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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 😘

P/J/MM is the ultimate trio

Sorted

I'd definitely get one of these if I was making a board. Also hate velcro and it wouldn't work anyway on two of my favourite pedals (Danelectro Cool Cat and Mutron) - Cool Cat has rubber underneath and weighs loads, and the Mutron has tall rubber feet that I don't want to remove and also weighs a ton.

The tone feels more like a cut control hence higher setting at the moment

Yeah! I’m still playing with the settings. Interesting to compare high gain with low mix versus low gain with higher mix

Nice pedal. Really great feeling switches that click easily with hardly any travel. The pedal is more muff flavoured when pushed but does a very warm distortion at lower gain. The second foot switch massively boosts the gain (but volume stays same) giving really sludgy distortion (my phone just autocorrected that to ‘biscotti on’) Will have to try it out with the proper rig soon. Compared to my EWS Stormy Bass Drive it’s less ‘modern’ and ‘raspy’ sounding so I’m looking forward to trying it ‘loud’

No idea!! Can't find it anywhere, it's like it was a dream!

Why do you slacken the strings for flying? I know lots of people do it but it’s not good imo unless you’re loosening the truss rod too. Better to keep it in tune and in balance (sorry to nitpick!)