Munurmunuh

Fortunately if PayPal see the word Bax they refund immediately, it seems.....

My position on Bax is never again, not for nothing. What a clueless organisation.

I liked the feel and texture of Chromes, I really liked what they did to the character of the bass I fitted them to, but eventually those wisps of husky woody overtones got on my nerves.

One thing I learnt early on was that one man's broken in is another man's dead.

Are you hoping that trying to foist your middle age middle class guilt on everyone else will somehow lessen yours? Because it won't.

BTW, the GHS Balanced Nickels are nickel/nickel roundcore. Quite pricey though: £37 from Bass Direct.

I'm about to try the 7150 45-105 on my BB, as I like the nickel-plated steel 7250 on my P I fancy trying to find something with a nice mellow but full tone for the BB .... but still have that nice hexcore stiffness. Would the 7150s feel as stiff as the 7250s?

Recently a nice but not mint 2 band EBMM Stingray from shortly before the Classic / Special branding was introduced was on sale here for £1100. It tempted me a lot more than a new SBMM Ray34 ever could.

Stop buying basses, close down the bass factories and free their employees to rejoin the ranks of the strugglers ✊

Gigged 1200

I've got and like GHS Boomers, which, to my tastes are lovely and stiff. The Nickel Lo-Riders were suggested as the only mainstream option for an even warmer tone whilst still being hexcore NPS. Relevant to this thread: I've had the Daddario Nickels and ... and never again. From jangly to dead in a month, and pricey in this country. The Fender 7250s are cheaper and have a more middle of the road tone and last longer.

I had the Nickel plated version of the DR Lo-Riders recommended to be recently. Were you using them, or the all steel version?

Hey, guess what? 🙄

OK, so now to put it your way... ...your confident assertion merely requires up to be down and vice versa. We have to reverse our meanings on your say so? Good luck with that 😬

If you look down at your bass while playing it, the top strings are at the top of your vision, the bottom strings are at the bottom.

If I ever buy another P+something, the P is going to be reversed

I've mostly had 45–105 GHS Boomers on my 424. I always play with both pickups on, and they fill in the gaps in the sound very nicely. The stiffness and tension suits me. Now I've got a P as well, I would happily trade a little of the Boomers' presence for even more warmth in the mids, to increase the contrast between my two basses a little. Option (1) Fender 7150. I've the Fender nickel-on-steel 7250 on my P, and like their tension/stiffness/feel/price, so these all-nickel hexcore rounds would be an easy choice. Option (2) DR Nickel Lo-Riders. Said to have lots of warmth for NPS hexcore rounds, but they are a lot more expensive, and might be lower tension than I like. Has anyone tried either the 7150s or the Nickel Lo-Riders on their BB?

Fender survived

When I was a teenager playing borrowed basses, I did a gig with a Hohner either just like that or very similar (except it was black) and I was very perplexed by the sensation of playing it – I had never encountered a bass which was comfortable to play before. Very bizarre.

Pretty unusual neck specs on both of them, fussy buyers might be happy to pay a surcharge to get the neck just right for them

Yes now I've taken a closer look I can see how the matte black plastic knobs clash terribly with the matte black plastic pickups