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Agreed. It seems to balance better visually. I reckon they’ve nailed that, if I didn’t have a Rob Allen, I’d probably be all over that.

Cort making use of the Ibby SRH template there. Well, they probably make them for Ibanez anyway, so why not?

Ooh, that’s pretty, very Jerome Preston. The top detracts from the pointiness very nicely. I really like a P/P configuration.

My ‘baby’ is 36, I go as an ex-member of staff/governor volunteer, these days. Glutton for punishment, that’s me. Sorry for the derail, Andy 😊

You might try a Maruszczyk Jake if you can stretch the budget. There's one for sale here on BC at the moment Or one of their ex-exhibition items direct from the manufacturer https://www.public-peace.de/bass-guitars/maruszczyk/jake/4-string/465-jake-4a-sterling-white100169 PS. I saw your show in Islington, earlier in the year. 👍

As promised in my last post, here's a link to my Tom Petty tribute band's FB page, where we have just uploaded the results of our recent recording session. https://www.facebook.com/heartfakersband/?hc_ref=ARRcWgx8vn_Kwfj-SPRAeZ7M_TrGAx5qVpTM6faIZWYKgSkoyj5RmceQawTn36EwhVA&fref=nf

Ah, the joys of the year 6 residential, I feel your pain. I’m off on my annual ‘cat herding’ a fortnight Monday. 😬

Congrats, but you know the rules.

I liked that. It reminded me of what The Ox did with The Who.

I’m not a fan of anodised gold p/gs but that looks awesome.

Same weekend as the SE Bash. As I’ll be unable to do both, the bash wins.

Great news and smasher of a little ‘un. ❤️

Noice.

I run my Flightcase and PB300 rig with a VTDI on all the time. I currently play in an 80s covers band (leaning more towards the rocky numbers rather than the synth tinged ones) and a Tom Petty tribute. Because of the transparency of the Phil Jones stuff, whatever you put in front of it is accurately reproduced. Previous to this I was using a Mark Bass head through a Schroeder 2x12 cab and the PJ rig is similar, albeit superior sounding (smoother, more articulate).

My ‘right now’ pedal would be my Tech21 VTDI. I used to just use it as a separate EQ for slap work with advantage of a DI should I have an amp failure, but now it’s on all the time and is the base of my tone. Could I gig without it, yeah, for sure, but it sounds so much better when it’s there.

I had this dilemma when planning my 2nd Maruszczyk custom build. It just looked like too much uncovered ‘real estate’ without a p/g. Eventually I went for a clear one (best of both worlds due to the flamed top) and liked it so much that I had one made for other, non-p/g bass too.

A high gloss on that wooden one would look very nice.

It was that album that introduced me to Robben Ford. His first & The Blue Line album is still one of my top 10 albums, Roscoe Beck’s playing on it is sublime.

I think it looks great without, but with it added it’s still good, a very Adam Clayton sig vibe. If it were me and I went with the p/g, I’d go cream.

I didn’t realise there was a new book. I’ve now bought it on the strength of the last book. Looking forward to reading it now. Well done that man (I know how hard it is to do).

Those Big Singles are very meaty for sure (I had an SR1605). If I was having another bass made, I think I’d go for them to have something different.

+1 I went for the raised thumb rest one, although I now wish I’d gone for the recessed version. I’ve also removed the mute thumb screws (and the plate underneath, reattaching the earth strap elsewhere) as they occasionally dug in my hand.

I replaced the Bassculture MM pickup in my Elwood L fretless today with a Delano MC4 HE/M2. I have the 'single coil' HE/M2 versions in my fretted Elwood L and have been knocked out by the articulation of them, so I finally got around to fitting an MM one in the fretless (after 10 months since deciding to do so). The Delano is, to my ears, a much sweeter sounding pickup, the single coil and parallel setting in particular now have real character, so much so, that I may start using the parallel setting as my go to tone. A big shout out to Reinhard at Delano, who got the wiring info from Maruszczyk so I could just drop the new pickup straight in using the existing loom, I know he had to really spend some time on the phone getting the wiring info for the Bassculture.

Gibson quality has taken a dive in many areas, however, Epiphone quality has remained top notch and punches well above the price point. I think the Casady looks awesome in black.