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Yes it has a 70s jazz style width, but when it says meat in the hand, it's very true, as it's quite thick. I was under the impression it was modelled on a briefly made profile in 71 called B. A C profile to me is much shallower like the 60's P bass necks. Ultimately everybody talking about this profile or measurement, isn't a substitute for actually trying one. These things are So subjective.

Yeah my babies!! Very pleased with the BB350F. And the amazing Mr Travis is fitting an upgraded BB1025/P35 vintage plus bridge to the 425 😍

I'd say your spot on there

😂😂 but he was sufficiently "cheesy sinister" which was a staple of 80's B movie baddies. Id read that Gene was so busy chasing an acting career at the time, he had very little to do with the writing/playing on the "Animalize" album (or was it Asylum, cue Cetera) making it pretty much a Paul Stanley record I know Paul Stanly isn't the singer he used to be, but at least he was an incredible singer (unlike Mr Roth, whom I also love) but Kiss are still getting out there and putting on a fantastic show. I believe a lot of vids were going about of Paul when he was poorly and looked/sounded awful. You've got to wonder whether sometimes the ethos of "The show must go on" is the right thing to do.

Lol, it'll be a puppet show next!! 😂

I love this! A perfect "What if" story 😂

Ahh not much more than an MXR BEF, but much cheaper than a 3 leaf proton.

The Fender Nate Mendel It has a slimmer neck/thinner nut But still is quite fat and deep at the back. I believe it was known as a "B" Profile, a lot of people love it, but I wasn't keen.

I'm now waiting for NJE to start an Octave and Chorus thread 😁

That looks really cool! Almost a Mutron "light" I'd miss the downsweep though. Will still be an expensive piece of kit though.

Lovely Basses Mick! I look forward to the patter of tiny strings 😂

Lol!! I know mate, you're right. I'm really surprised I've not picked one up. I've a couple of mates,that have had one and they sounded fantastic.

Yeah a very dirty filter, no downsweep, but sounds great in demos. Definately on my want list.

Lovely board! The Diamond is a great comp and I loved the Boss Bass flanger 😁

Just going on filters with up/down sweep (The MXR bass Envelope filter,is a must try, but only does upsweep) so won't include the few I've had with just up. I had the Discombobulator (V2) for a while, and i must admit i was disappointed. I found it to be too subtle for my tastes. It has a nice bubbly tone, but doesn't have that dirty squelch. I also had noise issues with mine, it kept making a weird whistling sound when daisy chained in a power supply(or indeed near). The Down sweep was incredibly noisy too, I just couldn't use it. Note these issues went away when I plugged it in on its own,also at the time I wanted to use it as part of an Octave/fuzz setup,I think it works better alone. I also had the Bass IQ, I am a big fan of EBS pedals,but was really dissapointed with this. In fairness I was new to filters at the time, but found that the lack of sensitivity control, meant the filter would overload with certain basses. I'd just get this bassy indistinct WHOMP. My favourite for up and down sweep is the original big box Qtron, but hard to find and going for daft money. Huge size and horrible 24v power req aside, it really sucked your tone when bypassed (I'd stick in in a true bypass loop) I loved my old wonderlove and used it exclusively for downsweep, a great filter for synth combos, buy again subtle on its own, despite the amount of control. Having a loop after the envelope detector was fantastic though. Had an VJE Mini MU, which is apparently a very close mutron clone. Loads of control but alas,I could not get a useable sound out of it. I couldn't get it to work with my basses without a huge bassy spike, that nearly took out my cabs. I have to say though, it was the most beautiful pedal I've ever owned, so well made and the colour was called cosmos, which looked purple, but with glittery multicolour sparkles. And the wiring was sublime. It again another filter that was really noisy,with my setup. I've yet to find my perfect filter,but in currently using a few in my source Audio C4, they sound great, but still not for me. I suspect if I ever try a seamoon funk machine, I will fall in love 😂 Hopefully our @BootsyWill be along, he is a filter Guru 😁

I used to be a massive fan, sadly didn't keep up to date with them. Looks like no Jan Kincaid? I loved him. Andrews playing is so soulful and he always used a great tone. His tone in Brother sister turned me around on the fender P 😁

I'd say he's just playing really hard, it sounds a lot like popping. I love how it's heavily compressed,and keeping those pops under control, you don't notice it in the track😍

Absolutely brilliant! Melodic, percussive a really inventive line and not what most rock players at the time were doing. I still maintain JD is fairly underrated. I've had to play queens songs a few time in shows (we will rock you etc) and his lines are always a beautiful challenge 😁