So my £60 Vintage bass is a lovely thing but it is rattly. It sounds like it is coming from the headstock, in particular the machine heads. Indeed if you hold the elephant ears the rattle goes away. I think it's how they sit within the machine head mechanism ( very slightly loose) but it may well not be. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I haven't actually plugged it into anything yet so I don't know if the rattle is transmitted electronically but without it the bass is loud enough for reasonable home practice ( by my son who has gone from never picking up a bass to learning Foo Fighter bass lines within an hour!).
Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell.
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You will need to take the machine heads off and see what is rattling in the mechanism. You might be able to squeeze things up tighter in a vice or fettle them with a small hammer.
One solution occurs? Feed some PTFE plumbers tape into the worm gear? In the limit, buy some better quality mechs but that could cost more than the bass!
Dave.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Picking up a bass for the first time in years it seems huge!
I agree with ICBM about the elephant ears being a likely source
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