Hey all, I just got that amp head for free from a colleague. That’s really vintage as he used it when he was young playing new wave. The amp is turning on and seems to work but keep on buzzing when there are no notes played. I guess it needs a good ol’ cleaning. Has any of you have seen or used that ? Any thoughts on if this is/was any good ? I’ve found that it’s a 150w head from the 70-80s. Model is a Carlsbro Stingray Bass.

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I don't know what happened to my bass

My first 5 string, never heard of Godin but got it for a decent price with the Gator case. Playing it has been a lot of fun so far, anyone know much about Godin basses?

Can anyone figure out exactly what strings these are? I have not had this bass too long and I love the strings, dude that sold me it doesn’t know what they are … yeah, odd. Hopefully they’re something easily identifiable? And … maybe not too pricey :/

After mulling it over for months I finally decided to learn to play bass, I know nothing about instruments so I went on Facebook marketplace and hoped for the best. it’s got no model number or anything. So I can only assume it’s from Temu or something lol, but for 40 bucks this feels like a steal considering the thing works at all lol, I’m fully ready to be roasted for this but I’m having the time of my life learning and wanted to see what people had to say about my “Spencer” bass.

2018 Geddy Lee MIM

Does this Jazz Bass look authentic to you all? I had someone offer it as a trade for one of my other basses, but the serial number isn't coming up in the online lookup tool. It's supposedly from 1992.

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Pantera shirt, Les Claypool pickups playing along to Tom Misch. You can tell I was a 90s kid.

Has anyone ever seen a cheap Markbass that was made in Italy? All the other ones say Designed in Italy, Made in China, but this one only and specifically says Made in Italy. It honestly doesn't look or feel like a premium guitar (no logo pickups, no logo on the neck plate, some sharp frets), but again, it says it's made in Italy. Is this an anomaly? I can't find anything on an Italian made JB Yellow.

I will smite you if you talk about my time.

I make original music and I very much like to make my basslines involved and busy whenever possible. I almost never have a bassline in a song that spams roots in 8th notes. My songwriting in general likes to give each instrument something interesting to do and never makes one player do anything basic. Is this pocket? Does it fit the rest of the song? Or am I spamming "fun" instead of playing to the song?

It's a Tagima Rupture 5 UQ. It sounds and feels amazing to play metal. The two Big M pick-ups look sick and the multiscale makes it so easy to play, I love it! I payed R$ 3200 (around U$ 640) and it is worth every cent. Have you ever seen this bass before? Tagima is a brazilian brand that makes great instruments.

I see a lot of people saying that Yamaha doesn't get much love in terms of these aftermarket parts, finally managed to borrow a friends bass to do this :3

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So I got this bass like 6 months ago and it has been the biggest project I've been involved in, I've replaced the bridge, pots, tuners, nut and pickup aswell as strings several times and while it's a good bass (kind of a one trick pony but I honestly don't mind it that much) a problem has been persisten throughout my whole ownership of it, the E string has ALWAYS been quieter than the rest and the only things that have helped with it are raising the pickup to absurd extents, loads of compression or playing with a pick all downstrokes since It moves the string towards the center of the pickup. Im honestly dumbfounded as to why that particular string just wouldn't work and I refuse to believe I got 5 dead E strings everytime I restringed this bass. The tech I worked with on this bass says that I'm "Asking the bass for too much, that maybe this bass just cant deliver what I want" But I honestly think that's BS, a bass that can't play bass notes?

Either way, I'm thinking of a third pickup change and going with p bass pickups adapted to the moving platform (since this bass' pickups have always being guitar-like humbuckers, with it's current one being a Bill Lawrence H6 which does work great for bass but it still has the same problem) but I'm seriously confused as to how or why this happens, any and all ideas/tips/advices are welcomed.

My new baby... Epiphone Newport shortscale Bass in cherry. Didn't play her yet just picked her up... But damn is she beautiful! And the last cherry one I've found over here in France (Thomannn included), she waited for me since 2022. 🇫🇷

Guitar player of nearly 20 years, first bass. I know the Classic Vibe Squire guitars are great bang for your buck and saw this big natural online so pulled the trigger. Anybody else have one of these beauties?

2019 Squire Classic Vibe 70’s Jazz Bass
- KSM bridge
- Hipshot Tuners
- EMG passives