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I liked teh Roger Waters P for a P bass, on the basis it was a nice colour scheme, couldn't care if it was a roger waters one, I mean he wasn't exactly a bass genius was he!

History. I have this relationship with books. I buy them, I put them down, they gather dust. I love the idea of books, just the practicalities of actually reading them.

The lull is good, the jackson not so much. Trouble is the headstock on the thunderbird is always going to be bad. I think lull got it right there, although high fret access and lack of the 5th string are always going to be an issue for me.

I certainly wouldn't notice if someone had a sting signature bass, so not sure why anyone else would unless they were a real sting fanboi. Isn't that pretty similar to many other black SR basses without the scribble? Didn't they do a white one once with a white fretboard? I would have got that due to the aforementioned white fretboard

I ordered one, and the guy pratt book while I was there. Then I saw the Ariane Cap book and thought I would get that too, then I thought, no, I will see if i read the others first!

I had a geddy lee signature jazz, because it was a jazz with a thin neck and it played well. A signature version doesn't really affect me as long as it doesn't make it uglier. His has a signature on the back of the headstock, I have no issue with that.

Actually may be better. Scotts course immediately launched into stuff that I had no idea about, so I was lost from the start.

Well, I now have a shuker uberhorn, so I am going to be playing everything with it. Mustang sally? Check. All right now? Check!

Sounds like a win as far as I can see. Now you have to make some music with it

Would love a bass with a white fretboard. Its a shame that fretboards are so rarely coloured. Still kick myself for not getting a fender flip-flop strat.

I couldn't get on with the gary willis fingerboard thing, so I got my money back on that. But the 26 week accelerator course was great, happy I did that one.

You can put it into single note mode, then it never does that.

Mine is pretty good, hadn't had any trouble with recognising certain notes, except doing intonation on the B string at the 19th fret, then it starts getting a bit weird, but for normal tuning no issue.

Yeh, I did that once. The bass amp was on mute

Yeh, the other shuker will go just as soon as I fix the preamp, then I will be back to level!

And that is fine too! We have that almost every gig with the guitarist. As he is using a les paul and a valve amp, it is not a preamp issue! Normally a rubbishy fender lead. He was once annoyed that he cut out at the beginning of dani california and we carried on the song without him, and after the gig someone that has seen us a lot came up and asked what was different as it sounded really good. Very very amused!

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A few things, unless your preamp is defective, it will not be introducing a compression in your bass. Amplifier circuits are very simple and well done. If anything it could be preventing compression, especially when it comes to high frequencies. A preamp sounds "more hifi" because you haven't lost the high frequency in the RC network that is your lead. The organic sound of your pickup is the sound with a decent preamp (and note, that doesn't mean expensive). The sound you may like (the vintage sound) is the sound with the treble trimmed off by the lead, or the capacitor of a passive tone control. It is common to like that sound, that is why you get 'lead simulators' on wireless transmitters (as you are effectively doing the same as a preamp), which simulate the losses in the lead. I am surprised more preamps don't have a 'vintage' setting where it rolls off those tones. If your preamp is colouring your signal, when you have no controls turned up or down, ie, if there is any difference between it on and off in a perfect lead (or an unsimulated wireless), then there is something wrong with your preamp, or it is designed that way (like a tonepump or something).

Indeed. He might not be great but I was happier after seeing the video than before, so that is good enough for me

And just to show I really did want it back then, I mentioned it at the time!

umm.. no? Well, he is enjoying it and I think we can say that that is the most important thing

YP? You mean the YC or am I missing one? I would love the YC. I have one, but its broken, beyond fixing broken sadly. The CP sounds great but you know, piano, electric piano, thanks I am done for piano sounds. having a CP preset on one of the others would work. I dont have space for main keys, or I would gig the roland (or get a Roland VR09), so something small would do. Problem is with the refaces, they are all nearly perfect if they had a crossover with the others. There is alwyas the little ones they do I guess, the toy keyboards.

So that shuker I bought recently isn't right for me, the neck and the string spacing is too big for my hands, and the number of strings is just confusing to me, but one thing I realised is how the quality of the build was. So with quite a bit of talking to Jon, selling my stick and a few other things, and a longing that has been with me since the LBGS in 17, I present something that pretty well everyone who went to the LBGS in 2017 will probably remember. Shuker Uberhorn, 33" neck, 17mm spacing, delano pickups and john east pre. Weighs about nothing!

Well, it is never going to be as good as the MODX, it is not as good as my roland DS, but when I am doing a gig it is the right size and it is good at practices. With the space the big synths are going to win. I still wish there was an 'all of the above', like a reface that had all the other refaces, but was the same size

Love that colour, would be happy with that, and put up with the inlays, as I could just get another scratchplate. Although I have now come to realise that any 4 or 6 string bass I buy will sit around looking pretty until I finally give up and sell it. I need to learn a lesson from that! He certainly played one with those inlays: https://reverb.com/uk/item/17117360-gibson-nikki-sixx-owned-played-signed-thunderbird-bass-with-coa-case-motley-crue?locale=en-GB presumably he just gets them at $1k, plays them at one gig, ships them out for $4k as a nice little earner? Thats not so bad at all. Again, not bothered about the inlays, but like the black and red headstock.