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That sounds like a better way to spend a festival than watching some bands!

Nothing. I wipe them down if they get dirty and clean the neck off when I change the strings (which is reasonably often as I can't stand dull strings).

Until we get to the stage of persuading people who are advertising basses, asking for local pickup only and not putting their location in, the chances of them putting other tags in seem slight

I went for a few years in the 80s. I really don't remember who was on the main stage - Is it a thing to care who is on the main stage if you are at glastonbury these days then? If so that is pretty sad.

TBH, I virtually never use a tone control, unless I am backing the treble off (which is why i had to change the pre on the 5005). The main difference is the sound and the feel. Due to the big weight difference, the feel is quite different.. do you know I have never weighed them, I will go and do that now.. ok, 1605 - 8.2lb, 5005 - 10.4lb. Quite a difference for a bit of wenge. also the neck feels different, I am not sure why but it feels somehow more solid, but this might be the weight thing. The wenge is really very attractive on the neck. The sound is very different - yes obviously the singles make a difference but on the 1605, going from the front to back changes the sound to a bit more trebly and thins it out a bit, subtle difference, but worth having. On the 5005 full pickup front and back sound like a completely different bass. I thought it was broken originally, but no, that is the way it is - the front is deep and full, the back is nasally and trebly and about half the volume, you have to go about 2/3 of the way back to balance them. I am glad I have them both, although at the end of a 3 hour gig I know which one feels better to have used Beyond that, as basses, they have more in common then they have differences.

I think that given the name it shouldn't have been a huge surprise! I don't get any hum at all unless I am near a big noise source, ie, wander too close to my CTM-100 when gigging or too near the telly at home. The rest of the time I would say they are virtually silent. They sound similar but not the same. I have a big split and it is different, I love the big singles on the premiums. I love my SR5005, night and day with the 1605, especially weight wise, also vast difference between the two pickups compared to the premiums. Mine was the 3v circuit, bass mid, treble, mid freq initially but the treble had completely stopped working and I had a spare 3 band glokenklang preamp around, so I took the old one out and put the glok in there. Its pretty good apart from it needing one less switch and one less knob (I left the other knob in anyway). When it comes down to it, my 1605 is still my #1 bass, and although the 2605 is fighing for that position, the 1605 has the advantage that I am not scared of scratching it!

The bass does shape your playing style so I would say I don't know if I play the way I play because of the basses I had. I generally have ibanezes, and for all them looking the same, they obviously feel and play in a very similar way. Other 5 strings such as the G&L and Maruschyck play the same. The ibanez 4 strings aren't that different either. However, I have had basses that made me play very differently. The thunderbird, the short scale gretsch, the fretless, the 8 string etc. I play differently on those, so if I had started on those, maybe it would be different.

Cable tone is just a high frequency cut to emulate running a cable from a passive bass. You can normally select length which takes the cut frequency down.

Not at an audition but I did decide to take a shortcut through Washington DC because I was low on fuel rather than go on the freeway and find something later. Turns out it is a little more scary than I thought!

I can tell by looking at the frame of that video in the OP that there is no way I would want to click on it. As a result, I don't see too many bad youtubers!

It was a busy weekend so it was just 2 days! the guitarist said that it and my 1605 sound the best, which makes sense, there is only one number different!

Very nice. I have finally had a chance to play my 2605 out live, I hadn't got round to getting it insured, but now I have and I played it at 3 of my 4 gigs this weekend and it is great, really love it.

I would have thought an acoustic guitar. Maybe it isn't his microphone and the photo is just at an angle?

If you had talked to Mr Hall, you would probably understand!

I'm guessing that is the plan!

That isn’t surprising. When something comes out and there is a rush to get it it is going to stay full price. When the market has settled it is going to reduce to a lower price (ignoring any inflation elements).

Everyone makes linear pots, they are the natural way to make pots, but the log pot was invented because they don’t work for audio because our hearing is not linear, so the log pot stops the pot only seeming to work in the last 20%

We have that in our set, goes down well. In fact we first played it before it was ready as there had been a fight earlier and it seemed appropriate!

Some tone controls are worse than others, but one of the problems of a passive instrument is the filter network that is implimented by your tone control is an RC network where the R is provided by your pickups, your volume control and the input of your amp (and your cable). Obviously that varies with the amp and the cable, so it is designed around one cable and amp combo. If yours is very different, it won't work the same.

I have recently got a bass cub but don't know if I can give much help as I don't have the other one for a comparison. I do have a RH450 and an Ashdown CTM-100 though if that helps. its quieter than both of those I like the bass cub, it is small enough to drag round to friends, it isn't loud enough to play with any of my drummers (who are loud and extra loud), but good enough to play with another guitarist. Great amp at home, although quite sterile (which isn't a bad thing). I have used the other socket for a microphone, which is handy if you have to do that. The line in seemed a bit noisy, not sure if that was the cable or what. It does work though, but it isn't something i use much. I am glad I got it but it is mostly an in house or round a mates sort of thing.

hahah - maybe. It looks like a handy thing to have - I have the B3 still, but that is very much a gig bag sort of size, so almost certainly will get one. however I can't at the moment as I am in a 'not allowed to buy myself anything before my birthday' month!

Sorry that is an overreaction because I have been having one of those weeks where I am getting a lot of people tell me I had asked questions I not (in a work context). See, I haven't had any specific problem with my hands, but as I am getting older, there are some stretches that hurt a bit and I am thinking, maybe I should look into doing something about it before I have a problem. It is indeed. But sometimes the only way you can find out what you do like is by it not being something you got. Like with pickups, as you said, the Maruszczyk I got and sold (what this thread was about) was a nice bass, but it managed to completely not move me. Maybe that was the pickups. I have just got a short scale Gretsch (4 string) which was a fraction of the cost, and I am loving that, but ultimately I am a 5 string player and it is a pain having a string missing. I did another thread about strings, and I ended up getting string from Newtone, which were the only company that I could find specific 5 string short scale strings.

That looks rather good.

The original question (ie, my question), wasn't even slightly like that, that would be a ridiculous question as clearly I have several 34" basses that I know work. It also wasn't 'do they work', because again that would also be a stupid question as I can see that people make them and people play them, so they obviously 'work'. The question was to get peoples opinion on how well they work (for them), and if the B string has any additional problems due to its length. At some point (probably far from 30"), the weight of string required becomes too much to overcome the thickness or stiffness of that string and it becomes impractical, so there is an absolute point where it is not possible, but also at some point, regardless of the construction of the bass and the neck construction, the sound of the string is so different to the sound of the others that it is not really practical to have to have that string. That was the question. To which the answer (as many people said and I found out myself) is that they can work very well, even if the one I had I didn't get on with (for reasons other than the 5th string). But as I am on the lookout for another, nothing against the scale.