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This is an idle question from someone who's never even touched a five string.... if you tweak the blend and the EQ until you've got the B sounding just how you want it.... how are the other 4 strings sounding?

Generalisations like this are only sometimes accurate

I was just looking at an advert on Bass Direct, and then immediately saw this thread. 1990s MIJ Precision Lyte: 38mm nut (which might appeal), 2 band EQ (which might not), 8 lbs weight (which sounds amazing) https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Precision_Lyte.html Same price as the Chavel, I think? Anyway, I know nothing apart from what there's to read.

Lake Placid Blue, Andy's siren song, dragging him onto the rocks 😈 Similar thing happens with me and CAR, to see it is to want it I don't even want to play it, I just want to hang out with it and whisper it sweet nothings

Sounds like a track passed from one computer to another as each person dutifully adds their contribution, rather than something thrashed out in the heat of collaboration. A day with the musical equivalent of Gordon Ramsey scornfully challenging all the details would turn this polite folk song into something with energy and properly focused intent. Call that a #^€£ing guitar solo? Sounds like my grandad humming as he's having a fosters. And who wrote this bit? You can't just raise the leading note before the chorus and leave it hanging there for four bars, what are #^€£ing thinking? Hey you, Baldy, yeah you with the bass. One decent note every verse and you think you're #^€£ing it, don't you? Just listen to this. BLAND. Come ONNN. We're so much better than this. And you, Mr Paedo, if I hear that line about China once more, I'll stuff it so far up your DI box it'll be coming out of your tweeters, understand? I SAID DO YOU #^€£ING UNDERSTAND? Right. Start from the top, and try and convince me you give a #^€£. Jesus.

What happened to the One Piece Of Bass Equipment In 2022 thread? Did it get deleted?

Pleeeeeeeeeease? 🙏🥺😁

I had forgotten about this reputation! Not floppy on on the 065 and 085, and very definitely not floppy on the 050 and 110! 😅 I know what people are getting at when they say the sound is scooped, but I'm guessing the Dimarzio is preventing them from hollowing out the sound. Having gone from Fender nickel-plated to these, I've no sense of having lost any stuffing from the sound, it's just that all the colours of the tonal picture are a lot more vivid. More obvious. More, er, steely?

Quality is in the right hand, not the left

I've one of the older CVs (a Matt Freeman sig) and a similar age BB424. The Yamaha cost less but feels higher quality across the board. The neck in particular feels both more solid and more carefully finished. The P on the other hand is lighter, and, being a standard P, allowed me to put a Dimarzio in (tho that meant it was no longer a sub-£400 bass)

I approve of this disclaimer 😬

If I manage to find a nice straight on photo of it, certainly! At the moment have only found videos 🙃

From a branding point of view, if the body shape is not instantly recognisable, then this headstock will help, a lot (cf the recent Charvel models)

Rough indication of how the pickups relate to the Jazz positions

No one else seems to want you to buy the Charvel, but I do.

Thank goodness I hadn't realised how unusual sub-9lb is for a Ray34 - getting on for 11lbs is more common, it seems?

With the border being moved west to the Oder–Neisse line?

I find the sound of a bassist self-consciously showing off fairly boring, but get very excited by music that simply requires virtuosic bass playing eg. I don't necessarily clock the bass playing at first, because it's all part of the texture (and I'm too busy being swept along by the music to be able to think straight anyway)

Entwistle had to play like that to stop people from noticing Pete Townshend's limitations

I should have added that there is a time limit to that. My vague recollection is that it's 1 month.

When he set up my Squier last year, I found it a little too high for my very gentle touch – I had forgotten to remind him just how light I play – so I wandered back down to him and he dropped the action basically as far as it would go. A couple of weeks ago I returned to him as I wanted some further work done on that bass. He looked gobsmacked at how low the action was 😄

This has got me wondering if I could cope with them in 50-65-85-110....