Lfalex v1.1

(From a personal point of view, and not in direct response/contradiction to the above) I do still enjoy playing, and there are aspects of live performance that I enjoy (The onstage, making music as a unit part) Alas that bass playing and band membership don't exist in isolation from the rest of anyone's existence; I work in a very physically tough job and have to deal with Joe Public at his absolute worst. When I'm done with work, I've little time and no energy left to drag gear around and drive for hours/miles to rehearsals and gigs. Then to be forced to interact with Joe Public again is yet another (sizeable) negative. If things do change, I'll certainly be fairly "match fit", but while the negatives continue to outweigh the positives, it isn't worth it for me.

Absolutely this. No matter how good or bad a player I am, I've no stomach for the interpersonal politics and tensions within a band. I've been "sacked" (as though there were contracts and real money involved) from bands for not being malleable enough, being to old and playing too well (!) I've walked out of bands because of other people's ethics at least twice (and it ought to be about the music) and so on... I now play for my own entertainment and relaxation. Occasionally, I wonder what it'd be like to be in a band again. Then I remember that the concept of being in a band is much more attractive than the reality of being in a band.

Series III 6 strings exist, for I have seen them. I've had my Series III Passion V for 25 years now. Wonderful instrument.

I'm (not) getting exactly the same..

Even as some instruments have come and gone, I've always had a broad spread of types, styles and prices. [Purchasing second hand distorts the picture further, as many of my "cheaper" Basses were second-hand and more costly when new.] Oddly, it's been the more initially expensive instruments that have been sold on and replaced with less costly but arguably more suitable instruments, even if not directly. I think a lot of it is tied up in not knowing exactly what you want when you start out. As you progress, you refine your selection process to more accurately reflect your preferences, and this may not always lead to more expensive basses. Personally, I've never found a single bass that covers all the, uh.... bases, so variety is king.

Basslab L-bow Some sort of Ken Smith The ability to really make music on a Chapman stick.

As referenced earlier; Vol/pickup pan or VVT are better than a 3-way switch, insertion loss notwithstanding. A "hot" J seems to help. Can't fault my SB-2 Tribute.

Maybe it's the various amps' Damping Factors being wildly different. Power makes the drivers move. A higher damping factor stops them more swiftly once the signal has stopped. A combination of higher power and greater damping factor should yield better driver control. I've had good experiences using HPFs, too. No point in amplifying frequencies your poor old cab can't produce. Gives you more headroom for further up the frequency range, too.

Seriously guys. They're probably only trying to streamline their business or something.

Thanks for the help. Alas that I lack measuring tools. And can't be doing with a full set-up just because half my instruments have taken umbrage at being stored away. They have been before. What's so different this year? Think I'm feeling it for that bonfire. 🔥

Nope. Same gauge and manufacturer as usual. It has a Just-a-nut II. Nothing wrong with that either. I've eased the truss rod off ¼ of a turn. It's helped a little, but now the action further down the neck is getting a bit much.

This time its my Warwick Fortress 😡 Was fine until I put it away in a hard case for a bit. It's a '98, so it ought to have a regular Truss Rod, not a reverse, right? Action is medium-low. Fretted at 1st and 24th shows about 1.5 mm between strings and frets at the 12th. I'm getting fret buzz at 1st to 3rd frets on all strings. Fine thereafter. Watched YT tutorials and none helped. All seemed to suggest loosening the rod. Surely that'll give me too much relief at around the 12th... Do I then have to go back and re-do the action and intonation. What about when it warms up again? All I wanted was a 5 minute noodle on a different bass. Not an odyssey into bass maintenence. Failing that, I burn it whilst dancing around the fire like a goblin...

Back on Topic.. Is it okay to like the Garage Days Revisited $5.98 EP? You can hear the bass. And it's all covers. I really like the $5.98 EP. Rough and ready, but great fun.

You want Caesium or Rubidium. Plop it in. And be somewhere else. Fast.

Mike has a mould and the ability to lay-up carbon fibre necks. I saw it last time I was round there picking up my Ibanez that he'd just finished repairing. I'd imagine that he made the neck attached to your Zoot.

Owning a cheaper bass would stop auto correct changing your pride and joy into a hat every time you posted.

Bass anything is really expensive! Contra Bassoons Bass Trombones Bass Saxophones...

Found mine in the recycling this morning, where the Postie had "hidden" it... 🙄 Hmmm. Has great potential and some very good points, but managed to hamstring itself due to some technical issues. Pros- Not too expensive Small, light, looks robust. Battery powered Lack of cables (except the headphones, but that's inevitable) Adjustability/Controllability of effects- you can really fine tune the various parameters Cons- App won't install on some older Android devices. The functions vary by which version of the app you have installed; V2.20 trims the number of preset patches from 7 to 4, and removes the delay section altogether for bass presets. Stereo Chorus sucks a lot of the bottom-end out of your tone. "Mono" Chorus is fine, though. Why can't I bypass either the amp or at least the cabinet sim IRs? Previous experience with other devices has shown that bypassing cab sims can really clean up a messy sound. In spite of it being a good design, it didn't sit well in one of my Ibanez jack sockets, resting either awkwardly on the body or propped against the bridge. Sound Quality- Urk! This thing does not like big, hefty high impedance headphones. It simply cannot control them. Kick drums on songs piped in via Bluetooth were smeared and dull. Lower notes from the bass itself were equally ill- defined. Through my regular Sennheisers, every instrument I tried sounded "the same" , as though reduced to the lowest common denominator, in spite of their being vastly different. Messing with the basses' controls made them sound less or more annoying rather than adding sparkling highs or punchy lows. The excellent parallel setting on my Ibanez EDC715 (using the same triple coil HB as the ATKs) was reduced to mush, with the two hum cancelling single coil settings proving better. It took all the fizz and "air" out of the sound of another Ibanez with a piezo bridge, making it sound like a cheap P bass with the tone rolled all the way off. I stuck a pair of Sennheiser ear buds in it to see if that helped. They were certainly easier for it to drive, but were coarse and scratchy sounding on MP3s and totally unsuitable for bass. In short, it's OK. IF you happen to have a pair of low-impedance (16 or 32 ohm) headphones that can do low frequencies some justice. No match for my (deceased) Korg Pandora, nor a Zoom B3 into a small mixing desk. But the Nux is infinitely more portable. The lack of cables is truly liberating. I have a sneaking feeling that it's probably less headphone- dependent if you play one of those "Guitar" things. The bass aspect feels like an afterthought. Even more so if you use v2.20 of the app.

I actually don't know, but they sound like steels. Too much mid for Nickels. Either way, they're lasting really well.

Mine came with DR Lo-Riders. Which sound.... enormous.

(Snip...) Both the pickups are unusually hot. The P isn't particularly linear in the way it gets louder as you turn it up (irrespective of what the J is doing) This means that both pickups are usable across a wide range of volume control positions. If you run the P at about ⅓ and the J off, it'll deliver a classic "P with the tone rolled off" getting progressively brighter and louder as you turn it up. I just use the J for more sparkle ( so basically as an expensive tone control!) I just keep coming back to mine in spite of having "better" instruments to choose from. It just sounds and feels right, and is just "fun" to play.

If (by trying various basses) you can figure out what factors you do and don't like, then that will hopefully enable you to buy second-hand. By so doing, your budget will go much further. Edit- I quite like the look of the MTD Kingston Super 5..

Maxi has already been used. Musicians would like MIDI.

Perhaps (with enough saddle travel) there's more than one point at which the correct intonation might be achieved?

Not me. I'm not sure I'd buy any bass from Dave Ellefson..