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  1. I enjoyed him with MMW for a long time, right from when they did A Go Go with John Scofield. But it's always fun hearing players who are more than capable of being experimental and adventurous focusing their thing on a song-based setting, as he's doing with the Wood Brothers.
  2. Shorter scale can have more focused punch on single notes but can be a little barky when playing chords. Longer scale typically has more jangle and zing. I really like GDAD over GDAE myself, my approach is usually to use a capo to put the DAD courses into a useful place for the key I'm in, as melodies in keys with fewer open notes get a little stretchy. Though my instrument is a 10 string cittern, 650mm scale, tuned CGDAD.
  3. The Talkbass way appears to be to stack multiple boutique preamps together in front of an amp that would have worked fine without one. Seems a little silly to me, but people love buying little boxes and talking about them.
  4. The insurance valuation of mine makes some sense as a figure I could dependably source a functional replacement for - it's a good sounding old flatback depreciated somewhat by having had a rough life, some bad-old-days repairs and a remarkably bad over-varnish.
  5. I'm not sure about the correlation between insurance valuations and realistic sale prices. My bass came with a valuation written in the late 90s for £2750, and I feel that even ignoring inflation and that it's had a good new fingerboard fitted since, that would be an ambitious price if I were to try and sell it.
  6. It always bothers me that there's a modelling amp company called Positive Grid, when usually the grid being positive means something is about to be on fire!
  7. I feel like the bass sounds that typically get called "HiFi" aren't really about flat, uncoloured response at all, they're usually hyped at some point in the signal chain to emphasise the deep lows and high end, increasing the impression of a broad frequency spectrum.
  8. You still need to run a speaker with your amp when using a speaker level DI - the DI has a relatively high impedance and places essentially no load on the amp on its own, which is a quick way to damage a valve amp. So it's more of a solution for live use without the potential bleed of a mic, not a method for quiet home recording. If you are considering other heads, the Ampeg PF50T has a speaker level DI output and (unusually) a dummy load that allows you to run it with no speaker. But having done this, I think the magic for recording is in the mic'ed speaker sound - the DI sound doesn't really have the same feel as that.
  9. Ceramic pickups though - not always a bad thing, but it's a step away from the classic strat pickup recipe.
  10. Cheers, sounds like they'll probably work OK for me. I find sometimes when I go for a less bright string type that the B can be dead sounding even if the other four are doing what I want, so I just wanted to check the Platinums don't suffer too much from that.
  11. Has anyone here tried the Platinum strings on a five string? I'm wondering what the B string is like. I was on flatwounds for years, then made the jump to rounds last year looking for a bit more clank out of my bass. I found I enjoy my current Rotosound nickels once they've been played for a few months, but the rough feel still annoys me. So the notion of a smoother feeling string with a "played-in rounds" sound might be just the job.
  12. There was a similarly hacked P Bass in Kevin Ayers' old Whole World band. It gets passed back and forth between Ayers and a very young Mike Oldfield, so I don't know whose bass it was. But it does seem to be a thing that people did!
  13. I've known people use bits of saxophone reed to shim pickups too, they're handy if you need to fill a tapered gap.
  14. He does appear to know his stuff and have a lot of experience with fine basses and serious players, but I always get the feeling his opinions are heavily coloured by how his particular shop runs. So "this bass has no value" mostly means he wouldn't be able to turn a profit on it with his business model and clientele. But any Talkbass posts of his would have to be a few years old, I think he was a little much for them too.
  15. I've been seeing a few people say similar things about the 801, and it does look a handy size. If I end up doing more jazz volume double bass gigs I'd definitely want to try one. My GK MB200 and homebuilt 1x10" does fine for those, but an absolutely tiny combo seems appealing!
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