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I feel a day trip to the Borders might be on the cards for me.

Trust In Me - Kaa the Snake (Jungle Book) voiced by Sterling Holloway.

Geek Stink Breath - Green Day

Down in the Sewer - The Stranglers

I'll Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie

When Tomorrow Comes - Eurythmics

Very true.

Born Under A Bad Sign - Lots of folk, but let’s go with Albert King. FYI written by Booker T no less.

Your Song - EJ

@A.G.E.N.T.E. Makes a good point about budget. If money is tight and you’re experimenting with compression, something like a Behringer pedal might not be a bad start point, not robust at all, but an affordable gateway product and probably a clone of one of the name brands https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0605 https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0592 Just for balance, there is the other end of the price spectrum with the often revered Cali76 https://origineffects.com/product/cali76-compact-bass/

Shotgun Blues - SRV

Drop Dead Gorgeous - Republica

Goodbye Girl - Squeeze

She's Gone - Hall & Oates

'Appen.

I didn't use a compressor for years and years but when I was making recordings during lockdown, a friend of mine who runs a sound reinforcement company and also writes and records to a very high level, suggested some particular compression settings to make the bass sit in the mix better, after I sent him the demos to listen to. I applied these settings and was suitably impressed. This got me thinking that if that worked for recordings, then it must work for live work, especially given that pro FOH engineers use it. After listening to many YT demos and reading a fair bit, I settled on the MXR M87. It was within my budget and I liked what it did. Like a recording, I have at the end of my signal chain, pre amplifier to mimic that effect that made my recorded bass sit better in the mix, in addition, any inconstancies in level that come from my FX are evened out into the bargain (I had them set up by ear to be the same as the dry signal, but the VU on the M87 showed that they weren't the same at all). Also takes care of any 'hot spots' on your fretboard. My compressor is on all the time. A word of warning. Compressors have been a source of, let's be polite, heated discussion on BC in the past. Hopefully, this thread won't descend into one of those.

Breadfan - Budgie

Choice language and from a mod no less. I’ve never been so ins… oh, hang on… yes I have and far more more vehemently too. As you were, carry on. I’ll just bugger off as requested.

Look out for an NBD Ric thread coming soon 🤣.

There are split coil pickups in a J housing available, the Seymour Duncan Apollos for instance (I’m sure most p/up prestige manufacturers probably do one, Nordy included), but whether they’ll sound like your Big Splits or not, I couldn’t say.

If you really like them, why not. The only reason not to would be to have a different sound for variety.

Don’t mess about, get the J routed for Big Splits and be done with it. I had Big Singles in my old Ibby and loved the tone.

He is such a renaissance man, I loved it when I saw him.