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Here are my natural beauties

Think my tone control was on 75% ish but normally on that bass I have it at about 50%. I like the sound of bright flats with the tone down as opposed to dull flats with the tone on full, if that makes sense!

I liked the TI flats I had before but prefer the cobalts. The 40-95 set I have are more flexible and nicer to play than the TIs which I believe had a .043 G string. Whereabouts are you, anywhere near York you can have a try.

And you let me struggle with that hard case!

Not literally picked up, presumably 🤣

I always like to get a strap to match each of my basses. I was kind of looking for something a tiny bit more 'rock and roll' than my usual, but found most of the straps on offer a bit too covered with skulls or crosses for my liking. Then I came across a guy on Etsy who makes nice straps to order, normally with tooled details on the strap (like bullet holes, patterns, etc). I asked him to make me a plain one and it came today, I'm really happy with it! Plain black, really nice leather, non adjustable (he'll make whatever length you want) and altogether great value. Cheers ped

There you go!

Yep let me know what you prefer 👍🏻

Hi just a note to say please avoid comments about the Arab Israeli conflict please, cheersbye

Looks like one of John’s finest 👌🏽

Ah yes I remember you said you wanted black now. Wonder what the bass on the right is?

They’re great aren’t they - glad you like them.

Ah wow that looks awesome

Hi Graham, @Sibob talks about them in our podcast episode, have a listen

Mark King gats a bad rap here but a lot of his playing is very laid back and groovy. The super fast stuff he does is normally just for show, because believe it or not a lot of his fans kind of want to see that side of it too.

So? Still interesting, isn't it? Does playing bass matter? We're here to have fun, right?!

Why not?

With the retirement of Michael Pedulla, the shift in production of Ken Smith basses and the transition to the use of new apprentices by Vinnie Fodera etc I think we’ll see basses ‘made by the original’ becoming sought after, regardless of whether the instruments are any different. It’s happened before; isn’t there a ‘Dan Smith’ era fender from the 80s or something that for some reason is worth more? A lot of the innovators from the 70s/80s are retiring or dying and I don’t know if we’ll ever have that same era of ‘new’ ideas like that, on the same scale (although I’m all for innovation, collectors don’t think like that). So the basses will be worth more and newer ones take inspiration from them. So for a bass to be considered valuable in the future I’d say it would have to be made ‘in house’ by one of the original ‘masters’. Do you think a Sadowsky made by someone after Roger retires will be worth as much as one he made? Folks on TB are already saying that Smith basses from the ‘Ken era’ will be sought after, even though production has always been outsourced to some extent. Any plastic components will be valuable when we run out of oil

I’d burn it

Should also add that I’ve had passive basses louder than active ones and vice versa so I tend to use whichever input gives the best level regardless of the instrument ‘type’

Depends if your pedals add gain to the signal. They shouldn’t, especially when bypassed.

It’s a late 70s jazz, not a Rembrandt - get ‘em fixed 👍🏻

Was tempted with a cutlass but it was a rip off IMO

Yeah, just like that. Great clip 👍🏼

To be honest I’m noticing more and more in the ‘soultronic’ genre I tend to listen to that groovy bass lines accented with popped and slapped notes are becoming more common.