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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 👍

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 👍

Where’s my credit card 😆

'Nearly Yes' = 'I think so'?

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)

Do you mean essentially feeding the whole mix to you in-ear while excluding all external audio?

Likewise 👍

There some Jaco-esque moments in there, quite an enjoyable listen 👍

Reminds me of the 'acting workshop' I attended at which I was asked to respond to a dramatic situation 'as if you were a bag of crisps'

Hard to tell from the photo but also looks like they might be separating around 7th-9th fret?

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?

Will you take the hugely overpriced gear I’ve been trying to sell on here without success for 18 months in trade (usually a boutique 5/6 string IME) 🤔

Decent book on audio 👍

There are some functions on BC that can make it look like people have been on when they haven’t, real test is whether they’ve read your PMs

Problems sourcing the battery I believe, either became unavailable or uneconomic, I forget which. Part of it might also be that - dare I say - people tend to like passive Precisions, certainly by comparison with P/Js and J/Js, be it cultural or technical, just seems to be the way it is (compare the number of active Jazzes on the market with active Precisions for example). The shame is that the P-Retro was an engineering masterpiece, beautifully designed and engineered, and given most people don't want to have either modify their bass or remove the whole Precision pickguard, John really did his homework. Beautiful piece of kit, sounds beautiful also. I disagree with some of the comments re pickups above, yes they make a difference but whatever that difference, an active circuit will allow you to fine tune it to perfection. I guess it all comes down to what sound is in your head when you're making the choice. I had a passive bass with two Sims/Enfield Quads, PUPs that can do pretty much anything that can be done with various combinations of 8 traditionally oriented coils, and while the range was impressive, adding a J-Retro really gave it life and added some character that, while it wasn't missing, was less obvious and harder to find when run passive. But all of this comes down to preferences and experience really 👍 I've recently picked up a P-Retro from here that I'm hoping to run in one of my Enfield Quad basses simply because I really like the way it works, much more like a Wal preamp than a more traditional B/M/T boost/cut model. Wonder if I can add Wal to the hard-baked Precision/Jazz/Ray settings of the Enfield 🤔

I learned a big lesson trying to sort a fretless board. If you're not 100% sure, take it to a professional 👍