just curious, I should get it by...

I brought back to GC the boat anchor I picked up last week and found this Chinese Squier that other than the color spoke to me. The thing is immaculate and sounds great. From the serial number (CGS121xxxx) I still don't know how old it is, but there's not a single scratch on it. That leads me...

Picked up a 1997 Squier P-Bass for $75 at GC, the thing sounded and played great, but after playing out with it 2 times I realized the thing was a heavy beast, I put it on a scale and it came in at 13 pounds, so it is going back Monday. I am wondering, do you think heft=good solid sound? This...

I am going to install a pair of DP-122 pickups in my American Standard P-Bass. I am also going to set this up in a separate pickguard, could you recommend the optimum pots and capacitor type/value to get the most out of the pickups? Also what is a source for quality pots & caps? This pickguard...

I introduced a problem in my 4-string Jazz bass when I installed a set of Rotosound 88s and had to enlarge the nut slot to fit the larger strings. The A string buzzes similar to what fret buzz sounds like, but if I fret the string the buzz goes away, I am 99% certain the buzz is from a...

Hello, I have a GK 700rb head and 3 NEO cabinets, 112,115 & 410. I connect them with speakon cables and have the cabinet's switch set to bi-amp mode. I don't get much sound out of the tweeters, I can turn down the woofer level all the way down and crank the tweeter all the way up, I barely...

Hello, I just purchased a 700RB-II with a NEO 115-III cab. I am having a problem getting good sound out of the setup. I am hearing broken up sound, hard to explain, but I would say it's a combination of broken up/crackling delay with reberb, as the note decays it gets worse. Definitely not...

Hello, I just got a Jaguar short-scale, I would like to put flat wound Chromes on it, but the only ones D'Addario sells in the gauge that comes with the bass (.40-.95) are long-scale strings. I am wondering what would be the effect of going to .45-.100 other than higher tension and possibly...

Hello, I often read a post by someone that mentions that they have played many of the same bass, but one stands above the others. I am wondering if you could share your thoughts on what makes one unit of let's say 20 Jazz basses better. I am new to the bass guitar, I played for about 10...

I am wondering if you could give me some feedback to help me figure out if if this is an authentic 2005 USA Jazz Bass. I am considering buying it, I brought it home to try it out since the guy selling it is my neighbor, but I have some doubts, I have been searching on the Internet and what I...

Hello, I am sure this has been asked before, I apologize if it has; I searched and could not find any threads. I am in the market for a Jazz bass, I was at Guitar Center yesterday and played a Standard USA which sounded very good. I then plugged in a MIM and it sounded quite "thinner" I...