You're gonna have to change the pots in those teles with the Wide Range buckers as the tone of the pickups are very dark and muddy, well unless you like that kind of thing. Well anyway, 1 meg pots would do probably the trick.

I thought they came with 1 meg, at least my 69 RI does. And since I detune usually anyways Ill probly keep they if they are.

What kinda pickups do you use in your regular single coil tele's?

I have a tele custom (yes, just one tele) and it has a standard telecaster bridge pickup and a Wide Range humbucker in neck. I want to get a standard telecaster but, that's gonna have to wait after I get a few things.

I have a 7 piece pearl export series black finish drum kit. With a 20 inch Zildjian ride, 16 inch Zildjian rock crash, 8 inch Zildjian splash and 14 inch Sabian hats.

What I want is a 7 piece Yamaha Stage Custom :D

I let my cousin borrow my electric, amp, and all my pedals. He traded them all away for pills.

i'm getting a new violin ;) it's awesome

Dude, did you beat the him the fuck down... he needs to be taught a lesson.

Oh my GOD dude...I don't care if it was family, if that happened to me I would have turned that ass hole in and at least given him a drug charge or something. You don't just go and sell someone's music equipment.

Selling DVD players and other electronics is ****ty as well, but my music equipment is very personal and sentimental...if I let someone borrow it, that would show that I trusted that person a lot. Words can't describe the **** storm selling it all off would cause.

Yeah, he got stuck in the mouth when he told me, in front of his parents.
It was probably my favorite material item. He stole from his parents, brother, friends, everyone. He is out of rehab now, and trying to make it up to us all. I went to the dealers house and searched the whole place, but he already sold it all off. He just started working and knows he needs to buy me all new stuff.

that's not cool at all. is there anyway to recover any of it (as in does he even remember who / where he offloaded it?) as much as the vigilantism feels appropriate YOU will end up in more crap if you go that route.

what kind of living situation is he in? how far removed from living with his folks?

it's kind of lame and borderline prick-ish but if the kid can't pay up, the parents usually can - depending on the situation. if he's just a reflection of the screwups that made him then it's a dead end, on the other hand if he's just rebelling against the squares that forced him into existence and they're refusing to see that little Timmy actually has a problem now might be a good time to visit Auntie and give her a reality check (and bill).

small claims court is also an option but likely far too much stress and hassle for what it's worth.

I demanded he bring me to the dealers house the day after he told me. I searched the guys entire house and offered to give him money on top of buying it back from him. No luck, the dealers is whacked out of his mind and had no recollection of it. Its not his problem at all though. His parents are giving him another chance at home before kicking him out. They are actually quite well off, and not at all like him. He came from great roots. His mother is a chemist making 6 figures, and his father works for the state as a civil engineer. He is currently on Soboxin, and as long as he keeps taking it he can't get into opiates, as it blocks the neurotransmitters or some BS that keeps them from working. He was my best friend growing up, and after I joined the military he got into bad ways. I elected not to let his mom or dad know, as they have already had enough of his ****. I am giving him the opportunity to make right with myself and others without dropping the bomb to his mother. She has even kept a lot from his dad, who would probably and literally murder him.

^well that's a crap situation if i ever heard of one but you DO lay out your path of recovery clearly in there.

6 figures.

yeah, auntie can buy you replacement gear. she can also do it without uncle finding out if she wants to keep playing enabler for junior.

it's not your responsibility to take care of your cousin no matter how close you were when you were growing up. it's not your fault he got into bad ways when you left, you are not his pet / servant. so long as everyone is willing to tiptoe around his BS he's going to keep pulling it.

Man, I give you mad respect for handling your situation the way you did. If it were me, I literally would have killed him, harvested his organs and sold them on the black market.

Playing guitar for fifteen years by now. Also done some vocals. I own Ibanez exr-170.

I play the Mellow Tone chromatic harmonica by Hohner, two Paddy Richter tuned Suzuki pro-master harmonicas in G and D (the latter with valves), a Golden Melody in A, a Blues Harp in G, a couple of Lee Oskars in country tuning and natural minor tuning and my favourite: a Suzuki Manji in C :)

Edit: All the harmonicas mentioned except the first are diationics.

I finally got a new bass.

An Ibanez SR500. It is orgasmic to play compared to the piece of crap I have been playing since I started learning. I am completely and irreversibly in love with this bass. It is the lightest bass I have ever held, it's nice and small, well at least it feels small, which is perfect for me because I'm small, it sounds great - bright and snappy but able to work a range of different sounds. And, suddenly I'm a much better bassist on this bass. The only thing is that I think the action might be a little low so I'll have to adjust that possibly.

NICE

i really like the wood grain finish.

what makes you think the action is too low? are you getting buzzing issues on open notes?

Not so much buzzing, well a little bit, but more so issues with the strings hitting the frets even when I'm playing lightly? It's not really a huge issue. Could it be the truss rod or something? I am pretty clueless when it comes to setting up a bass :o:

Hold down the first fret and the last fret at the same time. If the string touches the the twelfth fret then it needs a truss rod adjustment.

Hrm, it doesn't touch but it is ridiculously close...

that's about right though. 'low' action would be just wide enough to slide a single sheet of paper through, 'high' action would be thicker stock like a business card.

but yeah it sounds like it could use some minor adjustments if it's buzzing when you play softly (assuming it gets nastier with more pronounced playing). your options are to either take it back to the store and ask them to set it up (which will likely cost between $20-$50) though i really don't understand why music stores don't offer a free initial setup with an instrument purchase. kind of d1ck move to tack on another charge to new gear but whatever.

if you want to try it yourself you'll need to find a corresponding Allen Key (not unlike the wicked awesome Kyuss song Allen's Wrench) or sometimes called a Hex Key. either way 6 sided. you don't need to twist the truss rod much to make adjustments - it's basically a bolt within the neck. in order to raise the action you'll need to loosen the truss rod. it should feel rather snug and maybe even a little tight to start - that's fine. check the action the way LLSS described after every 1/4 turn until it feels right for you and the buzzing stops. shouldn't need more than 2 or 3 twists max from the way you describe things.

if the truss rod is already loose and doesn't feel like it's gripping anything then your action would need to be adjusted through the bridge saddles and that can easily mess up your intonation (where the 17th fret sounds off from the note at the 5th even though they should be octaves for example). in this case i'd take it to the shop and ask for a setup. it 'can' be done at home but it's WAY more hassle.

Wow, thanks for all the info mr dave! I do have a corresponding Allen Key but I'm too scared to do it myself so I think I'll go back to the shop and just have a chat to the people there about the set up! They were pretty helpful and accommodating and said to come back if I have any issues, but even if they do charge for a set up I don't really mind paying. Or I'll find a mate who is competent at doing stuff like that.

Anyway, I might just be being picky! I've only had the bass for 1 day anyway, so we probably need to bond more too!

Thanks for the feedback again :)

no worries :thumb:

it's normal for brand new instruments to need a setup though. and yeah bonding time is a must as well hahaha

i got a blueridge acoustic guitar(6 steel strings), but i can't play because i've got the flu and trying to die down my fever. it's really good quality, with a nice heavy sound on bass strings(nice volume too), and a crisp sound on higher strings. WAY better than the last guitar i borrowed from my brother, and in case i didn't already say in some other topic, horrible sound quality and it went out of tune every 5-10 seconds. it was an old, second-hand guitar from a neighbor.

this is precisely why i always ALWAYS stress not paying attention to the name on the headstock and whether or not the instrument functions properly when making purchases.

glad to hear you're satisfied with the new one hope you're feeling better soon, summer flu sucks :beer:

flu's gettin' close to good, and actually i have had it for a while, so i looked at the brand afterwards, at the time i just loved the sound quality of the guitar. besides, as i said, a neighbor taught everyone and their dog in his family guitar on that one before passing it to my brother. i just took it cause i had better uses for it than he did. in the end, this is nature's way of dissing me whenever i'm on a roll. always has happened.

One more for the bass. At the moment, I have a Cort B-4 bass, An Epiphone Les Paul 4-string bass, a Peavey Grind 5-string, and my weapon of choice, my Schecter Stiletto 5-string.
I play those through an Ampeg SVT4-PRO with a Hartke 4200 cab for the mids and highs, and a Hartke 215XL for the lows.
Throw in a Boss Bass Overdrive and an Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah pedal, and that's basically my sound.

On a kind of sad note, I'm parting ways with my Peavey and Epiphone. I've got a big move coming up shortly, and I need the money.

One of my flatmates has a Schecter Stiletto 5-string, it's pretty sweet I have to say. That's sad that you have to sell you basses :( I know what it's like though when you need the money.

Does anyone else nickname their instruments? My guitar and first bass have names which are kinda lame/amusing... I don't even know how they come about, I think just by messing around with friends and it sticks. My new bass doesn't have a name yet though.

****ty deal. how big of a move is it? coast to coast? taking the band to LA? hehehe


as for nicknames, i've only ever done that to one. my 4 string bass is known as the poké-bass to my friends due to it being covered in pokemon stickers.

I play red pdp mx series drums, 22in bass drum, 10, 12, 14, 16in toms, 12in pork pie little squealer snare drum, zildjian cymbals (two crash, two splash, one ride, hihat) and a wuhan china. hoping to buy an electric set soon for the apartment.

I have an Arctic White MIM Fender Strat that I nicknamed Butters, and a cheap Jasmine acoustic that I named Woody.

Mim fenders are wonderful.

Pearl Export seven piece, which I cut down to six. Ruby Fade finish, which is kickass.

Currently have Remo Ebony Pinstripes on top, stock reso's on bottom(which make me very sad).

Also currently have a Paiste Giant Beat as my ride, Alpha Thin splash, Zildjian Hats and a Sabian Crash.

I just wish I had the money to upgrade all of the cymbals and heads.

I'm a keyboard player and own mainly Korg keyboards.. the Oasys and Triton Extreme. There's also an old upright piano in my leaving room :)

Im new here. Im also new to the instrument thing well not really. I been around my bro he playd the guitar for few years. He just got set drums 40$ for two hi hats, 4 tom toms, two base drums, 1 snare, two diff brands tho one ludwig have no idea what other is all need is new skids?! I tryed the guitar but hurt my fingers so said forget it but i love the drums. I love goin my bro chillen n playin but ready for my own set. He said all i really need is base snare n hi hat. Im learnin paradise city at the moment :) everytime i hear song now i dnt just hear the guitar i now also hear the drums :) next i learn whereever i may roam. I love music. Mainly country give me some conway some hank n some geroge n im good :) but i also like rock. My fav song is pour some sugar on me.:)

Well I just got me a Silvertone 10W amp and guitar to get back into it ,it sound good enough for me to learn on if I get big into it I might get me something better name later but I am not one to buy name brands just cause that's what everyone else has.

so i may or may not have picked up one of these last Friday

http://www.e-hudebniny.cz/Fotografie...al/0259200.jpg

and by 'may or may not' i mean 600 bones on kijiji YEAHHHHH! :thumb:

I'd be jealous, but its humbuckers rather than singles. I mean wtf dave?

hehehe it's all good. i quite like the humbuckers. besides it's the only decent Jaguar model that has a stop tail rather than the wonky floating plate bridge thing all the others have. if you hadn't already noticed i tend to prefer things that are just a little off from what they're 'supposed' to be hehe

I've had many guitars over the years, my main electric axe is a Warmoth chambered swamp ash tele with a Lindy Fralin 'unbucker' in the neck and an overwound bridge pickup. I got the Warmoth because of their fantastic necks, mine is the fattest one they make (I have big hands). My acoustic is made by Gord Barry, a great luthier, it's his take on a Martin M-style. I also have a Kubicki bass. I used to have a Martin D-28 and a Weber mandolin but had to sell them for cash flow reasons, ya know how it is...