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This article more or less echoes my thoughts on the different brands I have tried - thanks for sharing!

Been said above but the way a bass is set up makes a huge difference to how it feels and sounds. I've been paying a lot more attention to my own basses' setups recently and have never been happier with them.

€100? I would rather he added it on if anything. An insult. You'd never get this kind of carry on from Jon Shuker or any respected bass builder worth his salt. If people skills are below par but the product is amazing, that can be forgiven. If people skills are amazing and the product is below par, again this can be solved. This is a very disappointing display from the builder.

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun, the bridge/guitar solo section is in 9/8 and quite tricky to nail

Disappointed that Mark isn't including the Nordy Mute with his Acinoynx basses. One comes free with every instrument of the initial Nordstrand batch.

Yes very disappointing handling of the situation by Adrian. Pretty sure I'd be looking at alternative builders if Maruszczyk was on my list right now. If they can't guarantee their product can be sent to arrive without flaws, then don't distance sell!

Yeah I found that the amps are all really gain heavy and sound a lot better to my ears with less bite. You can reduce the bias too on the valve amps for a sweeter tone.

Interesting, I could definitely use one of these for my Stomp, thanks for the info! I wonder if there are any which have LED switches similar to the switches on the Stomp. Maybe these would require power however.

Yeah it's the crash on the 4 before the drums come that make it sound even weirder, but it's simply 4/4 with the beat inverted. The tempo is a different matter, it's a bit loose, certainly no click track on that session.

It is a sign of bad design or construction. In a perfect world they would all line up perfectly. Who doesn't want a perfect bass for £2100, when Squier basses have perfect alignment?

Agree, my main gigging bass is a P with flats though! Love nickel rounds on a Jazz.

La Bella 760FLs are my P Bass string of choice 43 - 104 flatwound Tension slightly less than an equivalent gauge roundwound but not as floppy as TI Jazz Flats.

A huge bug bear of mine, personally. Surely if the strings aren't aligned perfectly, this makes a difference in how they vibrate in the magnetic field - e.g. a string directly over a pole piece will vibrate differently than a string centred between two pole pieces due to different magnetic properties applying in each example. I've always admired Sadowsky for their consistency in alignment

Did a fresh install of HX Edit and it seems to have solved the problem, guess it might have been the drivers or summat!

Anyone else having issues with the new 2.92 update? HX Edit isn't finding my device and when it does, it crashes when I click on a patch. Very frustrating!

Great tone! Love that flatwound clank

Hey all Simple really - do you use a compressor for your live gigs, either in pedal format or as part of a preamp on an amplifier etc? I get the theory behind it but I’ve never felt I needed one. Looking forward to your responses Danny

This to me is the main advantage of modern bridges. Hard to see how this wouldn't impact, however marginally, on sustain.

Most isolated bass parts I've heard have some timing issues, even the very best of players make them and leave them in. The antithesis of the modern midi/quantize approach

I think it sounds great!

It's nonsense. Been exposed too many times to Mark King-alikes ruining songs and pleasant Saturday afternoon trips to the music shop. Slap bass was last played tastefully in 1979.

What's your budget? A Jazz or P Bass with flats would be my first thought

Yeah the Metro Express models specifically. The Metroline models are great!

And yet you moved it on? I think string alignment says so much about how well a bass is designed/produced is all. It's especially important for pickups - not just for OCD reasons, but an off-centre string will have subtle differences in tone and sustain due to different magnetic properties compared to a string that is dead centre of the pole pieces. Just my own personal yardstick