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This ^

Lovely to gig an old bass 👍

Great video, I loved the insights, the stand-in keyboardist playing havoc with the bass octaves was classic Great lesson in monitoring DB also, give yourself mostly the simple less toneful signal so that you can hear very precisely what you're doing and send more of the complex but nicer signal to the audience 👍

Yes, while the sudden urge to nip down to the shops to pick up some Barts and an Overwater is understandable, I suspect that brain and fingers are the real active ingredients for the tone and technique

Quite a relief to discover that it's not just amateurs like me who do that! As Ian suggests, IK for Pizz but a lot more useful for Arco, but for either a great way of checking especially on noisy stages

I'm really not sure whether that's a feat of engineering or a work or art, it's probably both. Wonderful 👍

Totally agree, he's a classy player not just in terms of the techniques he's able to call on, but in terms of when and how he chooses to calls on them 👍

It's lovely, but it's chocolate; you see it, you want it, you have it, you realise you didn't want it after all 👍

But……. What they’re listed for and what they sell for are not always the same. IMO I paid over the odds for my ‘73 at £4k inc OHSC. £3k of that was logic, the last £1k was emotion, because it very much ticked every box I have re finish/mojo/wear/board etc. Buying from an established and trusted business also brought some extra cost but that coat bought extra security to the transaction. No way I’d go £3,500 on that ‘72 without a LOT of initial affection for the instrument backed up by a lot of evidence and assurances from the seller.

I had exactly the same on a quite nice but could have been nicer 70’s Precision, tone with BBOT suggested Badass might be a step up, but quite the opposite, to my ear anyway, seemed to compress the tone somewhat…

Venues eh Totally OT but three of my old band used to live close to each other and close to our rehearsal rooms so would walk together with instruments on our backs back and amps/cabs/bags in hands. It was always good fun following rehearsal to pop into a busy pub on the way home, walk up to the bar and say 'Hi, we're tonight's band, where do you want us.....?' just to see the look of horror on their faces. Even more so when there was already a band setting up Anyway, as you were 👍

When I was looking to buy my current '70s Precision I looked at a lot of similarly poorly described instruments on eBay and Reverb and on far too many occasions the seller was either unhelpful, clueless, or both (all the old classics were there in force; for example "I'm not going to take it apart, but I know it'a all original because the bloke who sold it to me said it was..."). I guess I now look at poorly photographed and poorly described basses and know what to expect

No photo of the case, pretty poor photos of the instrument (SN unclear for example), collection only? But hey, you may well be right, either way, time will tell mate 👍

We usually do 2x45 mins, BUT I seem to remember that a couple of gigs at venues where punters are coming and going we did 3 x 45 mins but (and keep it quiet) the third was simply a repeat of the first, on the basis that by the time we started the third set audience members who'd been there 2-hours earlier had either left or were too pissed to notice 👍

£3k isn't BIN though it's an auction. Either way, it's probably ballpark price for a '72 in the current climate, and I won't be surprised to see it sitting there a while as nothing in either the images or the description grabs potential buyers?

This ^ But I also go back to my earlier point that while one bass may have a set of characteristics that mean a Badass will make a difference, another may not, while a third may sit somewhere between the two. There's no generic and reliable effect of a Badass, and they certainly can have a negative effect, for example the tone you're after is present with a BBOT but is perhaps more toppy, immediate, or simply more clear than you'd like with the Badass. It's the same arguments as tonewoods, PUPs, passive circuits etc..... They can make a difference but certainly not always, Any difference they do make isn't always significant, And even if it is significant, it isn't always desirable, And even if there's a difference, it's significant, and it's desirable, there's a bloody high chance that neither your bandmates, the audience, or sometimes even you, would notice that difference when it matters! Me? I love a Badass

I certainly preferred that over the first, vocals had a bit more going on, shame about the audio and video not being synced though