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I've had a Cali 1 TM4 and TM5 and I currently own Cali 2 superlight TT4 and TT5. They are my main basses. I love them. I've got a Lionel on order at the moment for delivery next year too. I think they are fabulous basses.

Is the Paradriver drive sound the same as the BDDI?

Might as well go with Ultralights while you are at it. Makes far more of a difference than you think it would.

500w More headroom and it has a volume control.

Good luck!

I once went to a shop event where Billy Sheehan was the guest of honour. As he walked in I was trying to play one of his tunes... and I completely frakked it up. I was mortified.

I might have to give them a go.

£19 delivery! Also - I like 40-100.

Strewth! On an Ibby Mezzo and on my P bass shorty I have Dunlop flats. Last time I changed the strings the sets were about £50 or so. Expensive, but they last many years so I was ok with that. They are now £95!! (Or £115 for the 5 string set). I realise the exchange rate with the USA is in the toilet, but this is shocking. Wish I had bought a few sets last time.

Alas those are nickels. I don't get on with them.

I’ve got EMG j set in mine with their preamp. But with all jazz basses I think they need a boost at about 100hz to give some proper welly but without the flub of boosting lower than that. So a preamp with a variable mid that goes down to 100hz is really useful.

https://www.markbass.it/product/gouche-series-electric-bass-stainless-steel-low-action-semi-exposed/ I bet it is these. Purple and Gold are his colours too, for the ball ends.

Are they yellow silks? Could be Mark Bass. Their Andrew Gouche sig set has tapered / bare core at the bridge.

i certainly couldn’t name the pickup in it, but I could tell you if I preferred it. Apart from the SD quarter pounder. Because it doesn’t sound like a p pickup at all.

I looked at some but they seem to all be nickels, and I don’t get on with them. has to be steels really.

Since my finger injury and subsequent arthritis (middle finger, right hand) I’ve been trying loads of different things to try to get playing as well as I used to. I love thumpy flats for my jazz gig but the extra surface area on a flat compared to the winding gaps in a round make it more difficult to play as my finger tip sort of sticks a bit more, and that finger hooks on the string anyway because of the tendon rupture. So I’ve gone to rounds with a ramp and that is a lot easier. But, unless I wait for years for the strings to reach ‘almost flat’ sounds they are somewhat bright. So… is there actually a roundwound made to be old and thumpy? Or do I just have to wait for the finger poo?

I kind of make my own sets for this. Prosteels 40-60-85-105-135T Feels a lot more even across the board for me.

To be fair that says “Power Amp Tubes, Class D Power Amp” I can see that being confusing to someone who doesn’t know that a Class D is not a tube amp. @agedhorse That is a bit misleading. I’ve been playing for 36 years and I would wonder which of those 2 things was wrong as I know one of them must be. But inexperienced players may not realise there’s a contradiction there. It should really say “Power Amp Section” or some other description that doesn’t mention tubes.

Not tried the TC but have had a lot of octave pedals. I have the OC-5 and I don’t think anything else I’ve tried tracks as well. The microPog was very close but had a much more artificial, synthy sort of quality to it. Great for tunes that wanted it, but not my personal bag.

I’ve never liked rats.

Closets of my mind destroyed, as I enter outward from a void Corpses white have strapped me down, I rise above then fall Tactual hallucination, cockroaches infest the wall. Nonsense lyrics, but actually work quite well as a rhythmic device.

"Isn't it ironic?" No Alanis. Nothing in your song is.

This. Isolated bass tracks often sound awful on their own, and magical with the rest of the band. Some of the bass sounds that sound the cleanest / flattest / whatever in the mix are actually a real farty mess when heard alone.

I like this one a lot Great sounds and nice playing.