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The best thing is that we can take or leave both the tongue in cheek Trace Elliot Watts and the ultra technical A Watt is A Watt. Certainly no reason for anyone to get grumpy. For me the exciting thing to come from these threads is when I learn something. By staying out of the brouhaha I can do that.

Fantastic gig in the garden of a city centre pub. Lots of dancing and cheering, band on fire, relaxed and happy to be playing with one another, a truly awesome band with lots of love, wise old heads and no ego problems at all. No stars for the venue; got made to sit and wait cluttering the garden with all our gear (we're a seven piece) while the support (a duo) played right up to ten minutes before we went on. By which time it was dark, no lights other than stage lights we had brought. By the time the guys had shifted their stuff out of the way we had no time to set up properly. I politely suggested that twice now they've done this and might it be better to let us set up then the duo can just play in front of our gear. Seems my experience and advice wasn't welcome. Ho hum. Oh and I got paid £15. So basically we were there to entertain and keep the pub's customers, so it could make money off us. Should be a two way thing but there it is. Luckily that at least covered my expenses and I do love the band, so I put up with it. Again.

Beautiful. And I speak as a dedicated rosewood board kind of guy. I'm slowly replacing everything I own with P Basses. When it's right it's right.

Just looking at this tells me there is no way I could have done this from scratch to this standard. Quick question Can we not use black pipe?

Sure I saw a thread here with just a head. But I'm old, my memory is foggy, and I've kind of glazed over after looking at that Trace./Barefaced combination. Oh my goodness.

This is looking good. Thanks for sharing your progress.

a well, if we're going to get all sciencey about it..... I've been playing the bass guitar ever since I started - which I think we can all agree qualifies me. I've only ever been told I was too loud on two occasions Once playing through a big old Trace Elliot stack and once through an Orange Terror. QED. 👨‍🔬

Very, very exciting times. That looks pretty good doesn't it?

Oh BTW @Al Krow, stop posting videos of your band. You don't look remotely how I've always imagined you and its messing with my head. 🤕🤯

Use Export to save in the File menu to save tracks as MP3 or whatever you like and the original remains unaltered. As long as you save it as a different name or in a different place

Shame @solo4652that line up didn't work for you. To be honest I can easily see the appeal as a bassist of playing in either band. I agree with you, the others do seem to be excellent musicians, funnily enough the bass player wasn't in any way out of place alongside them

Welcome Home! Tell me how do you find the Kustom gear?

Too modest. Your version is less mainstream, sure, but really really good. Inventive and very well played.

I wondered whether to mention it but in fairness the picture I shared here which clearly showed the problem was one he had sent to me. It was there in plain sight and I still sent the cash. Anyway it plays like a dream. I've not put it down since it arrived

This is so true. I'm reminded of a similar discovery I made in the world of photography. To squeeze a little more quality the leap was from a £300 lens to a £1400 lens. And I often go out with a £300 lens on the front of a camera which cost half the price of my 'best' camera because I find the combination more comfortable to use and prefer the photographs produced. I'm putting together an album of prints for my daughter and guess what? A layman would be hard pressed to pick out the camera phone snaps from those taken with an expensive camera. All of this is analogous to bass guitar. Does the instrument feel comfortable to you? If you have more than one which one do you find you reach for most often? Which combination of bass and amp pleases you most? Price isn't quite the same as value. With photography, the more expensive camera will produce better large prints which under close scrutiny will stand out in an exhibition. Similarly a bass assembled with more expensive components will often produce noticibly better results on a recording which can be studied more carefully. As with so much in life subjectivity rules!

Occupying my time in my usual productive manner. Going to be a bunch of fun when the TPM arrives. Meanwhile I'm messing with different ideas.

I have a Seymour Duncan pick up I had considered bunging in but so far I like what I'm hearing

So black tuners headstock and strings yes? What about the pup poles?

So... Mr funkle... all eyes are on you.

I was amazed. Assumed after market bodge job but no.

What's that? Picture? OK OK here you are

Well, she's arrived. Via Hermes (terrifying) and yet not in Hermes usual self assembly pack. Thank you all for spotting the deliberate mistake I was mentally prepared and got straight to work. Neck seemed to be in the right place, snugly in its pocket and wasn't squiggly shaped which I like in a neck. So to the bridge. Not only was it in the original factory drilled holes and the appropriate size, but was soundly fitted. However, it was pink torpedo eyed to the tune of a whole 8th of an inch and fitted a similar distance too low. I filled the holes, redrilled and shifted it. Players like a dream. Light as a feather and a nice growl. Flats to come next.

I like the feel of flats on a P bass but once I heard them recorded... oh goodness me.

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A Fender Precision 😉