Picked up a little Blackstar Fly Bass amp today, its pretty decent sounding for such a small amp, and on the subject of budget stuff... the Behringer SF300 (Boss FZ-2 clone) sounds killer with bass, looking forward to spending some more time with it!
Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:51 pm
by jeremyb
Rewired the Artist 5 string tonight, ripped out all the active circuitry bullshit and replaced the 500k pots with 250k, doing standard PJ wiring, 1 vol per pickup and master tone, had a spare pot hole in the guard so put a jack in there, much easier than using the recessed one in the body.
Sounds better now and seems louder too!
Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:28 pm
by jeremyb
The cheap setup kit I bought on tardme arrived the other day, had a play today with it and took various internet advices around recommended string heights and got it playing quite nicely with pretty much no buzz anywhere, higher action than I'm used to with a guitar but I guess thats how they roll!
Running about 2.75mm on the low B and E seems to be the sweet spot on this instrument.
jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:28 pm
The cheap setup kit I bought on tardme arrived the other day, had a play today with it and took various internet advices around recommended string heights and got it playing quite nicely with pretty much no buzz anywhere, higher action than I'm used to with a guitar but I guess thats how they roll!
Running about 2.75mm on the low B and E seems to be the sweet spot on this instrument.
Floating or fixed? I'm much preferring a higher action, these days.
jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:28 pm
The cheap setup kit I bought on tardme arrived the other day, had a play today with it and took various internet advices around recommended string heights and got it playing quite nicely with pretty much no buzz anywhere, higher action than I'm used to with a guitar but I guess thats how they roll!
Running about 2.75mm on the low B and E seems to be the sweet spot on this instrument.
Floating or fixed? I'm much preferring a higher action, these days.
Floating or fixed? I'm confused
Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:07 am
by TmcB
foal30 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 9:26 pm
Have a bo peep
Have owned one of the production run Stingrays (called the reflex) with HH in white. Was way too dark - literally could not get enough treble out of it even with new rounds - and hangs off a strap weirdly without an upper horn. If it didn’t have those issues then I’d still have it. Phenomenal bass. Not sad though, to fix those issues I bought a Stingray Special 5 HH and have been chuffed ever since.
jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:28 pm
The cheap setup kit I bought on tardme arrived the other day, had a play today with it and took various internet advices around recommended string heights and got it playing quite nicely with pretty much no buzz anywhere, higher action than I'm used to with a guitar but I guess thats how they roll!
Running about 2.75mm on the low B and E seems to be the sweet spot on this instrument.
Floating or fixed? I'm much preferring a higher action, these days.
Floating or fixed? I'm confused
Confusion entirely justified. I was thinking strat, not bass. Doh!
About as exciting as that Tim Henman guy, ex tennis player turned weird shredder.
Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:30 pm
by hercules
Just picked up my new bass guitar:
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Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2022 2:52 am
by foal30
Banned
Re: Anyone like bass guitars?
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:15 pm
by jeremyb
String gauges for my 5 string... the low B is a bit flappy and kinda useless... I'm not sure what brand is stock on the Artist basses, probably cheap chinese stuff, my verniers measured them at .045 - 0.125, am thinking either .045 - 0.130 or 0.050 to 0.135, this is on a 34" scale, any thoughts? will probably get EB Slinkys as in video comparisons they seem to have the tone I want...
