LukeFRC

What hasn't been mentioned and is slightly more concerning than the lacquer stuff - is why use a mini toggle there on the lower bout? It's too small for there and just wierd!!

I don't think you need to rule out 0.74Bn potential luthiers just because one guy sends out a bass with a load of laquer cracks!

My sadowsky metro has a Pau Ferro board. If I was only able to play one bass for the rest of my life and could choose any - I would choose that bass... so yeah Pau Ferro is fine

They would use this thread as defence - that even though learning was hard it seemingly brought you great joy later in life

because they are good at making pedals and bad at marketing!! Honestly, having tried the FI4 yesterday - I want one, it was amazing sounding. I've no idea which is lusher - for bass I would probably focus on how low latency they are, you can add reverb pedals after if needed!

which one? he's got two

status: factum in Camulodunum

yet the old forum of Status owners used to collectively call them Statii - but what do they know eh?

YES BINKY! YES! 👍

"Oh no" I thought reading this thread title... I'm glad you're keeping the le fay and Leducs though

I missed that!

Reminds me slightly of a Attila Balogh Odyssey bass - might be the Canadian link.

slightly contry to the popular opinion... How thin is the finish and how much temperature change was there between you and the builder? If the builder was going for a very thin nitro finish, and there was a bit of temperature change between building it and you receiving it- it could have got that sort of cracks. The anndized guard looks like the screw holes are counter sunk - so care has been taken on at least some parts. The neck finishing looks weird - like the fretboards and binding wasn't masked off when the frets were being dressed - my guess (just on the lack of care) is it's a neck bought in rather than made by the builder? Electronics issues doesn't sound great mind. But should be able to be fixed. BUT love the colour - a green jazz master bass with a gold guard is like amazing!

maybe someone took the ss/bs “mini”personally?

It also costs more than the smaller RNDI ?!

I can make a guess! I’ve seen a trend in the US, especially in the worship band sector to use 1:1 line isolator DIs to put between their helix/anagram/quad cortex and the PA to give isolation - I think it’s the pinstripe audio one that’s the trendy one

Have you ever considered it could be you have low gain overdrive ears?

As a DR user I quite like the stainless Sadowsky blue strings, they are cheaper than DR too

I had an hx stomp, was happy… then Krispn I think it was sent me a link to a colourbox at a decent price and there was a whole journey started… till I got a hx stomp again! Unless you have gig or transport reasons I don’t think it’s always an either or thing- some things the analogue circuits just sound better or are far easier to use with the controls

I used to use fatbeams and after initial dull would go I would use them for over a year.

The journey was fun though right @pantherairsoft?!

Mwaamaster ?