Beedster

Agreed, I’m going to get creative on this 👍

Thanks Nick, luthier has accepted the job on the condition that I provide design/dimensions. I’ll send him that link 🙏

I did a pickup gig years ago and the singer without warning shouted ‘bass solo’. So I just carried in playing the exact line I’d been playing albeit with just drums for company….. …… and the audience loved it. Made me wonder whether us bassists really need s band 😆

Excuse my ignorance but why are you testing microphones, especially given they all appear to be giving you similar results? Not criticising, just genuinely interested, all seems a bit eccentric in which case I'm with you 👍 BTW I went quite mad trying out various permutations of my Townsend L22 Sphere, wish I'd stuck with my SM7-Bs to be honest

IME - and I've done both - it's often more economic to simply buy an aftermarket body in the preferred finish than it is to refin the existing body; for example a while back I bought a stunning new Warmoth 3tsb body for not a lot more than a refin had recently cost me, which was close to £400. OK it's most useful with Fenders/Fenderalikes and MMs of course but there's a 90% chance after all 👍

Likewise, a timeless classic made all the more amusing when someone refuses to find it funny 😂

Not a very god pic but in short a nice big lump of 80's brass Fender fit 👍

I've a very well engineered and very solid brass bridge from the 80's that would totally look the part on that bass, I'll see if I can dig it out and post photos later today

This ^

Agreed, also listen to Trash on Manifesto, bass as rhythmic engine

Nicely put 👍

About 80% of what I play 👍

I always think rhythm first, note second 👍

....or a weapon 👍

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/what-is-this-gigantic-fender-p-bass-bridge.1441155/

Now, I agree with 99% of your posts BUT not this one; music for me is about feeling and irrespective of all the total audio logic you’ve talked, a big rig makes me feel good when I play and for me that beats the logic. My Mesa rig makes no sense acoustically but a lot of sense emotionally, and that what works for me, it’s not an objective space after all 👍

I had a similar issue playing a 4/4 and 3/4 during the same period, the 4/4 with guts for bluegrass and the 3/4 with steels for Jazzier stuff (I doubt anyone who knows Jazz would recognise my playing as Jazz BTW). I hate to say this but I can't help thinking that - as I found - it come down more to listening to yourself than to instrument mechanics. I'm sure - at least I hope - that others will have more helpful advice 👍