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Oh man that is waaay out!!
Could just need a good clean or you could try very carefully sanding the back of the neck https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Sanding_Your_Guitar_Neck_for_a_Smoother_Feel
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Yeah, it's bonkers out. Glad I didn't pay too much for it. I can't detect any difference in volume but the pickups are currently heavily canted towards the treble end. I am going to replace the bridge after my new screwdriver set arrives. I will probably have to mess with the pickup heights after that anyway.
Sanding and oiling it would be so nice but I'm scared...
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"Extended-range" bass.
Or...
Do I really need 6 strings or will 5 do?I currently only have a 4-string fretless Jazz and I want to get another bass, something fretted with more than 4 strings.
I don't really want something massively long with a heap of frets, it's to have something more chordy for bass as a lead instrument so really it's going to be more like a big guitar for me.Options are more limited for 6-string and I'd like to avoid anything that's overwhelmingly "metal" or "r&b" so that's most of the Yamaha's and Ibanez's and the like out of the running.
I have been admiring the Ibanez AGB-205 Artcore hollowbody 5- string...5-string or 6-string?
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if you own anything more than 4 strings you are required by law to play sitting on a stool.
don't do it.
tho if you must - go Spector Euro LX5.
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Nothing wrong with a stool... and a foot stool... and a turtle neck sweater...
To be honest I'd rather something that looked more like a hollowbody or one of the Fender-esque shapes rather than a woodworkers sextoy. (Fodera-style singlecuts aside)
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I cannot help you with your lead bass guitar problem. Sorry.
I need to stop watching pedal videos on my commute. It's giving me gearlust again just when I need to be getting content with what I have. As of this morning I am now convinced I cannot live without a £700 tape echo.
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The only real lead bassist.
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Foley is an incredible bassist. Do people in London only play folk and surf nowadays?
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I used to be in a band with a widdly bass player. We put out a 7" single in the mid 00's and one review slated it for having a bass solo. I had no idea until I read it then I couldn't un-hear it.
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Calypso is the new nu-folk
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I'm so far behind trend :'(
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This also. I'd sell a kidney for a Fodera Anthony Jackson Presentation II.
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I feel that my taste in music is like a stopped clock and was accidentally briefly "on trend" for a couple of years there. It was really fucking disconcerting and to be honest, made my continuing failure to thrive professionally even harder to bear than when I was clearly out of step with the zeitgeist.
I'm starting to notice more of a shift away from the prevailing folk-pop stomp/clap/plinkyplonk nonsense that has held sway for fucking ever now and it feels like a blessed relief.
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Fodera
M'Lody
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The Anthony Jackson models are particularly heart-stopping in price... I think they're somewhere in the $25,000 ballpark. There's something kind of rad about a $25k bass with one pickup and no controls though.
Orca
diceface
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bq
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Cabronita just arrived!
I now see quite clearly the issue that @thross mentioned. Really poor string/pole alignment, especially noticeable at the bridge pickup. Of course...I had already ordered the replacements as I knew I wouldn't be able to live with it.
That said, the guitar is lovely and a massive step up from my Tele copy. It's so solid and well built, it's crazy. Gonna take some getting used to I reckon. The finish on the neck is a bit er, sticky, feels quite hard to move my hand around. Is that something I can rectify?