PatrickJ

I'm pretty sure Bobby Vega uses a standard Dunlop .73mm pick. I tried a few variations but could never find a pick tone that I liked with any combination of thin / thick, small / large. I gave up in the end. I'll follow this thread with interest to see what recommendations you get.

Not sure on release dates for the new range, I saw spring referenced which is pretty vague. But there are some great options this year if you're looking for a J bass. I suspect the Metroline might be priced a little higher than the Sandbergs, and the MetroExpresses a little lower but a tad more than the equivelent Sires. I have 2 Sandberg P basses and they are great instruments .. certainly wouldnt go wrong with a TT or TM

Nordstrand Dual Coils (parallel wound) for my Shuker custom. Spec'd it originally with Jazz pickups and they sound great but I've kept my five string Jazz and let's be honest, it's not if I get some sort of Sadowsky it's a when, so keeping it as a pure J seems a bit pointless especially as Jon will do the routing work without charge. I got to play a Sadowsky modern recently, loved the sound of it so I'm tweaking my Shuker to be a bit Sadowsky modernish. I installed a Nordstrand pre, as Carey based the design off of Roger's famous pre and the Nordstrand DC's are similar to the Seymour Duncan soapbars Roger uses.

Pickups ordered yesterday. So far holding strong on the Sadowsky (and now Sire) GAS. Not helped by @AndyTravis 's new purchase or @Al Krow tagging me into the Sire thread!!

Over the 4-5 years I've been playing bass I've tried various paid content providers. I know a lot of BCers love to hate but @devinebass 's bass academy is the best I've come across. I signed up a number of years ago after failing to find a local teacher that wasn't just a guitar teacher trying to earn a few extra bucks teaching bass badly. I'm now a life time member and I keep going back. The theory courses by Phil Man are very good and I'm currently working on the Beginners Jazz Survival guide by Scott himself which is helping me immensely in my transition from a tired rock covers bassist to Jazzer. I picked up some books by Joe Hubbard in his Black Friday sale that I've yet to get stuck into but look really good. It's not paid content, but @TKenrickis running a groove of the week series that's great in the theory/technique section of this forum!

That's super kind but I have a rule - never touch another man's wood! I'm in on your 3 / 9 diet challenge, I just need to order some pickups for my custom then I'm golden. This is so true, I have 4 kids and by the time bed times are finished I'm too tired to pick up the guitar. I always seem to somehow end up on basschat and bassdirect credit card in hand.

I need to keep reminding myself that I do not need another bass, or any gear really. I just need more practice, and to line up a band for when the apocalypse is over!

Looks like a lot of bass for not much money. How's the neck and action, weight? At those prices I wouldn't mind giving a fretless a go.

I played a modern at Bass Direct a few months back - lovely instrument and I really liked the Pre-Amp. IIRC correctly they are chambered to keep the weight down.

That's lovely. I've got some real sadowsky GAS at the moment and seeing things like this doesn't help.

There's a new Sadowsky site up for the new range Basses. https://www.sadowskybass.com/

I've been looking for a suitable bag for mine, thanks for sharing this!

Since receiving my custom last month I've not touched another bass. I'm sure going to miss it whilst it's back with Jon for some tweaks.

Another +1 for NewTones I'd been playing all sorts of flats recently but I wanted rounds for my jazz bass. I opted for Newtone Platinum Roundcore Nickels. I didn't want anything as bright or snappy as typical rounds (coming from flats), these worked out perfectly.

5 days left and there's a nice Japanese Sadowsky Metro teasing me in the FS boards at the moment I've decided to put the cab purchase off for 2020 and stick with the Markbass 2x10 and Ashdown 2x12 I have. I do need to research and order some pickups however as I'm having my custom bass rerouted for soapbars rather than Jazz pickups. That's my evening of self-isolation sorted :).

I'm due to see Marcus Miller in July and Steven Wilson September. Hopefully they'll go ahead still

Assuming it still has the stock pickups you're not going to get that classic 60's tone if that is what your friend is after but as Cuzzie says in the mix it gives a reasonable P bass tone.

Get him to sell the skull guitar on Guitarchat, that will fund a few rehearsals until he gets a job. Win Win :).

Hmmm, so a petition hosted on a Goverment run website that raises concerns about Goverment decisions has been taken offline "to be checked", for days.

When you google Rochester Compressor the Red Box is what comes up so you might well be right, it would just be a bit disappointing. I've been using the Deluxe comp and it's been alright.

I did see this but from what I read the Red Box is effectively a pre-dunlop MXR Dynacomp clone. The dynacomp is already modelled so I'm not sure this would add anything particularly new to the range of available compressors and would be a bit of a disappointment.

Any information on what the Rochester comp is? I did a bit of a Google search and from what I saw Sheehan used a Ashy rackmount stereo compress or the classic MXR Bass Compressor. The meters sound interesting.

I don't know Ellen, I'm looking forward to listening to the videos you posted later this evening.