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Returning bass after changing strings?
- Thread starter charliethomas
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And Guitar Center/Musician's Friend is owned by Ares Management.
Of course, any publicly traded company is predominately owned by institutional investors ranging from pension funds to money mangers, etc.
I personally wouldn't get too hung up on who owns what, unless you want to puzzle over the fact that Porsche owns VW which owns Porsche.
A ton of people cannot seem to make a simplest decision. We will soon see a post asking “Should I call or text my mom on Mother’s day?”
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Yamaha generally make excellent quality instruments in every price range but I've seen far too many issues with their on-board preamps. Especially with their acoustic guitars. I guess Yamaha deserve some credit for developing their own pickup/preamp systems but I'm starting to think they would have been better off using preamps with a proven track record. Especially in their acoustic guitars, where it's very common for guitar manufacturers to use good quality preamps/pickups from other companies like L.R.Baggs or Fishman.
But I could say the same about several other guitar manufacturers. In my experience, preamps from companies that specialize in designing pickups/preamps are FAR more reliable (and usually sound better) than most guitar manufacturer's own "in-house" preamps.
Typically, I never cut the strings off. I keep the old strings around just in case I need a replacement.
Here, the strings that came on the bass were not speaking to me at all, and they had a weird sticky feeling. I'm not even that picky about strings, but I didn't like these at all, so I rashly cut them off (after detuning) because I didn't want to deal with threading the coiled string ends through the bridge and risk scratching anything.
I'll probably never cut off strings again after this!
And I want to know why quick release bridges haven't been ubiquitous for years.
In the case of Rickenbacker they are probably afraid of someone putting on Rotosound strings. The 4001 could not handle Rotosounds without warping the neck and chewing up the frets. Instead of modifying the 4001 they discontinued that model and replaced it with the 4003 which was better able to handle the increased tension. Rotosounds are probably still not the most desirable strings from Rickenbacker's point of view. I was in a band with a couple of Rickenbacker employees and they told me about Chris Squire and McCartney's basses coming in for repair and how badly damaged they were from using Rotosounds.
Thing is, that was a crappy fret problem, not a string problem. The frets were way too soft.
How would the next buyer of this FENDER bass expect the strings to be when they receive it? How does Fender describe the strings this bass comes with?
You have not told us WHY you want to return the bass. Is it because the nut needs to be replaced because the strings are smaller in diameter and now they all buzz? One solution if you keep it: have a new nut cut by a qualified tech. (assuming that you have not done more modification)
It has already been suggested that you call and fess up and see what they say. They are not monsters. they want happy
customers but, it may cost both parties something. How much? Do the right thing!
You have not told us WHY you want to return the bass. Is it because the nut needs to be replaced because the strings are smaller in diameter and now they all buzz? One solution if you keep it: have a new nut cut by a qualified tech. (assuming that you have not done more modification)
It has already been suggested that you call and fess up and see what they say. They are not monsters. they want happy
customers but, it may cost both parties something. How much? Do the right thing!
Nope, no string buzz from the nut even with the smaller strings! I was concerned that might be an issue when I tried the high C tuning, but I had no problems at all on this bass switching over to smaller strings.
I agree! I didn't want to do anything underhanded or shady, just didn't want to put in effort finding a new set of stock strings if Sweetwater/Yamaha are likely to replace them anyway. But now I'm going to put the stock strings from the replacement bass onto the old bass before I ship it back, so it should be as close to factory specs as possible.
I probably would have just explained the situation to Sweetwater, offered to put a set of .045-.130 on to match the stock specs and seen what they said.
Out of curiosity I looked at Yamaha's website to see what strings came stock - they're OEM strings so you wouldn't have been able to replace them with an identical set. The gauge range is .045-.130 so I imagine any similar set would have sufficed for reverting the bass back to it's original tuning if Sweetwater had asked for that as a condition of a return.
If anything I'd imagine they'd have been more worried about a truss rod adjustment than a string swap with regard to return eligibility, but wood can move around in transit so an adjustment doesn't strike me as an unreasonable thing to do upon receipt of a new instrument.
Either way, though, seems like you have it sorted out now. Hopefully the new bass' electronics are functioning properly!
Out of curiosity I looked at Yamaha's website to see what strings came stock - they're OEM strings so you wouldn't have been able to replace them with an identical set. The gauge range is .045-.130 so I imagine any similar set would have sufficed for reverting the bass back to it's original tuning if Sweetwater had asked for that as a condition of a return.
If anything I'd imagine they'd have been more worried about a truss rod adjustment than a string swap with regard to return eligibility, but wood can move around in transit so an adjustment doesn't strike me as an unreasonable thing to do upon receipt of a new instrument.
Either way, though, seems like you have it sorted out now. Hopefully the new bass' electronics are functioning properly!
on forums people aren't gonna read 6 pages of posts, they are gonna read the op (if you're lucky, 75% of it tops) and opine on it
Hmmm, seems like you subscribe to the philosophy of Butthead:
Kinda hilarious to me... The replacement bass looks like it came with D'Addario strings instead of the stock Yamaha strings.
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