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Was playing with a guitarist in 10th grade. Duo of guitar and banjo. He explained that young ladies liked slow songs and it was impossible to play the appropriate slow songs on a banjo. I pleaded with him not to fore me. Off to the music store and home with a gibson Thor 2 - 12 and a Decca...

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Had a MusicMan Stingray 5 and had the pickup very close to the strings. I got a little clicking if the string hit a pole piece. So I just put electricians tape over the pole pieces. No change in tone except I got rid of the clicks. I guess I did a good job cutting the tape to shape. A couple...

From my days of building basses (ancient times). We looked at pickup placement and found that many classic basses place the pickup between harmonic nodes. In other words, if you take a classic Fender P-bass, you can get an harmonic just in front of the pick up and just behind the pickup. And...

Some things to think about: It is not just about the individual pickups, you have many options to use multiple pickups in series and parallel. The basic MM Stingray has one double coil pickup with three switch settings - single coil, parallel and series. One pickup and one switch to get three...

My solution to the tube/SS dilemma and my GAS syndrome is to use SS amps, often with a tube in the preamp (for instance Eden 400) for live gigs. And keep my tube amps at home and only drag them to the studio. That way my Hiwatt 100, Ampeg B-25, and Fender Showman can be kept in great shape with...

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My rosewood fingerboard, 30th Anniversary is ordered. I may have it in the next two weeks. More info when it gets here.