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It’s just two weeks ago if someone had asked me what basses Andy Travis played I would have been able to give a fairly good guess. I wouldn’t have guessed one Marcus Miller!! (not really bright colour enough for you?!)

surely the one on the right is an interloper who has sneaked in.... is that two Marcus Millers??? Not one, two.

I got my first 5 string last year. I expected to either hate it, or find it life changing. It's neither. It's an extra string and a few more notes Mine has similar string spacing to my 4s, and I've a reasonable right hand position so I found the change to be really easy. It took a while to work out which string was which without looking but simple enough. Muting strings is a bit more challenging.

thanks

All the brightness all the time??

Thanks - you’ve now got me wanting to either buy one of them things, or work entirely in Pantone inks!

That looks good. With my work computer I bother about that, but not used anything like that - looks really neat solution. this was done on my personal laptop so colour calibration could be way off - but if you see how quickly I did the reflections and shadows accuracy wasn’t really the aim. Half the problem is that my monitor could be calibrated but there’s such a range of setups for the source images I’m grabbing off line to act as a sample!

ps open it in acrobat on a desktop... - should have learned the HTML option!

my current fave...

there's a bug - something is making the button for black disappear... hold on I'll fix it done!

MY D.I.Y. Jazz BASS CONFIGORATOR! Last year I got my first ever 5 string. I don't know if I'm actually loving the bass, but it looks beautiful in a lovely metallic red. I'm cooped up, and doing the thing we all do where we we imagine what we would get instead... or if I refinished my main bass to look nicer. So we all love a good configurator don't we? Two of the best are Maruszczyk and Sandberg where you can play to your hearts content. They are great. The only problem I have is some of the colours are, well not what I want to see... They obviously are making and selling basses and showing the colours they have. I read something @wateroftyne put on facebook was how he get a Limelight precision and asked them for this lovely aged Lake placid blue... which is a lot softer than his brighter Maruszczyk... This is what I wanted to see - find a way to mock up my bass with a range of bright custom colours... including "new and aged tones." Originally starting with something a bit cartoon like I found the photo of MY bass the shop had used... so used that as a base... its a Metro Will Lee So I started at ManchesterGuitarTech's supply of paints (ie what's available) and then armed with the internet looked up a whole load of Fender custom colours from the 60's, then a few more whacky 50's colours too. (and thanks to @gareth writing something about it, the 1981 international range too) - I can't promise any of the colours are "accurate", and some of them ended up being tweaked multiple times based on internet trawls of dozens of finished guitars... At the end I've stuck in an aged dark Lake placid blue that I had seen Sadowsky use on @AndyTravis's Metro PJ, a couple of G&L colours (one I own in a transparent colour, and one I love), and some glitter metal flake, cos who doesn't love metal flake? They are all my quick bodge together on photoshop. I really haven't spent long on these so some of the shadows look a bit odd on some colours. I've got a couple of pick guards... so I stuck them in, plus a few more for the craic... and then stuck some filters on to badly mimic different neck woods... and then bodged a painted headstock... So hopefully fun to play with.. I think there's somewhere like 2,500 different combos available! The other reason I wanted to do this was to learn the switching technique for a PDF. HTML is a better way to do it like Maruszczyk have, but I'm not a web dev and it would have taken me more than a couple of evenings looking up vintage Fenders... Enjoy. Feed back any glaring mistakes or colours that are way way off.... v1.1 - bug fix on "black" button disappearing when you clicked on desert sand NEEDS TO BE DOWNLOADED AND OPENED IN ACROBAT Bass_config_SadowskyWL_v1.1.pdf

I prefer @skej21 over @stewblack

Check that before buying one. From my understanding the control ability will work with the newer Variax but not the older generation of which the bass is part of

Thing is I think the bass is too old to talk to helix. So you’re on hd500

I would be interested in how well something like the variax works live for bass... does the pa eq need to change for every song?

In sound or looks or both?

If it helps you.... you can't without modelling like the Verix thing... Much of the sound is down to the pickup placement.... There's not space to put a P and a MM on the same body. The MM and the back pup of a Jazz also clash. Delano hybrid system is designed to do Jazz and MM sounds (look at Clover basses) ... but the MM pickup will be in the right place for a jazz tone, or a right place for a MM tone. My 55-94 gets kinda close ish... but it's precision, MM and jazz ballpark more than anything else... the preamp also makes a difference. Live it might get close enough to a P tone to get away with it, but not recording.

How versatile do you need? and if you are going for a known sound, how close does it need to be? a couple of years back I scratched an itch and built myself a versatile bass, two pickups, one in MM spot, the other kinda as close to the p spot, series/single/paralell on each pup, loads of switching options for blend and then a 2 band MM preamp... it was great and could do most things... but versatility got in the way for simplicity of playing for me. I would probably tend more towards having at least two basses, or if you don’t need super accurate something like the Lakland 55-94 I’ve got gets in the ballpark of a fair few sounds and weighs a lot less than the T40 I used to have

What have we told you about spending too much time on Talkbass!

Slap is often the quickest way to display your lack of musicality. The difference between those who can play slap musically and those who can't is a lot bigger than finger style or pick playing

I was wondering - you couldn’t do different effects per string but a piezo equipped bass though eq, multi band compression and/or an IR - I wonder how close you could get

How complex is the modelling on them out of interest?