Beedster

So, it arrived, here he is getting to know his new big brother I have to admit that I'm ever so slightly in love with this mongrel of a bass. The tone is WAY better than I expected, quite mellow yet articulate albeit with a rather baked-in low level reverb, courtesy I'd guess of the aircraft hanger-like construction. The first thing I discovered is that if it gets cold it rattles, and when there are around 150 screws into the metal it can be quite an ask to find which of them is causing the problem. The big test of course is how it responds in a room with a drummer and a mic, I'll be reporting back. One very happy owner, as the seller said, I now have custody, it's a responsibility I intend to take seriously 👍

Great playing and great tone mate, thanks for sharing 👍

Lovely playing and lovely tone, well done. Your band remind me of another band and it's bugging the hell out of me which band it is. Lovely music either way, thanks for sharing 👍

You've not owned a Ric have you

Noted! I'd love to hear the recording also?

Flea does tend to gig the most recent version of his signature basses, respectively Modulus, Fleabass, and Fender, although the era of the second was pretty short-lived IIRC

I'm not sure that progress should always be considered the end goal of of design manufacture, I often look at what is being described as progress and long for the past, which I suspect is part of the appeal of Fender and HD 👍

As I understand it, there is a degree of hit and miss with Ric QC even today, there is an example on this forum somewhere of an instrument on Ric's stand at a show on which the G -strings was pretty much missing both the PUPs and the neck!

Not sure the B-15 does?

Unless I’m mistaken Harley’s QC is also superior to Ric’s?

Far better of with a Yamaha is true of bikes and basses but it would be a boring World if Yamaha were the only option 👍

One cannot mess with simplicity…. 🤔

Good advice, esp re drummists 👍

Apart from SVT-CL of course 😀

The only option 👍

I used to own one, it was nice, but the PF-50 and fliptop cab get close for around 10% of the price 👍

Three actually

I didn't

I think I'm starting to agree with, um, me

As per the Enfield thread, I've put a lovely MIJ 62RI fretted neck on it and it just works, and I'm about to install a J-Retro and a Badass II. I think I prefer the fretted over fretless. So, in theory I keep the Enfield as my fretted and the Precision as my fretless and all is good with the world 👍 Giving it some serious thought......

Um, like this Luke Just started obvs 👍

Some great stuff in this thread guys, many thanks for the food for thought 🤔

I'm the same, inverse law for me, fewer gigs = bigger rigs. Mesa Carbine M6 weighs marginally more than my car but sounds glorious even if I could get the same volume from a Class D and Barefaced, I still prefer to use the biggun. Would be a PITA if I were gigging every week though

I suspect he's a good example of the role of DNA in the whole thing 👍

No seriously, great post, just how I feel about my band 😀