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I care here ready to sulk if this point wasn't being made promptly 😁

This is all purely what I've learnt from reading, so take it with a good pinch of salt.... The SB-2 is an odd design: firstly theres no tone control, just two volumes. Secondly, the bridge pickup is *really* close to the bridge: the idea seems to be that you add in some of the bridge pickup to the basic sound of the neck pickup as a flavouring. I guess some people find it frustrating. Both the SB-2 and the SB-1 are pure passive instruments. The L-2000 is interesting in that it has an active/passive switch, but whether the active is on or off, the bass and treble knobs remain passive and only cut: the MFD humbuckers make a full rich tone across the spectrum and then you dampen what you want. ps I'll shut up about G&L now! Back to BBs..... 😇

Heres a demo of an MFD split coil. My like of the noise it makes feels very much related to my choosing the 424 over the 434 - a really firm, ringing sound. Not exactly a subtle basic sound, but... *searches for metaphor* ....but the roar of a tamed beast is better than the yapping of a riled lapdog, no? 😁

I prefer a straightforward selector switch - I've a blend knob on my TRBX and find it totally useless - finding something perceivably different between 100% neck and 50%/50% is like searching for a needle in a haystack. I was wondering if it was just me, but someone recently bumped an old thread on TB about blend controls, which contained some technical explanations as to why blend controls so often seem to have no gradations, no better than selector switches. I can't say I understood them, but the whiff of science was enough to reassure me that I wasn't just being cloth-earred. I saw that some recent EBMM bass with two pickups had a 5 way selector: solely neck, mostly neck, equal, mostly bridge, solely bridge, and wondered if EBMM had had to fine-tune the preselected blends very carefully. Certainly, to return to your point, having five reliable sounds seems more useful in performance than trying to find those two tiny spots on the blend knob where the dominant pickup isn't totally obliterating the other.

One reason for buying a USA G&L is that you can have any neck on any body. Mine will be 1½", but the factory default for the SB-1 is 1⅝". The Indonesian-made Tribute series, though, you get what you get. Off the top of my head the Tribute SB-2 is 1½" and the Tribute L-2000 is 1¾".

I had been wondering if the clack rattly selector switch on my 424 was any cause for concern. Good to know it's standard 😁

I've an G&L SB-1 on the way. I'm hoping that and my BB424 will make a very happy pair, for what I want out of a bass, at any rate.

The photo pinched from this old advert G&L

Might be an idea for me to wait until I've got an income other than Rishi Sunak handouts 😬

Having a very pleasant daydream of buying this natural 2024 from the Bass Gallery and having it painted ruby metallic satin frost

Just yesterday I was transfixed by a photo I chanced upon of a G&L L-2000 in metallic ruby with a frost finish. Made a lot of sense to me!

Thank you for that, it led me to go through some of his other videos. Sodding witchcraft.

After looking up Bass Gallery and Bass Direct on Reverb, it dawned on me to see if the guitar shops within walking distance of me are on Reverb too...and of course they are. Once its replacement has arrived in a month or two, I'll try selling my TRBX through one of them.

Peering at that picture, I was sure the nut looked 40mm rather than the 43mm usual back then, and googling found me this list on the TB BB thread years ago: Model Year Country Nut 12th fret BB300 1984 Taiwan 43mm 58mm BB300 1985 Taiwan 43mm 58mm BB1200 1979 Japan 43mm 58mm BB1200S 1985 Japan 43mm 58mm BB1600 1984 Japan 40mm 57mm BB1600 1984 Japan 40mm 57mm BB1600 1990 Taiwan 40mm 57mm BB2000 1982 Japan 43mm 58mm BB2000 1984 Japan 43mm 58mm BB5000 1985 Japan 44mm 59mm

I started having flashbacks to A level music aural tests 😰

Has anyone got one of these? BB-X, late 80s, MIJ.

The Bass Gallery have 94 used listings on Reverb atm, Bass Direct have none.

The correct taxonomy for the three kinds of bass playing goes thus: (1) stuff you don't really notice until it's gone (2) stuff that makes you feel excited to the depths of your soul (3) stuff that makes you want to cut your ears off

"The BB235 was much better than expected. It had really good setup, and with Rotosound Monel Flats is a joy to play. The cheap ceramic PU’s are loud, clear and well balanced. Just one thing: the neck has too much of a D profile, I never liked those that much. "On the other hand, the BB735A is not any better than I expected. In fact I had great expectations for it, maybe even too much. The setup was not good: some sharpish fret ends, nut so high I took it to a luthier friend for filing it down (even he made comments on the setup). The pickups are nothing special, and compared to both my BB1200S’s, the preamp sounds, well, quite generic. But: the neck has a lovely C profile, just slightly thicker with less shoulders than the BB235, exactly how I like it. "Only played one band rehearsal with each yet. For now, I prefer the cheap BB235 - well, I’ve played it a few months already, the BB735A is brand new. Guess it takes a couple months to reach a verdict here"

Well, kind of, you've indicated that in some ways there are things you prefer about the 235 😊

When the lockdowns started I didn't even own a bass and had doubled in age since I last performed on one, so....yeah they been good for me and my playing 😁 To keep me entertained I've been writing myself basslines far longer and involved than anything that's in the music I like to listen to, stuff that would probably sound far too fiddly* if combined with other instruments. *without getting north of the 12th fret, mind

Ignoring the difference in commission, which of Bass Direct and The Bass Gallery would be better for selling a sub-£500 bass? The Bass Gallery's listings seem mostly to be serious instruments at serious prices, so I'm wondering if a cheap-ish bass would be outside their clientele's interest.

Sire, the night is darker now... 🎶