Since your reading the comments now, lol I would like to say thank you for teaching me how to set up my own guitars. I watch all the content you post and I learn something all the time. Have a good one:)
I will probably never be able to afford the instruments I want to own or even try, so the only way I figure I get them is by finding ones that other people can't be bothered to work on or somehow think are unfixable and sell for way too low. This is my main bass/guitar set up learning channel, since Dave seems to have read the original comment, I'd like to also say that I very much appreciate the work involved in publishing all these videos along with the abject candor and complete lack of upselling.
Hear, hear. Watching these videos showed me a lot of shortcuts, and tricks for getting a perfect setup. Without a lot of gimmicky tools from those-who-should-not-be-named. Kudos to Dave.
Holy hell Dave that bass is just like what Cliff Burton of Metallica used shortly before his death. I’ve been wanting one for years. They are very expensive though. Anyway awesome video as usual.
I think so, or his ambient is full of EMI, or his amp is wrecked, or something. Man, I had a crazy problem here, in the beginning of the night I had horrible EMI. Really horrible. After months I realized it always started when my wife turned the lights of the TV place on. This exact circuit was wired "wrong", they got a phase from another circuit, so it forned a big loop of wire, instead of a pair going together. This was my phantom buzz, once I rewired the circuit, it's gone.
I shielded a reasonably expensive bass for a guy once because he had these intermittent bouts of hum. Afterwards he told me things had improved but the mysterious hum still occured at lower levels. Eventually he discovered the hum was caused by a grass mowing robot; the system had a wire around his home to tell the robot how far it could go. The signal in that wire when the robot was actually moving caused the hum in his bass. :-)))
one guy took his portable amp and walked around his house until he found a faulty transformer on a pole and made the power company fix it - it was ready to fail, so it was actually pretty good thing he found it.
Happens to me all the time but with cars. Customer comes in a says on the way over the car quit acting up. I tell them it happens all the time. Cars fear me.
That's top quality stuff. A bass that deserves more love, for sure. An 80's classic that was pretty state-of-the-art for a mass produced bass in the early 80's. Pretty sure they aided in the growing popularity of chiropractic practices as well.
Glad to see you back doing videos Dave! I miss your wit and humor, and as a long time carpenter, can feel your pain re WORK :) LOL, just so you know, many of us enjoy you for your company... I've spent WAY more hours watching your videos then I have working on my guitars....
Glad you're back. I had a hum on everything, when the dryer or washer, or TV or whatever were running you could hear it. I bought a Furman Rack Rider, Power Conditioner(or something like that), it has 9 electrical jacks. It works through capacitive discharge actually. Cleaned up all my stuff. Best $40 I ever spent. (Back in 2008 I think) I'd go down to the basement to get the proper nomenclature, but you get the idea. I think the term for the computer stuff (yes i know its a technical term) is "Planned Obsolescence" (job security for the programmers.)
ok i had a aria pro ll les paul i bought in 1975, great guitar, used it as back up when i bought my first les paul standard gibson in 1976. great back up guitar. a little brighter sound than a gibson. this is a nice bass. as for responding to comments, id love to hear those. ive kinda asked for them so now your going to respond. i look forward to this new feature and thank you in advance!!!
Funny, I just finished putting together an old Aria Pro II RSB bass (from early 80s) that I have had for 30+ years. I never played it much, but decided to refinish it, recontour the body a bit, redesign a pick guard, dyed the natural ash and gave it a nitro finish, new Fender ‘62 pickups, new pots cap, tuner and bridge. Needs to be built up in the pocket I think to get more manageable action. Sounds great now, and looks a bit cooler.
Hi Dave, thanks to your videos I finally managed to take care of all my instruments and actually understanding how things should be done right. Can we know something a little more about your background as a luthier and guitar tech? Also what's the best advice you would give to young guitarists and musicians in these recent years?
It’s great to see you back, Dave. i don't hear a thing and that pick up and it sounds like the neck pickup of a Rick ?? what do you think my friend ????
@Dave's WoFS Stupid question #1: Did you try unplugging the cable from the Bass? Some tricky guys use a N.O. jack that closes a contact to turn ON the electronics and that darn Red LED. Of course you already knew this, but we are both getting older and... you know. Cheers and thanks for returning!
The new plan sounds like fun! Yes, it’s to confuse you! Just when you thought you had a handle on things, they change $#*@! Glad to have you back and glad you’re okay!
@Dave's World of Fun Stuff The reason why these things change, in my opinion, is that there are a bunch of desk jockey types that did the last "NEW VERSION" of this stuff and they are feeling the pinch of "well we havent done anything lately so the Boss is up my back, so I gotta do something to make it different to save my job" scheme again!!!!
I had the guitar version. The NightWarrior series from the 1980's. 2 Things I noticed was They never came out with active pickups for either bass or guitar at the time so it has to be installed not that long ago. And the second is the battery cavity covers were defiantly made within the last 10 years. The Bass looks great though, makes me miss my night warrior.
Hi Dave thank you so much. You did say you were going to make a video based on some people's comments. Can I ask you for your opinion to be included in that video? My curiosity is this. Have you noticed in all your years of playing and set up repair work there being any noticeable different between guitars/basses that either have or do not have these "Graphite Reinforcement Rods" in the neck and if so what have you have noticed? The reason why I ask is because there is some controversy with these things in the guitar manufacturing and luthier worlds. Some companies absolutely refuse to do it, some have it as standard, and some have it as option. Thank you if you are able to talk about this a little bit in whatever video you decide to make about comments in your videos.
They make the neck stiffer. More tension: higher pitch. Some never notice the difference, but some with good ears do notice. Some claim it creates dead spots in the neck. That could be from the wood itself. Some claim that the carbon fiber stiffeners deaden the tone, while the steel ones create some resonance. I don’t know for sure about any of these things, but Collings uses spring steel stiffeners in addition to their truss rods, and they produce consistently good tone in their guitars. More than most builders.
Couple days late but hope this input may help. I have bad wiring in my house coupled with noisy electronics that present at amplifier. Can’t say for sure since I don’t know what this bass players situation is like, but willing to bet a power conditioner would do wonders.
@8:33 The computer nerds are in cahoots with the grocery stores, Lowes, and others. They have a backroom agreement to relocate everything just so they can keep you looking in the store so long you feel obligated to buy _anything_ just so you won't look dumb. But the _real_ kick in the nuts is when they discontinue something you've developed a long relationship with.
boy that takes me back, i had an aria pro bass (different model) when i was a teenager. my cousin and i had a punk rock cover band lol.. anyway, that band came to an abrupt end when that bass got stolen..
I can't wait to see & hear you hammer all the UA-cam 'experts' who try to tell you your business and have no expertise or UA-cam channel of their own. Popcorn and beer at the ready. Give 'em both barrels, Dave.
My first bass in 1969 was an Aria copy of the Hofner Beatle bass. It was complete junk. Soon enough I had a Gibson EB0 and then a P bass. Don't have the EB0 or P bass any more but I still have that Aria after fifty years.
Whenever something gets plugged into that amp it sounds awful to me. Would it be worth getting a good quality amp just to see how the instruments actually sound?
Actually it was famous many years before that. In the UK everyone had them, they were all over tv, and even Jack Bruce played one! - and so did I, I wish I hadn't sold it. 😔
this one is a reissue,i had a Aria Sb black n gold like cliff used ,it was'nt active.I think this one may be a korean reissue? which is a bit of both Aria's cliff had used although i seem to recall the original active SB1000 had dot inlays vs the cats eye's of the black n gold which was passive.
Dave, are you still working on shirts? Comment hazing, sounds great. On the FB group I got sent thru the ringer for using fender instead of squire on my Esquire build. Asshole know it all’s and f-ing bullies. Dropped FB group. BS!
In the software development biz we call that constant (and for the end user pointless and counterproductive) churn "continuous development/continuous integration," aka "DevOps." Big shops have for some reason concluded that DevOps is a Good Thing, where software creation and deployment are modeled after, say, an oil refinery. Crude goes in one end and saleable products come out the other end, world without end. Or perhaps the source model is sewage treatment. Crap in, slightly less objectionable crap out. Or not.
Dave, years ago you felt you were getting progressive arthritis in your hands, and feared you'd have to stop playing. Looks like it never got bad; I think you began gigging again since. How's it going?
![[Eng Sub] Aria DMB-206. Mosrite Ventures retro bass](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NVtSitKfOQY/mqdefault.jpg)
It's a relief to know Dave is back and doing fine after pulling through a long bout of Disney.
Since your reading the comments now, lol
I would like to say thank you for teaching me how to set up my own guitars. I watch all the content you post and I learn something all the time. Have a good one:)
I will probably never be able to afford the instruments I want to own or even try, so the only way I figure I get them is by finding ones that other people can't be bothered to work on or somehow think are unfixable and sell for way too low.
This is my main bass/guitar set up learning channel, since Dave seems to have read the original comment, I'd like to also say that I very much appreciate the work involved in publishing all these videos along with the abject candor and complete lack of upselling.
Hear, hear. Watching these videos showed me a lot of shortcuts, and tricks for getting a perfect setup. Without a lot of gimmicky tools from those-who-should-not-be-named. Kudos to Dave.
Holy hell Dave that bass is just like what Cliff Burton of Metallica used shortly before his death. I’ve been wanting one for years. They are very expensive though. Anyway awesome video as usual.
Cliff Burton replica bass
It’s great to see you back, Dave. 😎
Maybe the owner has a bad cord. It's a cheap fix. So glad to see you again. You tube gets boring without all the fun stuff. Rock on
I think so, or his ambient is full of EMI, or his amp is wrecked, or something. Man, I had a crazy problem here, in the beginning of the night I had horrible EMI. Really horrible. After months I realized it always started when my wife turned the lights of the TV place on. This exact circuit was wired "wrong", they got a phase from another circuit, so it forned a big loop of wire, instead of a pair going together. This was my phantom buzz, once I rewired the circuit, it's gone.
I shielded a reasonably expensive bass for a guy once because he had these intermittent bouts of hum. Afterwards he told me things had improved but the mysterious hum still occured at lower levels.
Eventually he discovered the hum was caused by a grass mowing robot; the system had a wire around his home to tell the robot how far it could go. The signal in that wire when the robot was actually moving caused the hum in his bass. :-)))
Great Story imagine invisble fence for dogs does too
one guy took his portable amp and walked around his house until he found a faulty transformer on a pole and made the power company fix it - it was ready to fail, so it was actually pretty good thing he found it.
@@russellzauner , ✔️
Glad your back Dave!!!
Good to see you, friend!
Since you might read it ..... great to have you back Dave!
Thanks for reading our comments!
Hey Dave, I just wanted to thank you for your advise on work as a Luthier. Your a stand up guy, thank you
Dave's like a sorcerer's apprentice....he fixed that bass before he even looked at it! :-)
Happens to me all the time but with cars. Customer comes in a says on the way over the car quit acting up. I tell them it happens all the time. Cars fear me.
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that...
@@freesk8 Daisy......DaIsy....
Really great to have you back, Dave :)
That's top quality stuff. A bass that deserves more love, for sure. An 80's classic that was pretty state-of-the-art for a mass produced bass in the early 80's. Pretty sure they aided in the growing popularity of chiropractic practices as well.
Good to see you back Dave. To hell with Disney!
Davey, so glad to have you back.
Owned an Aria Pro II L6 copy with the varitone back in 1979.
Yuup. I'm old..
Cheers 🍻
Great to have you back !!!
Those things were the jam back in the day. That one is high end as well. That red light is pretty funky.
Glad to see you back doing videos Dave! I miss your wit and humor, and as a long time carpenter, can feel your pain re WORK :) LOL, just so you know, many of us enjoy you for your company... I've spent WAY more hours watching your videos then I have working on my guitars....
Looks like a quality bass to me. No noise, no hum, no crackling pots. Maybe the owner has a bad cable jack or no proper grounding?
Or his amp is faulty or.... could be plugged in on the same circuit as a refridgerator.😂
Good to see you back here Dave!
Glad you're back. I had a hum on everything, when the dryer or washer, or TV or whatever were running you could hear it. I bought a Furman Rack Rider, Power Conditioner(or something like that), it has 9 electrical jacks. It works through capacitive discharge actually. Cleaned up all my stuff. Best $40 I ever spent. (Back in 2008 I think) I'd go down to the basement to get the proper nomenclature, but you get the idea. I think the term for the computer stuff (yes i know its a technical term) is "Planned Obsolescence" (job security for the programmers.)
Dave's back! Good to see you. I hope you weren't mistreated by Dizzney.
Dave your world is truly full of fun stuff.
Awesome Dave. I love the comments vid concept.
Glad to see you're back looking forward to your videos this winter, especially on bass guitars. You're the best. From NH the live free or die state.
So great to see you back Dave.
ok i had a aria pro ll les paul i bought in 1975, great guitar, used it as back up when i bought my first les paul standard gibson in 1976. great back up guitar. a little brighter sound than a gibson. this is a nice bass. as for responding to comments, id love to hear those. ive kinda asked for them so now your going to respond. i look forward to this new feature and thank you in advance!!!
Glad to see videos again. Even if you aren’t fixing something. Troubleshooting is fun too. Keep up the great work Dave! 🤘🏻
Always enjoy listening to Dave walk the Bass.
Love you bud! Best damn repair show on the tuber.
Glad Dave's back. Indeed he has exposed his magic touch... and not his junk. Well done sir!
Soooooo glad you're back. Thanks man.
Me too!
Yeah man ! Cliff Burton bass . always wanted one ,never got one .
Thank you.
Love the comment video idea! This should be entertaining!
Nice to see you are back Dave. Was assuming you were on vaycay or something. Was starting to jones for some Dave guitar degoocherie. Cheers Man!
I have an aria pro f series from 1990 its intermediate but can compete with any fender jazz or precision. You rock buddy.
My dream bass
I think that’s a great idea Dave
Yay he's back!
Thank God your back. We missed you Dave! When is your next retirement? LOL
I had problems with a motion sensor light switch, even with my Furman AR-1215
Power Conditioner.
Epic intro!🇨🇦
Funny, I just finished putting together an old Aria Pro II RSB bass (from early 80s) that I have had for 30+ years. I never played it much, but decided to refinish it, recontour the body a bit, redesign a pick guard, dyed the natural ash and gave it a nitro finish, new Fender ‘62 pickups, new pots cap, tuner and bridge. Needs to be built up in the pocket I think to get more manageable action. Sounds great now, and looks a bit cooler.
Welcome back Kotter!!
Hi Dave, thanks to your videos I finally managed to take care of all my instruments and actually understanding how things should be done right.
Can we know something a little more about your background as a luthier and guitar tech? Also what's the best advice you would give to young guitarists and musicians in these recent years?
Woot! 2 days in a row....
It’s great to see you back, Dave. i don't hear a thing and that pick up and it sounds like the neck pickup of a Rick ??
what do you think my friend ????
@Dave's WoFS Stupid question #1: Did you try unplugging the cable from the Bass? Some tricky guys use a N.O. jack that closes a contact to turn ON the electronics and that darn Red LED. Of course you already knew this, but we are both getting older and... you know. Cheers and thanks for returning!
Oh, hey, Dave.
SB-1000 Cliff Burton tribute bass - beautiful!
Nice bass, but did they have to put their mission statement on the front of the head stock?
The new plan sounds like fun!
Yes, it’s to confuse you! Just when you thought you had a handle on things, they change $#*@!
Glad to have you back and glad you’re okay!
It's not the nerds. It's someone in marketing who needs to feel important.
@Dave's World of Fun Stuff
The reason why these things change, in my opinion, is that there are a bunch of desk jockey types that did the last "NEW VERSION" of this stuff and they are feeling the pinch of "well we havent done anything lately so the Boss is up my back, so I gotta do something to make it different to save my job" scheme again!!!!
I had the guitar version. The NightWarrior series from the 1980's. 2 Things I noticed was They never came out with active pickups for either bass or guitar at the time so it has to be installed not that long ago. And the second is the battery cavity covers were defiantly made within the last 10 years. The Bass looks great though, makes me miss my night warrior.
A lot the sb basses were active. The sb1000 was one!
That bass is a modern replica of the SB 1000.
Support daves world and do what he is asking
Hi Dave thank you so much. You did say you were going to make a video based on some people's comments. Can I ask you for your opinion to be included in that video? My curiosity is this. Have you noticed in all your years of playing and set up repair work there being any noticeable different between guitars/basses that either have or do not have these "Graphite Reinforcement Rods" in the neck and if so what have you have noticed? The reason why I ask is because there is some controversy with these things in the guitar manufacturing and luthier worlds. Some companies absolutely refuse to do it, some have it as standard, and some have it as option. Thank you if you are able to talk about this a little bit in whatever video you decide to make about comments in your videos.
They make the neck stiffer. More tension: higher pitch. Some never notice the difference, but some with good ears do notice. Some claim it creates dead spots in the neck. That could be from the wood itself. Some claim that the carbon fiber stiffeners deaden the tone, while the steel ones create some resonance. I don’t know for sure about any of these things, but Collings uses spring steel stiffeners in addition to their truss rods, and they produce consistently good tone in their guitars. More than most builders.
Perhaps a bad instrument cable on his end? Cool bass though
Couple days late but hope this input may help. I have bad wiring in my house coupled with noisy electronics that present at amplifier. Can’t say for sure since I don’t know what this bass players situation is like, but willing to bet a power conditioner would do wonders.
@8:33 The computer nerds are in cahoots with the grocery stores, Lowes, and others. They have a backroom agreement to relocate everything just so they can keep you looking in the store so long you feel obligated to buy _anything_ just so you won't look dumb.
But the _real_ kick in the nuts is when they discontinue something you've developed a long relationship with.
Welcome back to my favourite old curmudgeon we need to stick together Dave 👍👍🇫🇴🙃
That's the original Cliff Burton bass. NICE!
The black and gold signature models go for like 4k USD last I checked...
maybe it was a different bass … glad you’re back … love the content and the commentary 😎
You rock on bass🤘
I think Aria makes great instruments especially basses.
Dave, which video explains the use of the wool polishing bit you use on the cord jack to reduce crackle noise?
boy that takes me back, i had an aria pro bass (different model) when i was a teenager. my cousin and i had a punk rock cover band lol.. anyway, that band came to an abrupt end when that bass got stolen..
I can't wait to see & hear you hammer all the UA-cam 'experts' who try to tell you your business and have no expertise or UA-cam channel of their own. Popcorn and beer at the ready. Give 'em both barrels, Dave.
The older versions of the sb bass had the batteries under the electrics cover. Don't know why they changed it!
It’s good to see ya back! I don’t like Disney either. Glad your doing alright 🤘
I think at one point Micheal Anthony played aria ....could be wrong. 2 new vids in 2 days. Wow life is good
THE NOISE! IT'S COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!
The little switch sounded like either a mids scoup or a coil split.
The switch is to turn the pre amp on/off.
My first bass in 1969 was an Aria copy of the Hofner Beatle bass. It was complete junk. Soon enough I had a Gibson EB0 and then a P bass. Don't have the EB0 or P bass any more but I still have that Aria after fifty years.
Is that a Cliff Burton model?
yes
Whenever something gets plugged into that amp it sounds awful to me. Would it be worth getting a good quality amp just to see how the instruments actually sound?
I have a bass with a pretty gnarly back bow. The truss rod seems to be shot, how could I go about bending the neck forward straight?
Dave! Maybe its the cable the person is using that has a "problem" making grounding issues!!!!
Glenn Freicker does the user comments thing and it's a hoot!
"Expose yerself, pull yer junk out on Dave's Only Fans World of Fun Stuff!
Hey Dave, if I add a piezo hard wired to a single coil will it eliminate the 60 cycle hum?
Humbucker
The guy probably has a bad audio cable (connectors ?)
Cliff Burton made this bass famous.
Actually it was famous many years before that. In the UK everyone had them, they were all over tv, and even Jack Bruce played one! - and so did I, I wish I hadn't sold it. 😔
this one is a reissue,i had a Aria Sb black n gold like cliff used ,it was'nt active.I think this one may be a korean reissue? which is a bit of both Aria's cliff had used although i seem to recall the original active SB1000 had dot inlays vs the cats eye's of the black n gold which was passive.
looks like the reissue,the vridge doesnt look like the 80s ones
The 80s ones didn't have a separate battery box either!
👍👍😎✌️
Thats right i forget the stickers
That’s the Cliff Burton model
The problem could be a faulty Lead-Cable that the owner is using.
Dave, are you still working on shirts? Comment hazing, sounds great. On the FB group I got sent thru the ringer for using fender instead of squire on my Esquire build. Asshole know it all’s and f-ing bullies. Dropped FB group. BS!
In the software development biz we call that constant (and for the end user pointless and counterproductive) churn "continuous development/continuous integration," aka "DevOps." Big shops have for some reason concluded that DevOps is a Good Thing, where software creation and deployment are modeled after, say, an oil refinery. Crude goes in one end and saleable products come out the other end, world without end. Or perhaps the source model is sewage treatment. Crap in, slightly less objectionable crap out. Or not.
Phil McKnight is a great salesman.
Dave, years ago you felt you were getting progressive arthritis in your hands, and feared you'd have to stop playing. Looks like it never got bad; I think you began gigging again since. How's it going?
yoga is the answer
The customer may have a bad instrument cable. Or maybe his amp has issues.
Can’t wait for the exposure videos! Is it going to be like dumbass of the week?
Hmmm, yes, I can see the problem, Dave .... on-board active electronics.
Hear the silence so loud.
Maybe the word “lab” is short for Labrador (the dog or the province.)
FBI have installed a listening device in his bass😮
Sorry the trolls just don’t seem to go away Dave.
they gonna get a FEATURE FILM :)
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff They deserve it!