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Does anyone with one of those Tourtech cases have a stingray? Would be interested to see how well it fits…

Thanks for that. I might wait then as my preference is for a maple neck and I’m not a fan of sunburst. I wish I bought that ‘Prism’ finished vault bass when it was available, it looks great!! Can’t find any real owners online though. https://shop.music-man.com/music-man-short-scale-stingray-bass-micro-prism.html

What’s the deal with these at the moment then, are they bringing out new finishes/options at some point? Any ideas when? I’d like to try one at some stage.

Aye maybe. The smaller ones are aux in and headphones out.

Presume the side jack slows the pack to be smaller too, in length. Still confused as to why there only appears to be one though 🤔

How d’ya mean? Interesting that only one 1/4” Jack is visible - will it handle both input and output?

Seen this? No specs yet but watch this space https://getbackbeat.com/pages/backbeat-g2

You've taken that out of context massively but that's OK. My mum likes Boyzone but can't identify which instrument is which, she doesn't care. I bet not many of Marcus Miller's fans care that the 4" spacing on his jazz is so important. Just like I don't care how beer is made, but I like certain ones over others. That's my point, which is proved by this thread somewhat! I bet Marcus likes his bass the way it is. I bet the back of my beer can talks all about how amazing the water used in the brewing process is. It would be a shame if everyone only produced things that suited a given audience. I've always loved companies that design and make things for a super niche audience, or without one in mind at all, because they love it. That's where the cool stuff lies. And a lot of crap. But that's the thing about art, I guess.

No need to get nasty Personally I totally agree with @4000 like I said, 99.9% of the audience don’t know what’s good for them, in the nicest way possible. But they like it when stuff sounds good. What sounds good is the band as a whole when they’re on form. People play in form when they’re happy with their sound and motivated to play. Other people don’t give a toss and just want to play. Some people even play rickenbackers. And for the record I should think Roger knows what he’s on about and has more hands on knowledge than anyone here, and I don’t think he’s making it up to sell more. I don’t think he needs to.

Fantastic 😻 that series 2 passion is right up my street, the grain is amazing.

A lot of people like Marcus Miller but don’t know or care that the signature sound is down to the pickup location on his bass (as well as his chops of course)

Ah ok. The GR1000 I suppose is a bit too similar in a less useful form factor for me.

You’ve lost me I’m afraid 😆

It does! I’ll feel bad stepping on it now! The VB99 does more than I need with the GK cable. I only have the 13 pin output built into my Vigier and mostly use the VB99 as a clean preamp/interface The Bright Onion switches in a loop where I can place a pedal from my shelf, or switch it out so I can leave it disconnected.

Some updates to the Pedal Shelf (tm) And my WorkStation (tm) with space for patching in pedals when I fancy

I have routed both the cable from the bass and a female extension to my wireless sender or jack to amp along a piece of tubing which is held loosely by a removable zip tie (this is a Aldi dog zip tie but I also used a velcro one!). Since it has a little bit of give it never pulls the jacks out, and movement is mimited by the width of the locking female extension which can't go past the zip tie. The only time I've had the jack(s) come out of the pack is when I tied it tight to the tail of the strap.

There are no series 2 five strings (full graphite neck)

I had a five string fretless Arpege but they never did delta metal fingerboards on the fives.

The older ones tend to be lined

Nice, didn't expect it to be a Delta Metal fretless too! Lovely thing.

I’ve never really found a chorus pedal I like that much - I used a CEB3 for a while and have tried a few since then but always found them a bit thin or too much like a bad flanger at times. That said I really like the sound of bass chorus on records especially when the bassline is funky and syncopated. There’s something cool about how it works in that context. I just got a Danelectro Cool Cat pedal, one of the 18v ones, all metal, massive. I have fond memories of these as we used to use a Fab Tone and Back Talk (now very expensive!) in my uni band. I had read good things but wasn’t really holding out much hope - maybe chorus just isn’t for me! But this thing sounds sweet. No loss of bass at all and a slight volume boost, with a rate and depth control which seem to interact in a really pleasing way. Fast and shallow or slow and deep - both sound rich and syrupy. Plus the pedal looks, weighs, feels and is physically the size of a 50s fridge. What’s not to like?

That’s literally ‘the bass of a lifetime’ - many happy more years with it mate 👍🏼

One will be along shortly!!

Yeah overwinding will pronounce the midrange to an extent. Some of my favourite basses have massively underwound pickups mated to a great pre to produce a good signal, leaving a very clear and broad range. I’m sure there’s more to it but that’s my experience.