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Thanks for the advice. I’m happy to get this done. Yeah, it sure would be nice to keep the 3 way switch… I went with the prewired setup, but if I like it enough in the SBMM short scale, I can just upgrade my EBMM Stingray and get another Nordstrand kit unwired. Hopefully I’ll heal and be able...

Thanks for the reply. I ordered the Nordstrand MM 4.4 and the 2 band active pre wired preamp. I’m going to keep my other Sterling short scale stock and use one as an active preamp test bed for better or worse. I’ll lose the 3 way rotary pickup switch knob, but I guess I’m wanting the Sterling...

Thanks for the reply. The Sterling short scale is what I have and it’s definitely passive; no battery. I would like to have an active version of it.

I have a fretting hand problem that looks like it may be very long term or forever. Anyway, I used to play my old MMEB Stingray for a long while along with the usual Fender suspects. I got two Sterling short scales and I ended getting a maple FB and rosewood FB when they came out several years...

Totally WAY Off topic but being an old guy Raider/Dave Casper fan, I love your screen name and sig. I saw the Ghost To The Post play On Tv as it happened. I also played Tight End and Casper was my idol as a kid. Back to the topic: Has anyone looked up the skirt of the electronics yet? I’m...

I’m glad it isn’t just me who hears the pickup sweet spot is much lower than stock. I’d be interested to see what these measure in Ohms. Gotta be pushing more than 15K. I agree about the Daddario nickel wounds. I put a brand new set on my maple FB one. They sound like you’re describing. I...

Oops. I can’t edit my post. I meant to say I like to get guys with crappy instruments to play one of my basses.

Kj L I’m probably the wrong person to recommend strings. I’m a studio for hire and I try to get bassists that have crappy instruments. I keep a stable of basses that I try to get the guy with the bass that doesn’t record well to use. I’ve cherry picked out the best sounding examples of classic...

I just got my second one today. Barely.....that is. I’ve had the maple for a month now and planned to have rounds on the maple and flats on the rosewood. Just my luck, the RW sounds amazing just like it is. It sounds better than the maple, and I’m generally a maple guy. Here’s the barley got it...

They framed the armed guards out of the picture. They’re ordered to shoot bassists and ask questions later.

You You forgot Mento style and cut right to ska (which is nothing like reggae bass), the Skatelites and the rest were ska. After ska came “rude boy” like Desmond Dekker doing “The Israelites” then rocksteady came next and was much slower and more musical. The Melodians were a big Rocksteady...

His son Chris Culos is the drummer for Of A Revolution or OAR. They were pretty big at one point.

I’m sure there would have been other stuff than 24/7 Motown. James (“on the one fellas!”) Brown. Reggae bass is completely different than the native Jamaican styles. Mento was first and sounds kinda like calypso, then Ska with the fast simple bass parts. Rocksteady was next. Slower than ska and...

Did you happen to know a white kid drummer/engineer from Cinci named Carl Culos (pronounced Koolas)?

Not at all post away. Keith said the other station was a country station. Dunno if you’ve ever heard of the country studio trick of the “tic-tac” bass. They would use a Fender bass VI six string or Danelectro 6 and double the upright to give it that definition and percussive click. The easiest...

Jamerson basically invented reggae. In Keith Richards’ book he says in the late 60’s in Jamaica there were only 2 American radio stations with powerful enough transmitters to reach Jamaica. One was an R&B station that played Motown stuff all the time. The bassists were rightly fascinated by the...

Here’s Jack talking about Danny.

Jack Casady is from my neck of the woods in Washington DC. Before he went out west. He played in a fairly successful band with the late great Danny Gatton. Danny was on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine as “The world’s greatest unknown guitarist” Danny’s sound man was kind of a mentor to me...

Dang auto fill! Jaco Pastorious not Jack.

Surprised that Stanley Clarke, Jack Pastorious, and Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins weren’t in there. Doesn’t matter to me. I voted for James Jamerson and would pick him over any I listed above

Yeah I like a separate tone and volume for each PU. I have a wide variety of styles of music coming into my studio. Dub/ reggae, blues and jazz, punk, metal, funk, DC go-go, etc. I want the most diverse sounds and I think the stack knob is it. That’s a killer bass! I hadn’t thought about wiring...

That’s a real good point. I can rewire it and get a VVT control plate if I wanted. I already have a Fender CS VVT J bass. I’ll tell my GF that I was commanded to buy this bass. haha

Thanks for the welcome. It happens that I’ve been looking at ’62 AVRIs. Personally I’m also a P bass guy. I’m looking at this for a studio instrument. I do use tone controls and volume. I was looking at the stack knobs because of being able to adjust the volume and tone for each PU rather that...

So I’m looking at Fender reissue Jazz basses for my studio. I’ve played the three knob controls with global volume and tone with the pickup pan controls. I’ve never played a stack knob which I am assuming that the two knobs are volume and tone for each pickup. I’m more interested in the stack...

Deal. The 12” will be here early this week. I’m in SC and it’s coming from California (free shipping!!) you won’t believe the deal I got on it. Thanks for the warm welcome to the combo club. Actually I might technically have another combo. An Ampeg portaflex PF50T tube amp and the portaflex...

I had one of those when it rains it pours moments I bought a Mesa/Boogie Walkabout Scout 15”. Then I happened across a 12” version on GC’s used category that had been posted the day before. It was so cheap, I couldn’t resist.

I recently bought a bass from Erik. Couldn’t have asked for a better transaction. Fast shipping, great communication, great packing job. Buy with confidence!

When it rains, it pours I guess. Just got a perfect condition Mesa Walkabout 12” combo that had first been listed on GC’s used page yesterday. $600 shipped and tax included. Woohoo! The 15” Mesa combo got here today. I won’t have any time to fire her up till the weekend. Bummer. I also got the...

Large Diaphragm Condensers can sound tubby close micing a bass. If I use a condenser up close, I use a Neumann KM84 small diaphragm mic. The 421 doesn’t work for me as a room mic. It not sensitive enough and you have to use loads of gain on your mic pre and it sounds boxy and weird. The reason I...

I always go DI into the recording signal chain described above. I simultaneously close mic the cabinet with a Sennheiser 421 or AKG D12 and always a room mic like a Neumann U87 or U67 large diaphragm condenser mics eight feet away and 8 feet high slightly off axis aimed at the bass amp. Don’t...

I always go into my DI first. my ACME Motown DI if I want colored. The Avalon U5 for accurate, or a Demeter tube DI or a Demeter preamp. I go this way cause I have much better mic preamps, compressors and and EQ’s in my 500 series racks. Basically API stuff and Neve reproductions as well as...

Yeah, I think I’ll be happy. It should do fine. If I ever need to go to 11, I scored a Mesa/Boogie Walkabout 15” combo. ;-)

They get that sizzle. Don’t forget, this is a brand new pickup design. The magnets are neodymium, which is way hotter than the typical AlNiCo we’re used to. And you’ve got the boost mode by pushing down on the volume knob. It’s a big boost. The thing that ties it together is the 3 position...

Oh, and mine also came with a really nice gig bag. As stated above, it’s for a long scale.

I just have to say that the more time I spend with this bass, the more I’m convinced it’s one of the top bang for the buck instruments of all time. Seriously.