Al Krow

Ah snooze, I lose! Although now that prices have fallen to that of DG amps, I'd expect more new purchases, and used prices to follow on down to a level comparable to used DG Mk2s i.e. £700 used is likely to become the new norm.

Mark at TB is running a 7th anniversary 30% discount on ALL his courses for one week (started yesterday, so 6 days remaining).

Thanks @mcnach - I was kinda just exploring what folk favoured doing in practice. It seems to be: looping over the strap 100% locking jack leads 0% So far!

Please do elaborate on why it didn't work out with them?

Had a quick search - seems to have gone already?

@ead - that's a classy selection! And I defo can't be rude to someone who has a Spector (or two!) 😉

So wot you got now and I'm guessing you prefer them to your Yammys (I presume!)?

Yeah agreed v tempting! He's had a few bites, but hasn't shifted so far. If it was a 5P I'd be all over it!

Ok just because... ...a thread about a particular line of basses can get 4,000 posts from a lot of different bass players 🥂 There must be something special about them, right?

You're massively welcome, mate. Just glad you're enjoying!

P pups in the right place should in theory give you more than a passing nod to the P bass sound. In my simpleton books anyway! Do you remember how the SR655e sounded and played?

Yeah - and I guess I could see them damaging the jack socket on the bass, in any case, if they get yanked.

PS Woody it's that time of year again, for me to request that you consider removing "NBD" from the thread title. It's been 3 years and a week since it was a NBD for you 😁 @stewblack - Stew re. your new thread, this one has been a bit of a repository for all things SR Premium, although not easy to spot as Woody is wedded to original thread titles 😁 But I'm not sure there is a broader Ibby thread that deals with the rest of the range e.g. BTB etc.

@Skinnyman a week in, how are you finding it?! I'm rally tempted to go for a Ibby SR 655e as an upgrade to my Sire P7v2. Ticks a lot of boxes for me: PJ with reverse-P config, 24 frets, 3 band EQ, Nord pups. Will he light being an Ibby and likely have its usually immensely playable neck for a 5er. Hard to find that combination elsewhere, but it just feels a little weird thinking of the Ibby as a potential P bass! @Woodinblack I'm fearing that this might be one that you've not got your mits around and therefore won't be able to shed any light on it, for once! Dunno if anyone else has had any experience of these for good or ill? Wanted ad up, in case one of you has one gathering dust...

Yup, that was pretty crap on her part I agree!

The neck on the 1025 is actually pretty flat and makes it very comfortable to play as a 5 string - it's one of the things I Iove about it, so I can't help you on that score! Ah the thorny and deeply significant topic of favourite colours! Haha! I used to be a fan of burst finishes, but then I started shaving (again)...vintage white for me (no idea why Yammy are limiting us to the colours that they are!). I'm afraid that #blackbassesdon'tmatter anymore for me either. Besides Andy T will be on shortly and remind us that... 😂

Thanks gents - that's v helpful! Looping over the strap it is then!

Anyone using "locking" 1/4" jacks on their cables, if so what do you recommend? Or are folk generally just looping their lead around their straps to stop them yanking out mid set?

I found my 1025 and 735A to be very close indeed tonally in passive mode. The PUP blender is a nice touch, but actually if you need to kick in the solo J pup mid song, the selector switch is hard to beat! Obvs the 734/5 has the active mode mode in addition and I guess normally you would set and forget the blender at e.g. 75% P and 25% J, which is not something you can do on the 1024/5s. I ended up sticking with my 1025, partly 'cos it was a shade lighter in weight, and on a "shallow" level I do prefer vintage white to the grim reaper matt black finish on my former 735A! The 425 is one of the ballsiest passive basses on the market. Full stop!

Good man. I see that the change in pricing / distribution policy is already having an impact. Look forward to your review!

So where we are up to (posted on the OP) is: 9. CPCustomdubwise - BB434M, B415WR modded (lightweight hardware and John East giblets) (prev: BB350F, BB5Gs, BBN5) 10. TRBboy - BBN5 modded (prev: BB414, BB614FL, BB605, BB435) 11. Mojo - BB425, BB414 12...please keep your Yammy herd details incoming! What's kinda interesting, just based on the responses so far, is that we mostly have the older Yammy basses, not so many of the of 2017+ Series 3 around.

Get thee gone to the Sandberg Appreciation Society (club) 😄 😄

V. interested in what you thought of your TRB 5P, before I embark on a futile 5P quest!

Oooh that's worth knowing about Kenny's being an excess stock outlet!

My take on HPF is that it serves two main purposes: 1) get rid of low end subsonic crud, which you can't hear but takes up a lot of energy and leaves less headroom for the audible frequencies. This is classic sub 30Hz Thumpinator cut territory, with a preference from the manufacturer to use it at the start of your pedal board signal chain, rather than at the end (but it will serve a purpose all along the watchtower). Which makes good sense - as it means that the rest of your pedals are not needing to waste effort on low end frequencies that are going to be cut anyway. This application, for me, is a general one and would be relevant to clean bass/compressed/driven/distorted/synthy (but probably not for sub-synth / dub-bass set ups!) 2) for more general tone shaping and tightening - here a variable HPF is often used. If you have -12dB / octave cut and set at 80Hz then you there will be little impact at 80Hz but by the time you reach 40Hz you will be cutting by 12dB. A shelf EQ, on the other hand, has a steep cut for everything below the shelf frequency. I personally wouldn't use (2) with drive pedals as a lot of drive pedals have significant compression and in the case of ProCo RAT noticeable low end loss, so if anything I would want to be boosting lows and / or blending with clean to preserve low end. YMMV etc!