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"So, we've two options. Either each of us get paid a 25% less so we can hire a chippy, balding guy in a hat who's never on the beat, keeps trying to add notes and bangs on about wanting to cut through the mix." "Or....?" "Or we buy this pedal."

There are also Low Tension, Jamerson, Hofner etc sets. Everything is here

Presumably because this is stock bought before the recent price rises, Bass Direct still have many of the 760 sets at prices that are now unusually low. I've weeded out those marked Out Of Stock (yeah, no FL or FM-S left 😔) LONG SCALE FX (39/56/77/96) - £40 FS (45/65/85/105) - £40 FM (49/69/89/109) - £40 FX Throughbody (39/56/77/96) - £40 FM Throughbody (49/69/89/109) - £40 FSB (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 FMB (49/69/89/109/128) - £52 FMCB (29/49/69/89/109/128) - £60 SHORT SCALE FL S (43/60/82/104) - £40 FS S (45/65/85/105) - £40 FLB S (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 MEDIUM SCALE FX M (39/56/77/96) - £40 FS M (45/65/85/105) - £40 FS Throughbody (45/65/85/105) - £42 EXTRA LONG SCALE FL XL (43/60/82/104) - £40 FS XL (45/65/85/105) - £40 FM XL (49/69/89/109) - £40 FLB XL (43/60/82/104/128) - £52 FSB XL (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 FMB XL (49/69/89/109/128) - £52 FSCB SL (29/45/65/85/105/128) - £62 FMCB XL (29/49/69/89/109/128) - £62

Went through their LaBella 760 flats page and weeded out the Out Of Stock items LONG SCALE FX (39/56/77/96) - £40 FS (45/65/85/105) - £40 FM (49/69/89/109) - £40 FX Throughbody (39/56/77/96) - £40 FM Throughbody (49/69/89/109) - £40 FSB (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 FMB (49/69/89/109/128) - £52 FMCB (29/49/69/89/109/128) - £60 SHORT SCALE FL S (43/60/82/104) - £40 FS S (45/65/85/105) - £40 FLB S (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 MEDIUM SCALE FX M (39/56/77/96) - £40 FS M (45/65/85/105) - £40 FS Throughbody (45/65/85/105) - £42 EXTRA LONG SCALE FL XL (43/60/82/104) - £40 FS XL (45/65/85/105) - £40 FM XL (49/69/89/109) - £40 FLB XL (43/60/82/104/128) - £52 FSB XL (45/65/85/105/128) - £52 FMB XL (49/69/89/109/128) - £52 FSCB SL (29/45/65/85/105/128) - £62 FMCB XL (29/49/69/89/109/128) - £62

If you avoid picking up a bass, ever, then you won't even have to shell out on a set of flats.

Whilst searching out demos of specific sets of strings I came across a guy called Juan Modesto, who has only done a handful of short videos. I’ve listened to this one, demoing the RS77LD set of Roto flats, dozens of times. Really lovely playing. Those are very high tension strings but you wouldn't think it from the seemingly effortless way he gets so much bite out of them. Love the way his head bobs about too

Yeah, I thought about that after posting 👍 Even my ££££ G+L didn't feel right until it had been set up to be just what I want in terms of action, gauges, and pickup height. Which leads us back to the original point of the thread, the important thing is not that people are playing cheap or expensive basses, but that they're playing basses that are well set up for their needs.

I only had that album for about a month as someone stole it from me at school. Recently I listened through it, and found that this unusually mournful song was burnt very clearly into my memory:

If you buy a cheap instrument and spend your money and/or time getting it just how you want, then it's not a cheap instrument any more. How my used Squier P plays and sounds now I've invested £££ in it bares no relation to how the Squier I took down from the wall in gear4music plays and sounds. If the factory producing Squiers put the same time, effort and attention into every instrument they make as my tech has put into mine, then they would be selling at a very different price point.

Killers is my favourite of Maiden's classic era, and some days So Far So Good So What reaches me in ways none of the other early Megadeth albums do, and I think they typical come bottom of their respective piles? Oh, I knew I could do better than that! Jane's Addiction. I love Strays to bits and I couldn't care less about any of their other albums.

Here's where the bar is set

I don't recall any. I do remember thinking that the tuners weren't equal to the excellence of the woodwork and finish, but I didn't notice them falling away from me BTW, my P-esque SB-1 is only 7.2 lbs, and that has no neckdive either.

A third option would be to wait for a lighter PB-62. Bassbros list them regularly and they go as light as 8.0 lbs. That 2015 one I've linked to was mine for a day* and the build quality was wonderful, better than my USA G&L, just immaculate. If I still had it, it would now have a set of La Bella flats on it, it had that kind of character. *to my intense embarrassment, I learnt that reaching round the extra curve of a vintage style radius causes real bother all the way up in my damaged shoulder — the problem was solely with me

Listening to demos of the Triad left left me wondering what the neck or middle pickup would sound like with La Bella flats

I know that the long scale BB-IV was very much closer to a trad P-bass sound than the more well known BB models.

Had another go at the cheerfully prepubescent Soldier On. When I stopped c. 1'05" I was picturing it choreographed by Toni Basil

When reading about this pool of alcoholics and junkies, I find it helpful to picture them sitting in the arcading outside Tesco Metro, arguing in incomprehensible slurs and waiting for the next hit of methadone from the open all hours pharmacy.

I managed 1.5 listens, which is at least 1.0 more than what I usually manage for acts whose plateau of interest is 30 years past. (Thank you, Andrew Eldritch, for recognising that Vision Thing had efficiently squeezed the tube bone dry, and not obliging me to try to enjoy lame pointless rubbish.) The impeccably glossy production style of our era does not help my appreciation of music like this. If in doubt, -fi should be lo-, if the passion is to come across. So Far So Good So What over lunch, I think.

Liam Gallagher, Brian May, Krist Novoselic and Stewart Copeland playing Come As You Are, please

Guitarist in the first French punk band, the object of Debbie Harry's desire in Denis Denis, the instrumentalist in one of the earliest synth duos, and after that, a man who seemingly did whatever he pleased, which included smoking and drinking his way to an early grave: Jacno, né Denis Quillard. This instrumental is from the late 90s, sounding a little like J.-M. Jarre, and rather more like Bill Bailey's reworking of the BBC News theme. Aside from being a joyous banger, it's fascinatingly asymmetrical, the phrase lengths are all over the place. Generally each phrase is three bars of three slow beats, except when there's a fourth bar of four (or five) beats. The chorus has two bars of four beats, and one of six. And so on.

Given your usual tone in discussions like this, you'll understand why I'm going to decline the invitation of getting into this conversation.

Think that font size is still in need of a tweak. On a more serious note, I find that a lot of the listings leave me feeling that I'm too unknowledgeable to be shopping there, as if I'm supposed to know already which Stingrays have 1⅝" nuts; which MIJ Fenders have 7¼" radius; which years of American Standards have the thingy pickups etc. And this sense that the action is mostly experienced players selling well known 4-figure basses puts me off wanting to sell my own cheaper, less eye-catching basses through Bassbros, despite having had an 11/10 experience with them when buying. That sounds like a sulky note to end on, so instead let me finish by telling you that the setup on the MIJ P which sadly wasn't for me was really beautifully done. I hope whoever ended up with that 8 lb 0, deep-CAR PB62 is very happy with it