Al Krow

Stop. You're really not helping. But it does look damn neat!! PS I used to own the Vox Amplug and it's not a bad piece of kit at all - but (based on what I've read up) this Nux unit blows it out of the water in what it can do.

And a Mesa amp (or two) and have a mind for matters more taxing also. I'm starting to see a bit of a pattern here 😁

Damn - that thing looks good. https://www.triungulolab.com/home/20-barbanera.html A few of us are very eagerly awaiting a review on bass! This is a pretty decent review on six string (1.33 to 4.30 in particular)

Love the fact that you still refer to her as your GF, mate, after all these years! That is actually rather lovely. Been a LONG time since I called my missus that 😁

Exercise in the local vicinity is permitted - just ask Boris who was on one of his bikes recently in a park down the road from me. I find that a 2 hour set and loading and unloading all the gear gives me a pretty good work out. Usually manage to work up a sweat. I just need to rebrand my local pub as a gym and we're good to go. Now where the heck did I leave that Shadows set list?...

Haha - you're very welcome to sit on your ars*e till then. I certainly won't be! 😁

Got a wedding from last year at the end of May provisionally still in the diary, but they've been in touch about having the option of moving it to August if need be. I doubt very much that pubs, which are currently on their knees, are thinking about booking bands right now! But if @Burns-bass is correct about deaths falling to double digits by the end of March, I think we could see things open up quite quickly thereafter.

Ok to do that we're gonna need to know what you've figured out for yourself? 😁

It's pretty bleak right now, no question. But the darkest moment is just before the dawn. If we were across the Channel, where an unmitigated vaccination fiasco is sadly happening right now as @Dad3353 will be able to confirm, I would agree with you May would be way too early to call it. Only 10% of UK Covid related deaths has happened in the under 65s [source: ONS excess deaths report for 2020] and we're targeting the most vulnerable elder members of the population first quite rightly. The mental health, particularly on kids, and economic impact of keeping the economy locked down is huge.

Out of interest, Steve are you also a Stagg EUB player?

Vaccine roll out really is progressing a pace, which is very encouraging and credit where it's due for that. I'm sticking with May for pub gigs to start up again. Can't wait!

I am tempted by their reverse PJ 5er 35" scale which is currently on sale at GAK for a tidy discount. Trouble is I know just how good my Yammy BB 1025 is and the fact it's seen off 4 other PJ 5ers over the past 2 years... Certainly won't be any worse than a Warwick Thumb I've got my eye on for neck dive!

PS ETIAS looks like an excellent regime going forward. Well done the EU for coming up with that improved approach. Besides, it makes complete economic sense to me to be encouraging touring musicians in that way - I would have thought that the vast bulk of the economic benefit from touring musicians is to the local economies anyway (unless you're a mega star charging a $multi million tour fee).

@skankdelvar bravo - what an excellent piece of research and very helpful indeed! I thought Woody had nearly cracked the issue earlier with his look into the EU visa regime. But it seems to me you've provided a clear route map for EU touring musicians to look into.

Len is right. Let's keep on topic. Goodness knows the public mud slinging is one the mods have repeatedly asked us not to engage in, and I'm going to try harder to heed their requests although it's tricky when too often it's only side of the debate playing ball! But I'm really happy to have a polite, private discussion on pro / cons of Brexit with a fellow BCer if you're really interested? PM me if you want to do that and I'll set up a private thread and we can add any others in if they want to join.

Andy that's a very wise approach. I suspect folk mostly comment on topics for interest /or for a bit of fun. I totally agree there is no need to worry about pretty much ANY bass related topic, unless you're a pro bass player who is rightly worried about when gigs will start up again!

EQ is obviously a key part of any set up and finding sonic "space" as you say, Oli. No keys in our band, although @dave_bass5has turned with gusto to the dark side recently... However, I think this particular issue has a lot to do with pup placement and the additional harmonic richness that is found closer to the bridge, which is where the J pup on my PJ is to be found. The low B string (B, C, D Eb) fundamentals are not in an EQ range that you typically associate with wanting to boost for cutting through - that is more usually the mid range. So we are then back to the harmonics. Just my tuppence worth.

Ah so a Barefaced Super Compact (with a DG M900 head) is the real culprit here? Good, glad we've got that sorted now then 😂 Yup, I am indeed talking about P vs J on the low B as the main theme of this thread. But obviously anything with "B" in it is going to be controversial on BC...

Come on - not even close to the worst. How about this one?

Couldn't agree more - it is just experiences shared in common by several BC'ers, some of whom are really outstanding bass players. Just to go back to my OP, when I switched from P to J pup mid set for a song with a lot of low B work with exactly the same EQ settings, our drummer, who has a really excellent ear, did a double take and said "whatever you just did - keep doing!" He could hear me cutting through the mix with that one change. The P and J pups were set up just fine for the rest of the set on songs with less focus on the low end. As I hope I've made clear, plenty of folk won't have experienced this issue on their set ups. It's just a little 'gem' that may come in useful to some of our fellow musos along the way.

More seriously - looking back over the thread, it does seem like the point of view expressed by Andruca is one shared by some seriously competent bass players (so I wouldn't be quite so quick to be so dismissive @CameronJ) and, amusingly, one of them happens to have a Sadowsky PJ5 and hasn't merely looked at their website. Defo worth keeping an open mind to other folks' experiences - won't always be relevant but could be a little hidden gem in there from time to time. Just sayin' 😉

For sure, it's a marvellous bass - in fact one of the very best! Not a PJ though.

Now there's a chap who's managed to Roger it up, 'bless 'im! Seems to be getting his W'ick completely confused with his Metro.

They do a four string version of course, Lozz.