LukeFRC

Intreaging ...

Yes and no. No - the body and neck are currently sat unloved next to my wood pile. It sounded great ... but the neck was rough enough I was never going to play it... and I don’t have the skills to make it nice to play. (If I had built the neck myself it would have been worth it. But the key sound was there so I kinda tried to rescue it ...

Fat beams - as they age they stay playable for longer

Hey - can you describe your practice setup please? Ive a similar problem, at the mo my “me time” is after the little one has gone to bed ... and firing up an amp would go down very badly with all involved.

I’m serious about the danger of gas - not playing but having nice basses is ok if you can afford it - it’s crap if you spend more time talking about basses online than you do playing

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.