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Left some space for future additions and I'll probably add some studs or mini patches to fill in the gaps

Sent an email to John kallas trying to get a preamp pedal for bass and went with his recommendation. Build quality looks and feels super nice, gonna plug it into my headphone setup when I get home tonight to see how it sounds, probably won't be able to plug it into a loud amp until band practice next week

I posted a few weeks ago looking for a cheap neck to throw on this chewed up bass body and got a ton of responses from people that wanted to see this project through to the end, had to make a post as soon as I got it playable. I'll have to find someone with a decent home studio setup to help me mic up my amp for a good quality demo, I could do some di recordings but I don't think it would accurately capture how absurd the x2n sounds with a wall of fuzz. Will definitely be posting more of this thing in the future!

And on a side note, I had very high hopes for this guyker bridge, but the way they have it set up to move the saddles is super dumb. The intonation screws are too long and the threaded holes aren't through holes so the screws bottom out with hardly any actual movement . I'll probably be taking the saddles to work to counterbore them from the other side, I'd rather bore it out than cut the screws so I have full range of adjustments. The project isn't finished just yet but we're in the home stretch

Left my board out overnight and the cat destroyed my 5 spot daisy chain so I slimmed down to make it work with an old 4 spot I found. Usually I'd run with a fuzz for doom tones and an OD for punk tones but I thought it would be fun to make it work with what I have. The Cathederal has a clean blend and some clipping options that I should be able to make work, and the master effects sf72 sounds decent with the gain cranked up. I'll be running through a quilter 801 for my compact travel rig hence why I need an amp in a box and the zio, it's compact and loud but it's got hardly any color running straight into the amp. I haven't tried running through the FOH because I've only done house shows since getting the zio but I'll definitely be giving that a shot as soon as I get the chance.

I spent about an hour going through different settings with the Zio last night trying out different OD and fuzz pedals to figure out how what I'm taking on the road this weekend. It made the decision pretty difficult because everything sounded great through it. With a bit of adjustment I was able to make anything work, and it even made my clean amp tone pop in ways that I've never been able to get from a sansamp or darkglass. I remember this thing being marketed a bit more towards funk players but it sounds like its going to hold up great with my death metal and punk bands

I posted this p bass last week looking for info about where it came from with no luck so I got to work setting it up. After I shimmed the neck and did some setup work on it I figured I might as well bring it to the show I was playing that night. Usually I play more modern active basses so I wasn't sure how running a p bass was going to sound with my setup, but it handled the fuzz great, tons of low end with plenty of clank and cut to hang in the mix, way nicer than the last p bass I owned. The construction feels super solid, the neck feels a bit flatter than a typical p bass, and the body has a nice weight to it that feels solid enough to bring on the road. It still needs a bit of work but overall well worth the $140 plus shipping I paid for it.

Setup is the p bass in b standard, a BSRI Ashmaker (newer version with a clean blend), sansamp, into a hartke LH1000 I painted orange to match my cabs, and my pair of orange sp410 cabs.

Seller claimed it was Japanese from the 80's but I'm not really sure. There's a few results on Google for eagle basses but they all seem to be drastically different logos, nothing that looks like this one. It was pretty cheap and I got it to play half decent after a bit of work so I'm pretty happy with the find, but I'm so curious.