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I cant remember exactly what the damage was but it looked like someone had slung it out of a car window down the street. I remember being really disappointed that the shop hadn’t listed how beaten up it was considering the price and that I travelled from Manchester to London to see it. It was over 3...

Yep. Thats the bass. It was a right mess when I saw it.

Story of my I made that “should have bought it” mistake with a 60s MG4005 at A1 Manchester going for £699. It was identical to The Ox Tommy bass. I was buying a 12string acoustic that day. When I got home I decided I should take the acoustic back and buy the 4005..of course it had gone. Guess who bo...

Hello Corduroy! Back in the summer of 1976 I went from Manchester to Rhodes Music on Denmark St to check out an RM1999. At the time these 60s basses cropped up from time to time in the for sale and music shop ads in the back of the Melody Maker and were practically always described as “60s dot neck ...

Contrary to some suggestions if you play mainly between the horse shoe and the neck pickup you get the treble to cut through in stereo mode. If you move to between the bridge and horse shoe it increases the mids and overall volume substantially when required. Watch videos and look at photos of Squir...

As Offord pointed out, I can tell you that the treble pickup on its own through a Fender Twin model in my case..same chassis as most Fenders..on the Helix sounds..well all treble and no body and not much good on its own, but mixed with the SVT4 model fairly clean with lots of meat in the eq through ...

Trying to copy the exact studio sound from ‘72 with all the outboard processing of the time could be quite a task! Chris used Fenders the little Vox head and Sunn and Marshall amps in the studio so its anyones guess but the drive and stuff can be achieved with most valve heads. I find the Fender Twi...

Cambridge Rock Festival 2019.

In this photo of my CS both volumes are on full and the treble tone is also on full. The neck tone is backed off all the way.

The winding must have been faulty but slipped past the system until you put it under tension.Just get a replacement set from the shop you bought the set from and send the faulty string to Rotosound or get in touch online with the details. They would be interested to track down any winding faults I w...

By the way those nuts and the aluminium block look like replacements so Im not surprised at any movement. At least you are able to get the nuts to turn! I had a job and a half with DA24 as they were tight as hell!

Ive had three RMs and also done this adjustment to my CS. Just loosen the nuts off slightly and evenly..no need to unscrew them very much. Hold the bass body between your knees or use your foot to hold it against a sofa again between your knees. Ive done this with the strings on but slackened off by...

I try to avoid leaving my bass out in the weather.

Is the buzz that noticeable through an amp onstage or is it only present when listening unplugged? If the action is good and you only want to increase the relief because of the buzz then get the frets dressed.

I’m now using the Line 6 Helix Rack and Controller. I can run in true stereo via the returns using separate paths for the two pickups and I can either use summed mono (L) out into an onstage (SVT3) amp and also mono XLR out the desk or (for recording for instance) use L+R stereo outputs. Away from t...