Woodinblack

Gary Sinise, the actor chap whose mostly on CSI but has played lots of other sleezy not playing parts (well, and apollo 13, he wasn't so sleazy in that). I knew about other actors, didn't know about him

Agreed. Up to the point where you break the nut, go to a shop for a new one for a 45mm neck and find it doesn't fit!

Yeh, he went out the back and got his mate to redo it

Depends what you mean about nut width. The neck width at the average height is 45mm for sure, but as the nut is at at 30 degrees, it is actually closer to 50. You can adjust the string spacing either way.

Can indeed as it was sitting right behind me. It is 7.0 of your english Lbs, on my bathroom scales. Hmm.. guess that is why it feels light, the 2605 is 8.2. The neck is noticably wider than the SRs, obviously because the strings are all socially distanced. It was a bit too wide for me to start but now I have the spacing at 17.25, its not so bad. And, I know it is my new bass, so obviously I am going to want to play it more, but at the moment, if I want to play something it is the one I go for. If the others were there, I probably wouldn't notice. Bit of a pain to hang though

Its obviously a more noticeable on the west coast than the east. In fact, if you haven't done these trips, and lived in the UK all your life, just the amount of time in the middle and the west that there is absolutely nothing. My friends in SF said 'what do you want to go down to death valley for, there is nothing there', and were surprised at the answer, yes, there is nothing, I have never known that. Even our desolate areas aren't desolate for long. It has changed from the last few road trips we have done. with satelite radio, you put on some station and you get it all the way on your trip. It is handy but in some way it is a bit sad that those areas where this is nothing is dissapearing.* Now you mention it though, Sweet emotion is on the radio a lot! * last roadtrip in 2015, driving through nevada, hundreds of miles from the nearest ghost town or isolated RV, pick up the phone 'oh, 5 bars of 4g'.

I'm guessing in Nirvana, that didn't happen either!

If I had been one of the first grunge bands before the term, with low budget to record, and trying to get away from the polished professionalism of 80s/90s rock and come up with a slowed down punk, and capture the live energy of the band, I would have been more than happy with that.

Amazing you could get that. We did a trip (when I lived in SF) from San Francisco to death valley when I friend visited, it was the first trip out of SF when I lived there - this was '96, couldn't drive yet. Coming out of San Francisco, the radio was all 'Alice music' (Alice radio 97.3 - lisa loeb, Alanis Morissette, Meridith brooks etc), then once you are past Livermore your choice was religious programs or a station that appeared to just play Led Zeppelin II (not going crazy and playing the others). We flipped between them, it was a good contrast. I didn't feel the need to buy Led Zeppelin II! On the other hand, my first road trip when I could drive in 1998, like the week after I passed my test. I drove from Montreal to toronto down the 401. They had a clever thing where you had FM repeaters all the way down the route, so there was never a moment that you couldn't turn the radio on and hear 'That don't impress me much'. I didn't buy that either!

Yes, exactly the same here. I paid €1430 for mine. If the question had been would you pay €1440 and not have spend an afternoon hoping that your friend who had a clue about woodwork would be able to get the remains of the strap lock screw without too much damage because you wanted to put strap locks on and didn't realise you weren't supposed to use a screwdriver on the screws as they were just decorative, I would say, yeh, sure! Seriously, it is a lovely instrument and that sort of thing puts a cloud over it. It wouldn't have happened on an ACG or similar, and my ACG was cheaper than that.

I always end up configuring a headless frog, but as they don't have multiscale and I have the ibbby ehb, not really much need to do that any more. Would still quite alike a multiscale version of the elwood L that I have.

The bridge is fine, the knobs are also fine, although I wouldn't really complain about the knobs anyway, if they are poor I can change them without a risk of damage to the bass!

I configured one almost exactly like that, but with a darker neck

Not sure about that, there are literally 10 screws on it, not sure there are big savings to be had there

I don't. I think that is one of tropes that people drag out to justify why other people don't like things that maybe they do. It is perfectly possible to dislike a thing while still appreciating the skill required in performing the thing. Like recurring things, Jaco, Joe satriani, jazz, etc.. in a lot of cases skills that I would kill for doing something I wouldn't want to do. There is a lot of slap that is very skilled (although I would say not the majority), doesn't mean you have to hate the skill to hate the sound.

Yeh, wasn't too impressed with that. Although cheaper then than now as I got it 3.5 years ago so I paid for half of it at the pre-brexit cost.

I was one mentioning the cheap screws. I didn't send mine back although I did talk to him about it. I replaced the broken screws myself anyway, I wouldn't have sent a bass back for that.

I would call that the normal position that most people have, so it would be hard for that to be heretical.

It is - but fairly typical. TBH, not so much bothered about the tools, can get those anywhere, but the manual would be handy. And if you are going to provide tools, say what they are for! It is small and very light. Today I was doing some practicing and my wife joined me for some singing, and she commented that the bass sounded a lot more "substantial" than the others.

I hadn't heard of them so listened to it on apple music. Really like it, if I had heard the track last plane out on its own, I would have assumed it was spocks beard.

Ah, I had missed that as they look exactly like the big singles. Probably explains the lack of noise pickup then, as that is litterally the purpose! And I assume it would have to make a slightly different sound as they are different. Certainly sounds good. I couldn't have gone for the barts. I think it is the ibanez way really, I have a few ibanez manuals around and none of them contain any real information, same manual for guitar and bass, so obviously they aren't going to do the model. Its a bit of a shame really, as making a manual isn't hard, especially when you have a range, like the SR range manual, the EHB range manual. Also, according to all the reviews, I could reduce the string spacing. Great, I would like to do that. So how does that work then? Oh, now I look I guess it is that screw at the top next to the string height that moves the string guide over.

There is the original Combustions, although I couldn't go for that as I hated the sound of whatever they had. But a bit cheaper. I would certainly like to try another dingwall but couldn't buy one without trying it in person after the combusion. I assume they sound better, because people really seem to like them. BUt for a 6 which I have never successfully got on with, it would have to be cheap, and that is right in the redsub territory. However, think I need to move a few basses on first! I don't find them super skinny, I find them normal, so anything else is judged by that. The dingwall was certainly wide. The new EBH is pretty wide for me.

Sadly it is. Its something I am trying to correct at the moment. While recording I find that I am always slightly ahead of the beat, unintentionally, its only miliseconds but it shows. I guess live it doesn't matter as I use wireless and people on here complain about the latency - maybe it fixes my playing

Because they are all idiots. Well, people use the wrong terms for everything, sometimes even the opposite thing and once you have been told a wrong term, its what you tend to use. I suppose you can validly call it a midi system, as if you want a midi out of a bass, it is a part of what you need to do it. Like a seat is actually part of a car system.