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Arrived today from Serek in Chicago. Lightweight (7.2 pounds), retro short scale bass with three tone settings (deep, 'regular' and fuzz). #2 of limited batch of 3. Lots of fun

Well, she needs a lot of setup work as it's a newborn bitsa, and I somehow messed up wiring a God damn precision(?!) but it seems fairly stable and hasn't exploded. Why would a precision explode, you ask? Well, the bridge on this bad boy isn't your standard BBOT.... I've never even seen another Hipshot trem system in real life, so the chance to play with one is just fantastic. I'm going to come back to this thread when I've had a few more days off work and a chance to do a bit of a spit and polish, maybe even a demo, but for now I couldn't wait to show it off. This has been a lot of slow, stressful work and having a vaguely playable bass is very, very exciting! Please, someone be half as excited as me!!

Thank you so much for the offer. I will immediately start looking for basses for sale in Preston 🤣

I've had a quick go with my Mark Bass and with the tiny Hotone in the picture. The Hotone - 5 watts - is hilariously loud with this cab. When cranked it's too damn loud for the lounge! The Mark Bass is obviously far louder and sounds excellent. There's more of a mid push compared to my One10 cabs, to the point where on the One10 I boost the mids and for this cab I've cut them a bit. It has a great tone and I noticed it sounded very similar even when wandering around the room. Low Bs are excellent and the treble is clear but without being ice-pick high, even with the treble boosted on my EMG equipped Sandberg (Flats) I'll try my stingray and P bass (both with rounds) later on when I get a mo. I haven't tried any FX other than a compressor so far. Just need that vaccine to get sorted and I can use it in anger...

Well, off and on it's taken all day, but the back binding's done and the first rough sand. I won't go through the process because, of you go back a few pages, I ironed on the back binding exactly as I did for the top. But a quick mockup is always in order: So now I can start the finish process for the body while I start the proper carve of the neck. I usually apply a 'reveal coat'. I use the first coat - applied and slurried - as a grain fill, a sealer and also to reveal the dips and lumps or the glue over-spill. What it reveals also is a decent view of what the final colour will be. These two pics are in fading light, but I'm sure you get the idea... Not certain what the lighter areas on the back are - it could be the wood but equally it could be that it will sand off. At the moment my money is on the latter, and if so, the reveal coat will be living up to its name. But is the same colour as the very centre join - and that's definitely the wood colour. The full post-reveal sanding session will answer the question. Whatever, once the finish varnish is one, that figuring is going to be stunning. There are some beautiful colours in there! No wonder they call it Red Gum Walnut! So next steps in the coming week are body finishing, neck carving and daughter's Covid-fluid-situation-arrangements-govt-might-change-plan-again-already-cancelled-once-and-you-never-know wedding

Bad news. Seller had sold it 4 months ago for 80€ and forgot/ didn't know how to delete the ad. 😌 Turned to be an elder kind man, ex drummer in 70s and the bass belonged to his friend bassist in the band back then that now passed away. 😕 Told me if i had contacted him back then and known my home is next to him he could give it for free as a gift to me cause he got my love for old instruments and so. Lesson learned no worries planet is full of old basses like that out there, i keep my eyes open. It was also a good chance to meet you here guys, will be around for sure 👊

Some people don't take long to make an impact. Met Si in a Welsh service station car park, for a brief handshake and a handover. And then, just like that he was gone. Still think of him, how generous he was with that most precious resource, his time. Best tribute any of us can give him is to offer ourselves up to help others in the same selfless spirit.

Terrific. You guys are the best. Coffee and cream cake awaits any of you should you pass this way. Take as read that I will pay these good deeds forward should I be in a position to help any other Basschatter.

I have a Harley Benton HBO - 850 acoustic bass that I use when I practice reading (one less plug required) and I have grown to really enjoy playing it. It costs £115. I have not gigged it or played it with anyone else so can't comment beyond this.

What Ricky says: @Al Krow is the go to guy for all things Zoomatious. I did a dep slot for a wedding band with my B3 and programmed it in the way @MichaelDean suggests 👆 there. Named the patches after the songs, ordered them as per set list. Where I wanted a change mid song, copied and pasted the patch then made the changes to it, then copied and pasted the original again to the following patch. That way I had, say, patches 16, 17, 18 all for the same song, where 17 was the same except for added chorus for a middle 8. So all I had to do was press the right 👉 button every time. No going back and forth Sounds way more complicated than it is, especially with desktop software. And on the night it was a breeze Even used the pedal for the key change in a Witney Houston song to save me learning it!

Let me know when you want to move it on, Clarky.

Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving_Bass.pdf

The current plan is that I will pass the bass over to @andyonbass tomorrow near Burton on Trent and he will be taking it down to Swindon. Many thanks to @T-Bay for his offer of a stop-over in Tamworth but the amended plan should move things along quicker.

I suspect that the reason that no one makes a proper Steinberger XL bass anymore is, yes, they were difficult and expensive to manufacture allied to the fact that that style of bass is very unfashionable nowadays. Nowadays it's all about blokes with beards playing P Basses strung with flats through an all-valve Preamp that is so old- school that it has no controls on it whatsoever and is powered by organic olive oil rather than electricity. Hard as it may be for some younger Basschatters to believe , there was a time long ago when unless you had a Steinberger or similar with an amp that had an 11 band graphic then you might as well have been living in the stone age. It was magnificent. A full-tilt Steinberger would be very expensive with only a very small niche market. Status have a much wider range of graphite models to sustain their business model, not just the Streamline . They also have a long-standing brand- identity associated with graphite basses. A new Steinberger would have to establish itself in an already-crowded marketplace. Not enough folks would actually buy them, most likely.

Such a fleeting jocular moment....because....the back's on! And the peg holes are taper reamed and the all important label is fitted: So tomorrow, I should be able to do the binding and then that's all set for final sanding and the start of the finishing process while I finish the neck carve

Yeah, very fair. I wonder if someone like our own @Grangur might be able to refinish it for you at a fraction of the cost of what you were quoted? And there was a BB425 refinished in white + pattern (earlier on the thread) and it looked amazing! I'll see if I can dig out the pic... Here you go - it won't be to everyone's taste, I appreciate, but I love it!

2 things 1. I think I have hit the brief “it needs to be red” 2. I clearly had a hole in my glove..... 😂

In the past I've had 2 Bacchus basses, both handmade in Japan and both utterly superb. Not sure why I ever sold them as they were amazing basses and rank with the best out there. Recently I was tipped off by @bassbloke of a made in the Philippines Woodline 5 string in trans blue for sale on eBay. The WL Global Series is a more affordable version of Woodline, which has been the leading model of the Bacchus Handmade series. The Woodline Global series are handmade in the Philippines as opposed to Japan and are a more affordable version to the full fat MIJ ones. Apparently Deviser, who produce the Bacchus range, wanted to try and produce an instrument at a lower price point without compromising the brand. They sent some of their luthiers out to the Philippines to train the workforce there and keep a watchful eye on them. So how do they differ. Firstly the woods used are locally sourced and there may be some woods we are unfamiliar with, not in my case. It's a mahogany body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. Tips the scales at 8lb 4oz in old money. The body is slightly down-sized, the neck is superb, and the truss rod adjuster set at the body-end of the neck makes for easy adjustment of neck relief. The workmanship is every bit as good as the Japanese versions, in my opinion, everything fits as it should and it is flawless. It comes with a Bacchus badged gig bag. So what are the major differences? Hardware is Bacchus's own rather than Gotoh or Hipshot and the pre-amp is a generic Chinese one rather than Aguilar or Bartolini. Mine is set up for 2Vol, Bass/Treble cut/boost. The pickups are their own and is the standard JJ arrangement. So what does it sound like? Unfortunately in the current situation I haven't been able to use it in anger in a gig or rehearsal situation. I first tried it with my amp and headphones and instantly was wowed. It has a tremendous "bark" to it with everything flat. Even though the pre-amp isn't a known quantity it has tons of cut and boost. I got really carried away when first tying it as it is an absolute joy to play. I decided to sneak a speaker indoors when the neighbours were out and subject to a bit of low level playing. Sounds tremendous and I'm really looking forward to the time when i can really put it through it's paces. There are a couple of negatives. There is no battery box so to replace the battery means removing the cavity cover to get at the electronics. Also there is no Active/Passive option so if a battery dies on you mid gig, you're stuffed. I feel the battery box omission really is a mistake. They cost very little, especially is bought in the sort on bulk Bacchus buy in and even though this is a handmade instrument, the basic shape and control cavity would have been CNC'd, so apart from a bit of programming, the additional cost is very little. Both these issue are solvable. I have a couple of battery boxes so a trip to my local luthier and that is solved. I can easily change the pre-amp but will reserve judgement until I've had some time with it. I'll update the review when I've had a chance to play it properly. meanwhile here are some pics to lust after.

I have a nice collection of Ashdown cabs (a 610, a 410, a mini 4x8 and a mini 15) that I'm very happy with apart from one slight niggle. They all have Ashdown's trademark blue speakers - apart from the 610 so it doesn't match the others when using them together. After a chat a couple of weeks ago with the very helpful Dave Green at Ashdown, he kindly sent me some proper speaker cone paint in the correct shade of blue and yesterday I finally got around to doing it. It didn't take too long to do and I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. 🙂

Here you go then. Fretted and fretless L2s XL5W XL2TA Status Custom

I had one 35 years ago. It was fine and dandy. I am yet to play a duff Yamaha.

Shall we all be adults, put the handbags down, and get back to the thread then? Yes? OK. I have a 1979 Ibanez Roadster RS800 with a good number of battle scars! Will post a picture when I can be bothered to go upstairs... too many heats to climb stairs right now!

Singer lives in Calne, she's happy to collect, I'm seeing her end of the week

Looks ace

Removed one of the pick ups and they are solid sealed units but they are marked with a 4 so must be 4 string versions i guess. From memory i was sure they used pick ups with a bar pole rather than separate poles like a Jazz pick up. I could be wrong tho. I've never actually played this bass thru my Mesa rig as i normally set up my EBS Reidmar 750 thru Berg HT322 cab in the house mainly because its never gigged and amp is my back up head. Thought i would give it a go and it turns out it has a lot more depth and low end than i thought. Its made me have 2nd thoughts now. Might take it to our next rehearsal and try it out at volume. Dave

Four of those patches are ones I made, glad to hear you like them. I’ve made some really nice envelope filter patches and some really nice basses which are all available in the cloud.

Very cool indeed!

I like limits to signatures too. Some of them on here are huge and easily take up more room than a post. If it was my place I'd go further and ban images in signatures completely. They are just not necessary in a signature.

Another forum I am a member of has a limit of (IIRC) 100 characters, including BBCode, for the signature, and any images used have to be hosted externally. It is still possible to have an useful and interesting signature within those limits, you just have to be creative and think laterally. The problem Basschat has, is that it is too easy to upload a massive (both file and physical size) images directly to Basschat and use that in your signature, I suspect that many users simply upload something from their phone's camera without any regard for the size. I think that it would be a good idea to disallow using images posted directly on Basschat in signatures. That way people wanting to use an image would be forced to look at external image hosting and maybe think about the size of the image they were linking. I've come pretty close to hiding all signatures on a couple of occasions, but at the moment have confined myself to hiding any that are consistently larger than the users posts.

Video from the manufacturer so you can hear what it sounds like

I expected great things from my Status Streamline. Ultimately, it was just too small, light and dinky for me (and I'm by no means big) Mine also suffered from a collection of issues which began to do more than just niggle, and I couldn't get a sound out of it that I liked (which is something I've never encountered before or since) I'd quite like another headless, but string choice is a real pain for me, as I really do need coated strings as my sweat destroys regular ones.

It's "out for delivery" Should arrive just in time for lunch break!

I've had my Streamline 5 for years now and I love it to bits. In truth, until I read your post I'd actually forgotten that it has a trussrod. I've just checked and yup, it surely does. I've never yet needed to use it, but it's good to know it's there. Regardless of what it's made of, a Streamline can sound every bit as woody and organic as my 1965 Precision or my 1964 Hofner Violin. It may or may not be a 'slap monster' but I've never played a single note of slap in my life and I have no intention of starting now. @fretmeister is quite correct about the rather squared off neck profile, and I can see how that would put some people off. I'm a right gear tart and I jump around from bass to bass in various different bands and musical side projects, so changes in number of strings or scale length barely bother me. Neck profile is way down the list of things that I'm concerned about.

MIJ. I have one, cost me £60 from a local pawn shop, and turned out to be the nicest Jazz I ever picked up. Looked like this when I got it: And looks like this now: Original round-end pickups were a bit thin & weak, so it got a pair of DiMarzio Model Js. And pimped a bit too. If I could only keep one it'd be this, no question. I don't know as much about this as I'd like to. CSL was Summerfields' house-brand at the time they were UK importer for Ibanez, and this, plus several other CSL models, is a rebrand of a Cimar Jazz copy from 1980. Cimar was owned by Ibanez' parent company Hoshino, so it's tempting to think they came from the same factory, Fujigen. However there are details which make me quite confident that's not so - and I don't know who did make them. Which is faintly annoying!

Easy to overlook Bruce Foxton's contribution in terms of vocals as well as bass to the Jam... this Smash The Clock album from 2016 is pretty easy to like.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Relic-80s-Precision-PJ-P-J-Pair-Bass-Guitar-Pickups-Set/254646662508?hash=item3b4a1fb56c:g:rPEAAOSw8n9fBHE7 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SQUIRE-STANDARD-PJ-PICKUPS/274450443951?hash=item3fe6856eaf:g:PrUAAOSw8bJfKxVJ You could try new Wilkinsons and mix a J with a P set:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Wilkinson-WPB-AlNiCo-V-Bass-Pickups-for-PB-type-guitars-Precision/112531501958?epid=1266588005&hash=item1a33667386:g:~ekAAOSw1XNZmAv6 or if you want expensive and new, why not get some made by one of the many bespoke winders in the UK or abroad? https://www.houseoftonepickups.com/ https://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/custom-handwound-pickups-from-the-creamery/scatterwound-bass-pickups.html#.XzHSxh3TVz8 https://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/pickups/p-bass

My first bass - Hohner, about 1986? My Brother still has it.

Here it is, now with strings

@Bassassin 👍 Are you a bass historian ?

First up would be a nice house with a music barn and no meddlin' neighbours.

Which model included a Zorro mask in the case candy?! 🤔