PatrickJ

I forget how old I am..

Did the switch replacement fix the issues @AndyTravis

Never seen RHCP live, but when I ever I see a live performance on YT they sound awful. Frusciante, as much as I love him as a guitarist, went through a phase of deliberately flipping gigs up.. I can imagine many have walked away disappointed from a fair few of their shows.

I'm really keen to try tape wounds with this bass and the Piezo pickup

The bass is great and I haven't wanted to pickup any of my fretted basses since getting it. In terms of being lined you kind of have the best of both worlds with the Portamento since the top of the finger board is lined you still get the positioning guide but the main fingerboard remains clean for those classy looks . It's very easy to play, I've not bothered doing any sort of set up as out of the box it was pretty good though I reckon the action could come down a bit, the E string currently sitting at about 2.8mm at the 12th fret. There's a ton of flexibility in the tone as you have the 3 pickups. For general day to day playing I have the piezo muted and neck and bridge at 100%, I've been trying some walking over jazz standards recently and for that I've been using the bridge and piezo (with tone rolled back quite a lot) pickups and neck muted for a more DB'esque sound. Obviously you have the 2 band EQ aswell for on the fly adjustments. Quality seems good overall, I was a little nervous when I first got it as when I lifted it from the box a loose screw fell out. It was from the bridge pickup but I was able to screw it back in and it's not come loose again so doesn't appear to be a threading issue though still seems a strange thing to have been missed in whatever QC checks were done at the factory. In terms of Bax, I didn't get stung for any import duties. Initially I didn't realise they were based in the EU as it's a UK addressed website and the all the contact details (mailing address and phone) are UK based too. Perhaps this is how they get around the Brexit thing. Delivery was delayed as a result however, the initial delivery slot I chose was missed by quite a number of days as a result of the Covid and Brexit issues but I stress that this was days not weeks. I initially tried the place the order via my phone and this messed things up for me a little. For whatever reason the order did not process properly and it half went through but they didn't take payment. Since they only had one bass in stock I couldn't reorder because it had been allocated to my previous order so I had to e-mail customer service. Responses were fairly quick but it wasn't the easiest experience getting them to understand the issue and resolve it. It did all get sorted by the next day but this was an extra day lost.

I sold Nik a pair of headphones and, like so many here on Basschat, Nik was super friendly to deal with and made the whole process smooth and hassle free. Cheers Nik!

Agreed - very much looking forward to watching this one @Phil Mann!!

Cal bought some microphone accessories off of me this week. As others have mentioned here communication was excellent and the process was completely hassle free. I love dealing with dudes like Cal on BC, it just takes the stress out of buying and selling unlike some other platforms I could mention. Cheers Cal!

very nice! I had a Godin electric guitar for a long time, I loved it!