Newfoundfreedom

I'm looking forward to the Trace Elliott one. Eau de Heft!

Wow! They even managed to make a turntable look dull.

I can't even tell when I'm in the wrong key.

Here's one of our very amateur efforts. But we've all got to start somewhere I guess. https://youtu.be/Db3USbk1lbY I don't know why it's only posting a link instead of embedding the video.

God forbid. With my art skills, if I designed a bass it would come out looking like Mr Sneeze from the Mr Men books.

I actually really like the quirkyness of these. I much prefer them to the standard Music Man.

Class. 👌

We all know what an earworm is. A song you hear and can't get out of your head all day. But does anyone else get dreamworms, where you actually wake up with a song in your head that you haven't heard in years? I suspect it's some sort of nighttime re-filing that the brain does while we're sleeping. I do it quite often. This is today's little gem. A song I haven't heard or thought about in a very long time, and I'd totally forgotten even existed. What an absolute banger!

My Dad died three weeks ago, and my mum has a lot of health problems that we haven't even started dealing with yet. I love being in a band. Sometimes it's my whole reason for getting out of bed on a morning. But sometimes there are bigger priorities. You shouldn't even feel guilty about getting out and getting on with more important things. Good luck. I wish your wife and your Dad the best of health.

Thanks. I really enjoyed that Nice to hear someone actually play a bass rather than doing honky noodling Jaco impressions or slapping the snot out if it.

Thanks. I have the M version but I'll give it a try.

To be honest, all of the above goes totally over my head. I plug my bass in, and I play, and a noise like a bass comes out. I twiddle with the mids and play, and a noise like a bass comes out. I can hear a subtle difference, but I've no idea how you would tailor that to go with what the rest of the band is doing. I just don't hear "frequencies" like some people on here seem to be able to do. I have pretty much everything set on 12 o'clock and I play. I can twiddle for hours but all I do is drive myself mad. Except from the extremes, nothing sounds particularly better or worse, just different, and after a while I lose the will to live, put everything back at 12 o'clock and crack on.

There have been several threads on here and FRFR setups. I very nearly went down that road myself recently, but then my head was turned by some bargain Ashdown gear. Good to hear another good review from the FRFR fraternity.

At least this is one thing I don't have to worry about. Nobody's ever paid me. 😆

I think it's a Status Quo bass because you'd have to be snorting coke to buy it.

I think that's a work of art. Absolutely stunning.

It's not an "or" situation. 😆.

There's quite a few of these style basses knocking around. They're a combination of fretless and fretted. Because.......... Why take two bottles into the shower. I believe they're switchable between the fretless only section, the fretted only section, or both section at once. They actually make a lot of sense if you play a set with a lot of swapping around between fretted and fretless, but they do look utterly ridiculous!

Like this? 😁

I'll take it at the higher price. Don't want to be a cheapskate.

Straight out of From Dusk Till Dawn. 😆

Again, I quite like them. But the brightly coloured ones look like children's toys.

Gorgeous!