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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:45 pm
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I had an electronics class in my sophomore year in high school. The same thing pretty much as you described your class.

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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:28 pm
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Yeah, I'd certainly would have found it much more useful now, than when I took the class. I guess my brain wasn't there at the time. I was 13 years old and had no clue I could use that info some 30 odd years later. I didn't imagine what anything would be like some 30 odd years later. Maybe we'd have jet packs or something like that. :P

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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:57 am
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I know, I didn't take it too seriously either. Having to remember the color bands of the resistors, and things like that.

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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:17 am
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I do remember this big, blue board that had 1/4" jack inputs and a bulb that would light up when you plugged in certain cables to the jacks.

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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 7:40 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
I do remember this big, blue board that had 1/4" jack inputs and a bulb that would light up when you plugged in certain cables to the jacks.


You must have had a nuclear board or something. I don't remember that one. :roll: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:45 am
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Who knows? I'm surprised if it wasn't from the 70's or even the 60's (I was in the class in 1984,) since I remember a lot of the text books in various classes I had were from those decades, or at least the 70's. I think the following year we actually got new books that were published at the time. Of course, that was some 30 odd years ago, which I'm sure would make my time more ancient to kids in high school today. I was alive in the 70's, and these kids are the offspring of my generation. Man, I'm getting old! :P

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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:59 am
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Getting back to the topic at hand, I've been putting some extra time in on the Ibanez CT series bass lately, besides the violin hollow-body bass. It's the only bass that I currently have rounds on, although I do need to get a new set for it. I'm just waiting to do that when I can get the short fixed and I can use it professionally. It's really a great playing bass with a nice neck to it. I have been going back and forth in deciding which bass I want to get fixed first. It's either going to be that one or the Squier Jazz.

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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:09 am
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If it was mine, I'd do the Jazz first. What a surprise, right?

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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:39 am
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Yeah, I've been weighing the pros and cons of each. I do have a functional Jazz with the Schecter, which should get a Jazz tone with the push/pull tone knob. Normally, I think it's wired like a humbucker, because it sounds more like a Music Man bass, from what I remember playing on one than a Jazz. The Ibanez has a P and J pick up configuration on it, which would obviously be a different sound than a Jazz, plus I could get a pretty close P Bass sound with. Then again, I also have a Peavey Zodiac bass with the P and J configuration, which technically does electronically (I hope, since the last time I ever checked it did) work, but it has that annoying A string buzz that I could never figure out was. I don't recall it picking up through the amp, though. I will say the Peavey is a lot closer to a P Bass than the Ibanez is. It has that vintage vibe and weight to it. The Ibanez is typically a bass you'd see in a heavy metal band, but it's good for other things, other than maybe 60's type music. I suppose it could work, but the vibe and aesthetic isn't there. That's also why I have a hollow-body bass for that sort of sound and vibe. Eventually, I do want to get everything squared away, but it's a matter of time and money to do it.

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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:22 am
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I'm pretty biased toward the Jazzes any more. The Jazz seems to be more versatile in it's sounds. For my ear, the Precision just doesn't have that Low Bass tone I like to play. The Rumble amp is doing it's part.

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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:17 am
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Fender does make some decent amps, I think.

Speaking of my Peavey, I was playing around with it yesterday and I did noticed the A string buzz wasn't as strong as it use to be, even though it's still there. I don't know if that means anything or not. We've had some temperature changes with humidity (we don't have the AC in the window yet, so no climate control in that room) which I do know can effect instruments.

Do you think if the truss rod was broken, it would make the whole bass buzz, or just the A string? The reason I'm asking is that would probably be the worse case scenario for that bass, and that would be a great relief if I could rule that out. Broken truss rod would mean the neck is pretty screwed, or a serious expense that would outweigh the cost of the bass itself.

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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:02 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Fender does make some decent amps, I think.

Speaking of my Peavey, I was playing around with it yesterday and I did noticed the A string buzz wasn't as strong as it use to be, even though it's still there. I don't know if that means anything or not. We've had some temperature changes with humidity (we don't have the AC in the window yet, so no climate control in that room) which I do know can effect instruments.

Do you think if the truss rod was broken, it would make the whole bass buzz, or just the A string? The reason I'm asking is that would probably be the worse case scenario for that bass, and that would be a great relief if I could rule that out. Broken truss rod would mean the neck is pretty screwed, or a serious expense that would outweigh the cost of the bass itself.


The neck may even be twisted slightly, at times it's hard to see the twist. If the neck is somewhat of the problem it's not to cost efficient to fix it at today's bench prices.

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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:30 am
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They typically charge a lot for that sort of thing?

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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:19 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
They typically charge a lot for that sort of thing?


Usually a bench fee is a set price just to look at, or examine it. Then it gets into the repair costs, (Labor, parts, etc.)

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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:37 pm
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Yeah, there's also the matter of finding someone to do the work, as well. I'll probably have to travel a bit to even find a shop that does that.

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