Owen

Uh oh.

I have a 73 P bass which is all original apart from all the hardware. And the J pickup at the bridge. Where do I get to sell it as all original?

Kind of a super-duper jazz?

That will be a very small percentage of us!

Imagnine if playing it right and serving the congregation actually counted as worship. Oh, wait, it does. I had a student a long time ago. He was in his mid 70s. He was the lovliest bloke. He had been "taught" bass by a guitarist. Do not get me started. He barely ever went beyond the 7th fret. But from the "wrong" side. He played in a local church and used to say that during worship times the whole band would get into the zone and it would just flow. As it happened I knew the pianist and drummer. It was deeply unflow-y. We had a service recently organised by someone who is astonishingly able, but clueless musically. She had a bunch of people doing the music but invited me to sit in, so I rolled in expecting at least a chord chart. There was absolultely nothing there. They were singing to backing tracks of material I had never heard. She honestly believed that people "just play". This was just a lack of knowledge on her part. Next time she does it I will prime her as to what is needed. Lots of good stuff happened at the service so I am not whinging - it was just interesting to see genuinely how little understanding there was. We have a guy who sings and plays piano. He is an old school Musical Theatre belter. When he sings his mic is turned off and he is still too loud. When he joined in with the choir this woman had put together who were proper going for it with African stuff, it was as if he had not even opened his mouth. I have never, ever heard his voice dissapear.

Tone is tone.

Jon does make a fine bass.

That is a big, fat and hairy no from me. It is more than possible to do both. Are they not aware of this? Perhaps the speaker could not worry so much about preparation and freestyle it. And those making tea can just use whatever is lying around to infuse in hot water. Desperate times.....

These are the mates we are all looking for.

Classic rehearsal space bin and carpet.

I am that bloke with the Helix Thang. I just get overwhelmed by choice and sold mine without even using it in anger. I now have an analogue preamp and a TC Spectracomp.

This is my word of the day!

I am fully aware that the world is big enough for many people to find many different kinds of things attractive It is the modular nature of the original which works for me. It is unapologetically what it is.

Bass hacking. Very cool.

As anyone who has interfaced with me on the build forum will know, I have ZERO skillset to prepare anything like this. I actually like the aesthetic of the mish-mash.

@Chienmortbb

Double post gross incompetence + as usual having to edit original post for spelling. State.

Very funky these are. Nice review. Like you Frank, I find that infinite options only offer infinite dissatisfaction. I have owned 2 filter based preamped bassses in my life. They had to go. I was so preoccupied with twiddling that I never stopped thinking about them. I know other people love the filter based preamps. They just do not suit how I percieve things. I have pan controls of several basses. I NEVER play anything but dead center. On/off buttons make a lot of sense.

It is the concept of 3D printing something for not much money which I can then populate with the contents of my parts drawer which I am finding very attractive. Up until a month ago I even had a spare 5 string neck lying around looking for a home.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/prusacaster-3d-printed-guitar I could very happily take a bass version of one of these.

Atom Man speaks the truth.