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Does the 235 have any qualities of its own compared to the 735A, or is it simply 5-string backup?

Somehow, this comment has put this song in my head: Def not complaining!

My autocorrect apologies for "yorkie". I'm not aware of my ever having used that word this millennium 🤷‍♂️

After I posted that I thought, in your shoes I would write to them with yorkie serial number, asking for whatever info they've got. The hard case isn't standard either. Is the pickguard mint? As always, I'm loving the combo of bright finish, light pg and maple fingerboard

Edit: on the adverts the pickups are covered, whereas yours has visible pole pieces.

I bought a bass guitar and so had one bass guitar. A bit later I dropped it off with the tech for a set up and found that I was back to having no bass guitar and thought, I'm not letting this happen again.

One thing a lifetime in music has taught me is to walk in the opposite direction from anyone who wants to talk about technique.

I've been thinking about this all morning and finally I noticed something. I've the TRBX604 and a BB424. They are very different, in plugged in sound, in unplugged sound, in weight, in neck. I love the sound of the BB, but am appreciative of the very easy neck of the TRBX. So much for the 4 strings. You've pointed out that the TRBX605 has the same neck specs as your BB735, so you would get no additional benefit there. So you would get a lighter body and 3 extra frets, but against that would be: no through body bridge, no 6 bolt join, and two very dull pickups. Does that sound tempting?

German Reverb seller

Are you looking at the link to the advert it was bought from a year ago?

Since I received my 424 I've been especially taken by the sound of the two pickups together. The neck on its own seems a tiny bit indistinct, the bridge alone a bit too harsh, but combined: perfect. I've just realised that the bass has been deliberately set up to make the most of the two pickups combined: the bridge pickup is noticeably closer to the strings. Someone has gone to the effort of getting the blend just right 🥰 And the strings fitted (I believe they're RS66s) seem chosen to complement that sound.

Thank goodness it's a pound too heavy for me, that colour, that condition, that price.... 😛

The Detroit is 43mm nut, the Power 40mm. Same 1st / 12th fret thicknesses though, 20mm / 22mm.

The aural equivalent of waxing your bikini line, the more objective your perspective, the more welcome a bit of a tidy up is

£250-300 to refinish a bass whose market value is only £250-300 sounds madness, but on the other hand, just £500-600 for an instrument that sounds and looks magnificent.... As far as I can see, there are plenty of ways of spending more on instruments that are neither.

After a thorough google search I've decided I would like to buy a beaten up 424 and have it lovingly refinished in Pharaoh Gold I got the idea after coming across a really bad photo of a natural finish 2024 that made it look like dullish gold. I'm now trying to picture the BB's pickup surrounds against that textured gold (initially I wanted to write "metallic gold" but that seemed tautologous....🙄)

The first thing I do with his videos is put the playback speed on 1.5×

Please may I order a custom paint job for a 2024x? Cackhanded mid 70s Fender 3 colour stripes please. Oh, you've one already to hand? Astonishingly prompt service!

Thanks. Once my G&L arrives and takes over being My Bass With Flats, I'll try those, I think they'll suit that setting better than the Chromes I've on my TRBX atm. Getting back to BBs, yesterday I was watching Yamaha's own demo video of the 734 on YouTube and thinking what a terrible job it did of making me want one:

Still got another two months of waving a begging bowl under Rishi Sunak's nose to looking forward to 😀

Doing one's tax return two months before the end of the tax year seems a bit fatalistic.

Tuesday 6 April will be the most action packed day of my year, for sure.

Anyone else intending to have got their 2020/2021 tax return submitted by Wed 7 Apr?