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TBH from a OCD PoV the state of the gold platting new vs old is likely to be more unsettling than the lack of a Yamaha logo.

Difficult to tell from the tiny photo of the cheaper bridge, but IMO the important difference between the two is the presence of grooves in the base plate of the Gotoh bridge designed to prevent lateral movement of the saddles. If you think that is worth paying extra for then go for it.

It's not really a "mud-bucker" though, more individual single coil pickups for each string fitted into a single cover, and IIRC has more in common with Wal pickups than anything Gibson ever made.

IMO it's only tradition that dictates the need to have both a guitarist and bassist in a band. After all it's perfectly acceptable to not have a keyboard player (or brass etc.) so what is so different about not having a guitarist or bassist? My first band didn't have bass on a lot of our early songs (including one that was on our first vinyl release and played on national radio) although that was partly because we didn't own a bass guitar and weren't always able to borrow one when we recorded, and partly because we thought that, for may of our songs, the rhythm guitar parts filled the arrangement out better. One of my current bands has no guitarist. The musical parts are handled by our synth player and myself playing bass VI both alternating between melodies and bass lines as the songs dictate.

Warwick?

Plenty of bass there, it's just not being played on a "traditional" bass guitar. No different really from any other band that doesn't have a player with a bass guitar.

Most Gus guitars and basses have wooden fretboards, although they also have a cedar core to the neck underneath the carbon fibre skin. Mine have either ebony or cocobolo.

At least the controls are on the front this time...

Less horrible looking than most Warwicks IMO.

Yes/No. I find that my searching out and consumption of music (both new and old) is inversely proportional to how busy I am with my own compositions. At the moment I'm very much focused on the later so I don't have much time for the former. I'd like to think that I was open to new music, but in reality nearly all the "new" artists I have discovered in the last 10 years are either heavily influenced by music from my past - mainly the 70s and 80s - or feature members from bands I have previously enjoyed.

Accurate at which frequencies? And which frequency weightings are available?

Calling @evilLordJuju

In the bass world “lipstick” pickup says nothing about the design of the actual pickup other than it will fit in a tube. The Gus bass pickup is one of the hottest single coils you will ever come across.

1” tape is going to have a lot more variables than 1/4”. It could hold any number of tracks from 8 to 24, be recorded at a number different speeds with various possible noise reduction systems (or none at all). Hopefully all the relevant details including the types of test tone used are on the box.

That's not going to help as the thread in question has been going for over 2 years and I have no idea what I posted in it it an when, hence my wanting to find my post(s).

As the title says. It is possible to search within a thread but that doesn't seem to include member's names - when I use my name as a search term it produces no results even though I have posted within the thread. Using the advanced search it is possible to find member's posts but it doesn't appear to be able to limit the search to a thread with no other search terms. Normally it wouldn't matter, I'd just scroll through until I found my post(s) but the thread in question is over 30 pages long.

Sad to say after getting a promotional email from Eastwood Guitars saying that: and subsequently enquiring why I haven't had mine yet, I have had a reply from the UK part of Eastwood Guitars saying that they are not expecting the UK shipment to arrive until 23rd August, so I'm probably still 2 weeks away from receiving mine :-(((

IME most low B-strings could do with being a bit less flexible if anything.

They all have the wrong headstock IMO. I did consider having mine modified to something more in keeping with the rest of the bass.

I'm sure this is entirely down to the lumpy "aesthetics" of the average Fender. Anything less bulky is seen as being "fragile". Wood is really strong stuff you know. People make houses out less robust timbers than those used on guitars and basses.

Someone on here once described Warwicks as being: "Hacked out of diseased trees by blind Germans". A sentiment I would have to agree with, apart from the StarBass II.

Fender Precision and Jazz basses and anything similar. I'm sure that they are perfectly good basses for most people (although I have owned a Squier Jazz and it was probably the worst instrument I ever had, and significantly inferior to the £60 Wesley bass it was supposed to replace), but in my eyes they are boring looking and that's a good enough reason for me not to have one. Thinking about it the Fender Precision Bass is so deadly dull looking that I don't think I've ever been tempted to try one, even briefly, in my entire 40+ year playing career. I made the mistake of buying a nice sounding and playing, but boring looking, guitar back in the early 90s when I was getting back into playing guitar and bass after a long stint of playing synth, and decided that since it was only going to be for recording and writing, it didn't matter what it looked liked. Within a couple of years I was on stage using it and thinking how crap it looked, and have vowed to never again own an instrument that I wouldn't be happy being seen playing.

It would be impossible to stop people using images in signatures unless you also disabled being able to use BBCode and that would preclude the ability to have links in signatures which is actually useful.

Another forum I am a member of has a limit of (IIRC) 100 characters, including BBCode, for the signature, and any images used have to be hosted externally. It is still possible to have an useful and interesting signature within those limits, you just have to be creative and think laterally. The problem Basschat has, is that it is too easy to upload a massive (both file and physical size) images directly to Basschat and use that in your signature, I suspect that many users simply upload something from their phone's camera without any regard for the size. I think that it would be a good idea to disallow using images posted directly on Basschat in signatures. That way people wanting to use an image would be forced to look at external image hosting and maybe think about the size of the image they were linking. I've come pretty close to hiding all signatures on a couple of occasions, but at the moment have confined myself to hiding any that are consistently larger than the users posts.

So no separate tail-piece for this?