Al Krow

To my fellow WHUFC fans and the OP in particular: Two Spector basses for us both (right?) and two passed Man U. Sundays don't get much better than this do they? 😂

Is that one you've just bought? If so the new 3 series was only announced in March 2017 (and that was the prompt for this thread in fact!), so yours must have been a relatively early production run soon after they were announced. I actually bought my BB 1025 in Jan 2018. But the headstock number starts with HLX which puts its date of manufacture at Oct 2015. Apparently it was the very last of these available in Europe according to the Yammy store, or so they told me!, and they were at least offering them at pretty decent end of line discounts. What got me thinking about this was a recent Spector bass purchase and the retailer disclosing that it was a 2015/16 year of manufacture when I was getting some background information on it. (I've since pinned it down to Sept 2016). Well that gave me reasonable ammo to negotiate, 'cos it was clearly 'New Old Stock' rather than a brand new bass. Certainly something I will be more aware of going forward! Overwhelming view from fellow BC'ers and TB'ers is that they year of manufacture is the relevant date: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/whats-the-relevant-age-for-a-bass.1418849/

Please remind me to sign up as soon I get an FI!

Let's please not get overly technical here. The MAIN point in all this, is that the DG is prettier, right? 😂

Great suggestion Darren! Good to see Peter finally starting to get a fair reward for his efforts and glad that you've persuaded him to set aside all that guff about: "If everything in this life were only done with the expectation of financial gain, then it would be a miserable existence." 😂 Let's face it, life with no money is even more miserable and everyone should be entitled to fair compensation for the effort they've put in; particularly when they are providing valuable services to a commercial outfit. Well that's my old fashioned view on the subject, anyway! If I ever get another FI, I'll certainly be signing up to Peter's Patreon account and filling my boots with his excellent patches.

Check the very first post in this thread - I've posted a comparison table there, which I did a while back for another BCer, for ease of reference. Shows the difference in design and materials between three of the Series 3 basses. The P34 will be pretty similar for actual materials to the 734A but is purely passive. In terms of finish: it's MIJ and has one of the Yammy bespoke sonic treatments (and I think dB mentioned having the fretboard additionally oiled also?)

Defo gotta improve the quality of dem jokes Mr DB5 😁 Have a great gig! 😊

Interesting! What are the first 3 letters of the serial no?

Just had a slightly nerdy session dating my Ibby and Yammy basses. In case this is of interest to any one else... The more modern Ibby SR Premiums are a doddle to date: the first four numbers are the date (and the remaining 5 digits the production run number in that month) so 1608xxxxx is very easily Aug 2016 More recent Yamaha BBs seem to use a YY-M format with the first 3 letters providing the date, but using the following code: H=1, I=2, J=3, K=4, L=5, M=6, N=7, O=8, P=9, Q=0, X=10, Y=11, Z=12 => HMI = 16-2 i.e. Feb 2016

Ah you sing as well as play bass! And are now playing a Yammy BB. Gets better and better!

Phew!!! Ok, I don't need to sell any of my herd then! I know I'm fortunate to have a few decent basses to play and I love having them. As you say, they don't need to be expensive to be great basses. But I kinda feel that, space permitting, having some really good alternatives somehow keeps them all fresh. Well that's at least how I've sold it to Mrs Krow 😂

With pleasure - let me get my Focusrite & DAW sorted (bear with me - maybe a couple of weeks with other stuff on my plate!) and I'll post a couple of clips.

Ah ok thanks. I was able to get pretty close last night on my Boss SY-1 on arp setting.

Blimey Dave, if they both feel like 'the one' then, by definition, that must make them 'the two'? 😄 But seriously mate, very few of us get to thinking that any bass is 'the one' (@TRBboy being an honourable exception), so if you've found 'the ones', hold on to them!

Heresy, heresy, HERESY! Mods please get this chap thrown off BC for use of such offensive, contented, language. 😁

Don't you get a break after an hour, even if you're doing a 2 hour set? Or do you boys do 3 to 4 hours as standard?!

Sounds like a fun set! Let us know at the end of the gig how it sounded and also what the rest of your rig is, that you're putting the Yammy through?

Excellent - let us know how you get on! What sort of material do you guys play?

Congrats! Hope the gig goes well!

That's fair - part of getting a set of programmed presets that you can use.

Loved the arp synth & electronic drums you've got at the start of this track. What kit are you using to deliver that?

I've never really understood 'normal' drive being incorporated into other pedals. Just been discussing the same point about having a saturation (aka drive) in the excellent Becos Stella comp with @51m0n - we both agreed it was pretty pointless; 'cos if folk want an excellent drive they're totally spoilt for choice - it's probably the single biggest / most popular genre of pedal available. I'd much prefer arpeggiator over 'normal' drive in a synth pedal every day of the week. When I say 'normal' drive I'm getting at additional 'optional' overdrive in contrast to a drive unit that forms a core part of the synth tone generation or a gated fuzz. If the FI drive is either of the last two then I agree it's a core feature rather than an optional extra.

@Kiwi have to say, I TOTALLY agree. I really didn't know what I'd been missing until I picked up my SY-1 a couple of months back. The arp feature is one of the best of many good things about this pedal and a big reason why it's such a creative fun pedal. It is, after all, such a classic synth sound. What's the big advantage of programmable over manually tweakable when it comes to arp for you? Playing live manual is much more immediate if you need to tweak, although I'm a big fan of presets which is a key 'weakness' of the SY-1.