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End of the world predicted!

I wish Sire would roll out Champagne Gold to more of their models, that's a lovely pale gold, not so yellow.

The controls (for the Z7) are listed as "Volume/Tone, Blender, Treble, Middle/Freq, Bass" - the Marcus Heritage-3 with Middle Frequency Control has a passive mode, on the V7 there's a toggle switch for passive/active, I guess on the Z7 they've hidden it on a push/pull for aesthetic/control plate space considerations. Z3 has no passive mode AFAIK. It does have a 3 band EQ though. Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass.

Couldn't tell you about string spacing - email Sire? I take back what I said earlier in the thread - I'm drifting towards a Z7 in burgundy. Yeah, right, it's pink. Anyhoo, it has grown on me and dat ebony board is also calling.

Every time I see the TU-3s, I can't help thinking it's a TU-3 that's been in a terrible accident...

The bass I've had the longest is my 2004 Epiphone Les Paul Standard, which I acquired in early 2009 and stock it looked like this: It was subsequently tricked out with EMG-HB pickups, an EMG-BQC 3 band EQ, John East knobs and a pickup selector switch in the usual LP location: I then stupidly sold it. Then I found it and bought it back. It acquired Schaller straplocks on its travels. Then I got bored of the EMG sound and also wanted to make it black and gold. So it got gutted, then rebuilt with DiMarzio X2N-B pickups, a Babicz bridge (only there because I couldn't find a gold three pointer for love nor money), gold Wilkinson tuners and a passive VVTT setup with series/parallel push/push pots on the tone pots. So yeah, I've had this bass on and off for about 15 years. I did some of my earliest gigs with it, and I guess it's going to stay with me. Not my first bass, but probably my first "good" one.

Fair play. I'm gonna roll the dice and keep putting my thumb on the pickup of my Sire D5. I just think you were supremely unlucky.

These messages are all bogus.

Surely it must have been a defective pickup? I'm sure you're strong but your thumb isn't a hammer or a hydraulic press! I've never seen anything like this in my life.

They're still in production... No, you can't have my 20th Anniversary JC... I've learned my lesson!

Tribute LB-100, emerald blue. And you're right and wrong at the same time - the current SB-1 is P-like but it has a split MFD and a slightly smaller body with a more cinched waist, and the old SB-1 did indeed have a single, single coil MFD.

Get another one, I'm on my third

Four's hardly excessive, is it? Ask me why I know

This Gibson Guy will not give a flying v what anyone has to say about Gibson bridges of any design, and how!

By the power of Grayskull...

Yeah, way too good to be a backup, innit? Enjoy!

Yay, less than 2 weeks to go!

Oh no, the square string tree is a peculiarity of these basses, you can't shear it of part of its identity, can you?

If it's Hipshots you want, but balk at the price, Licenced Hipshots are cheaper and only slightly heavier. Just make sure you order the correct ones because, unlike their USA made counterparts, they're not reversible.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to return the Hotone pedal. It has an intermittent fault with the dial at the top, it sometimes fails to register the transition between positions 1 and 2. Sometimes it stays on 2 when you turn it to 1, and sometimes it stays on 1 when you turn it to 2. Bummer. I'm going to give a replacement unit a chance because I do like it. If it happens again then I'll be out. Can't work with it if I can't reliably know which pitch it's in - especially at a gig.

I did some quick and dirty recording of it. Deets - G&L Tribute LB-100 bass going through a Boss TU-2, Hotone Harmony pitch shifter/harmonizer, Yamaha CO-10 MII compressor, Joyo Monomyth preamp/OD. DI out from Monomyth with a slight low mid boost and cab sim on.

Not a sale, but I traded a very rare Guild B402-A for a G&L El Toro (itself not a super common beast), thought I had done the right thing at the time but now I think I should have held onto the Guild. I think they only made about 335 of them. Oops!

Ah well, I was not aware of that so I will record this year's attempt, better luck next year!