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Mutron is my fave, it’s less harsh in the treble and has the bubbly character of the original unit

My Fusion Urban bass bag has a waist strap 👍🏼

My most comfortable is a fairly cheap TKL bag. The problem with most gig bags is that the straps meet at the top making then sit really awkwardly on your shoulders and pinch yer neck. This one is like wearing a rucksack and the bottom of the bass doesn’t slap your arse as you walk

Some amplifiers with a single knob for compression tend to change the ratio and threshold as you turn, so it's worth looking at the details if you can find them. For example my Blackstar U500 says: (compressor knob) Controls the overall amount of compression by adjusting the threshold, attack, release and make-up gain simultaneously. Lower settings of the control result inslower attack and release times and a higher threshold. Increasing the control will lower the compression threshold and increase the make-up gain, and make the attack and release times quicker accordingly.

A compressor will reduce any signal above a certain threshold a certain amount. Usually that's a ratio say 4:1 and active on most notes you play, certainly when you play hard. A limiter is a high ratio like infinity:1 but usually set at a higher threshold, so usual playing is unaffected but can provide a 'point' where the signal is reduced at a certain limit. Both have their applications and most compressors can do both if they have a ratio control that goes high enough. For example the Boss LMB3 is just as much a compressor as a limiter.

Enjoying playing to this at the moment

Like a fedora filled with mince being deposited into a half full bottle bank

Bit weird isn’t it; you’d think he’d take down the website

I think mine has to be this. I’ve gone through everything from P to J to graphite to super high end then back to P again. My others will always be ‘go to’ for certain things but as a grab and go which does most things well and even sounds acceptable on the things it doesn’t, it’s this G&L P. Partly it makes a great #1 because the P bass is such a great leveller and in lots of ways it puts everything else into context. Like Paul’s bass above, the neck has gone super dark caramel and in itself is really nicely figured and very worn in. I love the body which is a slightly skimmed down profile, it feels like a logical evolution of the P. Despite a single pickup it has a lot of flexibility sound wise, with more power on tap than anything else I have owned, passive or active. It’s actually too loud for some pedals! The flats on this just turned 3 and they give lots of growl with a nice bit of rasp when you dig in.

I’ve added a red tip to the lever Here’s the old one I had in the Bacchus jazz. That was a cool bass but I’m not really a five string player. I had to sell this one due to a tax return balls up

I prefer the black on that but I think the white is more ‘you’ 👍🏼

I think so. The foam is glued to the blocks I think. It might need replacing one day

Yeah I considered one of those too. I don’t mind drilling holes in this bass but the Bassmute attaches very well with double sided tape. You can use screws too if you need to. I think the Jaguar one pivots on the screws doesn’t it, so guess you have no choice there.

Not unless it's underneath, no. Here's the website (although the company haven't been responding for some time now) https://www.bassmute.eu/bm_mainframe.html

NGD = New Gadget Day in case you were wondering! I used to have a fantastic switchable mute on a nice Bacchus jazz bass I had years ago. I found it really useful but I sold the bass where it was installed and although removable I didn't fancy risking any damage to the bass so it went away with the instrument. I have tried using various types of foam since which normally works just as well but can have a tendency to mess with intonation and I always lose the foam at some point. Recently playing my Musicman bass with built in mutes has reminded me of the usefulness of the Bassmute so I put up a wanted ad for one, not expecting to find one any time soon (I've been looking on and off for a while) but then @2x18 came through with the exact model I needed, even the right colour. A deal was done, it's here already and I've bunged it on my bass. It sounds delightful; position 2 mutes everything a small amount and the G string a bit less for 'accents' (each pad is adjustable) and position 3 mutes everything. bit more. I can palm mute but something about the angle my wrist ends up at, especially when sitting (which is where I do most of my planing, naked) isn't comfortable enough given how comfortable everything else is, and I'm a lazy git really. Couple of pics below. Thanks again BC wanted section!

Looks sweet @Ander87

Felt I should pop this pic here. We had a couple of hours in the sun this week. The dark caramel neck looks sublime in the daylight! @Ricky Rioli I can’t remember if you said but have you got another on the way?

Maybe - but the beauty of them is that they’re all in one and so hassle free. The headphones themselves are great actually; for listening to music and playing. They ‘flatter’ music more than my Beyer cans which are much more open and more spacious for playing along with music but with the Roland’s I turn the bass down a touch to stop things getting too ‘crowded’ and I’m able to achieve a pretty close approximation

Sounds like it was acting more like a limiter than a compressor. I always use a limiter but with quite a high threshold

Hi mate it's a 'slapstrap' - not sure if you can get them any more? Really nice leather with velcro 'tail' adjustment. Perfect for the Backbeat

Nice bit of garden playing this morning

Cheers!! I don't go to many gigs so never quite sure where to get tickets without being ripped off or missing out. See you there!

Thanks for that. A few of my pedals aren't square so this makes it a problem. I did see that they offer a solution via some pivoting holders but even so I think the wasted space would annoy me. Nice board by the way

How/where do you buy the tickets plz?

Found it, just for you 😘