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The quality will be down to what they can get away with at the price ( well it was straight when it left the factory)

how about Yamaha exposing their basses to hours of musical vibration in their factory to simulate years of playing, the aim to line up all the woods molecular structure to be in line and vibrate in harmony to those notes to be played on it. Just as an old violin or 60's P bass. Good wood selection helps with this, hence the term tone wood. electronics and string choice can ruin this but not enhance it. High mass bridge can help bring out what is there, along with expert set up.

Nobody seems to have mentioned seasoning of the woods, most bespoke custom order basses from reputable luthiers will pride themselves on using older seasoned woods, Schack for example kiln dry there necks and have also pressure resin impregnate them to prevent them taking on moisture after manufacture. My custom shop P bass sounds great - only because I have paid a premium for them to select the best woods and a quarter sawn neck, its still has standard 60 year old designed pickups and a bent metal bridge. No fancy pre-amp. So I am in the camp for quality wood sounds good and will show out.

Wow just read through all your replies, great experience and input, best i've seen on here for a while. I've join in after you have bought a five 😄 Echo all the above, I have just finished in our covers band after 30 years, I spend the first 5 years needing a five and playing a 4 string P bass. and an octave pedal. once i had bought a 5 string I used it all the time and now have lots of them, But Over the last 15 years I have not really needed one maybe the odd song in the set, But I was so ingrained in 5 strings because I had learnt all our sets on them. To the extent i couldn't play the songs on a four string because my muscle memory was on a five. So my advice is keep the four string and rehears on both don't allow yourself to loose the four string touch. I have now finally got my self back into a P bass. and the fives are gathering dust.

I originally made it as volume tone - volume tone. I have since changed this to volume Pan, Tone Tone. It is easier when playing live . I also wish I had now gone with a Music-man control plate, for more flexibility to later tweeks, but wanted to keep that "double up" theme which the two Tele plates would portray. Just added this as you do need to have a good practical firm idea of what you want. sometimes being too different is not good and you realise the big boys have probably been there and now make basses to what works best.

Then of course there is the video itself. too light, too dark the background, what you are wearing. and then facial expressions like you are chewing a wasp so the rest of the band know where to listen for the mistakes 😁

Edit ? Edit? Not an option when its one take including video on your iPhone that is to be drop-boxed to your MD for scrutiny and hopeful inclusion. Edit - I wish 😂

That's a revelation Bilbo, I feel better already. I tend to lean the other way happier to read, one of the first recordings we did back last May was ( Where or when). but with a chord chart for the bass, and even though I am sort of comfortable busking around chord charts in a concert or jam situation where any blunders are gone, never to be heard again. There is no way I could get through a four minute chart making split second decisions on note choice whilst recording. So I sat and worked out a bass line and wrote the whole thing out and then, just about got away with it.😅

Hi Guys Did this course 3 years ago now, took early retirement so treated myself. I am hands on with most DIY, and working with wood ?? but I had never used a router either so that was my main fear. I did the 3 person course but it ended up with just two of us so was quite good for the individual attention we got during tricky bits. Jon had two body blanks previously glued ready for us. You then have to apply template and draw your body shape onto that, e.g P bass or Jazz but nothing stopping you bringing your own template design along. then yes to the band saw then the bench to file the contours. I wanted a 5 string reverse P bass with double pickups so there was an extra cost for the Pups. so you do have flexibility within the time restraints. I also requested body wood of Ash and padauk fingerboard, revers head stock The other guy did a straight 4 string jazz. in Alder with RW board It is pretty full on. we both stayed in the same B&B within walking distance. so 9 - 5 each day and Jon orders sandwich deliveries of your choice lunchtime and you can eat and work through etc. Mine turned out better than i could have wished very please with the neck which was a concern as I am fussy. I walked out with a playable bass so good result, cost wise course was then about £750 so with B&B extra pups evening meals in pub and fuel was about £1200. But it is the learning experience you are paying for. worth doing Great guys up there.

Have to agree with a lot of these remarks Just done yet another lock down video for one of the big bands i play in, think this will be the 5th now. each was painful but a learning experience, firstly for recording techniques and then personal accuracy, as said above note length, speeding up in a bar, and your ear drawn away from the click track as you start to listen to brass line or vocal guide. and also the damping we do subliminally as Crawford13 said. This last one was Birdland. quite a tame arrangement so not overly taxing as you may expect but having probably played 3 or 4 different arrangements I have never really taken much notice of the phrasing and how it moves across the bar line with tide quavers, so your ear tells you you are out to the click. So after 20 takes to sort out some technical interference, I think Ive got this only to damp the final bass run four bars from the end. I keep saying yes to another because It improves my playing.

Its OK I've made arrangements, just head for the coast, Don't worry you'll only have to row half way and you'll be picked up and brought back to Dover PED will be waiting 😊

Just pop down the corner shop, save us all the trouble

whatever another 5 months practice at home, wont need a strap. let johnny foreigner have them ~#+-* mumble mumble *#~+.

I am due for my Jab in May according to the App If i make it through till then, can you keep a set for me. I need something to look forward to

With Fozza on the Richie Havens version of Here comes the sun, ever since Woodstock and release of his Alarm clock album. next would be Reba's If I fell the version we used to do in our band

Russian Black Walnut Burr MBass and Simon's (oldgit) Camphor Burr Series II Shuker

depending on your budget - if tight the ole Peavey 15" BW cab was the best I have owned. Big old box but that is the Physics of it, a really good driver with large vented voice coil, front ported etc etc. Dirt cheap second hand. But If you have some more cash and a bad back i would go with the Barefaced suggestions above.

This thread popped up again, and I realised i didn't post my build picks - so here are a few Shuker Build course bass = Ash slab body + contours - maple neck - Paduk board _ Vol + Treb for each Pup Note - I wanted to make a reverse P bass so decided to reverse the head stock as well and pup positions with bass pups nearer bridge to tighten bottom end and treble pups forward to mellow the bite a little. Very pleased with my first bass great neck. My vision was between a Dusty Hill meets Lee Sklar type of bass

When we get out of Lock down and you all are back out gigging, you'll forget about wiping your bass down. Remember the days before James Last, who i hear you say. when it was still OK to stop after every number for a swig of your beer or for someone in the band to light up. you couldn't see anybody in the room for smoke, or know when it was time for Bingo until they put the lights on. The band would be first to the buffet table for the chicken in the basket or the fish n chips. well all that grease and fag smoke is why a 60's Precision is now forth £5000. Bring back Wem column speaker i say, you need somewhere to balance your fish n chips and pint. so you can continue to add value to your bass during the gig.

Sounds a bit OCD Rob, in the nicest possible way I used to always wipe down my bass after a gig before going in the case, but now you mention it, i stopped at some point in the past. Maybe because there are so many idiots about that seem to knock things over on stage, so the sooner i can get it safely away in the case the better. but it is probably best to clean it first maybe even with those string wipes, that i also stopped using 😄

I tend to agree, but it is down to age and experience and the sort of kit you have now acquired. I used to be in awe in such shops when I couldn't afford most of the gear in them, and you can go and have a twiddle and dream of the day .... But most music shops either do not stock what i want or use, or the gear is aimed at the starter kit market. Or Guitarists