by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 13, 2022 | music
So the Sire jazz bass didn’t arrive until Thursday. The outer shipping box was so damaged that its contents were not far from dropping out of it. Fortunately the inner, Sire-branded box within was in pristine shape. First thing I notice is that it’s...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 6, 2022 | music
My Ibanez BTB745 is scratching my five-string active bass itch so well right now that I’ve begun to look at the Warwick differently. Now, it’s my rock bass, with its big passive humbuckers. But in that regard it’s kind of “metal” and not very retro. I want a simple...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, May 28, 2022 | music, tech
Update: 18 December 2022. I decided to make a whole separate website on this topic. Click here to visit Broke-ass Guitars. Introduction (tl;dr – For years I didn’t know how to do my own setups, now I kinda do, and here’s how I do it. Now you can skip...
by Scott Feldstein | Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | music, tech
I got a new bag to hold all my music-related tools. This meant going through all that stuff item by item before putting them in their new home. That is when I rediscovered a cheap wireless system I bought two years ago and never really used. I say cheap because I...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, June 5, 2021 | music
Two years ago I bought a used Fender FA-135CE acoustic for $105 and $20 shipping. So not a big investment. I just wanted something to bang out some chords when I felt like it. I didn’t play it much. And between the Wisconsin winter and the very dry heat in my...
by Scott Feldstein | Sunday, May 30, 2021 | music
I’ve been trying to pay regular attention to every instrument in my apartment lately, even if it’s just to tune and play them. I don’t get to all six of them every single day, but pretty close. They have all received recent truss rod tweaks. I did some string height...
