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Hey gang - long time, no post... My bass doesn't seem to like gut D strings, and I'm wondering what the answer is. About a year ago, I went from Evah Pirazzi weichs to a mixed set of Anima E and A and Gamut Lyon medium D and G. The D string just never settled in. It was dead and didn't...

I'm just getting my feet wet with this whole amplification business. I know next to nothing. The main thing I'm wondering is how to approach the levels; I have a preamp with a volume control, and an amp with a volume control and a master control. So... which should you adjust when? Is...

My little fingers are very short: they end roughly at the first knuckle of the ring finger. They're also very double-jointed. When stopping the string, especially the E string, I have a tough time keeping the second knuckle of my little finger from collapsing. It ends up making a straight...

I'm in the process of trying to figure out all this amplification stuff; my teacher tells me it's time to hit the jam sessions (for a thorough humbling, I'm sure), and I'm also getting pretty serious about buying my own bass. In reading all the newb links and many of the threads in this...

I've been playing for about four months, and have made some decent progress, but (obviously,) I'm still not getting the quality of sound that an advanced player would. I'm planning to buy my first bass in the next month or so, and know (thanks to reading and rereading a lot of the info here)...

I've read all the newb links, and have seen the one that describes the overlapping bell curves of ply, hybrid, and carved basses. I get the general idea that an entry level hybrid might not be as good as a premium ply. What I don't get are the specifics. In what way is an entry level hybrid...

Background: I am a saxophonist (with degrees in performance and education, blah blah blah) who has always wanted to play the bass. I picked up a cheap bass guitar from craigslist a few months ago to test the waters, and have had enough fun with it that I decided to really go for it with the...

Okay - this is possibly the dumbest question of all time, but I searched and didn't find the answer... At my teacher's recommendation, I picked up some Pops rosin. I won't have a lesson again until next week, and I didn't notice how his rosin looked, but I opened up the container, and am...