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Everlasting Gaze - The Smashing Pumpkins

Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John

The Main Monkey Business - Rush

I was wondering about that extra rout too. In any case, I find myself more interested in the upcoming HNB3: short scale, 4-string, single passive humbucker. But the HNB5 is interesting as an alternative to the G4M 972 / Coliseum, the only other "budget" multiscale out there - which I think is ugly and heavy. PS re the wood, they say Mahogany. I expect it's three piece at least, in this price range. It takes more effort to make multi-piece bodies look nice. I think the design inspiration is from the Dingwall NG3, which also features solid finishes and ugly pickguards.

I see Andertons are starting to sell the Indonesian HILS HNB5 headless 5-string basses for £599. I was hoping they would after I saw them stock the guitars. Very Strandberg in design. Personal impressions from the specs: Positives: multiscale, light (~3.5kg or 7 1/2 pounds). Some nice finishes e.g. I like the rose gold. Stainless steel frets. Gig bag included. Negatives: 33-35" multiscale, I'd prefer a longer low B (maybe 36"). Single coil pickups. I don't like passive pickups with onboard active EQ, would prefer all active. Could be more ergonomic in my opinion, body is chunky. PS the company also has 30" short scale headless 4-strings on the way. 2.5kg / 5 1/2 lbs quoted weight.

Old thread, but I saw bits of Dua Lipa's recent Royal Albert Hall concert, and best I can tell it's a full live band with orchestra. The bass sounded "pocket" enough for me to figure out that it's still Matty Carroll:

Mosky Silver Horse (Klone) as a low gain OD, adds a bit of mid grunt.

I go direct out of the ToneX One in to headphones some times, when I have the pedalboard on a table or something. Other times I plug it in to the dongle for my "TV Headphones", which takes a 3.5mm headphone cable and sends the out signal wirelessly. Latency is very low though not zero, and I think conpression does affect the sound slightly. It's a slightly older version of this model.

Together In Electric Dreams - Georgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

Correction: I bought the Squier CV Bass VI back in February, though it feels like longer ago. That would be my best purchase. It's not perfect e.g. it has a flaw in the wiring, and I'm still tightening the truss rod after installing heavier strings, but it has been a real help with pick playing.

I've only purchased pedals this year, so: Worst: NuX Sculpture Compressor, It was OK while it worked, if a bit mild, but has stopped working. Which might be my fault, since I connected the wrong voltage to the PSU that was powering my pedals and popped a cap in that. I'm not certain of the timing, though, and it's still responding to the switch - just no output. Best : IK Multimedia Tonex One. Despite the software being horrid, and a (fixed) problem I had with its license just vanishing from the IK Product Manager, it's worth it because using The Fridge really feels like playing through an Ampeg SVT. It does that thing that makes me sound more professional than I am.

The Colony of Slippermen - Genesis

In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

The End is the Beginning is the End - Smashing Pumpkins

Coming Around Again - Carly Simon