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I bought a Westone Thunder I-A guitar when I was 13. It had the most astonishingly low action. Half a lifetime later the neck hasn't shifted a micrometre. As far as I'm concerned, these instruments are still hopelessly undervalued.

All ?! If so, do you find that you've become more fidgety?

If you change the string tension but then adjust the trussbar to match, why would the neck change?

I was thinking 8 figures at least. Especially if it was sold for charity, as the money in the charitable giving purses couldn't care less about value, it just wants to get spent.

I know the P pickup is a little closer to the neck than the trad P-spot. Will you simply swap the E/A and D/G positions? or leave the D/G in its place and move the E/A to the other side of it?

When I was a kid, I had a two humbucker Westone and never touched the coil split switches and longed for a Les Paul and nothing else. Now, despite having no interest in playing guitar, apparently I want a Telecaster? Nuts.

Just wanted to say that the greys for navigating from one page to another are now nice and readable against both black and white backgrounds 👍 Also I think the site logo is now bigger and brighter than it was a couple of days ago? Assuming that it's not that I'm going nuts, that's a nice little improvement too

It's interestingly shaped end beyond the row of knobs seems to be particularly enjoying the change to tort

4 basses sounds like the number someone proudly shows off after a massive cull. As a matter of interest, what is it about the Limelight which makes you not want to record with it?

If you're using mega for this, what word will you have for when the white body's black pg is replaced with red tort?

Maybe that's why I like the GHS Bass Boomers so much on it, gently fills in the spaces. Certainly I've never found a single moment when I've wanted the neck pickup on its own, it feels like an ingredient to a successful recipe.

In this video, the live bass line is constantly cutting from 424 to 1024 to 2024, all on the neck pickup soloed. You can hear a relative lack of firmness in the 424's tone, and there's a nice bit of throatiness in the 1024 / 2024.

My tinnitus sounds like silvery cicadas, which just makes me feel like I'm perpetually on some lovely warm summer holiday and someone's about to pass me a mint julep. Some Mitteleuropean classical composer put his tinnitus into a movement of one of his string quartets.

I found this BassChat thread linked to in a TalkBass thread.... Humming Yamaha BB424 ....seems I've just got lucky

Is the bridge pickup on the 424 properly noiseless, or do I just have am extremely well-shielded instrument? Searching around I can find a reference to a "noisy" bridge pickup on a 415 and to the 2024 blade pickup being "noiseless". Which doesn't get me very far. It's only just dawned on me that this is the only single coil pickup I've ever had any experience of – all the guitars and basses I played in my youth had humbuckers or splits – which has led me to be unappreciative of how quiet it is.

After the 4378 year-long intermission in my bass playing ended last August, the second song I tried to play was Living On A Prayer. Recently returned to it and bothered to memorise it instead of trying to read the scribbles I made copied from who knows where. What an intensely satisfying song to play along with

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Yeah, in the long run I'm sure the bulk of my playing will be through a nice clean SVT patch I made that simply allows the character of my BB to shine out. My newly-arrived P is capable of sounds that I've not had before, and I'm enjoying finding a handful of patches that couple up with them, in the hope that they will encourage me to stretch myself musically. The tweaking does take forever though... And I was very pleased when I found a good impersonation of this particular sound

This sounds really good when playing my P with a pick – the Vox AC-100 with a ENGL 4×12 cab and a distortion unit the manual say is "based on an legendary 3-knob Blues overdrive pedal providing full-range overdriven sound, great for both guitars and basses" Anyone want to tell me which real pedal this will be? (My guess: Boss BD-2 Blues Driver but can something released mid 90s be "legendary"? There's also one they call "Screamood" which could be the Ibanez Tube Screamer?) At any rate, this combination has a punchy, gritty character that gives a slow simple line real rough-hewn presence across the range. FX2 06 "Dr Blues" (Gain 90, Tone 50) AMP 62 "Voxy Bass" (Vol 50, Bass 65, Treble 75) CAB 39 "Engle" (Dyn57, Vol 40, X 35, Y 80, Z 60) plus some compression, NR, reverb, and mids-heavy bass-light EQ

Do you prefer your post-punk sung by Kathleen Ferrier?

Sorry for not noticing it earlier, but the right justification hasn't been set either:

Bob Geldof another upside downer. Not that anyone's aware that he can play the guitar.

I've been trying out some of the other amps — putting a P through a Fender Bassman seemed an obvious thing to try, and it sounds lovely, in a gentle way. My P with a Dimarzio sounds really *excellent* through the Fender Twin Reverb: clear and firm without being raw, lets the bass's throatiness shine out. The unit calls it "Black Twin" – Amp no.3, Cab no.19. I've got a bit of my usual taste in EQ and NR, but no effects. Amp: Gain 90, Bass 25, Mids 75, Treble 25, Bright off. Cab: default mic settings

Reduced to £825 and only 9 lbs.