pete.young

I have a Shadow if you want to give that a try, also a Headway EDB1. Did you manage to get any more K&K tape?

Putting pedals in the loop is hit-and-miss for a couple of reasons. Firstly it depends whether you have a parallel loop or a series loop. Many amps are parallel so you will get a 50% blend of the loop return and the un-affected signal prior to the loop. This is likely to weaken the effect of your chorus rather than strengthen it, and compromises the setting of the wet/dry blend knob on the pedal if you have one. Secondly, most pedals will be expecting an instrument-level voltage, where most loops run at a line-level. This is fine for studio rack-type effects, some pedals will tolerate it, others won't play nice.

Think it was launched in 1998, so 2007-2010.

It's been working perfectly as it is for 10 years, it's not broke and it doesn't need fixing.

Another approach might be to use google as the search engine, and search for something like "site:https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/ Bristol" or "site:bascchat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/ Bristol" (without the quotation marks) The search functionality is somewhat improved from the previous version but still sucks oranges through elephants IMO.

Post a picture here - chances are that someone will know what it is.

It's been strung upside-down. Easily fixed with a set of strings. Great little basses for young students with small hands, these.

I have Status Half-rounds on my Duesenberg, which is a very similar proposition sound-wise. The tension is similar to rounds and the sound is thumpy but retains some definition.

Nope. But I do know who nailed the baseline. Shout out to Willie Weeks.

Not sure about Kramer outsourcing production. If they did, they kept quiet about it. All the aluminium neck Kramers were branded as made in America. My Hondo has a 'Made in Korea' sticker on the neck, plus a quality control stamp of some kind so I think you are right about Samick.

Interesting this. I have a Hondo Alien. It has a bolt-on neck and no truss rod. The neck itself has an aluminium spine and aluminium up the sides under the fingerboard, with wood filling in the gaps, just like the Kramer. Bought for an '80s tribute gig and gathering dust ever since! There's a theory that towards the end of the production run Hondo turned the Alien into a set neck without the aluminium, to cut costs, and these were also rebranded as Phantom guitars and possibly other brands too. This talkbass thread has some info, and pictures. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/dukes-vs-aliens.788654/ Definitely not worth £170 in it's present condition, and without the hard case.

I have a Starplayer bass, bought second-hand from this forum a few years ago. The list price seems to have gone up quite a bit in the interim. I'm very happy with it: it's a good-quality instrument which is comfortable to play and has a useful range of sounds, regardless of where it was or wasn't made. The components may have been sourced outside Germany, but they are not cheap. I would say the build and sound quality is on a par with Gretch Electromatic, and considerably better than Fender Coronado reissues and Epiphone. spectoremg if you are anywhere near Ipswich you are welcome to come and try mine.

Apologies for not meeting your high standards. I've just spent a week in A&E in Ipswich Hospital, so I'm slightly behind the curve.

Aaaaghh!! My eyes!! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BASSURGERY-4003-INSPIRED-6-STRING-BASS-GUITAR-PRE-USED/392126458450?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140328180637%26meid%3D329580ab0956404082ebaee693c9de95%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D333124809569%26itm%3D392126458450&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

I always take mine off, for bass or any other stringed instrument. Can't abide rings either.

What he said. Plus, during my Applied Acoustics course, part of the engineering degree I studied back when Shergar was a colt, I was taught that noise-induced hearing loss always peaks around 4Khz, regardless of the forcing frequency. This is around the frequency range of normal human speech. I find that when I go to a noisy pub I can hear the background noise very loudly but struggle to make out what the bloke opposite is saying, and this is an indication I've suffered some damage somewhere along the line. Despite that, my upper range is still OK and I can, for example, hear those 'mosquito' HF noise generators that paranoid shop owners use to keep da yoot' from congregating outside their premises, crystal clear. So using high-end drop off as a means of evaluating effectiveness of hearing protection is flawed too, whether or no the response curves are flat, since you're measuring the wrong frequency.

The Purple Helmet.

Not once you tape it down with a bit of gaffer 🙂 Mine has velcro on the bottom nowadays and lives on the pedal board.

As Bearfist says, no particular issues. I had a Bass Collection SB310 set up like this for years, as a backup to the 5 string. You just have to recut the nut. Intonation on the lower B isn't an issue, nobody can tell if it's in tune anyway!

A true Giant Of The Bass. RIP.

Why not just retune the bass? What am I missing?

Think you will probably find though that the MM pickup isn't in the sweet spot, so you won't get much of a core MM tone. The ones I've tried have sounded more like a Jazz bridge on steroids.

If you can find a used one a Tanglewood EB-18 is good for small hands.