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I have a Fractal Design R4 case, Noctua fans and cpu cooler, newish power supply, 2T storage drive, and 128gb SSD left from the old system I'm reusing. New pieces are ASRock AB350 Pro4, AMD A10-9700, 16gb ram, 256gb SSD M.2 boot drive, and an adapter to use my AM3+ Noctua cpu cooler on AM4...

How is everyone doing? I'm still off vaping (and smokes)... I stumbled into a great job in my chosen profession paying me real money again. I'm now DevOps Admin for a software division of a Credit Card Processing company. It is pretty odd day to day considering I am a hard line Secular...

Sweet! Those are some YUUUUUGE strings!

I had a Ventures "Learn to play the Bass" book plus album when I started in 1980. My Squier was a gift and needed tuners, pickups and pots to be decent, I would have bought the Mexican version had it been my money spent. I do agree those Epiphones are decent, here is a limited time deal that...

Beginner and intermediate import instruments have become seriously decent instruments over the last 25+ years or so.... WAY better than the crap of the 60s-70s sold cheap for starting out. I was at a rehearsal a few years back and grabbed my drummer's cousin's Ibanez starter pack bass and...

so you probably joined when I was still a moderator... great site. I'm not very active the last 5-8 years, but still lurk at least a few times a week. Thanks I hadn't planned on quitting, but it was time. Few hours shy of a week now, I catch myself reaching for it out of habit but not out of...

I've been using the Martin strings for a while too... I need to find new electric strings now. I have my last set of Dean Markley LTHB installed. I've used them since the 80s until discontinued, then again when reissued until they killed them off again. I used some SIT strings in the void...

Well that is hand made with top shelf parts vs. mass produced overseas :p Just the parts are at least half of that price... the rest is all payment for time and knowledge :) Bruce Egnater's handmade stuff is even pricier than Jule's stuff. Jule knows his stuff too, and is a great guy. Are you...

If I was looking for a low watt tube head, I'd get the 15 watt version of mine.... Egnater Tweaker: 15-Watt All-Tube Amplifier Features

my strat is an early 90s Squier... I've played a few of the recent Squier guitars and basses, you cannot go wrong for the money.

I'm a hack, but I keep playing, keep learning, and most importantly... I keep having fun :)

Thanks, I still catch myself staring at it all the time... the "Worker Bee" body style has become my all time favorite looking. I tune BEADGBE on it. Back in 1990 when I ordered my first 5 string, I had to ship the maker a custom set of Rotosounds to have it strung EADGB (now it is called...

Me too... but more so, I prefer a large radius on the fingerboard. Which equates it to a wide flat neck top and back. My 7 has 2 truss rods and 3 carbon fiber rods in it... plus all the neck & fingerboard was Acrylized (put in a vacuum oven and impregnated with acrylic resin) I have...

Agreed... the long & narrow shape troubles should have been offset by the wall construction. Thanks! Thanks, I have always dug Fripp and Belew. I'm actually online friends with one of Adrian's first bassists AND his current one. John Wetton (Crimson, UK, Asia bassist/singer) has long been...

Nice! The guitarist/singer in the 2 tracks I posted actually had a Jazz Studies with bass specialization degree from Kent State. I use to fool around on his 1940's Kay and wanted one of my own FOREVER. My wife bought me mine from a friend who had carpel tunnel and had to give up basses. It...

I've never had a guitar or bass in 'bits'... I've had some cheap junk too. I had an Ibanez from 1989 (EX405) that my guitarist grabbed to take in his car for a gig while I had the amps in mine... he left it leaning on his rear fender (in a gig bag) and drove over it!!!! Pushed the knobs...

My Grandfather got the Jazzmaster in 63-64 from an associate that was getting divorced. It was used hard and put away wet... so they say. It was on its second set of frets and with the last crown job I had done, I was told it was going to need new again next time. The fingerboard was almost...

same here, I do occasionally venture into other off topic threads, but I'm done with trying new vape stuff... I'm down to 2mg/ml and vape less than a ml per day. even though I'm bassist, I play guitar too (played rhythm in a couple cover bands even). My main guitar was a 1961 Fender Jazzmaster...

I'm familiar with both... I try to catch all the authentic musician related documentaries that come out. I actually own both the box sets released out of those studios, my folk's are big music fans that graduated High School in 1964... all the stuff on those box sets is what I've been hearing...

My kingdom for a voice! If I could carry a tune vocally, I'd be doing some solo bass shows. Too avant-garde for the Jersey Shore to consider trying to do some solo bass without at least singing some covers with it. Sorry about your friend's loss.