Things like changes of ownership, corporate logo/style/ownership, legal issues (e.g. "this bass could cause cancer in the state of California") 🙂
Nice to have the one that matches your instrument's period though. I'm surprised how FEW there are.
This.
Applying hifi standards to instrument amplification ignores the fact that amplifier and speaker are part of the instrument not just 'colouring the sound' but a fundamental part of it. This is why people who eschew a backline and use IEMs will almost always use an emulator.
Even with two different setups side by side one which one sounds the loudest may depend on the frequency mix being played through it as much as the actual sensitivity.
I tried out one with dots as if the frets had simply not been fitted (or liek a defretted bass) and it drove me nuts! I had to ignore them and try and play by ear.
That's why I thought I would ask.
Mine has side dots at the fret positions (the 12th fret pair appear to be neatly either side of the right position. Obviously you can tweak a bit with the intonation.
Agreed, of the one's I have tried most will compete with an acoustic that isn't being thrashed and certainly match one being played fingerstyle.
They also sound very different to solids,
Hohner Jazz bass (which was actually quite decent, although the natural colour was a bit meh) and a Sound City 50W Bass amp (which was not so good...)
I will be briefly reunited with the bass in late October which will be interesting!
Some people are very thick. Thick enough to steal and then 'find' the stuff.
I once lived in a shared house, one of the guys had his car hit by someone who than ran off. I was outside a bit later and a dodgy young man came up and asked me all sorts of odd questions about what happened.
I went back inside and suggested the plod who were talking to my mate nipped out and had a chat with this chap. Took about two minutes of questions from el plod to discover that the young couple who had reported the car as stolen after they crashed it had asked him to pop over to see what was happening - and were hiding in a pub not very far away. I don't think any of them were very bright...
Owners of older Fender basses might be interested in this page:
https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005938763-Fender-Bass-Guitar-Owner-s-Manuals
It has a good selection of old manuals - I even found the manual for my Fender Performer!
Looked this up today - I'm not an expert on the so-called 'popular music'. I can't believe such an insipid song is so in demand! You must have been burning the midinight oil honing your chops to learn that one 🙂
They call it a Dyson. It sucks and it's expensive, but it still feels cheap...
That's your problem:
It's not just GLOSS, it's special STICKY GLOSS!
But seriously... the finish is obviously prone to this and it's not just you, so I wouldn't lose sleep about matting it down with a fine abrasive - then get on with enjoying it.