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Alright, here's one for the books. I play upright in a fairly popular (I guess you could call it) rockabilly band here in Maine. We don't really fit the mold, but it's the closest thing to what we are I guess. Anyway, for a band who all have day jobs, we're pretty busy. We gigged all 4...

Alright, another thread made me wonder what the community thinks about this one. This is something that happened to me a few years back. I was very angry at the time and took it quite personally, but in hindsight, it was great for me. At any rate, I'm still on at the very least ok terms with...

How the hell does anyone ship internationally? I'm trying to sell a snare drum. A fella in New Zealand asked how much to ship. Roughly a 30" cube, weighing 18lbs or so, would cost $900 to ship UPS, or $875 via Fed Ex. USPS said the package was too big. How do people do it? Nobodys going to...

Ok, I have to confess, this is technically for a guitar amp, but ohms is ohms, and watts is watts. The principles apply and I've always gotten good advice and response from the TB community so please indulge me for a moment. I'm trying to build a guitar rig. I've found a deluxe reverb head...

Id like to add white trim around the perimiter and f holes of my bass, without permenantly altering it. Any suggestions? I've also been thinking about static clingies or some other way to add decals without permenantly changing the bass. I have a fear of commitment. :)

Could they make Fenders any less consistent with their ID's? Local sale ad posts a '76 P bass for sale with "Crazy paint job." "If this were all original it would go for 1400." That struck me a little funny, but the guy has some nice gear for sale. A couple of guitars. A nice Stringray...

Cleaning out the closet and selling some things that don't get enough attention. Here's my Mesa M6. Great amp. Basically mint. Racked upon purchase and only played probably 15 times. Solid and made in the US. $650 shipped for just the amp. Will ship in a Gator 4 space rack with Furman M8...

Here's my baby. Gotta make some room and free some funds. Very good condition. Some surface scratches on the body. Odd stripe of discoloration. Not overt, but visible in the pictures. It's how it came. Some tiny dings in the headstock. It's a player for sure. Overall in very good...

Alright, so I got a bass from Upton shipped with their wing pickup. I don't know if it's just the pickup I got, but damn it sounded terrible. TONS of finger and string noise, thin sounding and just plain not good. I had to turn ALL the treble off and set the high mids to 2 K and turn that all...

So, I'm a sound guy. I do it for a living. It's what I went to school for. Now I teach audio at the Collegiate level. I worked hard, studied hard, and learned a lot. I may have learned more in practical application than I learned in school and I'm not an elitist who thinks school is the...

Ok, so my band's looking at booking a Canadian tour for next summer. Anyone from the states have experience with this? What's needed for immigration and customs? Work visa? How about taxes? Thanks!

Musicman Sub 5 string. Near mint condition. It still has the plastic on the pickguard. Looks like there may be some wear on the headstock where it sat on a stand. I'll take a better look when I get home, and maybe take some better pics. Another bass I hate to let go but the divorce has me doing...

Fretless 5 string GWB 35. Special ordered without the finger ramp. Strung with Labella tape wounds. Virtually unplayed. My son is not included. :) Pictures taken in haste. I promise to wipe the finger grease off the face before I pack it. $500 plus shipping.

Strongly considering selling my Thumb, though with great reservation. My favorite bass but divorce has me BROKE. I'm at work now but can post more pics later. $1000 plus shipping. Case included. Strap is not. No trades please. There is some light discoloration on the body, (light enough...

Not too impressed. A bit of history, so you know what you're looking at, and who you're listening to. This is information that is often overlooked in reviews, and can account for a lot of misinterpretations. I rely on reviews heavily, and I wish more people would put background info in...

I'm disappointed in the longevity of Blast Cult Low Life strings. I've had a hard time getting the sound I want, and the Low Lifes were as close as I've come as of yet, but coming unwound after less than a year of light playing seems a little unreasonable to me. Not ridiculous, but I'd like to...

What do people expect to get out of a metal string as far as life span? I got some Blast Cult Low Lifes which I like for the action, and the tone is fairly good. Certainly not bad for use with a mag pickup (obviously some sacrifices are already being made in tone there). Anyway, they're...

So my buddy has a Fender American 63 P Bass, or at least to the best of my knowledge, that's what it is. I didn't check serial numbers or anything. It does not have the original tuners, or the original bridge. The action is perfect and of course, it sounds absolutely AMAZING. It's the old...

Hey gang. I just had shoulder surgery and for a few months, I can't slap the upright for my rockabilly band, so I've moved to the Kala U bass, fretless hog. I dig that it can get somewhat upright like tones, and it's good enough for what I'm doing. I'm finding that I'm constantly retuning it...

Ok so I'm overwhelmed and don't really know where to start. I have a pretty decent setup for most applications, using a Shen sb-80 bass, with an Upton wing piezo, going into the FDeck HPF pre and into my Genz Benz shuttle 6.0 and Velvet Aenema strings. It took some serious tweeking of the eq...

Anyone tried both? I switched to the Velvets from steel Helicores because they were way easier on my fingers, but could still be bowed, and way cheaper and less maintenance than guts. I rarely find myself using a bow and am currently deep in a rockabilly band and have considered adding the...

I got my first upright a couple weeks ago and my experience with EB is making the pizz stuff a bit quicker and easier for me, but when diving into the arco, I'm having trouble. It's coming along slowly. At first, every noise I made was horrendous. Now I can get a fairly consistent sound...

Anyone with knowlege of Sonic Bass Cabs? I've got a pair of cabs, each with 2x10 and 1x18m all 8 ohm speakers. It looked like they were wired in parallel, but im not positive, and it seems that would make the resistance wierd, like 2.6 ohms or something. I've never been good at that. Anyone...

Ok, so I've been reading about people swapping for a new 12ax7 in their heads, and not noticing much difference in tone, which makes pretty good sense to me. I'm wondering though, if anyone has swapped for a different type of tube, like a 12AT7, 12AU7 or 12AY7? Here's my dillema. I sold my...