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    Massive hum from old Jazz on one odd amp???

    I've got this old 04 Affinity Jazz, bone stock electronics. I looked under the pick guard, and its basic cheap, though with large Pots. It plays and sounds just fine through my other amps. When I pair it with the 20 year old Hog 30 it hums like crazy, it can be mitigated about 60% by flipping...
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    How much wood can safely be removed?

    I am planning a Telecaster project and had a question for the Luthiers. I am planning to ad a forearm contour and tummy cut to my Squire VM 72 Deluxe, was thinking while I am at it I could try to rout away as much wood as possible out from under that honking big pickguard. It has two levels of...
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    NBD, 2001 Ibanez SR400.

    I just happened to be looking at the FB marketplace when a used Korean Ibanez SR400 PJ bass popped up for $120. Knowing next to nothing about them, I did a quick search and found them listed on Reverb for 3 to 4 times that, depending on exact model. Contacted the seller and had the bass in my...
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    Bass speaker in a small 5w guitar tube amp.

    I picked up a Crate v5 tube amp for cheap. The 10" 8ohm speaker sounds really harsh with my guitar, but at low volumes is sounds pretty sweet with my bass. I thinking about putting in a 10" bass speaker so I can get a tad more volume from the bass without blowing a speaker, and tame some of the...
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    Forward Facing Controls on Combo Amps

    I recently purchased a new amp and one of my criteria was that it must have forward facing controls. My insistence on having this feature limited my choices as the only new bass combos I could find under $500 with forward controls were some Acoustic, Ampeg and Hartke models. I have always found...
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    Old Guitar player switching to bass

    Howdy folks, I have been playing the guitar for some 45+ years. I always had a slight disadvantage due having short fingers and to losing half of my pinky finger when I was a wee lad, got it crushed in a door, so they tell me. I never really let it get in my way and figured out workarounds for a...