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I have the Tone Hammer preamp/DI and am interested in a pre/DI pedal to cover the "crisp and clinical" end of the spectrum, akin to the hi-fi tones of the GK MB series. Thanks for any recommendations.

Nothing fancy, just a straight-up natural ash P. Warmoth body, stained with General Finishes Golden Pine and finished with about 5 coats of Minwax Wipe-On Poly, Semi-Gloss. MIM P neck and tuners, Hipshot Vintage bridge, Fender Custom Shop '62 pickup, CTS pots and Orange Drop cap. Currently...

Quilter has just teased a Bass Block 800 on its Facebook page.

I'm preparing to do a natural-finish swamp ash P, and I'd like to grain fill with Timbermate, then color with Watco Danish Oil and build the clear with Tru Oil on top of that. To prevent the Timbermate from staining the field of the ash, I want to start with some kind of sealing coat, but I...

I just bought this Warmoth body for a new build. It will be a natural finish with maple jazz neck, probably a black pickguard, with my Fender Custom Shop '62 pup and a Hipshot Vintage bridge. I'm leaning Tru Oil on the finish, with or without Z Poxy grain fill first. I'm really happy with the...

In a P/J, would the Bartolini 9CBJD-L3 (hum-canceling/Classic/bright bridge) be a good match to the Fender '62 P pickup? I already have the '62, which is rich, balanced and defined, and I want the jazz pup to contribute good edge and brightness while being well matched in output. I have seen a...

This is a departure for me, in that I almost never go for the grooving, contemporary type basslines. It was a bit tricky for me, especially with the syncopated double pump on the four beat. It's not fully down in the pocket, so I'll keep working on it as a good exercise in touch. I'm not too...

Sometimes a guy wants to keep his empty speaker driver boxes, and sometimes the wife gets a wild hair to cut up a bunch of "trash."

For Sale: Orange Micro Terror head in original packaging. Bought last fall and very lightly used in home studio only. $99 shipped with tracking and insurance to the Continental US. Please PM if interested, and let me know whether you want signature required for delivery. PayPal. Thanks very much!

Compact class D guitar amp head options lag far behind bass amps. I am interested in the possibility of running my Zoom G3 guitar modeler into the FX return of the Ampeg PF350 and using the power section only as a guitar head to drive 1 or 2 12" cabs. I don't see why this wouldn't work, and...

FOR SALE: Squier VM Mustang Bass, black, WITH Fender case and NIB LaBella Flats. $260 shipped CONUS, PayPal. Will ship insured with tracking number. You decide whether to require signature or not, but if not, it's at your own risk; let me know your preference. This one is a fantastic player...

FOR SALE: MXR Custom Comp compressor pedal. $93 shipped CONUS with tracking. PayPal. Unit is only a couple of months old and is in like-new condition with original packaging and inserts. Price represents a 1/3 discount off the new retail price. A quality unit. Message me if interested. Thanks!

For Sale: Gently used Seymour Duncan Humbuckers, $48 each, or buy all three for $120 and get the bonus chrome cover. 1) '59 Bridge 2) Jazz Neck 3) JB (Bridge) All three include pickup mounting screws and springs, but no mounting ring. If you buy all three, you're getting one at half price...

New Amp Day... but just barely. I put this practice "rig" together for my guitar, but given that the Joyo American Sound works well as a bass preamp, I thought I'd give it a shot through a 1-12. At a bantam 44 watts, the Electro-Harmonix Magnum 44 does not shake any walls, but it puts out enough...

Is there a problem with having two side port tubes placed directly across from each other if the two ends are separated by an open distance roughly 2/3rds of one port length? I can move one low and the other high, but centering both helps with the bracing layout. Thanks.

I just patched a screwdriver hole in the surround of an Eminence Governor guitar speaker. I had seen things online about using PVA glue and paper, but there also were strong endorsements of liquid electrical tape. I used first-aid gauze and liquid tape (2 layers). The patch went together very...

I'm going to wire two drivers in parallel. They have screw-type connector posts. Plan A is to screw two pairs of wires into the connectors of the first driver -- one pair coming from the Speakon jack, and the other pair going out to the second driver. Plan B is to fork the wires immediately...

No affiliation with Parts Express, but I just noticed that PE has the Dayton PA-380 15" driver on sale today for $69.90 versus the usual $79.95. That unit has a good rep as a project driver, and I don't think I've ever seen it on sale before. I just snagged 2 to finish a 2-15 Bassman retrofit...

Used in like-new condition from my home studio. I can find no scratches. Includes original box and documentation. Does not include the add-on power supply, but takes phantom power from the board. The legend is true. Clean, clear, flexible sound. Hump the mids, scoop the mids, it all sounds...

Yesterday I brewed a cup of Vietnamese coffee, which, you may know, is thick, stout stuff. I took it upstairs to my music area to listen back to some tracks, and I managed to catch the cup with a cable and knock it off the desk. The stained and spattered: The carpet The wall A TC Helicon...

I ordered a Babicz FCH4 from Bestbassgear on 7/26. Got notice on 7/28 that they had created a shipping label. Got notice on 7/31 that the package had finally gone to USPS. I realize I've become spoiled, but 5 days seems a bit long to ship such a simple order. The other order I placed last week...

I want to detach these coils from the baseplate so I can line them up on a bass with narrow string spacing. I can desolder the short black wire where it attaches to the bobbin, or I can leave it attached, desolder from the plate, and then splice in a new lead to the short wire. The former...

Back from the shop today, where it was converted to a P/J. Fender MIM P body, DiMarzio P/J pups, 500k pots, standard VVT wiring, .047 orange drop, Babicz Full Contact bridge, Squier VM '70s Jazz slim neck with stock tuners. Ran it through my ToneHammer 500 and 2x112 cabs. Sounds throaty and...

This is 6-7 coats of Tru-Oil on a roasted maple Warmoth neck. I love the color and feel.

** EDIT: Apologies, mods, please delete. The thread's already going off track, and I'd rather it die than wander.**

What sort of shipping turnaround is standard for orders directly from the Babicz Full Contact Hardware Site? I placed an order 8 days ago for an FCH 4 but haven't heard anything from the company.

I'm starting a Jazz build, and I'm trying to decide whether to go with a Mighty Mite neck (rosewood board) at $110 or an All Parts fat neck (rosewood board) at $299. I generally like fatter necks, but I'm not sure why the All Parts would be worth three times the cost of the MM. The body is a...

** EDIT: As of 3/25/15, the Guitar Center website incorrectly described the MM2908 Jazz Bass neck (rosewood board) as having 21 frets. It has 20. This caused my confusion. I'm not sure whether MM even makes a 21-fret jazz neck with shelf extension. ** If Fender Jazz necks are 20 frets on a 34"...

Excuse the clutter in the photo, but I'm pretty stoked about my new Zoom tracking station. The new piece of equipment here is the B3, which prompted me finally to put it all together in an efficient way. The B3 on the left handles my bass, and the G3 on the right handles guitar. The Yamaha...

I'm a little surprised at the lack of upgraded (VM, CV) Squier P Basses that stick to the traditional format of one P pickup, four strings, and frets. The basic Affinity P Bass fits this profile, but when you start to get into the VMs and others, you get a lot of P/J pickup configurations...

I have a new Squier Vintage Modified '70s Jazz, which is working out well (great tone), except that I've noticed it's easy to get some fret buzz unless I fret the notes quite firmly. My sense is that I am fretting a bit harder than I should have to in order to keep the note clean. This happens...

What would be the difference between the "soft maple" body of the Squier VM '70s Jazz and the basswood body of the Squier VM Jazz? I have no idea what "soft maple" is; I've always understood maple to be a hardwood. Thanks.

I'll add pics later in a follow-up post, but you know what a speaker looks like. For sale: Eminence Kappalite 3012ho, $140 shipped and insured, with tracking, CONUS. I bought this driver for a DIY 1-12 project last fall. It turned out great -- loud and punchy in the mids. Now that I've also...

FOR SALE: Ampeg Portaflex 800 head, $415 shipped lower 48. I bought this new last October as a backup amp, but since I'm not gigging, I'd rather it go to someone who can make use of it. I've noodled at home with it, but it's really as close to new as you'll find. Comes in factory box, and I'll...

I never liked the orange finish on my SX Ursa all-maple neck, so I took a flyer on a rosewood-board replacement neck from Rondo Music. I installed it today and am happy with the results. The neck is straight and nicely finished. The fret ends are smoother than expected and consistent. And...

EDIT: I've removed the original post because all it's doing is eliciting "clever" non answers. Should have posted in Effects.

I consider myself a short-scale guy, but every time I pick up my 34" scale SX P-style with Fender '64 pickup, I'm impressed with the tone, which is full, musical, and open. I don't like the reach required on the lower frets, particularly doing the 3-to-5 fret change as a 2-finger reach, but I...

I play short scale and recently installed a set of D'Addario EXL220S roundwounds on my Mustang-ized Bronco. I'm quite impressed with the piano-like overtones of these strings; at times it almost sounds like a chorus effect. They are a very light .040-.095 set but have decent tension. If...

I'm planning a refurb of a Bassman 2-15 cabinet, and I plan to install port tubes, rear mounted. I've identified two approaches that could work: one using four 4" ports and one using two 6" ports as shown here: The drawing illustrates how the port profiles would overlap (or not) the drivers...

(Sorry for the long setup here...) There's a Bassman 215 cabinet at my local pawn shop that I think I could score pretty cheaply on an "OBO" sale. It's a little rough around the edges, but in that cool garage-band way. (I know visuals don't contribute to tone, but there's something about a...