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In fact Marleaux has been inspired by the Pagelli to make his Diva model, and the Pagelli shown above with the volume control à la Leduc was made as a special edition very small run (5 instruments IIRC) by ... Gerald Marleaux himself. Looping the loop. 😉

Or maybe, it's the Pagelli bass, a true work of art and, to me, one of the most beautiful bass ever made:

I guess it's this bass you're mentioning, @itu:

Conklin and RMI (same look as the Zon Hyperbass) made a lot of 36 positions basses.

Jerzy Drozd is also making some 3 octaves basses or more precisely 36 positions basses.

If he was still alive, it would have been interesting to ask James Jameson who died just after his Funk Machine was stolen what were his thoughts about this...

Nope as he is a bloody cheapskate!

My "one bass" has to be a fretless, and a sixer. I've been playing bass for 40 years now, been a semi-pro (meaning I still had a job) for around two decades divided in two periods and met someone in the early 90's who changed my perception of what is a really good instrument, a master luthier named Christophe Leduc, who has become a friend over the years. During these 40 years, I've owned and played over 400 basses including around 40 Leduc basses, but I always come back to these Leduc basses and especially one Leduc bass that I sold twice and bought back twice. This is a bass that I now own for something like a decade or a bit more, bought to the first owner that I knew and chased it for a decade or a bit more as he didn't want to sell it, and is like an extension of myself. This "one bass" is this Leduc Masterpiece MP 628 SF with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard: But, I ordered a custom Leduc U-Basse 6 fretless, also with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard as they are my favourites, a bit more than 5 years ago and got it for my birthday last month. It's a totally different instrument with its patented floating soundboard and the ability to split the magnetic pickups and the twin piezo pickup. I met a story teller this weekend and it was an instant match, she tells the stories and I enlighten them with just a fretless, so this custom Leduc U-Basse 6 fretless will become the new extension of myself and that "one bass" as the sound palette is broader and fits perfectly the needs for this new project, and I already feel at home with it: And there's a third sixer fretless which is also that "one bass" and is a gift from my wife, a Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block with a stainless steel fingerboard and an amazing tone: So, I own 3 totally different "one bass" for different purposes and reasons. Now, the quest is over.

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A mandatory smartphone to change the configuration with the risk of self configuration of the switch by accident.

Put a set of EMG pickups, the X series with dynamics closer to a passive pickup is really excellent.

Chorus: JAM Pedals Waterfall Bass, the best analogue chorus on the market, but very expensive, more fluid than the already excellent Boss you had or the mythical CE-2. Octaver: Boss OC-5, does what you want and more, furthermore it has way better tracking and is more reliable than the OC-2. Reverb: You already have what you need. Delay: JAM Pedals Llama analogue delay in an affordable iteration. Drive: One Control 360 AIAB as it emulates the Acoustic's Jaco Tone with the musical drive needed for a fretless. PS: I'm a fretless player only too and these are the effects I use with a very light touch, but I am considering getting rid of everything but a reverb.

Most of the basses look like banjos on me. 🤣

And six are for the lazy sods, which is why I'm a sixer guy. 🤪🤦🏻‍♂️

There were around 250 adverts and a bit more trackers: simply deliriously amazing! Check my post above.

Alembic does @franzbassist.

This what I've got today after the Ezoic era is, I really hope, over. Check at the right, these are the ads and the trackers blocked since yesterday evening when I activated the ad blocker only for BassChat, where I logged in and out 13 or 14 times to check what was going on, and each time cleaning all the mess to start from scrap. Just check what happened today after Ezoic has been paused: only 3 ads blocked and absolutely no tracker, which is totally standard. Don't tell us there isn't a big issue with Ezoic. Furthermore, not allowing people to have the ability to refuse cookies is a violation of the GDPR (where it applies) and as I already wrote, BassChat is de facto a worldwide website, so even if it's not mandatory in the U.K. anymore, it's elsewhere, like in the EEC. According to all answers, it looks like no moderator, except @Silvia Bluejay really understood that this inability to refuse cookies (ads and trackers) was the real issue.

For those interested I have History Kill for something like two decades now, it's a fantastic tool to do what it's supposed to do, but the fact is that we are now aiming to AI to decide what's good for us... 🤦🏻‍♂️ Come on, there are other ways to make a website viable.

Ezoic is what is now used to help BassChat raise money through "intelligent" ad placement for those who don't know. And for the mods, better take a look at Hi-fi Critic, a paper magazine with absolutely no ad at all, which is self paid by the subscriptions. This could also become a reality here with the amount of members, just ask for a fee to have a totally ad free website for subscribers only and it will work for sure. German website www.bassic.de has absolutely no ad for the members when signed in.

I agree with the fact that in the U.K. this "no" option is not mandatory anymore BUT it's a worldwide website including EEC where it's mandatory to have the ability to refuse cookies. Better act and put that option before some radicalists decide to lodge a complaint and ask for money BassChat doesn't have. And don't tell us it's hard to implement...

Loads of subtleties in this excellent bass line(s). Thanks for the amazing job.

Didn't realise until now, but I receive notifications for (maybe) all the new threads. Looks like a bug to me.

Thanks, but I think I know what microtonal means having learnt Indian music.