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I have a US one (which I am selling, but it is a bit niche). I have no problems at all with the B. I am fully aware that I WOULD say that given the circumstances, but hope that I have been around long enough for my word to at least mean something. It is strung with Newtone round core nickels, and the B speaks with the same sound and tension as the rest.

I am in the Spring Harvest camp in France atm. The IDMC Gospel choir are here. I do not know his name but their bassist is sublime

I would be all over a 42" Sei like a bad rash.

I have some bad news for you. In 1987 I inadvertently bought a 66J because it looked like Jaco's. You can guess the rest......

I used to gig one of those. I made quite a few sound engineers's eybrows go up and then smile

Thanks Tony. There were words that look familiar there. But that is not where my skillset lies, sadly. But the conversation has started! And that is the important bit. I know that G&L do something..... capacitor across one coil.. something.... with their L1000 pickup which provides a HEFTY amount of grunt. Is anyone doing this kind of thing commercially as a drop in that I have missed? A combination of that G&L option on a Jazz could be interesting. Obv, it would not do the G&L thang, but it could be an interesting flavour. Also the Audere thang would be great.

http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/

Like most of us here, I have been through way too much kit. I only realised after the fact that much of what is out there does the same thing. Especially once the guitarmageddon kicks in and any subtlety is steamrollered. One preamp which did something different was the "Z" (impedance) switch on an Audere preamp I had and, foolishly, sold because the next thing caught my attention. I have never followed it up because Audere became unavailable in the UK. I have just read that they are closing down and this got me wondering. Is a standalone Z switch possible? Would it go before a preamp? Who would make one? Does anyone make one? When I activated it things got gruntier, and it was good grunt. Obviously I had turned the internal pot full on becuause that is what they are for. I have now reached the end of my technical expertise. Any ideas?

Sad times. I had a preamp of theirs which had a variable z (impedance) switch on it. I have no idea what it did technically, but it made my bass roar. I should have left that bass exactly as it was.

I have done the Luthier thing. It is impossible to tell how 2 pieces of wood will mate together. If it is built by someone who knows what they are doing it will work. Will it float your boat? That is another question. And you are financially in deep by then. Having being doing this for a LONG time, I have found that a TC Spectracomp lets all my basses speak clearly all the way down. Part of me sees this as cheating. But it works so I do not fix it. I find 33" scale basses really comfy to play. I bump the bass eq on the pre, hit the compressor and can forget about the planks of wood I am playing. The one there is not, the chase only there is.

Dad sang the bass lines in Chapel. I wanted to be able to do what dad did. The chapel also had a full pipe organ with organists who could play the low notes. So I could really hear that LF in all it's glory. I just like low notes. Changes? Not really, I still really like low notes. First bass? Columbus Jazz. Every time I see people waxing about those mid 70's Columbuses I die a little inside. Too horrible for words.

I actually have a You Rock which is great. The ability to manipulate filters and stuff while playing and not having to wobble my foot around to achieve that is very attractive. I bought a Moog Sub Phatty and the ability to have everything I need to hand and easily addressable was quite an eye opener. I know that all the details are fully available in different drop down menus in software, but the ease of use was quite an eye opener. Lots of things suddenly made sense. Don't get me wrong, I can't play the lines I hear in my head but I am getting to the stage that an instrument that lets me play instead of fight is attractive. I need to get out more.

SRV was mind bendingly loud. Just his backline. His rhythm section were having trouble making an impact through the FOH.

Most of it. If I was still playing that bass I bought in 1987, virtually no one would notice the difference.

Just been to look for them and it looks like they are no longer available. Sorry.

I bought a Reunion Blues bag 30 years ago (ish). I will never need to buy another.

There is a wait list early adopters sale thing now. $499.

I made the rookie error of trusting one of my students. A long time ago I took my class of hairy rockers into a theatre pit to play West Side Story with the Performing Arts dept on stage. I downloaded the whole thing on Midi Files and then loaded them into Logic. I printed them out as TAB and handed them to my hairys. To make sure we had a safety net I had piano tracks on a CD. This was back in the day. We radically were running a silent pit with everyone on cans. There were some tidy players in the pit with 3 drummers sharing duties and everyone getting a good crack at it given numerous shows. The fight scene (if you know the show) was absolutely rocking. We ripped off a Steve Vai/Chick Corea version of it. Lots and lots of fun while they were really being stretched. Of course, not everyone was a player and there were students who needed to be accommodated with various roles. I shall call him Dave. He was clueless in virtually all aspects of the course. He was put on monitors (which were set and forget) and playback. How much of a mess could he make? We got to the quiet number before the finale of the first act. This was programmed on the CD to wind down with some gentle piano arpeggios and segue on the same track into the finale. Dave, who was chemically enhanced by then, hit stop at the end of the arpeggios. The intro the "The Jets are going to have their way tonight" etc just did not happen. That song was meant to start at 2:36 in the track. There is no way he could queue it up again even if he was operating at 100%. And he was not. So I turned to, let's call her Sue, on the keys and hissed, "Give me a G". "Huh?" she responded. "Give me a G", I hissed louder. This, while all the cast were frozen on stage. I started singing "The Jets are going to have their way tonight" acapella. The cast joined in and hammered through it. Acapella. With all the moves to the music which only existed in their minds. How we all laughed. A few weeks later. The energy levels on stage were insane, though!

Thanks. The 4 string version is available now and until the garage phoned to tell me my turbo was dead I was seriously interested. They sound like they function as I would expect. In a good way. Ho hum.

Ha! My garage told me just now that my turbo has died. I will not be buying anything new for a bit. But I am still interested

@itu I am feeling the call of the Misa quadwave. Tell me more about the Tribass? TIA

I resemble that remark.