LukeFRC

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)

Where does that wood come from? I’m not sure it grows around Moffat?!

How much more would a super light version of a stingray made by Jon Shuker be than buying s new stingray and then getting a new body made up?

My passive and active inputs have different impediences. My G&L L1000 is passive but super hot pickups, but if I stick it in the active input, while the volume is lower it messes up the (passive) bass and treble controls.

I like that burnt apple colour

I just plug into amps and trust that the designer took care of all this stuff.

30w at 120v in 200w at 28.3v RMS out now I don’t know that much about amps or understand it but I think there’s another vairable you haven’t considered going on here...

Nae bad!

There’s your answer...

Or even a new fretted ACG and convert the fretted to fretless .... I’m not helping am I?

For the value of the ‘74 that would afford you a very nice new fretless from ACG?

I go through this process... -i have this bass. It’s a cool bass and I like it... -but it’s not getting played - not doing any harm on my wall though - but if I sold for X I would have them money for Y (or even do a trade) - I prefer Y to X - so regardless of market value or YOB I wouldn’t regret it. Its worked for me, “swapped” a JV p bass for a thumb (I added money) and a BB1200 for a L1000 I adore. And the thumb is up for a potential sale now... it works for me as a thought process and also helps with selling as you know the figure where dropping the price isn’t worth it for you

I like this. I had heard it on the radio, it's very Jamie T to my ears.

Plus Chris is an amazing guy.

for the best recreation of the fundamental I would be looking at a Basslab LBow ... and engineering that means there isn't a need to think about wood drying process... the most sonically transparent bass I had was a Peavey T40 - massive boat anchor with a giant bridge and almost complete isolation of the strings from the body - it sounded like strings vibrating with very very little coloration from the wood. Everything on it custom made for the job, and massive engineering steps taken in order to make it happen which set the direction for instrument manufacturer afterwards... so if we're after sonic transparent and microscopically researched and tooled instrument possible I would suggest a Peavey T40.

The problem is not only is it subjective but it relies on context and trend. Broadly Talkbass taps into the positive US attitude and gets excited and supportive of their small scale builders - so a lot of the top boutique names come from the states. In the UK we don’t seem to really like our builders being successful so aren’t as positive and don’t big them up as much - (another comment on barefaced handles anyone?) so we tend more towards US producers... once you get to a certain point how good Something is becomes less objective and the brand and your perceptions of it start mattering.

So maybe the whole “300w AB = 800w class D” thing is more conservative rated AB vs class D rating trying to quantify its peak power too. The thing I don’t understand is we’ve had this leap from lower powered amps to 4000w class D amps - but has there been an equivalent jump in driver technology?