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Since the advent of the new TalkBass site, I've been concerned with the degree to which the site is keeping tabs on me and my activities. Under the latest versions of the Mac OS, the built-in web browser Safari takes note of the number of tracking tools which are at play—and makes significant...

Lately I've stumbled onto the (new to me) fascinating world of Mummers string bands which appear to be a thing singular to Philadelphia. There's some really interesting history about how this all got started, but at its core each of these bands has a dedication to playing really well and at...

Always the uber-classiest and sincere act in show business!:):thumbsup::)

I’m a big fan of Godzilla movies, especially the Japanese-made ones from Toho studios. Anyway, this month’s Life magazine is all about Godzilla and is highly recommended. It made sense to share here an interesting bit of info about the original Godzilla’s roar from “Gojira”, the first of the...

Does anyone here have recent experience with shipping a double bass from the USA up to Canada? My new bass is about ready to go (from Connecticut to Nova Scotia) and I think my builder is getting significantly more complexity from his shipping agent than makes sense. I'd like to simplify both...

I was out cutting the grass today—OK, mostly sucking up leaves given that this is Canada in October—and enjoying my new sound-cancelling Airpods. I had on a playlist on Spotify called "This Is Johnny Rivers". It's been a while since I listened to Mr. Rivers and it was good fun. What really...

Was cleaning out my workbench and found a pack of two extra fuses for a Taylor T5 guitar. Any of you TBers who have a T5 may not know that there's a fuse inside that's there to protect against any oddball voltages that might pass into the instrument and damage the preamp etc. If any of you could...

US-made Peavey Axcelerator Plus from 1994. Nice, punchy instrument with active Cirrus-type pickups which is quite a step up from the garden variety Axcelerator: swamp ash rather than poplar, pau ferro fingerboard, bilaminated neck, upgraded bridge, tilt-back headstock rather than (Fender-type)...

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I was looking at this bass today for another forum and was reminded of something really odd. It's wearing a set of TI Jazz Flats: E–G are through-strung and the B is top-mounted. Notice the weirdly short E string, just barely clearing the nut while A–G are just fine. If the B were...

I've really enjoyed La Bella DTFs over the years but never had a 5-string set. Recently I bought a set (760FL-B 5-String Long Scale Light 43-128) to try on my new G&L JB-5. The top four strings sound predictably great. *However*, the B string sounds unfocussed, pitch-wobbly, and is really...

Took this beauty off the market during the CITES excitement. Back now with no obstacles to shipping. Immaculate Ibanez SR-700 in amber finish. Flame maple/mahogany body and 5-piece jatoba/bubinga neck. 24 frets, high mass Accu-cast B20 bridge, lightweight tuners. Comfortable weight at 8.5 lbs...

My daughter Kara has just become the bassist for the Middle School Band. To be clear, she's never played bass before, just some violin lessons and some piano lessons which went off the rails. Now that she's 11, she's become enamored with being the cool kid who drags a bass case into and out of...

Marked down to $279.99 from "$399.99" here.

Somewhat rare 1978 Guild B-302 bass. Those of you who know these curious-looking basses will know that they represent an oddball mixture of Gibson-type design and Fender-type pickups. Mahogany body and set 3-piece mahogany/maple neck with 2x2 open tuners, rosewood fingerboard. Single coil...

Well-constructed bass from Yamaha's highly-regarded BB-series. This one is Taiwan-built from 1986: the second version with the longer upper horn to improve strap balance but still carrying the reverse P-style pickup. Completely passive. Very good condition for its age with minor surface...

1995 American-made Peavey Foundation bass. This is a really nice instrument with quality tuners, high-mass bridge, and comfortable neck profile. Pickups are 1st-generation VFL single coils in soapbar-style housing and they have a really lovely punchy character. Passive J-style VVT controls...

Well-constructed bass from Yamaha's highly-regarded BB-series. This one is Taiwan-built from 1986 in a passive (reverse) P-style. I've replaced the original, to my ears uninspiring, pickup with one of G&L's Magnetic Field Design pickups as used in their SB basses. The G&L pickup is a hair...

Peavey GV 5-string bass. Has Cirrus-type VFL active humbucker pickups and preamp, with graphite neck and pau ferro fingerboard. Black "holoflake" finish—more colourful, light-catching glitter than photos could capture. 35" scale. Strung with TI Jazz flats. Comes with matching case. Everything in...

This came up on Kijiji locally. I'm just gape-jawed looking at it. And it's passive. And they want $700 CDN for it. I can't imagine how it sounds. Here's the description: "Custom 180 degree sound displacement unit (loudspeaker). 16, 25W Eminence all freq. loudspeakers with 8, 100W Goldwood...

Gallien-Krueger MB500 Fusion bass head in excellent condition. Used lightly as a backup to my rack rig. This one's kind of interesting. When I bought it (I'm the second owner) the mute switch didn't work, so I took it in for service. The tech somehow screwed up soldering in the new switch and...

'82 Ibanez Musician MC924PW (Polar White). This one is a real beauty in the "Polar White" finish which has aged but is a lovely sort of pale yellow that you can see in the picture of Dave Swift's bass. 5-ply maple/walnut neck-thru construction with ash body. Massive Accucast B II brass bridge...

Folks, I ran into this wiring diagram on the Bartolini site for a VVT setup with a bass that has two humbuckers. Compared to the usual wiring schema which I use for such things, it seems quite different in terms of where the capacitor is positioned, here between the tone control and the bridge...

$249 at Bass Place, Peoria AZ. Near Phoenix. They ship. Nice folks.

I was watching some of the video from Joe Jackson's great "Big World" album and again really enjoying Rick Ford's bass playing—and wonderful tone—in the recordings. I was curious to know what he's playing. It's all very shadowy. Thanks!

Barefaced One 10 in excellent condition. Price includes a basic Meinl cajon bag which nicely holds the speaker and a micro head like my Acoustic Image Clarus shown. This is an interesting cab which punches well above its weight. For example, I've been using it for upright with an 18-piece big...

I'm looking for the circuit diagram for the now-discontinued Raven Labs Professional Master Blender PMB-1. This is the lovely, small mixer made by Steve Rabe. I'm having problems with the Master Volume pot which is a surface-mounted panel pot, labelled Di Ya 0424. It's resistant to the usual...

I've just acquired a lovely US-made G&L M2500. When it came to me, it had strings on it which I'm taking to be either DR Pure Blues or Sunbeams. All 5 strings have a gold ball and the ends tapered without silks. Q1: How could I distinguish these two string types once mounted? Q2: Is there...

I'm currently on my third Fishman Full Circle pickup. (i) The first one died when some kittens we were fostering chewed through the cable near the adjuster. Meow. No Mix. (ii) The second one failed outright—but in the couple of weeks before it did, the pickup became enormously more feedback...

Don Hunstein, the great photographer of musicians has just died. There's a nice piece on him in today's New York Times. Most of us, if we didn't explicity know about him, remember this great photo of Bob Dylan from 1965 holding a Jazz Bass. I always thought that the decision to crop the photo to...

Here's a like-new G&L MJ-5 which I bought just over a year ago in my continuing effort to convince myself that I should play more 5-string bass. However, I keep re-discovering that reading music on a 5er baffles me more than it should (or is in the best interests of my ensembles). My L2500 is...

Here's a really interesting item: a 1986 Ibanez RB999 "Bean" bass. From what I can tell from the Ibanez catalogs this bass was made one year only in the P/J configuration, although a 1-pickup version was available another year (which Sting played in fretless form). This bass was apparently kept...

This is a US-made G&L L-2000 in a really beautiful sunburst finish. I was told the bass was made in 2004 when I bought it from another nice TBer, but have not removed the neck to confirm same. Quartersawn maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. 1.5" at the nut and slender, jazz-like feel. I think...

Took possession today (at a very nice price) of a 1986 Ibanez "Bean" or "Butter Bean" bass in really good condition. Or at least it is now...when I got it, it had been on a hangar for 20 years. It was unbelievably grubby and with the strings a half inch off the end of the fingerboard. Spent this...

Oh, for Pete's sake! Invalid Link Removed I can't tell if this is actually a hoax of a reported hoax! I'm too old to be allowed on the internet alone.

I was having an interesting discussion with my best buddy, a drummer, and the subject came up of through-body stringing on a bass. I'm bringing a new-to-me Peavey T-40 up to playing condition and I couldn't just then think of a bass older than the T-40 which had had that feature. My buddy said...

So I play in this slightly noisy classic rock cover band and we rehearse in this mansion of a home that belongs to the keyboard player (oral surgeon, I'm sure you get the picture). It's quite a large room, all wood flooring, lots of beams, etc. It soaks up sound pretty well. My main speaker is...

Spector Euro 5LX 5-string bass in natural oil finish, made in the Czech republic. This bass is the production version of Spector's USA handcrafted NS-5XL, and [according to Spector] this particular instrument was made in 2004. I'm the second owner. 35 inch scale with curly maple top, slice of...

This one's got me stumped. It appears to have a battery box in the back.

I've got a line on two vintage Peavey basses, both similar in price (~$250), both in really excellent condition—and I'm going a bit mental trying to sort out which to take home. The first is a 1987 or so Patriot, white and with the much-vaunted superferrite pickup. The second is a 1983 T45 in a...