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@Dood Could it be worthy if we all watch your (to me at least) excellent reviews on your YouTube channel ? Do you get some income from the online bass magazines you make the videos for if we all watch them too ? Just in case, here is the link to most of @Dood reviews: Maybe a mod could highlight this excellent thread and put it on top. Calling @ped for this...

It's missing the best one...

You won't be alone anymore @Marc S 😂

Are you talking about AC himself? 😈

The shorter the path, the better with high impedance circuits.

You're complicating the idea. Simply use your active/passive switch to have two different tones: a passive tone with all the balls, and a darker tone in the active mode. Then just flip the switch for these two different tones that you can still adjust in the active mode. A passive tone in a separate box will be a real pain in the āss, as the tone will vary with the cable length due the passive path being high impedance (loss of highs linked to the length) and very sensitive to the capacitance of the cable used too, so the tone itself can change very quickly depending on the length and type of cable used, and I don't even mention the buzzing and earthing issues you'll get: forget it.

Just in case you didn't notice, it's a vertical playing instrument, Mick. An instrument for the lazy people, it's all about patterns, in fact. Also check Anthony Wellington's explaining the modes, you'll be amazed. It's an hour lesson that could have lasted 10 minutes, but those guys know how to earn their money. 😉 I have a simple Excel file (two in fact as it can been seen from two different points of view) explaining the same, but you first need to understand the pattern.

An F-Bass, he has a few signature models, right? 😈

You may also choose the stacked volume and tone per pickup à la early Jazz Bass plus the 3 bands EQ coupled to an active/passive switch. Easy to use and understand. I would avoid the Aguilar OBP-3 for a lot of reasons, the first being its total lack of transparency and the fact that it's too powerful meaning that just touching one control already means too much of anything. But it depends on what your looking for: if it's a take that in your face approach, the OBP-3 is perfect, if it's a very slowly fine tuning EQ, you'll be disappointed.

But Carlsbro were great. My second amp was a Carlsbro Stingray Super head (I know it's a guitar head) with its dedicated Carlsbro 4x12 (guitar too, I know) cabinet fitted with Fane speakers. I did a lot of gigs with it and weirdly it was sounding terrific with my fretless basses. Could you also please stop putting an unnecessary "o" in the name! Thanks.

A broom with strings.

This is how I play fretless too, but there's a lot of classical vibrato in here, and tons of mwah, so that typical growly fretless sound. Excellent stuff for sure, but what else would you expect from George Duke and Christian McBride, but what a fantastic drummer indeed!

I didn't dare to put the comparison, so thanks for doing it. 😊

So why spending time writing this then. Maybe you don't remember but Stuart Hamm started out of the blue too and without some helping hands called Steve Vai or Joe Satriani, he would still be putting gas in cars... Loris Tils has his YouTube channel as well as Bandcamp, there are numerous videos, and albums to listen to. According to your reasoning, you only listen to people you know and refuse to discover the others, very odd argumentation here, and I've been accustomed to better than that. Furthermore it's a way more interesting project than simply another (boring) album as Stuart Hamm said all he had to say with his two first solo albums...

Who gives a shīt?

Because icon? 😂

Help the rich, if I summarise good. Nice modern world we're living in... Thanks for the lesson.

Stuart Hamm certainly doesn't need the money, that's why I slaughtered him. So, people are prepared to give money to someone who doesn't need it, but not to someone entitled to ask for it and giving more for your money. It's not hypocrisy, it's common sense. Loris Tils needs the money for his new record, so be a community and act the right way.

Loris Tils, a very talented and funny Belgian bassist is raising funds for his new project (EP, book and more). https://www.ulule.com/nouvel-ep-book-loris-tils/ Here are some videos:

Maybe they were trying to make their band name sound true...

What annoys me is the overall tarif. Would you pay $50 USD for a CD (certainly without shipping) when it will end up at 1 quid in the local cash converter?!? It's not crowdfunding, it's crowdstealing. Anyone else doing the same would offer you a lot more than just what he's offering... Support Loris Tils instead: https://fr.ulule.com/nouvel-ep-book-loris-tils/?utm_campaign=presale_164694&utm_source=shared-from-Ulule-project-page-on---http.referer--&utm_medium=uluid_5073134-post-202305120112

Good ol' days are back! So, yes maybe punk's not dead. 😂

Exact same preamp with different links... 😉

The American Dream is a nightmare for sure, especially if you get sick, BUT you know it from the start, so just save some money... That said a solid bunch of musicians, him included, have a lot of incomes through diverse positions in multiple schools, endorsements or simply as touring and/or recording musicians. You work to earn money, why wouldn't they do the same. This is where lies the problem (and the rock star excess living isn't a myth at all). Don't get me wrong, I have been a huge fan of Stuart Hamm, saw him live several times (he wasn't always to the top, but it's nothing new) and still like listening to some of his music (I think I heard Black Ice something like a 1000 times), but a crowdfunding for such a ridiculous amount, come on! PS: I buy everything I listen to so the artists get paid...

Looks like "I want it all and I want it now" is more than an anthem nowadays. It's a very good thing that labels are not what they used to be as things have to evolve. We had way too much shītty music thanks to these labels. Those artists willing to show their art can still go through, for example, Bandcamp and make everything by themselves instead of waiting for a company to pay for everything. And it's rather strange from a guy that must know the saying "No pain no gain"...