LukeFRC

a tiny one?

yes! also, sadly, because there was never really any more to make it a "sound". He's a good example, because oddly he kinda sits outside culture a bit, pops up, does his thing and then was gone far too soon. If you compare it to something else that was fairly original (at the time, and in the mainstream), like I dunno, Kid A, or Screamadellica - then the culture and the music form around each other - it's not as much that the music sounds dated, it's that the culture of the time picked up resonances of the music and vice versa.

It's nice to be playing a bit more. Both the 4 and 5 string have been taken out. I can play either interchangeably now, which is nice. Feels like I've achieved something over the Covid period. I mean I'm equally bad on each now. I've kinda come to the conclusion that I'm at heart a 4 string player, the upsides and downsides are about even, but there's something fun about a 4 that I like. It will be interesting, I have two basses at the moment and normally own 3-4. One build on order and keeping eyes open for something else too... it will be interesting to see where my 5 string will end up on the pecking order. It's a nice sounding thing despite it being a 5 string. At the moment though the Sadowsky metro gets all the playing time... as it has since I got it!

L2000 doesn’t have a 5 position switch either, but no worries we don’t need to spoil Ricky’s fun

(but great work)

You know Leo Fender thought this all through for you and designed it in the best possible way already?

Yould buy a few, get one of them refinished, sell them and end up playing a Yamaha BB Ild lend you my 5 string for a bit if you were closer

Made in Chicago by Lakland vs made in Korea or Indonesia by Cort (or Japan by ESP)

Paul put up a wanted post. I had what he wanted sat on a shelf. Money was exchanged for things. Simple.

Dunno! They are cheap compared to bass strings so I’ve tried a few brands. My acoustic is also a bit odd and takes very lightweight strings or the top starts doing bad things! in short I’m not the person to ask!

I can't really play guitar but decided I should learn... I had an acoustic and and electric... It really depends what you want to play. The benefit of the acoustic is you just pick it up and go, no amp, no pedals, no cables... and for learning in a unstructured manner I was that was really good as I played it more. I sold the acoustic cos the electric was "better", it continued to gather dust and got sold... a while later I bought another acoustic, it gets played... the electric I bought to learn at the start of lockdown 2020... yep, gathers dust.

So a used BB1200s would be better but then!

Maybe a question for Trav - I’m guessing thr BBPH is the same placement as his old bb1100s … so when abouts did the bb line move the neck pickup forward a bit?

Not unless you know something I don’t! @CHRISDABASS????

It was an example of where to look rather than a recomendation. For all I know the Japanese says “this neck is like a banana”

Multi lingual Peavey discussions... Kudos 👊

anything on eBay in Japan it's worth checking on Digimart to see if the original shop will sell it to you rather than the tons of resellers on eBay... this one for instance is better condition and £450 plus shipping, plus VAT and import... https://www.digimart.net/cat03/shop169/DS07261732/

all in good time. (AKA I've been waiting a year, it's apparently a couple of weeks away, I'll be happy if it's this side of Christmas! It's not a limelight btw)

I’ll take you up on that when my NBD happens …

Great post. The definitive best way to get the best tone out of me is to replace me with a pro. If you’re not going to do that just bodge it in the way that sounds best to you.

What do you use it for? I am the kind of player who doesn't really use pedals. But also play at church straight into a PA with no backline, and for me the ability to have an amp and cab sim, and some Eq makes the HX stomp worth it for me. Now I've got that I can branch out into compression, chorus, drive whatever if I want too. It's a lot easier to carry around than an amp

(it's quite clever)