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No not here, have you tried Knock Knock Knocking on Kevins Door?

There's a better place down the road, south of Kevin.

All your hard work is appreciated in Chez TheGreek - good work fellas.

Almost.... its in the same ballpark... It' a great bass... sounds great in passive and active...

He did some work from me recently, and I paid him in cash. After I'd left his workshop, he noticed I'd left my change on the table, so he called out of the window and tried to throw it down to me. You could say it rained Pennies From Kevin...

Mmm, could be tears in Kevin.

It's a little-known fact that the position of the P pickup does vary across P/J's. It seems to stem from whether the J is in the 60s or 70s position. If it's in the 70s, i.e. closer to the bridge, the P is 'correct'. If it's in the 60s position, the P pickup is usually shunted closer to the neck to keep the distance between the pups the same. If the J pup is in the 60's position, and the P is 'correct', they'll look noticeably closer together than you'd usually see. IMO, that small amount of shift has a significant impact on the sound of the P pickup.

Difficult to choose just three, but I never tire of these....some of the funkiest happiest make you dance music ever... Parliament: "Mothership Connection" Bootsy's Rubber Band... "Stretchin' Out In... " or "Ahh..The Name is Bootsy Baby!" (can't choose!) James Brown: "Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang" Just outside of the top three (for today at least!) : Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life" Roy Ayers "Destination Motherland" Isaac Hayes "Black Moses" Funkadelic "One Nation Under A Groove" Parliament "Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome" Bootsy: "Player of the Year" and "World Wide Funk" Erykah Badu "Mama's Gun"

His advertising's not very good - I think he must be missing an angle.

Aah, so then Kevin knows I’m miserable now?

Mmmm...I thought Kevin's was a place on earth!

Holy crap, the Aftershock is so versatile. As one of the distortion models you can have “clean (no distortion)”, this means you can set it to just take advantage of the EQ and/or noise and filter gates! You could even have the tone rolled off the (actual) clean signal so that using the mix knob morphs between (actual) clean with tone rolled off to (processed) EQd clean! @CameronJ, did you know this? You can also use it as a low pass filter! @Al Krow, you might want to note that I can now get all the tight tracking goodness from my MXR BOD but use the lowpass filter to get it to sound like the clean subby tone of other octave pedals such as the T-16 and Octamizer! Down side is that I haven’t (yet) figures out how to avoid putting low pass onto the clean bass tone whilst making sure the octave voice has it fully applied. LS-2 maybe? Also need to explore the aftershock’s loop function. @lee650

In all genres that I participate in - pop, rock, blues and classical - I like a good dollop of audience engagement. Even in classical chamber concerts we talk to the audience. A bit of chat and banter makes the whole thing a much more personal experience

Cheers Dan thanks

Cheers appreciate your time & advice. I nearly went for a berg but it was the aged thing which I struggle to get, but I know if I get one I will still hanker for a Ray. So I have a loose plan get a Ray, I don't think I can go wrong there & then secretly save some dosh & then configure my own berg on their site. Oh yeah & grow a pair so I can tell the other half.

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Well technically I like limiting but I’ll stop there.

I also like the Chicago version Thanks for reminding us of this.

@ped please don’t get him started on compression, i’ll Have kittens again, and not Atomic ones

I have an AB1 and a Combustion. They both certainly have their plus points as you mention. I actually went for the non-Nolly version Combustion as I prefer a more 'jazz' tone I suppose. The neck profiles are a little different on each, so that might sway you - as is also the fretboard radius. Everything else is great at each price point and even if it wasn't, pickups and preamps can be swapped out for other Dingwall hardware. You won't be upset with either, but the AB1 really is a great, great piece of kit!

Same, I suspect set-up has a much greater impact on playability than fretboard radius.

That looks really good, Andy

You can buy direct yes. Bergantino are also very much looking at ways to get them in to the UK, so certainly aren't forgetting about everyone else round the world - so hopefully there will be some news on that soon. Having experience with the B|Amp, knowing what I know now, yes I would most certainly import. I am a fan! I've not tried the Forte yet, but I would love to get one in to the magazine for a full video review.

I know that bloke

Yes the 75 reissue is gone ??

The bass and headphones don't connect via BT so any delay is really a non issue unless you are playing along to a video. I use a cheap BT adaptor hooked up to my digital field recorder, in to my Zoom B3n. it doesn't matter how long the delay is, once it hits the Zoom i play along tohit in perfect sync (as perfect as i can anyway). I know for a fact it has a long delay, so using it on bass is impossible (ive tried), but its not noticeable if just streaming music,

Glitters been at it again. When interviewed about his various trips abroad, he said he was mostly sorted out by a "mate". He burst into song and proclaimed... "Each time I see a little girl of five or six or seven I can't resist a joyous urge to smile and say thank Kevin for little girls" Burn them. Burn them all.

Like this

Ha, it was more an "information" i guess! There's one group I play in that does shows with Double Bass every year. The orchestra is in front of the stage on floor height. I'm generally forced to play electric DB for that because otherwise I block out a large chunk of the stage with the DB body .... Mind you, they are probably hte best cast and production I play in every year- consistently great.

If there was no Jaco there would be no Marcus Miller. Blue

As Lozz and Lewis say, the benefits of the Fender Roadworn series lie in the quality of their build, sound and feel. Somehow, Fender have managed to create a series of instruments that feel as though they've been around for years, and played for the same amount of time. They're definitely a step up from the MIM Classic series (though these are also great basses). Personally, I also say that there's something quite liberating about gigging a bass that already has a few knocks & dings. I've gigged expensive mint or near mint condition basses, and I'm always a bit nervy - in case of being the first one to scratch or bump the bass.... I've often told a story of a singer tripping over a wire and bringing a cymbal & stand down on a mint condition Rick I once owned. Very next time I took it out to a gig (different band) I had a similar incident, and decided it was too good (and expensive) to risk damage. Of course, there are those who quite rightly say, it's a working instrument, and it's going to pick up knocks along the way - but I just don't want to be the first to do this, or make another band member feel guilty about an accident.... I've owned a couple of Fender Roadworn basses, and they've knocked spots off US Fenders I've owned. IMO, they're superb instruments. I wasn't particularly a fan of reliced / roadworn basses before - but the RW's have opened my eyes. The fact that you're not over cautious or living on tenterhooks about whether your bass gets a bump or not is just the icing on the cake for me. Re the pickup position - I'm not sure just how much difference the position of the added J pickup makes, but I love the configuration. I've got a P/J and a straight P, and the P/J just gives me the flexibility I want. P sound with as much (or little) Jazz burble as I want, whenever I want it.....

Obligatory mention for the Fender Rumble series. Combo or head and cab, these are cracking amps for the money

Benefits of Road Worn, quite simply, aside from Fender Custom Shop Pino Palladino Sig, the comfiest playing Precisions I`ve ever played. If they only did them in black, grrrrr.

Thanks to everyone for their input! I think I'm going to change strings (as suggested by Cuzzie) and maybe invest in a Sansamp, since I could do with a DI box anyway. That should open up some more options and limit mindless spending!

Food. I'm a BBQ master. Proper low and slow smoking. None of that grilling burgers for 5 mins and calling it a BBQ shite.

I think the P pickup placement in a straight P vs. most modern (certainly Fender) P/J's is the same, so for the most part, if you get a PJ, you can still have a straight P as well, just by turning down the J pup.. Regarding the roadworn Precision (I have one, Fender not Limelight), what you get with those is a Bass that somehow feels 'played in', I've recently given mine a bit of TLC, by adding a tug bar and a bridge ashtray, along with a set of TI flatwounds, and at the moment I can't put the thing down. I know there are other Roadworn owners, Marc S for one, who'll be along to sing the praises too. Hope this helps!

Watching with great interest, @Jimothey We all have those scary 'Oh c**p' moments, by the way. I've learned to force myself to turn a body round and always look at what's on the other side purely on the basis of the number of times I've routed into fresh air when I was expecting to be cutting wood chips!

Seems to have been a lot of these 'If You Could Have One...' threads of late. I don't generally engage too much because I think recommendation can only get you so far, as with YT demos, etc. You have to physically try these things out to know if it works for you, with your bass / rig. However, this one seems different. At first, I thought this thread was reading a bit like looking for validation for the Palmer, as opposed to looking for alternatives. There's a pretty specific list of criteria - including size - for which most other suggestions will probably not meet. If the Palmer meets or exceeds one's wshes, the only way to know if it works is to bite the bullet, so to speak. In any event, I thought I'd look around for something meeting the criteria outside of the Palmer - and found Harley Benton do the same functionality in a similar sized enclosure (2cm wider, 0.7cm deeper) for about 85 quid... https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_custom_line_bass_di_expander.htm Also, has a compressor instead of the noisy o/d circuit on the Palmer. Sounds a lot like the old 3Leaf mentioned previously - the way that Harley Benton tend to operate. As an aside - the Palmer brand is part of the Adam Hall group of companies, I found out the other day. Same for Gravity Stands. I had wondered how they'd grabbed a lot of metaphorical shelf space quite so quickly. I've only used one Palmer product before, which was their bass O/D pedal. It performed okay, and seemed fairly robust. I note that Thomann knock out quite a lot of the Palmer range. I think the general quality of HB gear has been discussed on these pages previously. All the best with your questing!

You know kevin is a place where nothing ever happens ?

I can't say I'm convinced by this, I'm afraid. I'd suggest that popularity is a universal gauge of popularity, and that's all (not necessarily a Bad Thing, but not a reflection of talent, nor anything else...). I'm not sure that Bach's popularity, either in his day or the present, changes anything concerning his talent. True, talent has no objective yardstick that I'm aware of, but why does one need objectivity, anyway..?

Apparently the shop is slightly raised above the rest of the street. There are three steps to Kevin.

Nice to see Moonmadness get a mention! Means I still have 3 Albums from my life, that even now get regular Airplay Tubular Bells...natch Fields of the Nephilim....The Nephilim, and... Curved Air, Air Cut, can't find whole album on Youtube, so here is a taster. Its the rockiest album they ever did, mainly because Darryl Way had bailed by this point, and its a Cracker, thanks to Eddie Jobson and Kirby Gregory's input, probably my favouritsist album...evah!!!

With my solo bass gigs it’s just me. I toyed with the idea of using film as a back drop. I make my own films to fit my music, but decided a projector was too much else to carry around. There’s no show as such, and very little conversation, just a thank you at the end. People coming along mostly know what to expect. I get people sitting quietly, eyes closed, I’ve had people meditate too, that started at a gig I did in Paris in April. That was great because I realised that people had finally started to understand what I do.

Rikki that is the 6 million Lire question! Even with the paucity of options for lefties I'm spoiled for choice. I have a lot covered with the three basses I already own but I am tempted by most of the Sire basses, the Warwick Star, a Warwick corvette if I save enough, a fender USA or Japanese jazz, or even something custom made but costing less than a grand... It's all to play for! Oh, and then eBay and the forum throw up the odd second hand bargain too.

Like every else I don't really do all time favourites, but these are up there. Tower Of Power- Back To Oakland: This ones a playlist of the full album.

Huge upgrade coming in the next week hopefully. The uptake on the new site was a bit better than expected and we're having to move to a beefier server setup

I know exactly what you mean I still haven’t managed to start my ‘51 P Bass kit yet! Hopefully I can start it in a couple of weeks?!

Looking really good! Did you decide against the duck decal the end?