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This has sent me down a Falco YouTube wormhole. Love everything about this. I work for a Swiss company and every day talk with Germans and Swiss Germans and will be ending every conversation, meeting and training session with "Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar?" I sent this to a mate who moved to Vienna a year or so back with his German wife. She's lived in Austria for years but she really struggled to understand this!

A few lefties have turned up over the years but usually in a bad state. Shame because I reckon there's a decent bass if looked after well.

It's a tough one because people want a lot of money for low powered amps. You may be just as well getting something with more wattage for similar money.

I wanted one so much I tried to build my own lefty version...

I was terrible at French at school.

Dans la piscine cest un cheval.

It looks great. Superficial I know, but it's a start.

Speak up! We change some words in songs because even though they're maybe meant to be ironic, sarcastic or whatever we aren't comfortable with them and how they can come across. I want to raise the use of b!tch in Uptown Funk as another one we need to get rid of. I hate the word and how it's used. If I get my way with that I might try and get the band to remove some rubbish songs too...

It's this kind of inside-the-box thinking that's going to take this organisation to new heights!

That is very classy.

Yep! And things that sound great at home sound awful at volume with the band!

Well... Since writing this I got a Facebook notification one day and within ten mins had done the deal for this beaut. I've got an 80s band starting up, OK I've already got an 84 Aria SB but this has more of the obvious 80s look. It sounds great and it was 1/6th the price of a real Status. So where are all the Washburn basses, I can't answer that. But one of them is in my office and I'm very glad of its company.

That's a good looking bass! What is the model name?

They've been saying 3+ months for 3+ months now. Which isn't wrong. But it's a bit like sticking a sign in a shop window saying "back in 10 mins" but nobody knows when you actually left.

Great. I'm starting to like Dingwalls now AND they do lefties. Should not have opened this thread...!

Sigma Audio's bass essentials are not exactly "wow" but they're good solid settings. Plus they do a Trace Elliot IR which is OK. They're good ones to build from though. I have said this before in this thread I think, but I just don't understand how the expectation is that bassists just want ultra high gain noise sounds all the time. So some of the essentials pack are SVT, SVT pushed, SVT Dirty, when really you could just do an SVT and have two snapshots with ever increasing gain if that's what you want or whack a distortion pedal in it. Even in the heavy music I listen to I rarely hear ultra high gain bass. If anyone out there is doing SWR simulation please let me know! I'm starting to miss some of the presets on my Boss GT10B, Super Flat, 42 Level, Oakland Slap, etc. Those clean, punchy big bass tones that just get the job done. Even my old Fender Bronco modelling amp had great clean amp sims. Hearing one amp "dirty" is pretty much the same as hearing the others "dirty" just maybe a bit bassier or a bit more mid from one to the next.

I think it's a case of it sounding good for him with his own kit. But play a jazz bass through his Entwistle patch and you just get a very thin, very quiet no-bass noise. Others, like the Alembic pre amp blow your head off. Ultimately, someone here recommended me Sigma Audio and they've been great. Whether it was worth the 15 quid or whatever is yet to be seen because I resent paying for these things but there's some clever presets and they're a good platform for building up your own ideas. And the output is consistent.

Some great advice already. Keep going, if in doubt keep it simple and be solid, it can take a lot of experience to just pump out root notes!

I uploaded a good handful of his presets and think I've now binned them all. The output levels were wildly all over the place and a lot of the sounds were pretty poor IMO. It is worth spending a few quid on some decent ones.

We wouldn't unpack.

Take your pick.

"The dim argumentative bell end who needs a slap" in the part I quoted that phrase from

Mojo is fine with me to an extent but its one of those phrases that gets used for any second hand guitar because some has read it on another ad: "Encore P bass, never played, unwanted gift. Lots of Mojo" Another misuse of this that makes my teeth itch is when people mishear or misquote the Doors Mr Mojo Risin', an anagram of Jim Morrison that he used as a name to book in to hotels and so on. I've seen it repeated so many times as "it's the Mojo rising!" on products such as t shirts and so on, painted on the walls of bars, record shops and cafes. If you love the phrase that much and you want to celebrate it and milk it you kinda should know what it actually is.

Does he work on the newly formed GB News?

Never knew that bass existed, great find.