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Ordered this back in May and it's finally come through. Very pleased with it. Just waiting for the case now

As I get back into bass after a long injury break...here is my lovely bass, been through a lot!

With regard to style, note choices and timing, what I thought was that OMG LOOK AT THE DOGGIE!!!! AWWW HE'S SO CUTE!!!!!!....sorry, what were we talking about?

Well, it was kinda inevitable, but it's finally happened. Unboxing vid!

We have good communication going on with Fluid druid. His good work and his reaching out is much appreciated. His wife had no idea about this bass ..There is a way to go yet before this is resolved. Positive or negative outcome. It is a sad story for sure and this issue was bothering Chris I know. Its not a great feeling when something like this just disappears into thin air. Lets hope there is a happy ending.

Aaaaand yet another thread descends into a pointless quote-fest and an argument that is barely relevant to the OP. Thanks for playing, everyone.

OK, so some observations & comments: Leszek certainly knows how to pack an amp. I can only think Dave dmccombe7's first parcel must have fallen of a cliff during transit 😞 Feel the quality... it's beautiful & solid. The fit & finish is outstanding. Nothing feels cheap. It's gorgeous. Just look at it. Only one handle compared to previous iterations... I don't mind this at all, 'cos it's a one-hand lift and it means you can set it down on its end if you need to (for short periods under supervision!) Mid knobs! 240kHz & 600kHz - I've always ran these preamps flat, and never felt the need to tweak. But I guess they're there if you need them... both EQ points feel sensibly chosen. I haven't had a chance to break it into a sweat yet... I have a gig this weekend (if it's not cancelled) so I'll give it a run out then. Can't wait...

We Are The Champignons - Queen

That is absolutely beautiful, please don't hurt it by adding frets to that gorgeous neck. I'm happy to do a service to the Basschat community and buy the bass to protect it 🙂

Done...

The good reason to buy things that you don't need, is GAS. But if you're a more sensible than me then the B1 4 is more than adequate.

In Winters of discontent of olde, a tradeoff was usually the generation of some great, angry music. A mate sent me a link to this earlier and I was struck by how little other protest/socially conscious music I've heard recently. Has anything else good come out recently?

Spraying due Monday or Tuesday next week!

Quick try-out! (Crappy mic alert)

NSD New settee day… and the footstool is bass sized!

My small but perfectly formed board. This gets supplemented with a Geezer Butler wah pedal for a tribute gig but the rest of the time this covers my frugal needs.

My workhorse is a Player series Fender. I bought it because I did not want to commute with the more expensive older basses to rehearsals. I read somewhere back then that these Player series are almost as good as the mid 00's-10's Usa standards. I owned and played quite few from that era so I had a good reference. I can tell you, it's as good as the 2010's usa sandard series. I can highly recommend it if you don't want to bust your bank.

As I haven't sold my SWR yet (it's for sale here if anyone's interested) it looks like I have a 6x10 rig for the time being.

The purple bass VI looks amazing, but there's no way I'd be able to sneak one into the house without the missus noticing.

I'm told, by different people, that it's to get it on 'Watch Lists' so that there's a load of folks watching it, waiting for the "Reveal". Not my way of thinking, and I certainly won't be participating...

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their cow poop. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free" Dominic Toretto - Fast and Furious Sorry, I wanted to do a quote as well, mine was equally as pointless.

I play unlined, always have and use my ear and roll my finger if I need to adjust on the fly. As long as you have a strong ear and technique, then playing unlined is no different to playing a fretted bass, you just need to listen more to what you are playing. I find lines are way too distracting as you have a target to aim for all the time and found I was way less accurate rather than relying on my ear and technique alone. I have no issue if someone prefers lines or finds it easier, for me unlined is easier and more natural to my playing.

I’ve got a pair of BB2’s but I’ve only had the chance to gig them singly. I’d say one of them would be ample. I recently picked up a Schroeder 1212L. It’s a small 2 x 12 with tweeter and one of the drivers is angled at 45 degrees to save space. It’s almost as small as a BB2 and only marginally heavier. I got mine SH as part of a deal but equivalent to £150. I got to say I’m blown away by it. I used it when we played at A New Day Festival and honestly preferred it to the Ampeg 8x10 I used the following night. It’s got a low mid hump baked in so it doesn’t sound great in isolation, but in a band mix it really cuts through. I’ll be using my BB2’s on Friday week at a local theatre gig, not cos I need to, just because I can, but I can honestly see me moving the BF stuff on in the future as I’m loving this Schroeder so much!. If you could find one of these schroeders for a similar price you’d be laughing!

What, no "Scrambling Dice" Carlo? 🤔 Boomeringue ～ Imagine Dragons

In my experience, a preamp pedal won't better the Zoom for headphone practice. The muddiness in some of the patches comes from the cab simulations, EQ and so on. It can be edited out.

Crazy Eggs Girlfriend ～ Miranda Lambert

Here's my new wee setup. I use the stomp for pretty much everything, with the EBS as a light comp going into it- really tames the FX down later in the chain despite it not seeming to do a lot on its own. This goes currently into an SY1 . It's up for sale as it's not the sound I'm looking for - although for more paddy type synths its great, and the tracking is incredible. . I like to keep within one patch on the stomp and basically use the 5 switches as individual stomps. I've also tried to keep it non bass specific so that I can use the same setup on guitar gigs. My 'bass dep' set up is 1:octave 2:filter 3:chorus 4:tuner 5: swell/delay. The dual footswitch and accompanying TRS cable was custom made by my mate big Dan, at Brennan Effects. Underneath is an Harley benton ISO-1AC which happily handles the stomp with a current doubler cable. I chose this as it fits the nano+ almost perfectly- it's tight, and you really need to use the right angled dc cables but works. That leaves 3 x 9v@500ma connectors which is plenty, given the size of the board. It also uses a kettle plug so one less thing to worry about forgetting/breaking as kettle plugs are abundant! I've also stuck a passive DI box under there.. its not plugged in in the photos, but that unused jack patch lead would get plugged into the output of the stomp for bass gigs. I know the HX stomp is balanced and unbalanced but the XLR output is very handy on dep gigs. I've also put wee feet on the nano+ raising it about 0.6cm. That's for the DI box, I think the power bank would fit without them. Still feels good to stomp on it though, and theres no slide. Next job is to make a dc cable with both ends right angle for the sy1, like I've done for the EBS comp.- makes it a little more compact. And I'll probably be trying a c4 next in place of the sy1. Apart from that, this will do everything i need on bass and guitar!

Oh, the irony. 😃 I had the phone call at 11.30 this morning and I said yes, mainly because the singer is a mate and they needed a bass player at short notice. I decided to do the gig and see how things worked out before deciding whether to make it a long term commitment. I'm just back from their rehearsal. It was better than I expected. The old singer is taking a much less prominent role and the two guitarists and the keys player are very good (I've worked with the keys player before). They are also putting a lot of effort into it and it shows, with great vocal harmonies and nice arrangements. It's still very much a 'music of the Eagles' act rather than the full blown tribute.

Used it for the first time this evening. Have to say, I’m thoroughly impressed. Plenty of versatility in the eq, nice depth and warmth to the sound. Used it ‘dry’ and also tried a few pedals through it, Ashdown Lomenzo hyperdrive, EBS Sheehan sig, and Darkglass X Ultra. Only took my Sire V7 tonight, so yet to try my Yamaha Attitude Ltd 2 or my Warwick SS1 yet, but so far I’m loving this amp

And this was your first mistake. It's the same across all price points but you only receive marginal gains on incremental cost increases. Obviously "good" in this instance can mean different things to different people but in the same way the 4k bass wasn't twice as good as your 1.8k bass, your 1.8k bass won't be twice as good as the next persons £900 bass and that bass won't be twice as good as someone elses £450 bass. If you don't like it, fine move on. If you, do buy it. Price tag is pretty meaningless when compared to enjoyment.

I had a Behringer Ultra Chorus which I thought was really good, very much a cheap Boss copy. As chorus is quite a integral part of my sound, I thought it would be wise to invest in a much better chorus pedal so I bought the TC Corona. It makes a cleaner sounding chorus over the Behringer but I just didn't get on with it and found no matter what toneprint I tried, it darkened my overall sound and added a boost in bass frequencies so in the end I've gone back to the £20 Behringer.

Quick DI test!

I would say the others were!

OK, I'm thinking I'll go for black, the wood's really not nice enough to show off... but as I'm in a ska band, a bit of the old B&W is in order. So I'm going to make the top look a bit like this: Yup, that's going to be a lot of squares of masking tape, but it should look cool if I can make it work!

Those magnificent men in their flying machines. Pinky and Perky

So, my update to this is that I've pulled the trigger and joined the wait list 🙂. Communication with Jack has been fantastic (only the third time a business has wanted to know about me, what I'm using currently and how I'm intending to use the product - first 2 we're Roger Sadowsky and Alex at Barefaced)! Hopefully it'll be here late May 23 - can't wait!

If you're the type of guy who holds on to a single bass over extended periods of time you're going to struggle on this forum Only joking, lovely bass, sincerely wish I could find one bass to rule them all, god knows I've tried........

I used to practice in the dark and I mean cant see the fret-board anyway. So I guess I play by ear a lot as well. Mind you it screws you up when you cant hear yourself as others are too loud. I gotta put one of my fretless necks on now thanks to all this. I've not tried it for years since taking the top off my left hand forefinger. 🤣

Killing Me Soufflé - Roberta Flack

Yep! I’m a local musician too so I’d want someone to do the same for me if it happened. It was too niche of a bass for me not to question it and look into it. If I wasn’t there that day I don’t think the bass would have stood a chance.

Lee Sklar has a signature Dingwall and uses his for all sorts of things. https://dingwallguitars.com/bass/lee-sklar-signature/