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Very dull and thuddy; no resonance to it. It would fit an old school set fine, but the other 3 strings had more life and presence than an old school set. So one could hear the change in timbre as one crossed strings to and from it, which was very off putting.

Curiosity got the better of me and I bought a set of the extra lights. The G, D and A strings were fine, in fact rather nice, but the E string was like it was from a completely different set of strings, which made the set unplayable. I complained, genuinely believing that the E string had not been made right, it simply couldn't have been intentional. I was sent another set. Same problem. Maybe played in a certain way, and EQ'd in a particular way, they would be ok, but to me that is not how a set of strings should be - there should be cross string consistency full stop. I have put my TI Flats back on.

Talkbass has a thread "Hofner players...that AREN'T Paul": https://www.talkbass.com/threads/hofner-players…that-aren’t-paul.1582970/

Next track from Il Basso has been released, with a rather curious video:

All well and good, but... what about the sound? Flatwounds tend to have issues with cross string consistency; how are these. BTW, which set did you buy?

BassDirect had 5: Midnight Green, FireGlo, Walnut, MapleGlo and JetGlo, all at £3299. The JetGlo one went a couple of weeks ago.

First shop presentation up - not the best presentation, and the sound of the bass doesn't do it for me.

I bought some many years ago. I retry them from time to time, but every time they just go back in a box - they're not for me. Each to one's own. They are big and clumsy and take off lots of high end. I don't think that they do do a good impression of playing with your fingers. I reckon that the closest I've got to that is a flexible leather plectrum. (I got all of these from the now defunct www.ukulele-plectrums.co.uk.)

I'm reading Stuart "Woody" Wood's autobiography, "Mania", at the moment, from which I learnt that the Bay City Rollers' "Bye Bye Baby" was actually a cover of that by The Four Seasons from 1965. I prefer the BCR's version.

No one else has admitted to owning a set, so we're counting on you to give us your impressions of them Kevin.

A nice tight group from Canada. I love this song: everything is so well done. (And it has a bass intro.)

For those interested or who didn’t know, he wrote several books about The Jam. I read “That’s Entertainment; My Life in The Jam”, published 2015, and I remember it as being a good read.

I've recently discovered him. He's such a good bass player. Here is some superb bass playing with a brilliant sounding bass. (And if a curly cable is good enough for him...)

At the risk of opening a can of worms about curly cables, I got this. (To be honest, it was at my request; I didn't need a new cable, but I've wanted a curly one for a long time.) It will only get home use, as that is the only place I play. Each to one's own, but I absolutely love it! https://www.designacable.com/van-damme-curly-guitar-cable-neutrik-instrument-lead-studio-grade-70cm-25m.html

Not a Rickenbacker, but the Yamaha Attitude is exactly the same idea, though it has the convenience of a jack socket for each pickup so normal cables can be used. Billy Sheehan always plays with two amps live; he talks of his amp set-up towards the end of this video: If you can afford a Ric, then you can afford the splitter box and stereo cable. Basically you have to at least try a dual amp set-up, even just at home, or you will always be wondering what it would be like…