My 6-stringer is great, but preamp is not so powerful and noisy. Last gig I played through borrowed SWR and decide that I really need a little treble, but I cannot afford it because of noise.

I already tune myself to spend 110-150 bucks for Bartolini preamp, but I’ve found Artec preamps. I didn’t find much about them, but nothing bad at all. I tried to ask on talkbass.com. And mcracer gave me best price and free shipping for Artec SE3P-A and black metallic knobs (including concentric ones). The price for the preamp and knobs is about the same you can get on ebay for only preamp.

He promised to ship it today or Monday. I’ll post results here.

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Relatively new bass site from authors of Wheat’s BassBook. A lot of useful info and alive forum.

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Very weird and nice shape and looks like they are very rare. But after some googling I’ve found some info about Matrix M-401, and then site of Spalt Instruments. Site looks very old, but with plenty of information, like gallery of hybrids and description of them. Prices on those guitars varies from $1250 to $3000.

As I mentioned above, more pictures you can see at Spalt Hybryd Guitars and Basses Gallery.

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Great tool to print fretboard diagrams for 4,5,6-string bass, guitar, violin, banjo and other instruments. You can specify tuning, size and location of fretboard on page, mark degrees and notes of specific scales or chords, display location and notes of harmonics (very useful for me). It is very neat, but interface is a little tricky. Thanks, StudyBass.

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Here is some videos from our first gig in US.
Any comments (bass-related) are welcome

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Weird-designed bass guitars. They looks more like piece of art than playable instruments. Have fun =)

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