W.L.Weller wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:41 am Jazzmaster tailpiece & arm. I misplaced the arm from my Squier VM, and I'd apparently rather spend ~$100 on a new tailpiece than ~$10 on another arm (which would have the same looseness problem that caused the original one to fall out, get kicked under something/thrown in some bag and disappear.)

Buy once, cry once and get the $235 Mastery tailpiece, for $35 more than the whole guitar cost me?

Did you like the last one? If so, just get the same thing. Otherwise, spending the money on a nice bridge is sometimes a good upgrade, but could also affect the sound of the guitar in sometimes undesirable ways (speaking moreso to say a flimsy piece of metal vs a thicker piece of metal, or even metal type). Do you have anything upgraded on the Squire?

cakes wrote:Did you like the last one?

It's fine, except that the arm falls out at the slightest provocation. I realize that tolerances/collets that precise do cost money.

cakes wrote:Do you have anything upgraded on the Squier?

Yeah, the original owner had tried to fix the "strings don't stay on the saddles" issue by filing V-grooves halfway through each threaded-rod saddle, so I got a Staytrem bridge. Which was probably the single most impactful mod I've ever done.

I should clean up my areas and inventory my shit, if I found the original rod, maybe a layer of foil tape would keep it from falling out.

Looking for something that I can put in between my amp and cab that has a DI output so sound people can stop harrassing me when I tell them my amp doesn't have a DI. I know there's this old Palmer PDI-09 Junction box but it's not in current production, but maybe there's something else that's passive that folks have experience with.

Sorry, no personal experience with this specific Radial product, but according to the manual, you can connect this JDI box in parallel with your speaker cabinet:

https://www.radialeng.com/wp-content/up ... 9-2024.pdf

Page 9 shows the diagram. It doesn't go between the amp & cabinet, it connects to the parallel jack on the cabinet.

Looks like Palmer still has this guy in production. No idea how it’d sound on bass.

tallchris wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:25 am Looking for something that I can put in between my amp and cab that has a DI output so sound people can stop harrassing me when I tell them my amp doesn't have a DI. I know there's this old Palmer PDI-09 Junction box but it's not in current production, but maybe there's something else that's passive that folks have experience with.

I use this and wrote about it here. Why do you need it to be passive? You should have an outlet to plug your amp into, the little power supply for the amp DI isn’t much trouble.

tallchris wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:25 am Looking for something that I can put in between my amp and cab that has a DI output so sound people can stop harrassing me when I tell them my amp doesn't have a DI. I know there's this old Palmer PDI-09 Junction box but it's not in current production, but maybe there's something else that's passive that folks have experience with.

Bass or guitar?

Do you want cabism?

EDIT: oh, that Radial looks nice and has everything. Hopefully the cabism is good. Sometimes they sound kinda dull. I didn't read up on it, but I wonder if it had a way to add your own IR file.

But, cabism for bass doesn't always seem worth it. Tell them to use their own damn DI or mic the cab like a professional!

Does your amp have a preamp/line out? Maybe you could run it into one of these guys. Had my eye on one for an idea for a bass rig before I decided on something else. It is Active but it can run off phantom power.

W.L.Weller wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:11 am

cakes wrote:Did you like the last one?

It's fine, except that the arm falls out at the slightest provocation. I realize that tolerances/collets that precise do cost money.

The American Fender tailpieces lock and stay in. I don't recall them being that expensive (definitely less than a Mastery).

W.L.Weller wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:41 am Jazzmaster tailpiece & arm. I misplaced the arm from my Squier VM, and I'd apparently rather spend ~$100 on a new tailpiece than ~$10 on another arm (which would have the same looseness problem that caused the original one to fall out, get kicked under something/thrown in some bag and disappear.)

Buy once, cry once and get the $235 Mastery tailpiece, for $35 more than the whole guitar cost me?

The standard AVRI tailpiece works great out of the box and I think costs about $90 plus the cost of the arm (weirdly not included!).