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Bit of a sad day for me – having to make the decision to move on my BB424. Or at least shove it under my bed, like buried treasure. I did something bad to my shoulder four months ago, and ever since it's been very unhappy with the BB. I don't think it's so much the weight itself, as how it hangs – I'm sure it's not heavier than my Squier P by more than a few ounces Frustratingly, this is just at the moment when I've found some strings that I like on all three pickup options – Roto Bass RB45 nickels. Neck, tone on 10; both pickups, tone on 5; bridge, tone on 2 – three strong sounds. Good consistency from string to string, with no feebleness to the E. I'm going to miss the 424's neck so much. The combination of narrowish nut and properly deep profile is very comfortable for my hand, and I've the action down at 1.5mm–1.9mm. So easy to bounce around the fretboard :sigh: People talk about the neck on the Squier Matt Freeman Sig being excellent, but after the 424, it merely feels adequate. When I got it 14 months ago, it immediately relegated my TRBX to a supporting role – the moment I felt the vibrancy of the instrument, my understanding of what it was I wanted from a bass leapt up a couple of levels. It's so loud unplugged. It seems everyone has a bass they sulk about having sold: this is going to be mine

Seeing narcissism thriving in such adverse conditions intrigued 🤓

I wish bald men would stop thinking they're in a position to laugh at anything about anyone, nature has literally put a sign on the top of them reading this one's done.

Megadeth

"Do you get much damage to the fingers? Yeah, the first couple of weeks I get blisters. Then they burst. They're really, really sore for a few days, then they go really hard, and that's it. They stay like that for the rest of the tour. When you play somewhere really, really hot and get really sweaty, your hands go soft, and that completely changes your sound. Your fingers tend to sort of sink into the strings, almost. And there's nothing you can do about that. It's like someone put a muffler over your speakers. So, you just have to add more top-end to try and compensate, but there's not a lot you can do. With the blisters, have you tried putting stuff on to harden them? Yeah [dismissively], tried that. Doesn't work. I tried that Nu Skin stuff, when I've had a blister that's come open, when you're through to the skin underneath, that's really sore. But once you get out playing, get the adrenaline going, you tend to be alright anyway. It hurts a bit, but sometimes the pain—you just grit your teeth and get on with it."

Furthermore, his set is 50-75-95-110 - total tension is over 240 lbs 😳

Q. What made me swap to flats? A. Forgetting to take online enthusiasm with a pinch of salt Q. What made me swap back to rounds? A. Accepting that they don't make the noise I want to make

Here you go: 1958 P Not impossible, just a bit pricey.....

Suddenly that 1958 Precision seems with easy reach

You'll not be wanting to hear how much these watches with dials hand painted by Ronnie Wood are each

I got some great phase effects between that and my tinnitus

The case design is like that of the Seiko he wore for years, and the dial design alludes to his famous guitar. Would you rather the dial looked like your BC profile pic?

For very many years he wore a sensible, robust, reasonably priced Seiko, so this isn't just him shoving his name on.

Thank you for the link, but the desire for a lightweight SB700 is literally impossible, they don't exist. Other things I waste time wishing for are even more contradictory — glossy maple fretboards that have the reassuringly matte texture of rosewood — bright, nervy, steel rounds that don't squeak — that kind of reality-defying nonsense.

That should flush out the PMs 👌

I know they've one in stock, and know that they haven't given the weight, and know that the SB700's reputation is to be Not Light At All, eg c. 10–11 kg, too much for me.

Right now, I'm longing for a lightweight Aria Pro II SB700, a total waste of time and energy. Over to you.....

This thread has goaded me into finding out what is the thing I don't like about two pickups together. Phase cancellation. Two similar explanations from a TB thread: From a math perspective it's just plusses and minuses cancelling each other out. One pickup hears a particular harmonic on the upswing of the wave and the other hears it on the downswing. The result is no sound for that harmonic. Some of the harmonics over one pickup will be 180 degrees out of phase when over the other pickup. Combine them and those frequencies cancel. Gone. Can't be heard. So when I switch from P to PJ, hoping to hear the extra bite from the bridge pickup, I just feel disappointed that some of the richness of the tone has suddenly disappeared.

I really like my Ampero Hotone and have built several combinations to suit different basses. Since I've no knowledge of the realities of real amplification, I just run through the options following what my ear likes. I'm curious if what I've put together is just fantastical nonsense. For example, one I did just now, to suit Roto Bass strings + my BB's P pickup Keeley C-4 Compressor Xotic RC Booster Alembic F-2B David Eden 4×10 AKG D112 microphone 5 band EQ Adjusting the microphone position, especially its distance back from the cab seems to shape the tone in a more interesting way than fiddling with the EQ. I don't even know how you mic up a 4×10..... I found the Alembic tone settings I settled on a bit bizarre until I read that the closest thing to flat on one of them is bass 2, mids 10, treb 2!

I started off loving the PJ setting on my BB, but over the course of last year a general dislike of the sound of two pickups interacting grew and grew, and now I play it purely as a P. A rather dark-sounding P. Since I also have an actual P, I wonder if I would be better off replacing the BB with something with a single pickup sitting somewhere between the PJ pickups, eg stingray or kiloton. Maybe a reverse P would be different enough. But for sure me and PJs are done

12 votes here, 74 votes there

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That link didn't work for me, perhaps this will?