Woodinblack

Isn't it free if you have a full helix?

What has he done with it?

Yeh, I liked it last time I was there (and have a load of points i should really use). Just a real pain to go into poole. Poole is less distance to me than bristol, but I still find it easier to go into bristol (even with the road works).

Yep, that is one of the weird ones, as well as the 2405 (I think).

Because if it feels right, then changing the electronics is easy. If it doesn't feel right you are never going to make it feel right.

Yep, 16.5mm as nature intended, same as (almost all) the other 5 string SRs.

I would hope they would be around an octave higher!

The original strings on these are very light, I think they are 85s or something. There is always an element of buzziness to the strings but it shouldn't be that flappy, probably down to neck relief. They are one of those basses I keep buying and not keeping for long, then wanting another!

We had our gig on saturday delayed by some football match. Just as well, if something is on the telly the guitarist watches it and looses more concentration.

Stage right, so I can hit the singer with my headstock Actually it is just because the guitarist wants to be on the left and I don't care enough to argue.

We have new music shop where I live but I dont' go in often as it is mostly guitars and the few basses they have are fenders. I don't know how shops survive. If I wanted to get a new bass or look at them I used to go to the PMT shop in bristol but now they don't put the prices on them so I can't tell whats what, so I have lost interest in looking on them - in fact, I was there last weekend, looked around the basses, a few had prices, just the discounts, so I looked, lost interested and went and played on the keyboards. I am in a way surprised that there isn't a good music shop somewhere where they have some instruments set up and also a coffee shop or something where musicians can hang out, it would make it more of a social thing (and the coffee might pay for the shop to run better than the guitars). They could put informal gigs on, or mic nights etc. Trouble is you need some space but I can't see a way that a purely music shop could survive

I am after one of those. I had a 5 string 30” last year (a messinger) and I got new tone strings via recommendations on here. There was no flap pines with the strings, they were pretty well perfect. just looked it up, they were Diamond bass 5 string NPS HEX .050­.135 30” Short Scale

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?