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My Sharona

The US specials have shallower necks too - which is why I have them.

I bought two US Specials in 10 days earlier this year. I understand!

More gain in the house, less gain in stage. Same with all driven tones.

I've performed it a couple of times. I used a Boss LS2 to split my signal. In 1 loop I had a Digitech Bass Synth Wah, and in the other an EHX Metal Muff. Took some tweeking but it sounded excellent. One of the performances was a drunken jam that was on youtube, but I can't find it now. Maybe it was taken down by the person who filmed it.

Sandberg TT4 Superlight is the answer. Under 7lb, brilliant balance. Avoid all basses that have the old style large plate tuning heads on them - unless you are happy to spend money on fitting Hipshot Ultralites instead. They do make a huge difference for balance and can also lower total weight by as much as 0.5 lb depending on the tuners you are removing. If you find a heavy tuner bass you like where the balance is almost where you want it, then Hipshots will cure it.

I had one too. I saved up for ages for it, not realising that the neck shape would be very different to my old early 90s Energy. The new square shoulder neck shape is very uncomfortable for me. Everything else about the bass was wonderful, but the neck wasn't. I wish they'd go back to the earlier C shape neck, then I'd buy another one. I am also surprised that they stick with such a wide 5 string nut at 48mm. The Stingray is the highest selling 5 string at 44.5mm and many others do 45mm (although I have to say that 0.5mm makes a lot of difference in comfort for me), and yet Status and a few others stick with a massive 48mm. I'm sure 5 string sales would be higher if the nut was narrower.

You've got a point there. I once saw a theatre show based on Meat Loaf tunes with a story inspired by Bat out of hell. It was very well done and had a great sound - no bass player. I think it was sequenced rather than the keys doing it. In the real Meat Loaf band the bass player is Kasim Sulton - and his main job was actually as musical director of the show. Meat Loaf bass parts are not complex, so it wouldn't surprise me if Sulton took the bass role as an additional element rather than hiring another player. He's is a very good player, but I bet he earns more by being musical director for big shows.

This! Their web designer needs shooting. There's so much cut n paste for bass specs going on you pretty much have to ignore a lot of it.

Another company called Grossman makes them too. For £23. Presumably because they haven’t “innovated” by not using cocobola and other posh woods like Nordy have. And because thy don’t have slots, you cut your own rather than Nordy attempt to make you buy different ones for each bass spacing you have. With 17.5mm to 19mm spacing on my basses I can make 1 with double sets of slots that fits both basses.

I've had several zero fret basses of different makes. Some have little grooves in the zero fret, others have not, but have had tighter actual nuts / string guides. I doubt there is a correct way as such as long as the action is right.

Helix synths are monophonic. At the moment anyway

I'd expect nut width and weight to be in the sales description in the first place. Especially if the nut width is only 36mm for a jazz - that is an unusual feature. By not including those details the OP has wasted the time of the potential buyers, and has actually wasted his own time in not providing the information just once in the advert. Did the OP update the advert with the answers to the questions when they came in? That would be a time saver too.

I recently decided that the zero-fret was quite a bit high on my TT SL, now it's back from the luthier having been lowered. Much better now. The lower frets are easier to fret. Luthier said that perhaps the zero fret had been missed in the final checks - although it was fully polished.

I might sell my strap. They are not cheap and I don't use it now as I sold the bass I had bought it for. No point in having it sit in a drawer doing nothing.

I made one. It's self adhesive strip foam stuck to an ice lolly stick. It works brilliantly. The mute effect is quite strong so I'm going to experiment with different width of foam. Might even angle it so the D and G have less muting. $40 for a Nordy one can sod off. I've got enough foam and sticks to make about 50 of them for about £10