LukeFRC

So the first time years ago when you were wanting to pack it all in you sold me a very nice blue jazz. Always felt a bit bad taking that off you. Keep the white jazz, and keep the prototypes if you want, stop feeling the need to play - you can have a break and that’s fine. That’s good - but don’t sell the jazz. So that’s one thing- but why you wanting a Yamaha? Stop the gas, stop looking, stop bass foruming and stop buying stuff too

Is shouty a positive of negative?

Stunning - sound as good as it looks?

Just looked it up ... £2.7k !!!!

I tried one of them a year or so back - after the ‘75 ri was a GAS bass for me and one I really wanted the ‘74ri I tried was awful, nasty looking wood, massively thick neck finish and dull sound. Disappointing. anyway that wasn’t why I was posting - but to say I got to try out a custom shop P in a shop the other day - and it was lovely ... esp after the awful USA std or whatever they are called one. But £2k lovely? Not really

I think I’m equally responsible for the little one

Out of interest where do you keep them? The other half is telling me we might not have the space for my 4 ...

With the Curved back?

Would some kind of varitone switch with a big knob be big enough to cover it?

Ouch

This

The pointy bit on the bottom edge of the body?

Are there any younger music presenters out there? There doesn’t seem to be much of a talent stream

Argh we had that model at the church I played bass for for almost ten years. Ok I admit I probably would be better with the eq now but sticking a bright sounding Warwick streamer with active pups into it was like going through a time machine into an 80s nightmare. Mind you I would try one again... though the tech who fixed my walkabout warned me off them as *apparently* the Fets are out of production

So you’ll be asking @skelf to make you a fretless with his filter preamp in it then...

Did it originally have the filter based pre? I’ve the EQ-01 and it’s amazing in terms of tonal variation - it does however match the character of the streamer really well

The John East / ACG preamp transformed my streamer into one of the best basses I’ve ever played. I would happily buy anything from either Alan or John based on the quality of that preamp alone.

I would say I call a spade a spade ... but think that would make it worse

My mate who was a farmer had very good equipment, well maintained and looked after. It was heavy duty and his tractor was from the 1930s and still going strong. he hadn’t however mastered the art of putting a fence up that could stop a sow on heat escaping but that’s a different conversation. When I say agricultural would Land Rover defender vs Velar be more helpful?

Is the hd350 into the BB2 really that much more effort to move?

If you want to compare it to the one I played today it was an ok adjective. Not brilliant, but works to get across what I was trying to say. The older basses are chunkier, heavier and built with 1970s construction techniques- the one I played was different. For what it’s worth if I were to go out and buy a stingray I would go get a pre EB someone I know has it sounds amazing - then I would get the stripped ‘88 with bitsa 3 band eq added and worn frets that just sounded good - then I would get the more lithe new one. Agricultural isn’t bad, the continued popularity of precision basses Prove this! If your basses do what you need them to I don’t think you have any cause to be insulted by another’s opinion of them.

So I just popped into PMT Leeds to try a bass out and ended up trying four! They have the dark glitter finish, single pickup with a roasted neck in... and I got to try it... and it’s a pretty lovely thing - such a nice neck, lightweight and really really lovely instrument. It feel less agricultural than the traditional stingrays - which is a good thing. tone wise - no idea as I was going through their orange bass terror so not what I was used too at all- sounded a bit like a stingray! You could hear the treble point was a bit different as it didn’t have that stingray ‘click’ going on. So yes, nice instruments! I also tried a fender USA Jazz bass (meh- not great), a custom shop relic P bass (nicer than the jazz, fun to play) the stingray and a sandberg J/MM thing (really nice feeling but a bit underwhelming sonically after the ray)