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I used mine as an experiment board - different pickups, tone caps, defretted it. It ended up in a skip cos it was made of chipboard, but it served a phase.

The single best bassline for testing envelope filters, although ‘sir psycho sexy’ is a close second.

That video - I can smell the bullschüt from here. https://reverb.com/item/49175471-1979-wal-pro-bass-rare-plain-face-earliest-example-frets-removed-to-play-fretless

This ^. Mine mostly get used for funk/disco/ 80s synth pop. I’ve got dirt boxes for rock etc… but most of my work is functions stuff, where there might not be a keyboard player for those sort of sounds.

FWIW I have an Aulos and Yamaha descants and altos, the Aulos sound slightly warmer to me, but they play the same.

Rotosound Nexus on my fretless and Rotosound swing bass on my fretted.

So, just to summarise: we want more knobs on our pedals, but we hate more knobs on our pedals. We like multi FX units, but also hate multi FX units. welcome to Basschat!! 😆

Looks like they sit over the holes in the bell plate of the Jazz, and two of the knobs poke through. imagine having a double ‘glory hole’ on your bass. Most distasteful to my way of thinking.

Also ‘bleurgh!’.

I *think* I can sort of see the rationale behind it - the bridge cover then becomes earthed to the wiring ground. can’t see any benefit to it though.

The OC10 is amazing, and really tiny too!!

I use mine in the ‘alphabet’ mode - assign a letter of the alphabet to each of the sounds you use, then use the middle button to cycle through them. Dead easy, and as has already been mentioned, takes up very little space on my (already full) board.

First off, don’t update the firmware. There is a hack whereby any bass or guitar effect can be moved to/from an ms60b/ms50g, but this was removed in later firmware updates. If you only plan to use it for one instrument (guitar or bass) then update away. I really like my ms60b for most things; the modulation and synth sounds are really good, the drives are less impressive.

That’s surely the most expensive way to buy a bass?

Been delving through Blur’s back catalogue lately, and not only loving AJ’s bass lines, but Graham Coxon’s unique approach to guitar ‘harmony’ 😄. He’s light years ahead of anything Noel did with oasis. His solo on Country House in particular puts me in mind if Ler’s playing in Primus, who I also admire.

Damn straight!

I put ‘my’ bass together out of eBay bits - 2 piece ash J body, maple J neck with fretless rosewood board. extra rout for a MM pickup and some extra (but still passive) electronics, and voilà. The phrase “from my cold, dead hands” springs to mind.

Because they were designed by Hugo Boss. True fact,

'Tallica were on the cusp of replacing Lars when Cliff Burton died. They thought it would be too much to recruit a new bassist and drummer at the same time, so he got a reprieve. Cliff's death was a double tragedy.

this. Some's bastards, some's aint.

'Carry'?!?! My plectrums come with wheels these days. 😢

The Memory (doesn't) Remains - Metallica. 😄

Mmmmm, vintage ribbon mics. 😍