LukeFRC

Where did you get your foam and what type?

What’s the best kinda foam for this kinda thing?

@tvickey - my Walkabout transformer went pop about 3 years back (no slight on the transformer, it was 20 years old) - Westside and Mesa sent me to a local mesa approved tech - David Gaffrey (01924 267142) Based in Ossett near Wakefield (so not a billion miles away from you) who was very good. If Westside send you his way you are in good hands.

A great choice

What colour pickguard @AndyTravis?

Very nice!

Cheapest electric bass on Thomann = £89 Cheapest Oboe on Thomann = £1390 (though I do agree with the sentiment)

My band back a while now was a 6 piece, toy keyboard, synth, trumpet, drum machine, loops, guitar and bass and about 3 or 4 vox. We were lucky in that we went straight from the starter gigs too fairly good venues with nice PA systems and good sound people. (Since then mainly christian/church stuff to various sizes.) The main questions are - what's providing the FOH sound and what can that do, and how much stage volume do you want. I've always been taught, and am of the opinion that as low as possible stage volume is the ideal. So enough volume to hear myself over however loud the drummer is. I'ld take a PA wedge over a bass amp given the choice. BUT that's presuming the PA is good enough to play the low end. It's also not very rock and roll, or suitable for everyone. Go onto talkbass for instance and there seems to be a lot more venues, but more emphasis on bass players taking their rig and it has to carry the whole venue.

corrected it for you! I agree though, if you've got a bass cab designed for a fairly flat response. Barefaced BB2 is by far the best thing on the market in that respect IMO. It depends on the circumstance. Some swear on their RCF and I don't want to contradict their experience but the K12.2 that frank black has would kick out enough low end for me, as the gigs I play and have played have been in venues with PA support that can take the bass.

picture cos why not?

What is it about the jazz you don’t like that flats would solve @Scoobs?

I’ve just been playing it and it’s phenomenal. ive played a few of his preamps and this is the second I’ve owned - I think he might be the only UK bassed bass manufacturer who is world leading in his field EDIT: Plus status for graphite?

So update time (for @Richard R if no one else) So you might have noticed the "might sell this and get a Precision" vibe in the previous posts, to be honest that was what was on my mind for a while. I had got more or less used to the 5th string, was starting to change my playing style to suit it and was quite enjoying it. The bass though I was struggling with. It was like it had a eq on it with finger style where the low mids got massively boosted, and the high mids and some of the top end disappeared. I know these pickups are supposed to be 'dark', but theres something in that which should suit my playing style, not loose the definition. Interestingly pick and slap (neither of which I'm great at) sounded great. Very odd. I started looking at precision basses. While I did that the Lakland was sat beside me as I worked. Every so often I've been picking it up to play, and it plays amazingly. It just feels perfect. Unplugged I was liking the bass more and more. Experimenting I also found that if I cut the top end I liked the sound passive too (though it is low output). So the problem seemed to be the preamp... Way's to fix it #1: Turn the gain up inside... this meant that the high mids came back. Seems almost obvious! So this meant I could get it sounding good. BUT generally the treble control was fine, the bass control cut was fine, the boost made it flabby. And I was having problems with the mid control... any cut was fine but seemed to cut too much of it's musical tone, and any boost seemed to be what was needed but to my ears at least seemed to be adding loads of harmonic overtones and made the sound really "wide" Way's to fix it #2: I just stuck a East Uni Pre in it. I need to fiddle a bit more - but it sounds awesome. Why every preamp doesn't have a passive tone control as well I don't know!

Like the last two respondents, paul saw my wanted amp and helped me out with a John East Uni Pre, it came super quick, well packed and in untouched condition. A lovely guy to deal with - deal in confidence Many thanks Paul!

Netflix 'Roma' seemed to do alright...

Yeah please don’t sell it - at the very least somepoint it would be fun to compare it to my Slightly older L1000

Go into a shop and play 30 basses sub £5-600 yamaha will be the least interesting, but also consistently good sounding and with a high quality for their price point.

The Yamaha BB range are fantastic value at whatever price point. And secondhand they tend to be cheaper. Secondhand BB1024 would be nice. in terms of farida @AndyTravis is our resident expert

Looks amazing - so what’s the space used for now?

Noticed the transom guy in the window?

Agreed. My take also is that they seem to produce a £1k bass model bass with millions of options that take the price up. If you spec a £2k bass my still get £1k service

If that’s an inch then I would be more worried about why the neck is the size of a 4x4 fence post!

Super clever really. Odd enough that- as a back up short scale I think a lot of people will go “why not” - it’s not trying to be a P or J, nice colours, he makes pickups so the switches and pups prob sound great and OVAL tuners - v cool plus not silly price