Happy Jack

Agreed. Don't know about you but I genuinely enjoy learning new material, especially stuff I would never normally have tackled. The most fun I've had in the last month was learning Happy by Pharrell Williams, and learning it properly so that I could absolutely nail it. The band loved my performance at the audition for "first-choice dep bass player". So much so that they decided they needed a better full-time bass player. But because I play in other bands they also decided not to offer the role to me ... Bwahahahaha!!! Bands, don't you just love 'em?

The bass that makes me feel my best, play my best, sound my best is my Mike Lull T5. It cost me nearly £3k and they now cost about £4.5k new, but I play that bass at every gig. If I had a £200 Encore that worked as well for me, then I'd play that instead. It's not about the money ...

This isn't going to end well ...

What is this "upper register" of which you speak?

I have to tell you that on my screen this abbreviated to: Drummer needed for wedding Which is one of the best thread titles I have seen in ages.

The thing about all these really wonderful warm-up-your-sound get-that-vintage-tone persuade-people-that-you're-Jamerson DI boxes (and believe me, I'd be happy own each and every one of them) is that a far more economical approach would be to buy a top-quality vintage combo and stick a mic in front of it ...

Thanks. Astonishing tone, but only with the right strings. My kneejerk reaction to buying a bass is "just stick flats on it" and that invariably improves the tone hugely ... well, to my ears anyway. This is the first bass I've owned (of well over 100 of the buggers) where the opposite is true. Fitting LaBella FLs (one of my go-to string sets) simply deadened the tone and closed the sound down. It was still a great-sounding bass, of course, but the magic had gone. The second I put the D'Addario rounds on, there it was again ...

http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses CURRENT/Ovation Magnum III 1980 CURRENT

Was this really four years ago? https://silviabluejay.blog/2014/08/05/visit-to-foderas-workshop-brooklyn/

My best guess would be that, whatever DI box you use, the personality will be Markbass!

And the winner is ... D'ADDARIO!

Outstanding!

The Jesus Plank?

Are you a Corbynista?

That is a GREAT photo (and a great story).

Looks like a perfectly usable bass to me, the only thing I don't like is the rather rustic logo on the headstock, which seem to have been written & drawn with a Magic Marker. Does it weigh much?

Given the presence of the 'Report' button plus the introduction of the 'Like' system, it would hardly be beyond the wit of Basschat for such a section to be largely self-moderating. As a doting Dad I am well aware of the need to keep children away from bad language. After all, who ever heard a teenager swear? But recent polls seem to have shown fairly conclusively that being over-run with little children is not a problem that need concern us. Seeing as we are overwhelmingly a bunch of mature grown-ups, why not treat us that way?

I know which part of the spec I was most interested in: Guitar Weight 5.0kg

He's got a little list, they never would be missed ...

Some sooper-dooper DI boxes can add something to your original signal (let's go for a cliche here, how about "a warm valve sound") but that rather pre-supposes that you feel your original signal is lacking that something. I use passive non-valve Radial boxes which don't interfere with the signal (at least, not in way that I can detect) on the basis that, if I'm recording something, then what I want to record is me and what I really sound like.