LukeFRC

I accidentally bought a cheap acoustic on eBay and it turned out to be a fancy luthier built thing that sounds phenomenal - it has that consistency of tone down the neck that I associate with quality instruments ... Now on an electric bass I don't think that it's as critical, and there are a few different ways you can get to a certain outcome ... but there's still something where some basses just sound better, more even and more predictable and resonate "right" whatever that means, it's often a quiet quality that ins't instantly recognisable, some scooped sounding basses sound "better" at first... If I knew what it was that got that magic I'ld be happy. It's not just cost - I've played plenty of expensive basses that didn't have it, and some cheap ones that did... I'm more likely to expect something like it off an expensive bass but... who knows what the link is...

It’s good to pull apart the question a bit - what do you get for the money? £2k spent with ACG or overwater would get you a very different quality level than the same money spent on something with Fender on the headstock. Likewise objectively fender and Squier are built to price points - where would something cheaper like Sire fit into that range? somehow I’ve ended up with basses that were £3k and £3.5k new, a custom built P that cost me £1.7k and a 80s ibanez that cost me £350 odd

depending on your needs the other way to approach it would be with snapshots...

eBay is full of resellers - you probably should check out DigiMart Instruments marked S are new, and the japanese on some of the listings mention this is a limited revival of the original https://www.digimart.net/search?category12Id=359&keywordAnd=fodera&x=0&y=0

Would Locknuts on the threaded bit to fix it in place work?

If you like it buy it, if you don't don't. Live and let live. Some people like Rickenbacker, me pointing out the obvious wrongness of their preferences doesn't really get us anywhere. If you make something unusual, and want people to buy it you have to do a bit more on your marketing to convince people to want it, for whatever reason you choose. If you don't then likely less people will buy it. For what it's worth, I kinda get the design from a mechanical problem solving perspective, and would much rather have one than one of these ...

@Beedster ill just leave this here for you https://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Takamine_B_10.html?fbclid=IwAR2a3ji7Pmg-ExCiRz9fn4RJJ8yMs6xh5ykBsMVLY8HBa7d5Os2AeSQegDc (I’m a bad person I know)

I ordered a pickup last month that was due to be in stock in Thomann late feb… then they shipped it and it arrived a few days later and two weeks early!

the righty in the first vid or the lefty in the second?!

For anyone who cares (and @Owen who will humour me) I solved it! It's fixed and works!! Test at home: plug into mini mixer with headphones, low signal lots of noise... my 3 year old daughter has the cans on.... "Hmm maybe it's something in software settings?" I think - go to plug USB cable in and BANG the signal jumps up giving my 3 year old a fright (her hearing is fine) so first problem is that something on the USB port was doing something odd... seems to be fixed. As Jean-Luc suggested asked the Demon to go elsewhere, he's now made up home in my wife's hairdryer. Will deal with this problem later. Took to church, plugged in.... it works but the XLR outputs are +4dBu and the preamp on the desk needs to be set at about 0db, maximum 6db ... so if we plugged in and it hadn't been turned right down that would explain the noise too.... Then the noise floor is pretty high, experimenting (I've not been involved with the tech at church) so some random cable extension is putting a load of noise in the signal, switch that and bingo we're ok! Still can't play the bloody thing myself but hey ho!

I had no idea what this thread I got a notification was about .... so had to remind myself... but very much approve of that colour choice... I wanted to get my Lakland refinished a similar colour, I was going to go for something similar to MINI's British racing green IV metallic In other green colours worth looking at BMWs Isle of Man green would be interesting....

Didn't I make a comment last year about you getting a stingray, and you said you wouldn't?

My 1982 L1000 didn't have shielding... it's not something Leo seemed to do much of.

out of interest - what are you doing with 6 bands of parametric Eq?

You've got Global eq which is 3 band with LPF and HPF and presumably the same in a parametric eq block? If I needed 6 point parametric I would use two eq blocks next to one another.

Reminds me of this

We should have a game where someone posts a synth bass line or something and then everyone try’s to get as close as pos with a helix and then shares the patches

go for the one that sounds the best