Stub Mandrel

I wimped out and decided I'd go if the drummer baled out. Fortunately, he did, so I did. But 18 months and only 3 gigs, two free as a rewards for the place that gave us free practice space (which was OK) and one paying gig (that may SO found and I pushed hard mainly to see if they had the cojones to actually do it). Practicing the same songs until they are getting worse every time, ostensibly because we are waiting for the KB player to get the tricky bits right. The BL disappearing to Turkey for three months at a time...

LOL, it let me 'like' that!

Pure vintage '60 12.4k Pure Vintage '63 12k Custom Shop '62 10.5k Squier 40th Anniv. 10.8k They are all AlNiCo 5 So, oh dear, on basic specs the Squier should sound more like the Custom Shop - less punch but more 'detail'. The Seymour Duncan are 14k with AlNiCo V (5), which is why they sound even more powerful but darker.

The Squier Anniversary PUPs and the Pure Vintage '60 and '63 PUPs all sound very similar; they have alnico pole pieces and winding specs. The Squier ones are not USA made and don't have p[aper bobbins and cloth covered wire but the bits that make the sound are very close.

Unfortunately, I have run out of TLRTs (reactions) after trying to catch up after a weekend away.

Good luck! I could bring some 'Fun Generation' Thomann active speakers to represent the very bottom of the price spectrum. If only to put into perspective what you get with a better rig. We use them as a vocals only rig for small venues. (1) Is it worth doing and (2) people would have to promise not to laugh.

My 'regular' club finally did that for the upstairs ballroom - big window with a Venetian blind behind the stage! Now looks and sounds much better.

They very much have a vintage p sound., quarter pounders will be much more in your face.

Thomson, Snell and Passmore. I can see them supporting Greenslade.

My Orange gives me this too. But for 'classic rock' I'm looking for something more elusive.

When I get a breathing space I'm going to book a few solo hours at a rehearsal studio.

I do! Perhaps because my 'signature' sound is fairly dark and basically almost flat eq with slight bass and treble lift, I find it hard to get that rich, clanky but deep funk sound. Yesterday I tried out a wah pedal (rapidly realised that once I'd done NIB there isn't much left...) Amp was z small Vox combo and I got 'that' sound, once I had figured out that I could get the active bass flat by setting all the controls to the middle detent. Didn't think to look at the amp settings. Accidentally bought the bass but can't get the same sound though Joyo BadASS and PJB C2. A bit closer thyough my brother's Elf and Ampeg PF 1x15. How do YOU brew different sounds and what do you struggle with. Have you ever found a reliable guide to getting various sounds/tones?

By request, added Sire P10. @scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich- Shuker 5-string, something else (will toss a coin on the day), Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those @Woodinblack - Bongo, because its lovely and uncommon, Acrylic bass, for shits and giggles, Chapman stick, Lava Me guitar @Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. @BreadBin- something interesting @chyc - Double bass, Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, BC 112mk3 cabinet, and on the request any of Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, , Acoustic Image Coda @TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then @Stub Mandrel - Joyo BadASS & PJB C2, American Vintage II 1960 Precision & Squier 40th Anniversary Precision for side by side comparison. Teisco/Kay Tulip for sh*ts and giggles. Sire P10. @obbm - '71 Jazz, '73 Precision, Sadowsky HPJ, Genzler Magellan 350, BF One10 x2, Pedals plus TBA plus raffle donation. @Chienmortbb - Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass, Sire Marcus Miller M2, Bugera Veyron. LFSys Monza Cabinet, Zoom B2Four.

I have three fivers, but I've never played a 6, 7 or 8. Or fan frets. Popped my Sire cherry yesterday, impressed. Only criticism z the tuners seem a bit cheap for a bass well north of 1k new.

Whoops... I'm out. After telling three of my nearest and dearest that I'm going to a music shop but I definitely won't buy a bass. But how could I pass on this. Marcus Miller P10. Second hand but as new. £499. Completely different from all my other basses.

Two in a couple of weeks.

Great basses. I have had a B2 since the late '80s and have a Jack V as well. P.S. Mumbles?

Ours does, in fact we often syncronise rhythms for fun, no planning it happened organically I thought that was what drummers and bass players were meant to do? Either synch up or play complementary patterns. I usually play off the kick or the snare, depending on the song.

True story... 'knowing' the fretboard real does your head in if you swap vack and forth with a five string.

The original turdburst 🤣

American prices don't include local and state-dependent sales tax, of 0-12%

I've just ordered a copy of 'music theory for dummies'.

I enjoy reading about musical theory. 🎼 I tend to find things that explain why a particular approach works rather than the other way around.

Indeed, it feels smaller than a p-bass. I think it's all down to the headstock styles. They have they 'Epiphone Probuckers' in common. Excellent pickups.