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I had one with that case! I miss that very obviously fake not really trying to look like leather case, rectangular, with a zip! The bass sounded good too.

Me.

A work of art there. Congrats.

They've only recently started making a Mexican lefty Precision 🤦

I'm not going to correct that typo 🤣🤣🤣

Growing up we had two music shops in town: a snooty piano sheet music and violence n shop that had high end guitars and a rough n ready guitar shop that sold odds and sods and repaired breakages from shipping accidents but had a good stock of basses. I got my first bass in the latter and was offered ordinary or short scale. This is 20+ years back, before internet. Music megastores like PMT etc just hadn't made it out to the rocky outcrop I grew up in. 5 string basses were not offered, and why would they be? Anyhoo, I asked for flatwound strings once. The answer "sure, I'll whack em with a hammer for you".

Shut the front door!!! 😂😂

It should be re-strung to BE_D

For me the general tone would be a big red flag. I mean, when I set up a band last year I didn't advertise for "drummers who can play IN TIME and get to rehearsal ON TIME and get set up QUICKLY and don't then go for a fag as soon as you've already had FORTY MINUTES OF REHEARSAL TIME JUST TO GET THERE AND GET YOU SET UP and doesn't HOG the band EMAIL AND TURN AWAY GIGS BECAUSE YOU DONT THINK YOUR TWO MATES WILL GO THERE and WONT DISMISS POPULAR 80S COVERS SUGGESTIONS JUST BECAUSE YOU DONT WANT TO DO IT and DONT GET A FEW PINTS DOWN THEN BOOK AND ADVERTISE A GIG ON FACEBOOK THAT YOU KNOW SOME OF THE BAND CANT ACTUALLY PLAY IN..." There are other ways of weeding out people who won't be suitable quite quickly without coming across as a n0b.

Yeah, didn't last long.... On either! 😂

Yeah.... I've always been a sucker for weird stuff! It was either that or a headless.... It was a very tough call.

Ahem.... Bought almost twenty years ago. Had to import it from the states but it definitely does exist. I'm looking at it right now.

I only had an unlined fretless briefly. I could play 1-12 by muscle memory and ear, but above the 12th it got very hairy. I was also trying to do lead vocals so it was all just too much! Even with a fretted a struggle above the 12th if I'm trying to read a tab or something while playing.... Bad habits from when I started learning by fret numbers instead of note names I think! If I went for an unlined fretless again I'd like one that has the very short lines on the edge of the board above the 12th, it slightly spoils the look but it would help me use that portion of the neck.

Also taking this advice having never got hold of anything by Tool before. Listening to first album track. First things that hit me.... how "natural" the vocal is, for want of a better word. It's imperfect but not tuneless, it just has character that fits perfectly. Then, something I don't think I've ever said before.... The mix! There's space to let each instrument breathe. There's no washy synth filling sonic gaps, but the gaps are part of the whole thing. I'm enjoying this. I also like the Mars Volta and Karnivool but am not a "fan" as such, I just have one album of each that I really like. I think Tool needs much further exploration from me. How has this taken me so long?!

It would be very easy to try that and fail. This did not fail. Love it

It looks like a prop you'd see in the background of something like Mam from U.N.C.L.E or the Prisoner

They use his name a lot talking about the EQ tuning of the Meters headphones. Maybe he really knows his stuff on frequencies and all sorts of important muso stuff that doesn't involve shredding on the bass? I dunno. I'm no U2 fan but fair play to him. I'm sure they could have booted him out at any moment they wanted if he was truly useless.

Interested!

I can't remember if it was NUX that were the same thing, but the Hartke pedals were really, really good. They did an excellent bass chorus. I preferred it over the Eden and Boss bass choruses I tried before and since. I don't think they make them anymore though.

Superb gift. Well done!

Thanks! I'll give it a go tomorrow. I find the online videos frustrating. They never seem to show in enough detail or they make things look ridiculously easy or are edited to miss the action. They also never seem to cover things that could go wrong. I need to get time in with someone patient who will show me, hands on, with my basses. It could save me a fortune in basic setups. I don't think I'll ever have the confidence for fret levelling though!

While I've not checked it I think it unlikely. It's a bitsa bass that I had a Luthier finish off and set up in full for me early in the year. Likely to just be the neck..... I hope.

A mixed review then! I'm usually quite picky with my strings but it's an expensive month and I want a full setup doing on the bass so plumped for a set of these. They won't be on my main bass so hoping I get good longevity from them. I've done quite well with "value" strings recently so fingers crossed the Maruszczyk flats sound good on a Jack Casady that gets used infrequently

I've got fret buzz at frets 1-3 on each string. It's a Fender neck, easy to get to the rod adjuster. I've just put lighter strings on.... I've tried adjusting the neck (left handed bass, stood it on the floor front facing away from me, Allen key in and tried to twist to my right, towards the G string.... Very hard to get a very small amount of movement) but no luck. I'm not keen on trying to force the rod. Any advice gratefully received.