chris_b

For R&B (both), Soul, Funk, Blues and many others, my main amp is an Aguilar TH500. It has a fantastic warm, fat and well defined tone and enough volume to go from a whisper to keeping up with guitarists in stupidly loud Rock Blues bands. Be careful, it might end up being your main amp in no time.

I first met Mark when buying my Bergantino cabs, when the Bass Direct showroom was his rehearsal studio in a barn on a farm. I feel another visit coming on.

IMO better still is Haagen Dazs and all of the ice cream makes I've bought in Italy. . . .

I was thinking about a set of Rotosound flats instead of LaBella!!

. . . . and the sustain isn't very good, is it? The original was probably Pino on a fretless, and in the studio you can do a lot more than you can on a gig. More importantly, if your bass is resonant enough to sustain a note well for several bars it probably sounds great when you're playing 2 or 4 notes to the bar. Some people need flexibility and some don't.

An "edge case" in your world maybe, but that doesn't mean it isn't a requirement for others. If you are playing the kind of music that requires long held notes you can either shrug your shoulders and look embarrassed because your bass doesn't cut it, or buy a bass that gets the job done. If a high mass bridge gives you the sustain you need then it is worth having.

Depends on the style of music and the songs. If you need to hold a note for a bar you want the sustain to last longer than that so the note doesn't die half way though. I used to play Boys Of Summer and the sustain is for 4 bars. So a good sustain is required from a good bass.

It seems that the average republican voter gets what little news they consume from places like Fox News. There is next to no critical thinking going on in those voters. They are convinced that Biden is a crook and immigrants really were eating pets.

Nope.

If Overwater made a Super Light range I'd buy several in a heartbeat, but they are missing a huge market segment by sticking with these heavyweight basses.

At nearly 11lbs it's a back breaker!!

Haven't you noticed? No one asks probing questions since the AP was excluded from the White House for doing just that. Trump doesn't answer questions anyway. He just mumbles nonsense. Journalists in the White House were told to shut up or get out if they didn't accept the irrelevant and nonsensical answers given by Caroline Levitt, Trump's press secretary. Independent journalism in the US is being marginalised, prior to being shut down altogether.

Trump's making the first moves against journalists and the media. Apparently it's illegal to criticise him!!!! He's also going after the legal system and is refusing to abide by court decisions. The down hill slide to dictatorship is getting steeper very quickly.

Collectable guitars and basses will be like stamp collecting. . . . but not as popular.

It is, but that one has a different sound to other humbuckers.

I guess a lot of people can be happy with a bad tone.

Try this for size. . . . good tone isn't subjective. It's either good or bad. Most times we are just too polite to be honest. We say "Good tone is subjective", because we don't want the hassle of telling someone their tone stinks. We are thinking, "Wow, if you think that god awful noise is a good tone, good luck to you". We tell people what they want to hear, then we smile and carry on with our lives.

Does the US public know or even care? The mainstream media aren't reporting most of this deranged nonsense, through fear of losing their broadcasting licences, and it won't be long until Trump has the rest of the media, the ones who are continuing to report the facts in a truthful way, with meaningful analysis, in his sights. I'm surprised he's take this long to shutdown the voices of dissent.

Whatever you think of Biden, or his 4 years, he was, by any measure, a success. It's only taken Trump 50 days to destroy everything and the smoking wreckage that is the Government will only get worse over time. Right now is as good as it's going to get.

When it comes to tone an MM and a Precision are chalk and cheese. It might not be an active thing, maybe you just don't get on with the sound of humbuckers. I don't either.

They put winter tires on.

IMO the right advice is not to buy the wrong bass and try to fix it, but to buy the right bass first time.

This is a very interesting question and something I was thinking about in relation to preamp pedals. Would a signal from a preamp going into the same preamp create a better sound than just the one. So same question, is there an accumulative effect that makes for a better sound?

I'd love to boycott many countries with dubious records, US, China etc, but I'd don't want to move into a cave.

These are all good things that can be done, but there are really only two sensible routes to take if you have a bass that is too heavy to be comfortable; work out until you can deal with the weight, or sell it and buy the right bass for the job. Most of us were OK with 10lb basses in our youth so why can't we deal with that weight now we are older? Because we've become sedentary and lost a lot of our muscle mass. Work out and put that muscle back. You won't be limited by weight and, according to statistics, you'll live longer and happier lives. You can do a lot of DIY on a bass, most of which won't enhance it's value, instead will reduce it's resale value. There are plenty of 6, 7 and 8lb basses around at all levels, from Asian production lines to boutique. Straps don't make a bass lighter, so if weight is the problem buy the right bass for the job.