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The Ibanez Gerald Veasley model has a very narrow spacing for a sixer. They don't make it anymore but it might be available used.

If you want to play the same shapes as on a guitar I'd go for as narrow a string spacing as possible. The Ibanez mentioned here would be good. As for strings, you could do worse than contacting Newtone strings who can advise on guages and make you up custom sets.

Sounds excellent. What tuning is being used?

If you're talking about the two on Reverb. The bass that's been through Jeff Babicz' hands will be of the highest quality. Whether I'd pay £3100 is another matter. The other one looks OK and he is open to offers so might be worth offering something lower. That would be you choice.

But wives are too busy counting the number of shoes and handbags they have. [duck, incoming]

But I'm too old to bend down and count my toes 😄

Well, I've run out of fingers to count them but what I do know is I have far to many and not nearly enough. 😉

I wonder if it was a dead spot. Graphite produces them as well as wood. I have a dead spot on the open D on my S2. I can understand how that would drive some people crazy but in a way I quite like it.

If you're referring to the Status pickups the coils were parallel with each other as in a humbucker not as in a split coil.

That's easy to explain. The early Status basses had hum cancelling pickups. Essentially only one coil produced sound the other being there to cancel out any hum. Streamlines have full humbuckers with both coils producing tone.

I haven't been able to find any info online. There are pictures of Mr. Steinberger holding said instrument in Jim Reilly's biography of the man. There's going to be a new guitar too.

You could try Headless USA for Steinberger. They are in the USA so import duties would have to be factored in but owned by Jeff Babicz who used to work at Steinberger Sound. https://www.headlessusa.com/repair-restoration

It was horrendously expensive to produce in the 80s and they didn't charge enough for it. There was a limited market for it in the 80s and that market was filled pretty quickly. Those are the two reasons why it ultimately failed. They are still great basses though.

There doesn't seem to be any information out there about it but have a read of Jim Reilly's biography of the man. That has pictures of Mr. Steinberger holding the new instrument.

That's not stopped Ned Steinberger patenting an updated version of the original L/XL bass. NS Design also has a larger instrument roster than Steinberger Sound had. When it's released I'll be somewhere near the front of the que for one.

Perfect. 🙂

And this is a man who doesn't know what he's doing?

Lovely playing. I enjoyed that a lot..

Thank you very much.

For those who would like to spend 36 minutes letting their mind wander this is another longform improvisation. At the heart of the effects as always is the Helix Floor. #ambient,#ambientbass,#ambientmusic,#spaceambient,#andyothling,#perryfrank,#line6,#line6helix,#strymonstrymonbigsky,#bigsky, #reverb,#delay,#pitch,#pitchfork,#pog,#electroharmonix,#kmi,#keithmcmillen,#softstepii,#midi,#cubasis,#ambientbassimprovisation, #ambientimprovisation,#improvisation,#fripp,#robertfripp,#soundscape,#ambientsoundscape

Impressive as always Andy. Looks like a Sandberg Custom Thinline from the front. Beautiful.

It's not applied to any pedal or switch. I tried changing each pan block to the stereo width block and the same problem occurred. Je ne comprend pas.

Small problem with pan blocks. I have just set up a new patch on Helix floor which I want in stereo. At the end of each line I have a pan block. Top one set to hard right, bottom one set to hard left. Press save then change patch. Come back to new patch and both pan blocks are set to hard left. Puzzled. anyone any idea what I might be doing wrong?