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Hi guys, Three days ago I ordered a micro thumpinator through sfxsound. I payed through paypal. From that point on I have received no communication whatsoever so I was looking to contact Sfxsound today only to find that the website no longer exists. Does anybody know what's going on here? I know Sfxsound aren't frauds, I am just afraid the company has gone out of business. Do I retract my payment just to make sure or does anyone know how I can get in touch? Thanks for any help.

Are we really debating taste in music? I love all the Yes stuff up till 1975. In the eighties they were popular and boring (although there are some wicked basslines on their Drama album). It all went downhill from '75 on according to my taste. Squire taught Geddy how to play bass tho. No debate there. Lee even said it himself. Big influence. On that tip, concerning big rock bass player names - I personally never got The Who. All their songs are equally boring. Entwistle's tone was just awful. Taste does things concerning how well songs or styles land with you, see?

Quick update after 4 lessons: I now understand the chord scales and am jamming along to my looper playing a simple root note groove trying to make the seven modes work well on that, inventing patterns and arpeggio's as I go. Once I have a good feel for that I will attempt to solo over a couple of different chord progressions. Having a looper is really helpful in developing these skills. In the last lesson we hit my physical limitations in grabbing the minor third quick enough using the left hand pinky (especially when coming back from the higher degrees) so work on a better positioning of the hand is now proving to be an absolute requirement to progress and be able to play more fluidly without resorting to grabbing that third by moving the hand down the neck and doing so with the index finger. I have been taking shortcuts to circumvent this weakness for decades so changing my bad ways will take some time. Pre recorded video courses have never caused me to want to fix this. I really need a teacher who points these things out and guides me into better technique. Zach is doing an awesome job.

Hi guys, I have been a gigging bassist since 1991 and I know how to make my instrument sound good. Creativity in abundance, I have always been able to come up with fitting basslines to the original songs our guitarists would throw at us. But in the last couple of years, I find myself sounding boring. I keep throwing in the same couple of flavors of licks and styles because... well that's all I know. So I set some goals for myself, now in my early fifties I am open to more musical styles then before and willing to lift my playing to the next stage. Up till now I have been completely self taught. A year of Scott's bass lessons did not help me much other then understanding what scales, degrees, triads, 7 chords and modes are... But I still wasn't able to apply that knowledge because there's no incentive to keep practicing and seeing progress. I canceled with SBL because of this. So what to do? I was wanting to learn bass specific techniques like doublethumbing and plucking triplets on top of getting my theory up to a point where I can apply it without thinking too much. Out of the sky came an American session/studio musician who is now looking for work in my area since he married a dutch girl and now lives here. What an opportunity! Check out his chops in the video. Yesterday I had my third lesson and by now I have all of the triads and 7chords down on the major scale. I am moving quicker then ever. Next week I will have to be able to play the scale notes anywhere on the neck up and downwards, and play them from a different starting point to memorize the modes in all the different patterns. I never thought I would be picking up on the material this quick, but I am, even at age 52. So what I am saying is when you feel stuck, maxxed out on possibilities, bored with your own limitations DO FIND A LOCAL TEACHER who knows his chops specifically on bass. It helps. Tremendously so. Using just online courses and books is MUCH slower. Cheers, Marco

I am not using mine at all. Can't get a good sound out of it. Boosting low also boosts lower mids so I needed my MXR 10band EQ for tone shaping. The compressor on it is so-so. The LWA is absolutely not my piece of cake. There is a good reason Thomann are dumping these at ridiculous prices. They are not very popular. But then I have to admit I am pretty much a valve amp snob and find most class D amps sound like toys.

If you take compression seriously, go for a higher end compressor pedal like the Cali76CB, Diamond, MXR, etc. I have never heard any onboard compressor improve tone. With the Cali I can make my sound more punchy or blend better in the mix at will and have absolute control over how much of it I want.

Emulated or modelled valves still do not come close enough to the real thing so yes I am still hauling this beauty around. Its little brother, an RAH600SMX graces the rehearsal room and serves as the backup amp. I just had it serviced, it now has brand new 6550's, we have added a bias pot and the pre section has JJ ECC83S from Groove Tubes. This one right here my friends is the best sounding bass amplifier on the planet. There simply is no competition.

😁 All a bit tongue/cheek of course. Still, most live bands I have seen in the past few years are really not worth leaving the house for. Netflix is just way better entertainment.

At 52, I have turned negative towards today's 'bands' and not been to any concert in over 5 years now. Rock music is dead. Tragically died with the rise of amp modellers, auto-tuning and no amps but in-ear monitoring on stages. Snowflakes making rock music is just a bad idea I guess. 😁

Sorry if I am making things worse but if you're having a custom built, imho go completely custom! This is mine. The bridge pup has its front coil at sixties position, rear coil near seventies. I can switch each coil on/off with two of the 'jaguar style' switches and the third switches between series and parallel mode. Neck pickup sits at original Jazz Bass position where it intersects with the E string and is placed diagonal to get a more even tone between the strings. It is completely passive but has a lot of different tone options as switching between bridge pup modes makes quite a difference. I am really happy with it!

Looks awesome! Mine has become my main axe.

Thing is, the smell was gone completely. Just after 8 days it had returned from the inner depths of the foam stuffing. But I will get used to my bass smelling like vanilla I guess.

It isn't the quality. That Dolphin has better fretwork and allows lower action then the other two basses I mentioned. I only play the others because of their ability to give me a more oldskool tone. Warwicks are technically at least equal, maybe even better. They just have a very different character tone wise.