Al Krow

This sounds great John. Again, any more details on the particular course you've taken and price / number of lessons / what level aimed at / what it's setting out to teach etc? A little mini review would be really useful to give folk a bit of a steer and I can then also include in the summary table in my OP.

Yeah I'm afraid it does! The SS was decent in its day but the decade old tech under its bonnet is definitely starting to be shown up by several of the newer kids on the block.

You got any more details e.g. price / number of lessons / what level aimed at / what it's setting out to teach etc? I can then include in the summary table in my OP.

For sure. But the beauty with online courses is that you can skip through the easy stuff and just spend time focusing on the areas you need to. Applying a bit of your own judgement means that the generic courses become a lot more tailored to your specific needs. Obviously this needs you to have a degree of self awareness, whereas an expert one-to-one tutor should be able to spot this for you. And I hope you'll agree: as important as the lesson itself is the quality and time spent practising in between - that's where the real progress is usually made.

Haha - I should definitely be on commission, shouldn't I? 😁 He's just released a new set of course material, which looks great, with a 30% discount for this first release week: https://www.talkingbass.net/product/chords-for-bass-course/ 52 lessons spread over 3 modules, 154 pages of lesson material and over a variety of audio practice tracks. With the discount, it works out at less than £1 a lesson.

That's a good summary. The issue in both cases is finding high quality tuition. I suspect many (but obviously not all) "in person" tutors will find it hard to match the expertise / ability to express and convey technique, supported by lesson materials, that the very best online tutors clearly demonstrate and provide. Having had both, I'm very much a convert to quality online tuition.

Just had a play near the bridge and clearly the chap who had it in between you and I must have set it up differently (better? 😁) - the bridge poles are rock solid and notes sustain very well, as you would expect with a neck through. And actually the mid heavy nature you mentioned a few posts back with NE mid sweep off, is fairly easily dealt with by just cutting the main mid EQ a touch; and on that basis I would be very comfortable with playing the bass without the NE mid sweep engaged. So all is still well in the Krow household this evening...PHEW!! It is funny, isn't it, how the exact same bass can find different wrinkles and reactions from different bass players? E.g. the BB735A you took off my hands was one I just couldn't gel with, but methinks you had it set up better than I managed and consequently coaxed a better sound from it than I ever did. @HazBeen will be along shortly to say it's all in the fingers...

Congrats! I thought that was a head turningly good looking bass from the moment I spotted it (as I commented on the FS thread)! If Fender could be persuaded to make a 5 string version of that exact bass I would be on it like a shot - huge fan of PJs these days. Enjoy!

Now he tells me! 😂😂 I'm gonna be looking particularly closely at them bridge saddles next time I'm playing near the bridge...😉

Is that the Oly White one in the FS which has just sold?

Woody - that's literally a sick joke! Next thing we'll be hearing - this has been taken up by Fox News! 😁

I've ordered several times from them and with one exception the service has been fine i.e. they have delivered on time and / or provided a refund where items have been returned. My most recent purchase / return (just a pedal) was, however, seriously painful, but fortunately I had bought through PayPal and eventually got a refund by escalating matters with them, but there was a fair bit of angst along the way. They did apologise for this latest purchase, which was as much the courier / their warehousing issue as anything, and mentioned being short staffed. But I'm more than a little reluctant to head back in their direction. I'm assuming you've tried their telephone helpline? You're sometimes on a fairly lengthy wait, but I usually got through in the end and kept a note of the conversation which I emailed to them. So certainly not previously a scam, but they did seem to be sinking under the volume of returns they were processing, which must have been killing their margins. I do hope you get your bass sorted.

Looks like a variation of the Lehle Sonic Spark you previously had? Interestingly Lehle have discontinued that particular pedal.

I think it's being a little bit "generous" on Zoom's part to be asserting that. The B3N / B1-4 do not, themselves, have IR capability. Zoom have used IR from amps and cabs to provide them with the basis in designing their cab sims. In other words they are saying they think they're pretty close to the real thing.

Wow - we have "Road" and "Street" for the same street names right next to each and used to get that all the time given identical postcodes. I've had to resort to putting "NOT Road" on all our Amazon etc addresses. But 8 miles apart!! Postman must have been asleep... Nice ending to the story though!

Very much where I'm landing with pedals in discussions with some fellow BC'ers - a zillion different options per pedal are not needed on the typical covers gigs. Need to find the settings that work and "set and forget". Where I can see a lot of optionality being useful would be for: i) home / studio creative use; ii) original band work, but I'm speaking here from a completely theoretical stand point, not really having been in an originals band since my youth (and once briefly since then but a long while back) when I pretended to be the guitarist! With EQ settings, however, in a typical covers set you're typically going to want a different EQ set up for each of motown, rock and slap and the key is to be able to make quick, easy and accurate transition for each. Two of the three are pretty easy to do on a typical Yammy BB just by rolling the tone off and / or adjusting the P / J balance. For more than two - having a scroll-able EQ pedal seems to be a good solution.

In theory the B3N should edge it on sound quality as it has the newer Zoom chip set and it does have greater processing power which allows additional effects in a patch as compared to the MS-60B. If you want the best of both worlds including: the much easier programming interface and patch scrolling, together with headphone amp capability and latest chip set of the B3N; plus easy to access drum machine and looper and global volume and EQ controls for a price that's comparable or less than the MS-60B, I'd recommend considering getting the B1-4 instead. I've got the sibling B1X-4 - it's a bit larger than the B1-4 due to the wah pedal and a little more expensive (but not by much). I've previously had both the MS-60B and B3N but have happily settled on the B1X-4 as my budget multifx. Hope that helps.

As you were panic over, my bad. Not sure what I was thinking but a headphone amp with no bells and whistles (e.g. like a multifx attached such as my Zoom B1X-4 has!) is totally "allowed" gear - no impact on your signal chain whatsoever (other than what you would expect from a headphone amp!). So you're still in the game and pretty much now a whole month in! (And no £5er contribution to the kitty just yet!) Isn't it 'bout time you bought a fancy six string? I'm sure I saw you (quite rightly!) drooling over a KS a while back 😁

Hey - sounds like you've been through the wars! But hopefully you're on the road to being fully mended.

Just need the small item of a Mac and you're good to go! 😉

Sounds to me like you're sorted then! I'm not convinced you'll find a BB NE2 very different to your Spector, what with the contoured body shape, neck through design, big low end etc. In fact, I did briefly think about moving my NE2 on after I got my Euro LX5, for the above reasons, and your Spector will be even closer to an NE2 with its semi para 3 band EQ than mine is.

Tyler - yeah my default setting is also to have the NE EQ engaged as you say, whether fully dialled or partially scooped. I've not given it quite such a careful analysis as to what it's like without as per your post, but I guess I won't be disagreeing given it's the same bass! Be good to get @pete.young's views on the NE2 too, as he's had his a lot longer than I've had your former bass.

Picking up on one comment from your earlier post (albeit just the good bits!) - I think you've summed up in a sentence the key benefit for that NE pre-amp on the BB NE2. Just need to work out a way of putting that versatility to controlled use rather than it being an annoying negative. But I think, between us, we've identified a very cheap and professional looking solution! @TRBboy - this is what I've managed to come up with from a web search this morning. Not fluorescent, but should otherwise do the job!