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    Heavy guauge... Stainless... tapered strings..?

    Hey y'all, anyone have any recs where I can find a tapered, .145", Stainless string long scale? I have some D'addario prosteel heavies + a .145 on order, but they're not tapered and bridge breakover angle has been an issue on my 5'er in the past. This is for A standard tuning, btw. :D Thanks...
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    Gator VS SKB for precision bass hard case?

    I just picked up a new P bass and I'm looking at snagging one of these two cases for it. Anyone have thoughts or pros/cons of one vs the other? We normally use pelican and SKB at work, so I'm leaning that way... Gator GTSA-GTRBASS ATA Molded Bass Guitar Case with TSA Latches SKB 1SKB-44...
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    Broke a tuner on my '07ish GWB35...

    As the title says, broke a tuner on my GWB35 after a bunch of years and use... any one have good suggestions for drop in replacements? I actually like the weird tuning peg handles, so I'd like to keep em if I could. I very much want some high quality tuners to replace the stock ones now, so...
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    finger tapping... finer points to increase speed?

    so, one of my projects lately has been developing my finger tapping... and. Well I'm hella bad at it, other than stubbornness and practicing and building up to it slowly, anyone have any suggestions on improving with it? I'm finding muting to be a challenge as well as being clear with my notes...
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    Adventures in auditions, jealous GF edition.

    So, I've been looking for a new band for a while now and its been a pretty frustrating fruitless endeavor for the most part as I'm looking for doing originals and in metal or even down to more chill stuff like hard rock or indie stuff. To say it tends to be male dominated is an understatement...
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    Divorced combo amps?

    Anyone divorce a combo amp? I love my ancient Peavy TKO, but moving it is a royal pain so I'm thinking about pulling the head out of it and building a separate enclosure for it. A couple reasons are I can barely get the combo down the stairs of my apartment by myself and I have another 115 cab...
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    Self taught vs instruction...

    So, I've been playing bass at for mmm, 18yrs now and I've been self taught the entire time, through books, reading music then playing it and uh, just making -ish up. But lately I've been trying to branch out more and play more with more people and well, I need a lot of improvement on my ear...