Sorry to see you're letting it go mate, I'm guessing you don't need another Pfretzschner (and a few electrics) in PX....?
Silly question of course, but I'm certainly tempted to sell my Pfretzschner and raise the remainder from selling a load of EBs, that Bryant's a once in a lifetime double bass 👍
Any good way to stop this happening? Decent etiquette/discipline on stage, simple as that. In my bands there are two types of players, those who understand audio and who are allowed to touch things once set up, and those who don’t and who aren’t. The idea that any individual player can simply change their settings to suit some immediate perceptual/emotional/ego need doesn't get past the grown ups in the band 👍
In fact, if you're able to collect and have space to store it do yourself a favour and buy it because there is something absolutely sublime about how it makes almost all amps and almost basses (and bassists) sound. If it's good enough for Macca.....
I’ve owned a lot of fretless basses and they mostly sound like me, Precision through Jazz through Ray through Wal through Enfield, the only one that was noticeably unique was the Ric. Find a fretless bass you like and make it sound the way you want it to, PUPs only do so much in the context of all the other factors 👍
I'll be selling one of my two fretless Enfield Fusion fretless basses in the next month (not sure which yet), gives you Stingray plus a whole lot more 👍
Oh, god, this sounds like my current band, albeit switch sax/trumpet/keys for guitar, banjo, and mando. Americana Free Improv (which sounds like a political movement)
Glad you got a bargain but that neck/board joint fail looks awful, I've not seen anything that bad before even on some quite badly neglected/mistreated instruments, doesn't say a lot for Northwest Guitars?