I put my iphone in the other sink or a big cup if my wife is using the sink while I’m shaving to help with low end.
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Yep. They sound other-worldly with HD FLAC files. You are INSIDE the music.
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Hahaha that’s a great idea
Love it. The white on that BB is beautiful.
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Bad lighting lol it’s ice blue lol
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Those Ice Blue BB434’s are nice looking!
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Yeah not bad for MIJ, even from the '80s 
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I own/owned both black and white of that model and I love it.
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Yeah volume and high end rolloff - there are tonal differences when the impedances are too mismatched.
I’ve always loved these things, they feel great to noodle on. I’ve always thought medium scale instruments were fun.
Do I need a 2nd P bass?? The music shop where I take lessons has a squier classic vibe 60’s p bass. In fantastic condition and strung with flats. Like new with a used price tag. My current P bass has rounds and is set up in Eb. My teacher caught me eying it and said he’d take it down for me. I told him if it was still there next week I’d take a look. I suppose if I end up liking it way more than my other p bass I can just sell the other one. Who out there can justify owning multiple of the same style bass???
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paging @Al1885
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It isn’t possible to change the tuning on an instrument, so you probably need a new one in standard tuning.
This is actually a joke i made to the wife this morning - I need a second bass so I can learn things in drop D.
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Absolutely.
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In my quest to get a 24 fret neck thru body bass and Cliff’all , I went the econo route (for the present at least) and got a Jackson X Series Spectra Bass SBX IV for $279 with free shipping. In Mint condition and marked used but it is really factory reconditioned. Electronically and mechanically it is all good. There a real tiny dot blemish on it - you’d have to search for it to find it.
It’s my first active/passive (or just active for that matter) Bass. It sounds good, plays great. Only issue quality wise to me is the tuners are really crappy. They look exactly alike the tuners on my 1987 Charvel (by Jackson) but they sure are not. I’m sure others will pass on the color - Matte Army Drab, in the Corps. we called it Olive Drab. It’s not an exact color. I don’t mind the color in any case.
Supposedly it was setup but when I tuned it to pitch the neck was bowed enough to shoot arrows - Unleash the Archers! Doing the setup was easy enough though. The owners manual had different specs and measuring points than John Carruthers or Nomad which is interesting.
For the price I’m sure happy with it!
It’s on the left (obviously!)
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Yeah, this is one thing I dislike about setup videos heavy on measuring. Measuring will get you to a specific spec point decided by someone that is not you. What you should instead focus on is what feels good to you, and set up to feel.
Setups are not a science, more of a subjective preference thing.
I own several luthier tools, and yet haven’t used a feeler gauge once in any setup.
I greatly prefer Marcelo’s and Josh’s videos to Carruthers and usually recommend them to people instead.
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If you’ve never done one or have very little experience doing them, having something to measure helps get comfortable with it. I started out by measuring everything precisely and have figured out how to measure with the heart over time to get something I like better.
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