uk_lefty

You'll get a reasonable enough sound because you're looking at good quality gear there. At low volumes you're well equipped. It's of or when you want to play with others you might need a bigger speaker and a bigger amp to push it.

Really? I thought the Fender amp was quite expensive. Not sure the Fender amp is going to give you much more than you get from the zoom, though having had an older generation of the Fender modelling amps I know they're very good. I'd say get the Ashdown. By selling the zoom you'd lose a lot of stuff with the effects that you won't get back from a modelling amp. Plus you can use the zoom to plug in to a PA for gigs and so on... Its generally a more useful thing to have IMO.

Ha! I think that's all part of the social media game though? Would like to see him in a band context, like Mono Neon has done, to prove its not all bedroom noodling. I'd love to be able to play like that, but I don't think it would work in amongst Jumping Jack Flash, etc.

Thanks everyone. I got a primary school style hand drill and bought a set of very small drill bits. Job done accurately and no drilling all the way through or slipping around.

Ebay should auto fill "plays like butter", "custom" and "rare".

My bad, thought we were talking about left hand blisters....

In case I get a blister I use one of these...

Just looks right, very nice.

Sandberg is the solution there, surely? The only neck I've ever played that's nicer than my US Stingray was a Sandberg P MM.

Jazz basses look fantastic with maple boards but to me a jazz maple board only sounds good when Marcus Miller is playing it. I've got a stunningly beautiful CIJ 75 jazz reissue with the most amazing maple board and Pearl blocks. My beaten up 90s MIM with a rosewood board and Bartolini butchered in sounded better for me and my playing.

I don't mind really heavy as long as there's contrast. So Killswitch Engage for example, they balance the really heavy with some more melodic breaks. I can handle the deep screams because it balances out over the course of the song. That does it for me, light and shade etc. I couldn't have all of one and none of the other. They're also a lot of fun live, too. I've been into Megadeth since my early teens, they're heavy but the music is well constructed it's not all cumbersome heaviness and nothing else, but I really liked the lyrics and attitude from day 1 and that's never left me.

I somehow convinced myself recently than an 80s Aria SB would be my dream bass. I got an Aria Pro II SB ELITE 1 from my year of birth. It was knackered to put it bluntly. A lot of time, stress and no little cash went in to getting it in to a gig ready machine and.... Well, any fretted bass I have just doesn't compare to my US Stingray. I've got too many basses and the Aria needs to be loved and appreciated by someone else. There's nothing wrong with it, it feels good, it sounds fantastic - I just can't help bashing out "poison arrow" by ABC or any Duran Duran song every time I pick it up but... Its not Stingray-good. The bar is set pretty high now. So my dream bass returns to the Fender double Ps from the 80s. I saw a blue one with gold hardware in my local music shop in my teens and could only dream of owning one. Now, even more so, I bet there was hardly ever any lefties when new and even fewer now.

Or people who stop agonising over minute details and get on with it. I still agonise over the minute details, I just think the clever guys and girls at Ernie Ball know better than me.

I understand the question, I think!! A few years ago I was contemplating what would make up my "ultimate" bass if I were to have one made, its tough for a lefty to find the right specs off the peg, and this coincided with Sire being very kind to lefties and offering loads of combinations you didnt usually get at a reasonable price, maple board 5 string active JJ bass, for example. So I bought a Sire thinking I'd sell it on soon having got more familiar with aspects I may like or dislike for a custom build. I then got a tax rebate and went to Wunjos. They had two basses I liked. I chose the one that best suited the band I was in and bought it, no need for a custom bass. There was no faffing about with colour, neck profile, wood choices, anything like that, just "I like that one best, I'll have it!" and the US Stingray is my number 1 still, though many pretenders have come and gone since. If I was given infinite choice I don't think I'd have bought that bass, but now I've got it it's top dog and it's going nowhere.

Who said this was complete? Bought a set of DiMarzio PJ pups didn't I? I've got the P in only so far, needed a bit of extra careful drilling, for which I bought a hand drill like the ones we had in primary school, but MY WORD WHAT A SOUND! That is proper, proper P bass now. Something I've not had before, big dollops of thick, rich bassiness. I've installed them upside down and got the him bucking mode working now too. I need a lie down for a while before I put the J in. Have already decided this is going to band practice tomorrow! DiMarzio pups and a Kiogon loom, perfection.

First time I've ever listened to one of these. Absolutely loved the sheer talent, quality and variety of tunes produced by you lot. You're all winners to me..

What about putting it in a storage unit? Surely they have insurance as part of the storage cost? Not something I've ever done but if the property all this kit is located at now is going to be rented out then surely you need to put all this kit somewhere safe?

The presets I've got from elsewhere for a clean sound tend to have multiple blocks of compressors and EQs. I have paid for the bass essentials pack on 3Sigma Audio because it was quite cheap and I expected it to be pretty good. I had a lot of the Dr Tone ones but frankly found most of them either unsuited to my gear and playing style or just completely unusable. I have removed all but one of the Dr Tone presets now. There are two things in the effects world that puzzle me. The assumption that every bassist wants a "dirty" sound and you don't need to create good quality clean tones, and the assumption that "synth" means the noises of industrial Middlesbrough fighting against Megatron.

I always take a spare to a gig. Even if it's left in the boot of the car, I'd rather go and get that than have to faff with fitting a new string or worse trying to find out why output has gone completely. As for a spare amp, I don't bother, I always have a DI capable pedal in case the amp develops a fault.

Can anyone recommend me a drill for doing tiny tiny works like creating the holes for installing new pups? I upgraded the pups for my bitsa but the screw holes are on different places. The drills I have are serious kit that are hand me downs from my electrician father in law, no good for small delicate works like this! Looking to do an Amazon Prime order today because I'm impatient. Thanks in advance... Would something like this do the job? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071G1GG8D/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_YR7MDRGXER6C07WVCFJC