Bridgehouse

Crooked house?

“Have you had your Oats?” etc..

Sort of north cambridgeshire

Lol. If you find yourself further south a bit then we could meet up. And if I’m heading your way I’ll let you know

I’m Peterborough - that’s quite a way!

The output from a Trace Amp has special “Trace ooomph” built in, a bit like special sauce

I do a lot of that before I play live. And also wonking as well In fact, many in the band often complement me on my winking - “He’s a complete winker”

So no w*nking before playing then!

We dodged a bullet there then..

I’m surprised the most notable bit of my discourse on the new ACG was how Mrs B reacted!

George Michael.

Au contraire, Blackadder - he should get a bonus. Look at all the internet traffic his idea has generated and how much talk there is here.

Mrs B knows that if I get basses then I’m not a grumpy git. Seems to work

I’ve had some more time with it now. Stuck some Chromes on as I generally prefer them on P style basses. Yup. Prefer them on this too. More thump, more zing (well as much as flats can give!) and tighter so just feel a lot more accurate and direct to me. The 4 to 5 thing seems odd. I kinda don’t notice it. Hmmm. I guess I’m odd. The neck really is a revelation. It’s actually not that much wider than my 64P, but it feels very different - and it’s very easy to play. It’s sort of like an asymmetric, slightly thinner (front to back) stingray neck, with less radius. Sound wise it has that P thump, but it sound so much more Hifi than a standard P and really has something special going on. In passive mode with the tone rolled off its right in P bass territory, but in active with some treble and bass boost it’s got a sparkle that you don’t get on a P The B seems to be tight and defined - it’s got great clarity to it. Feels about the same weight as my 64 - slightly more than the Finn 4 but not by much. Balance is just fine. All in all I couldn’t be happier. Alan has done a brilliant job with the RetroB of capturing everything that makes a P bass so usable, but at the same time adding something a bit different to make it feel like it’s adding to the formula rather than taking away. My only worry is that I will miss that B on my 4’s now, and I’m wondering if a fretless 5 is in the offing. I can see the Finn 4 getting replaced live, and I can see a fretless 5 in my future. I can also see a lot of dusty 4’s getting little use.. Urk!

You and me both

Dave - where are you based? I have both, you could try both of mine

There are a load of basses in this thread that I look at and think “I’d have that.. nice” And it makes you wonder why they are so rare. I know a lot of players have pretty conservative tastes, but there’s some cracking looking basses out there for which it seems weird that they aren’t more common

Finn 4

Yeah - you’re a local Let me know if you need any help or need bass/amp/cab buying help or if you just fancy a chat to get you back into the swing of things

I honestly don’t care. It’s an Internet forum. Specifically we debate basses, amps and other stuff. It’s just debate. I’m not breast beating, or bothered, or offended or pretty much anything to be honest. It seems like a good amp, at a good price, but there is a whiff of “over-hyped specs” in the advertising. So I don’t care so much at all. Would I buy one? Possibly. The thing is, a new player on another forum contacted me and asked me why this 2000w amp was so much cheaper than other amps even those at 500w which were clearly inferior in power terms.

I’m getting used to it already and it only came today - really pleased!

Lots. It’s an Internet forum to talk about basses. We get enough crap posted about non-bass stuff as it is - I’d much rather have a debate about this sort of stuff on here.