Carruthers also goes right to filing there, but filing is IMO a last resort. You don’t want the strings to sit deeply in the grooves, they should be just right. I prefer Dan Erlewine’s videos over Carruthers’ here.
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Y’all should venture over to the discord more often. We knew about it on Sunday 
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Been a while, a couple folks go there and never here now.
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Nods, there’s only 4/5 of us actively chatting but it’s nice for the little things that you wouldn’t want make a thread for.
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this post should be pinned somewhere !
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WooHoo!
Happy New Bass Day 
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I’ll tag it in the setup thread 
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thank you, been wanting to know for awhile.
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is that a 604? its gorgous, how does it sound?
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It is a 604 indeed! It is really easy to handle and to me it’s very light in weight as well. I am loving the sound, and I am making some adjustments on the amp as it’s way different than the Spector. The strings are thinner as someone mentioned but I can get some chunky sounds out of them. It’s very well constructed too! Thanks much!
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I think it’s very smooth to play!
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going to be selling my trbx 174 since Ive added a Cirrus BPX and a Yamaha 504. The 504 is really incredible, I highly recomend giving it a try.
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Sweet Yamaha and to think that I used to race a Yamaha! Now I play one.
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lol never raced, but I used to ride a Seca 750! Bullet proof!
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I had a YZ360 that you could plow a field with! It was crazy fast in the dirt!
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I finally stopped my Mayones custom tone exploration for a bit, but it was tough to do. The Mayones Velvetrone P and MM pups have balls for days!
Anyway, I got a chance to play with the preamp’s built-in headphone amp and, wow!
Hooked up to my ATH-M50X monitor headphones, it delivers the goods, in spades. 
It provides no effects or separate volume control; just clean bass tone, which is all I need. Its output can’t match that of the Waza Air-Bass, but so what? The Waza can blow your ears out. 
The entire Mayones preamp (not just the headphone amp) runs off of an internal power supply, which is charged via a USB-C port. A small switch allows the player to go from using internal power to battery.
As a power backup to the internal battery, there is a separate compartment for a 9v battery (which I’m not using currently, no pun intended). 
I simply love this bass. The fit, finish, materials and setup are perfect, and now, with TI Jazz Rounds on it, it plays effortlessly. Above and beyond all of that, it weighs only 7.7 pounds (my other Mayones Jabba weighs 8.5 pounds, so this one feels a whole lot lighter).
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Going through the hands of the Master Builder was worth the extra few months.
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The curse of timezones means I am chiming in late again.
My Epiphone Viola has a zero fret, I also put a brass nut on my red parts/project bass (I might add pics later).
I cannot quantify it but I believe that it improves the sound on both.
My parts bass has brass nut plus heavy bridge on a super light body and is loud with good tone and sustain (shock horror I have rounds on this one) it also has super cheap pickups and pots from an Aliexpress loaded pickguard
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Wow, triple defense. 9v, then internal, then passive. This is an ultimate Gigging bass.
Absolutely love the headphones and aux feature. It’s a comfort to know that it has enough juice to power the headphones… @booker_t told me that this is a standard feature to all future basses?
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