Woodinblack

Well, that is good enough for me, as I have an HX FX and a B3n. Quite a bit bigger than all of them then

Looks nice with the black though - I need to do up my TMB35, its a great bass.

Those string holders in black are pretty cheap it has to be said. I only know this as I have finally got round to buying a string retainer that should have come with my Maruszczyk

Virtually none, there is a permitted 0.02% permitted variation, which is probably more stable than any tuner you are going to get. Old clocks used it as their time base.

60Hz is half way between A# and B, but you would have to be in the states for that to be relevant. Over here, our 50Hz is close to G but not exact. Apart from a free tuning app on the phone, you only need one other person (preferably not the drummer) to give you a note and that is it sorted isn't it? I have tuners, but if I am upstairs, i just play an A on the piano and go from there.

I must admit I would agree with that on the basis that the 4 string headstock on a spector looks really ugly to me, wheras the 5 string they have got it about right

If you had worn those glasses, it probably would have looked like that!

I like the spalted maple one although the pickups look a bit too big.

I think it is an area thing. We charge around 300 for a group of 4 for a pub gig, more for parties/weddings etc.. seems to be a bit more since the pandemic. But it depends on your area and what other people are charging. If people who don't come up with the bookings think you should get more then maybe it is up to them to get those higher paying gigs?

Hmm.. haven't seen that. will keep an eye out

Mine was the newest car I had ever had and was pretty immaculate!

Our singer reversed his car into mine.

Bloody hippies!

No, I don't get a chance, I have to set up the lights, pa, everyones sound and get everything done while listening tto the guitarist playing pentatonic widdling a heavy volumes with a break for 'are we ready for a sound check' every 5 minutes.

We are generally within walking distance of home, so I don't think I have ever had my toothbrush!

I get more room anxiety, in that I always have a little on edge before I go to the gig, whcih subsides by the time I actually have to do the gig, generally all the setting up etc takes it away. Its slightly less in a place I have been to regularly than a new place.

It has solid maple with no walnut, but the preamp is a replacement. The serial indicates it is a 2001 euro

Unless they are the ones where the singer skipped 2 songs, or the guitarist decided to pick a different song without telling anyone. If all you can hear is your drummer in your IEMs, really loud, you have swapped 3 and 4 around again!

I often can't remember how a song starts, but once i know the first two notes I pretty well remember it all. Some thingns that are a bit tricky I will forget the detail of, but most of the time not an issue. Certainly if I was going to do something with songs I knew, if I went through them once beforehand I would remember them. Obviously if they are things you don't know, and there is a lot of them, its has the potential to be much harder!

There used to be one in winchester which meant I had to vary my route to avoid it as it made me feel sick, I was in my mid 30s then.

WIth a days notice it is a bit like a dep - you can't expect someone to know all the details, just put the chords down, get the easy ones knocked out and anything with any detail, do the best you can and say that you can't get the detailed part of all the songs in a day.

So those covers on the back all stand out from the surface? Seems odd when most other makes they are put level

That was my thinking. I had the legend, I didn't like it at all, it put me off spectors, which is a bit unfortunate. This is nothing like that. I don't think that is true - I have played on the same stage as you

Bought a rather lovely spector from Neil, fast and easy transaction, virtually no time from first discussion to it being at my door, thanks.

I was a bit concerned as I had previously had a Spector Legend and I really didn't get on with it much.. one of the early pages on here. However, this was an itch I had been wanting to scratcch a long time Recently I wanted one of the fan fret spectors, and I tried one and loved it, but sadly they are crazy prices in shops, and bass direct who had a good price no longer had the green and I couldn't get on with the brown, and there was the other nagging "£1600 for a new korean that would be work at best 1200 if I sold it". So that pushed me to the idea of a euro, as if I didn't get on with it, I could shift it for close to what I got it for. No win no fee. Put a wanted advert, this turned up my way, asked advice, seemed positive. So this turned up, not a colour I would have initial thought of but it is so deep, it looks 3d in the light, and considering it is over 20 years old, it is next to perfect. It feels nice, it sits nice (which the legend didn't do). It has the perfect back cutaway for someone who has worked near the fridge during lockdown! Played it all night, it sounds so good, it sounds different to everything else i have, it has its own sound (I don't have any EMG pickups, maybe it is that), certainly more active sounding which is a great thing, so clear. And the B string, it is something special. I don't actually have any basses with a bad B string as such, but you actually can barely tell the difference between the B at the 5th and the open E. I don't buy into the 35" being a lot better thing due to the physics of it, but if I did, I would use this as evidence! Couldn't be happier with it. Looking forward to its first gig.