Frank Blank

I've just spent an inordinate amount of time looking at this ...

No. All I have is the above rig. If you want to try mine out just say and we can sort something out.

I have emailed both RCF and QSC several times with many questions and have always received prompt and excellent replies.

I play through a HX Stomp into a QSC K12.2, much as I like playing around with the Stomp I mainly use it for a touch of compression and really small eq tweaks. What always surprises me is just how superb the basses sound plugged directly into the QSC. I spend decades looking for bass amps that reproduced the sound of the bass without adding or subtracting any colour. Now I realise I’m almost certainly an exception here but when I buy a bass, second hand or new, I don’t amplify it, I listen to it acoustically, when I like a bass and subsequently buy it, that acoustic sound is what I’m looking for when amplified, uncoloured, just (obviously) louder! The QSC is the only amplification solution that has ever given me this. I use The Stomps sims sometimes with my short scale fretless simply to get a tone near to that of an upright bass but again I find it difficult to beat the sound that I get directly plugged in. The Stomp has so many variables to tweak that I’ve barely scratched the surface but then the quality of the sounds just plugging in the basses directly is so good I’m in no hurry!

I’ve never played a bass with a light wood fingerboard. I was just looking at the three current basses in the rack, both the ACGs have fingerboard made of extremely dark ebony. The exception is the RA Mouse, which is various shades of mid-brown but gets a pass as it’s simply a thing of immense beauty. As ridiculous as I know it is, I suppose function should trump form, I don’t even consider a bass if it has a light fingerboard, no idea why. I’m not just ambivalent about them, they actually repulse me a little bit, maybe because the light wood reminds me of the humiliating weekly torture of the school gym... ...issues. 😳

It’s a new trend, teacupping.

I’d soak them in luke warm tea while I waited though.

Go on...

It'll be at The Bash...

Phew...

Oh, which one, it might have gone...

I have used bend and cut for decades with no (apparent) problems but since using Newtone Strings with a round core rather than hex I don’t cut these particular strings.

^^^ this, with bells on.

Yes please, this is the Internet.. isn't it?

To pedantic, opinionated I can't actually grasp the subjectivity/objectivity dichotomy hell in a pointless handcart, that's where its going.

Welcome! It’s a good ‘un, don’t miss it!

...not that I’d want to, I have no idea where its been.