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27 minutes ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Man, this is really tempting. I used to own a 77 LE like this one. Killer bass. Lovely neck and a powerful pickup. I used to call it a P bass on steroids. I only sold it to finance a Forte. 

 

GLWTS 👍

The second I saw the thread I thought of you 😄 Come on, you know you have to have it! 🙂

8 hours ago, ern500evo said:

I’ve been thinking of adding a Darkglass B7k ultra to my set up, as a really good dirt pedal, a decent preamp, and would also be a handy back up if I ever suffer amp failure at a gig. Could also just take it to rehearsal and go direct into the PA and save me setting my amp up. If I went down this route, I could just run the Streamer passive and use the B7k for tone shaping. 

This!
The B7K Ultra was the first DG produict that completely won me over, for me it is a more than decent preamp / DI plus distortion as opposed to a distortion pedal with some addtional features. You can leave the Streamer unchanged and see how you are getting on with this setup - if you don't like it it's easily to change. 

11 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

I know, BD still has one in stock and for a very good price (if you consider what Euros cost nowadays). Unfortunately, I am broke. I recently bought the Timmy C signature bass and that burned a big, big hole into my bass budget. 😞

That is a really good price, just checked the BD site. Hope you like the TC sig...

10 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

BTW, you were right, I am missing my 77 😞 

Well, it is quite easy to be right about such a great bass. I can't see myself selling that even if I'm mainly a 5 string player....

But you can buy one as there are some still on the market so you can right the wrong 🙂

8 hours ago, ead said:

 

An entirely rational and very reasonable explanation.  Please proceed.

I didn't even understand the question..... :- 😉

59 minutes ago, SumOne said:

 

• I've got very used to the patterns of standard 4 or 5 string tunings- does switching just one string occasionally from E to D take a lot of getting used to?

 

 

I use drop tuning only for specific songs in our set  (drop the low B to A before those songs and back after them) and since this is how I play them for long it is second nature for me. I would not worry about that. 

21 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

I only own the one Spector (Euro LT), I couldn't ever see me expanding on that model and I'm feeling (sorry, Gary) that pretty much everything new from Spector is still being based off the same NS body shape.  Surely this will ultimately lead to a degree of apathy from the customer-base; they look great, but we're getting mighty to close to Fender approach whereby they're just sticking to the core models and dressing them with new guts as if they were something new.

This is a very interesting observation. I agree that the NS design is so distinct and well though out that it is (and was) hard for Spector to veer away from it. I happen to love it more than any other bass designs and have currently 7 of them (US and Euros) and to be honest I never cared anything else Spector have or had like the X  - sorry Gary- or Rex for example and when they introduced the Fender copy Coda I was just shaking my head. 

What I do believe is that unlike Fender Spector with its NS design has a lot more market potential as it is a lot less market share than the classic Fender and look-a-likes but once a player gets to play a NS in many instnces will be won over.  The NS design is one of Spectors main strenghts and  I think Korg  is now able to have a lot bigger market penetration than what the limited means of Stuart and PJ had, even if the import lines already weren't handled by them. So for me it makes sense to concentrate on this as maby the die-hard Spector players will get tired but there is such a room to grow by reaching and convincing other players. The brand is strong, the heritage is strong so if the quality is kept with clever marketing and wider distribution this can be a new and succesful era. 

11 hours ago, cetera said:

This..... ^

 

They really SHOULD release a Euro-X (Spectorbird) though..... we keep asking for it!

I knew I was forgetting something when I was typing 🙂 Yes, the X!

Personally I don't mind the wider product portfolio and as long the quality is there I wouldn't say they are watered down. I still remember years ago Spector fans complaining about lack of certain things (like fanned fret models, 34" 5 string Euros etc.) The market will decide which models are going to perform well in terms of sales and player preferences and I'm sure Korg will not be hesitant to pull the underperforming models and also introduce new stuff, too. Maybe it will take some time to settle from this transitional period when old and new models are offered alongside. 

Very nice SR5 indeed. 
Also looking forward to you getting from this “consolidated position” back to normal 😁😁

If Brexit hadn't happened I would have bought this on the day it was listed. Sadly now the UK used market is pretty much off limits for EU buyers (and vica versa)

I would also add that to be able to gauge the whole potential of a bass one needs to use it, practice, rehearsal, gigs, studio etc. so i think any feeling you might have based on a shop tryout is superficial. I do understand that as a player gets more and more experience and understands more about what he/she prefers in terms of sound, ergonomics, playability and looks the less time she needs to form a opinion about a new instrument as the set of preferences and experience is already established. 
 

So I believe it can be very beneficial to go through a couple (many) of instruments, maybe even having more than one at a time so you try a lot of different things and have a selection that is hard to challenge.

This is also one of the premier reasons to come up with when you are seeking to justify any new purchases 😉

No. But with having the small collection of basses that I own I don't expect any bass to turn up and sound better.... different maybe, that's allright. I'm fortunate enough to own basses whose quality are high so things boil down to personal preferences in the end. Again, I'm in a fortunate situation. 

Actually my Thumb NT6 is around 5.6 kgs, 12.34 lbs. Probably my all time heaviest but it does not bothers me.  The Yamaha TRB6PII coming close as second with over 5 kgs (sold years ago)

My main gigging bass, a Spector Euro435 is 4,26 kgs - 9,39 lbs. 

It is never been a problem I suppose partly because due to onstage gymnastics it spends quite some time in the air thus not weighting my back as much 😄 😄

17 minutes ago, ped said:

Do you prefer the notification bubble in red, to match your system, or do you like it orange to match BC?

 

Orange! Red looks out of place. 

I feel it's good for my weary eyes as the night draws near. Will leave like it for a few days for a try.

Very nice, congratulations! What's that color? Kinda hard to tell from the pic, looks like blueish...

On 27/06/2021 at 01:14, zbd1960 said:

OK... this seems like a sensible place to ask...

I'm thinking of trying a 6 string... just for fun... so one of the ones that pops up when I look around is the Spector Legend 6. Anyone familiar with this and have any thoughts?

Ta.

Can't go wrong with a Legend 6, they are well built and great quality for the price especially used. Scale lenght and specing is like those of the bigger brothers (Euro 6, NS-6) but with a different headstock and slightly different bridge pu placing. If you wanna have a 6er just for fun, a Legend 6 will more than deliver. 

White pearloid is the best of both worlds for me.....

On 11/06/2021 at 15:07, nekomatic said:

So standard 5-string tuning is BEADG, obviously, providing an extra fourth of range below a 4-string bass.

If you’re a pretentious jazz noodler, on the other hand, you can string your 5 EADGC, giving you access to an extra fourth of top-end pretentious jazz noodling.

Here’s the thing though: I do sometimes want a D below my low E string, but I don’t actually like the really low end of a 5-string in a lot of contexts: it just seems to bring a different, somehow more synthetic character to the bass sound that doesn’t fit for me. On the other hand, I am (or try to be) a pretentious jazz noodler who could definitely stretch out on an extra high string from time to time.

So why not get a 5-string and tune it, say, DGCFBb - or even (ulp) C#F#BEA - apart from the fact that it’s self-evidently weird and wrong and likely to cause havoc on swapping to a normally tuned instrument? Does anyone do this?

Would be a 5 string tuned to E A D G C a solution with a Drop tuner on the E to get it down to D (or even C if it is a double stop one) 

edit: you have written 'sometimes' for a D so maybe the possible difficulty - if any -  in playing in drop D tuning for those occasions are overshadowed by the otherwise normal tuning (EADGC) Btw DGCFBb is good, but anytime I have used that tuning lost some reference points on the fretboard, everything felt 2 frets off normal 😄 But I never spent an awful lot of time getting adjusted tbh. 

4 hours ago, CookPassBabtridge said:

I’ve got a 2009 Ovangkol BO Thumb and it has the chunky neck. Common claims that they are like ‘baseball bats’ are an exaggeration. They are actually very comfortable IMO.

That said I have switched the MEC preamp for a Bartolini (I wanted a 3 band EQ) and plan to do the same with the pickups. 

I think it is the 6 string when it really matters..... I play Spectors for 15 years and some said some of them have chunky necks (talking about 5ers)  but I never had one that I had a problem with in this regards. Now 6ers are where every fraction of an inch matters... or maybe we all can get used to pretty much anything and it's just nitpicking. 

8 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

Every time Obscura are meantioned I mentally think of The band Canera Obscura and feel confused

For a long time it brought me back the Obscura record by Gorguts 😄 Differents strokes I think 😄

@bassbora thank you for your thoughts on your own Thumbs. As for JPT I'm well aware of him, I happen to like the Obscura record he first played on with them (Cosmogenesis) also like his Ensemble Salazhar record (was it a demo?). He is a monster player and one of the reason I always thought that fretless Thumbs have some of the best fretless sound for me. The other is the Hungarian player Attila Fehervari with Special Providence, he played a lot his Thumb BO5 fretless and has great sound in the mix. 

6 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

'  Likewise I doubt 6 string basses have the 'broad neck' option.  

The bolt on Thumb 6 and the singlecut Thumb 6 both have the broadneck option and there are quite a few out there. However I haven't seen a NT6 broadneck....