LukeFRC

Wait… are clothes an option?

On that- isn’t it passive volume tone, pickup selector switch and then active passive switch and active bass treble or something?

Looks like a great project! Do what you need to make it work!

Ild ask @wateroftyne I think I got in contact via Facebook

This is a Bass doc one here …

I think I'm the same... except I've got the the point where I was using the B a fair bit. My main bass has got a d-tuner and embaresingly I have found it easier to work out 5 string than the D-tuner that I always forget and end up playing something a tone lower than I intended too!

if you do you can mark the second anniversary by posting one of those really long "all the basses I've had" posts and look back at the 30-40 instruments you bought and sold in the year

you're missing an owl after the second pickup - easy mistake to make.

similarly I remember an older friend listening to the strokes and lending me his Television record

a tiny one?

yes! also, sadly, because there was never really any more to make it a "sound". He's a good example, because oddly he kinda sits outside culture a bit, pops up, does his thing and then was gone far too soon. If you compare it to something else that was fairly original (at the time, and in the mainstream), like I dunno, Kid A, or Screamadellica - then the culture and the music form around each other - it's not as much that the music sounds dated, it's that the culture of the time picked up resonances of the music and vice versa.

It's nice to be playing a bit more. Both the 4 and 5 string have been taken out. I can play either interchangeably now, which is nice. Feels like I've achieved something over the Covid period. I mean I'm equally bad on each now. I've kinda come to the conclusion that I'm at heart a 4 string player, the upsides and downsides are about even, but there's something fun about a 4 that I like. It will be interesting, I have two basses at the moment and normally own 3-4. One build on order and keeping eyes open for something else too... it will be interesting to see where my 5 string will end up on the pecking order. It's a nice sounding thing despite it being a 5 string. At the moment though the Sadowsky metro gets all the playing time... as it has since I got it!

L2000 doesn’t have a 5 position switch either, but no worries we don’t need to spoil Ricky’s fun

(but great work)

You know Leo Fender thought this all through for you and designed it in the best possible way already?

Yould buy a few, get one of them refinished, sell them and end up playing a Yamaha BB Ild lend you my 5 string for a bit if you were closer

Made in Chicago by Lakland vs made in Korea or Indonesia by Cort (or Japan by ESP)

Paul put up a wanted post. I had what he wanted sat on a shelf. Money was exchanged for things. Simple.

Dunno! They are cheap compared to bass strings so I’ve tried a few brands. My acoustic is also a bit odd and takes very lightweight strings or the top starts doing bad things! in short I’m not the person to ask!

I can't really play guitar but decided I should learn... I had an acoustic and and electric... It really depends what you want to play. The benefit of the acoustic is you just pick it up and go, no amp, no pedals, no cables... and for learning in a unstructured manner I was that was really good as I played it more. I sold the acoustic cos the electric was "better", it continued to gather dust and got sold... a while later I bought another acoustic, it gets played... the electric I bought to learn at the start of lockdown 2020... yep, gathers dust.

So a used BB1200s would be better but then!

Maybe a question for Trav - I’m guessing thr BBPH is the same placement as his old bb1100s … so when abouts did the bb line move the neck pickup forward a bit?