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That's most likely because, as said earlier, the original master was made for vinyl and it wasn't processed as well as it could have been when transforming it to CD media. When CDs started to become popular there were a lot of albums reissued quickly on CD, and many were very poor by comparison. Then they'd be 'remasters' etc but it would be up to the people doing the remaster to make it sound one way or another. As @BigRedX was hinting, unless you know how the original source sounded, comparing a vinyl to a CD version doesn't really tell you much about how the different media compared.

The neodymium ones certainly, I'm not sure about the other (ceramic?) ones. I like the neodymium ones, but they're not the best match for 'vintagey' traditional Precision sounds.

whoa, those Kali L6 look fantastic, if they sound anywhere as nice... hmmm. I bought a set of Presonus E4.5BT not long ago. My needs are basic and I didn't want to spend too much. They were about £170-180 for the pair and I liked having the bluetooth built-in, although I have a couple of nice bluetooth receivers I could use with any monitor. My first impression was not fantastic. They're a bit shy on the low end, as I expected based on the specs, but it was still a bit of a shock. They had a lot more clarity than the cheap speakers I was using before, but I found them I bit tiring to listen to. They do the monitor job reasonably well, I can hear details I could not with my older 'pleasant' speakers, at least as well as you can expect for the price (whenever I hear monitors I like, their price tag is scary... I seem to have expensive taste and I just cannot justify that investment), so that's ok, but for normal listening I found that I needed to apply some EQ to boost the low end and tame some of the mids... and then all is good. I use a little EQ app with presets etc, and I just turn it off when I want to pay attention to a mix, otherwise it stays on.

I'd love to have as much time as you do

Thank you for all the very useful information Unfortunately changing the lighting is not practical at the moment.

I seem to have noise issues in my new place, which is annoying for recording. It's the kind of noise you often get when there are dimmers or fluorescent lighting, and I have both nearby in the house so that's likely what it is. I see 'power conditioners' that claim to help with this... Has anybody got any good results that way? Stuff like this (although I'd prefer something where you just plug the standard UK plug at the back): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-IEC-Power-Conditioner-Filter-Black/dp/B01N8U252T/ref=sr_1_4?adgrpid=54831262698&dchild=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3duCBhCAARIsAJeFyPVtKYzW8nUJ9DB-X_gPfwifNvoJPK87OTcn__BLUkzlQMr7u7Oe_3saAs35EALw_wcB&hvadid=259038328311&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046891&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12099201200206595915&hvtargid=kwd-11463301&hydadcr=28152_1724844&keywords=power+conditioner&qid=1616332497&sr=8-4 If something like that does the trick (the description suggests it does) it's not expensive, but I see others that cost 10x more, so... I'm not sure.

Thank you, that sounds just right. It's not a big issue normally (stereo) but sometimes I do wish I could. If you get a chance to verify whether the switch means one USB can be used for powering it and another for data that would very really useful, thank you again not a big deal, but it would streamline my connections somewhat.

I hope he's ok. I don't know him personally but we exchanged a few messages when I wanted my MB-5 ones and he came across as a good guy. There was a small imperfection in one of mine (on the material used itself, not on the duplication/cutting) and he sent me another one straight away without even waiting for me to send him pictures or anything.

The UR22C interface looks cool, I have considered getting one as it looks like it *might* be able to work with two condenser microphones, for stereo recording: can it do that? Also, I see there's a switch in the back to choose whether the power comes via USB-C or microUSB. Can that be used so that it's powered via say microUSB and use USB-C for data transfer between the interface and laptop/tablet?

+1 My recordings are very basic demos to share with the band, so I'm not terribly concerned about sound quality, but I still try to make it sound balanced. The most important thing is to be familiar with how your speakers/headphones sound, I think. They all have their biases unless proper reference monitors (and even then, reference monitors are very useful to set a mix but you still want 'real life' speakers to check how it all translates in practice), but if you know how they sound when applied to music that sounds like the way you want to sound, you'll get close. I tend to have a few songs that I like how they sound and compare roughly what I record to them. When my mix doesn't sound too far off my 'reference songs' I call it a day. Also I find that generally if it sounds ok in the car, it sounds ok anywhere. But I'm not going for polished mixes, I have to say, although the rule is the same... just the amount of work you want to put on it.

Is that the cable with the splitter that allows you to hook it up to a charger while still being connected to the iPad? I use something like that and connect it to a stand alone power pack sometimes if I'm concerned about running out of juice.

I use some very basic powered monitors whose primary function was simply play music from my PC, nothing special. I only use headphones if using a microphone (I'm using a cheap nylon string guitar a lot these days, it sounds nicer with a microphone than using its built-in preamp).

well, if you MUST go pearloid 😛 How about black pearloid? (obviously it's your bass, so whatever you like... hey, I had a pink guitar once )

I had these, and didn't love them. I moved to the Audiotechnica ATH-M50X mentioned by the OP and I found them to be a LOT better both for sound and build.

Just not pearl, ugh... white is good, black better, no pickguard is nice too, but pearl? pass me the bucket please, I need to vomit. Almost as bad as gold hardware.

Please let us know when he tells you that he's got the PB-20 one

Ha! Three of mine are in that picture (5 string Stingray style MB-5 SBK) Great stuff about the PB-20, I want a black one (my girlfriend's bass) and it looks like I will not have to send the original anymore

Hi Andrew! Beautiful bass, I love that combination of blue/maple and how well colour coordinated it is with your printer

what @bertbass said: that will fix it.

As I saw the top of the first image I was going to say "I meant 'standard' 6-string guitars" but when I saw the rest I froze. WHAT A BEAUTY!!! 😍 I also love the choice of pickups and their placement. Well done! I would love to hear it in action but it's best I go away quickly before I get ideas

The Model T Session only comes in natural/maple with the black blocks on the fingerboards and black hardware, hard to miss... once you realise that. Session: EMG pickups and preamp. Diamond series is passive, not sure what pickups. How different can they sound? I don't know. I'm pretty sure you can get a similar enough tone to the King's X with the right strings/dirt box. It's not the kind of sound I go for, 'though. In terms of build quality the 'Session' is supposed to be better but I have zero experience with those others so I can't say, I'm afraid.

Nice, I like a bit of King's X But just to clarify: not the same bass: different pickups/electronics, no idea about neck dimensions etc. I wouldn't conclude anything about the Model T Session based on this one, and viceversa.

Yeah, I read your experience earlier. This was a £104 instrument [*] everything included, so I was not too worried if something went wrong, but I am not inclined to buy anything expensive for now, until the whole process is clear and streamlined. [*]: like this

Well, it was delivered today, FOUR days early. Where do I complain?

Pretty much, although I go for a bit less low end generally. Dump the strings it comes with, 'though. I very nearly returned mine as I didn't think a string change could transform it enough... but DR Sunbeams have worked really well on this bass. Once they lost the initial new string brightness (which didn't take long) they settled into this mellow tone that I love, and it's probably a couple of years or more and I like them even better now, which is why I dragged my feet about the preamp replacement: it's fine as it is now. It has a beautiful slap tone when you use both pickups on and moving the blend control slightly one way or another covers a very good range to get it just right in the mix. I used it a lot with a short-lived project (damn covid!!!) that was a sweet combination of funk and reggae and essentially just use the blend control to change the sound I wanted for each type. One thing that I noticed on that video is just how nice the B string sounded. Often it sounds noticeably 'bigger' than the rest of the bass, if you know what I mean, but that sounded nicely balanced, although I have no idea if he was using compression or anything, but it sounded very nice. The Precision tone on the Model T is very good. It's not exactly a traditional P, but it gets the vibe well enough that I would happily have that as my only Precision too. If rather than a J, it had a double J at the bridge, I wouldn't even have bothered with the Sandberg. I had a P/JJ Maruszczyk but the Schecter just blew it away despite its thin J pickup. I sometimes wonder: did I get particularly lucky with this bass? Because I never had a chance to try others, but reviews are generally good, I don't know. I really like mine