LeftyJ

Does the other way around count as well? I know of a number of unexpected actor sightings in bands I know Johnny Depp plays bass (but is more famously known as a guitarist), and I've seen footage of Keanu Reeves and Ryan Gosling with a bass. And Gary Sinise has the "Lt Dan Band", named after his Vietnam veteran character in Forrest Gump.

Hi, and welcome here! I've been in Andalucía a few times, and hope to be able to visit your region again when we're allowed to travel again. I've been in Sevilla a few years ago during the summer, when it was way too hot to do anything. I'd love to come back in spring sometime, it's such a beautiful city with all its tiny alleyways and patios.

Can you elaborate further? I'm quite intrigued, since you mention five parameters but there's only 4 knobs. I'm curious about that EQ, and especially the twinned-bit. Do you mean the magnetic EQ is like a balance pot, but between the bass and treble frequencies?

Hey, it's the guitarist of that band "Free candy". Pretty sure this is their van:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LO4i1Gsf84

None. My bass is an extension of my manhood, wouldn't want to cover that up. When I really need to, I favour the googly-eyed goodness of these:

Are they those funky guitars with ridged fingerboards instead of frets? Pretty wild, and very innovative!

Will do!

It doesn't sound all too unlikely to me, after all the tone and resonance of an instrument is determined by the sum of all its parts. When I added a neck pickup cover to my Jazz Bass, I was also convinced I heard a tonal difference. It was as if it added some top end harmonics and a ringing sound to the instrument. When I recently removed it though, I didn't perceive any noticeable difference and now I'm not so sure any more

So far I love it for guitar, but have been slightly disappointed by the bass amps and haven't used it much for bass. The tones are great, and very useful, so that's really not the problem. But you really need to be careful with the volume levels to keep the amp from clipping and the speakers from farting, and it can be a bit finnicky to find the right balance between input gain, patch level and master volume for it to sound right and clean. The same happens with my 7-string guitar. But maybe my idea of "practice volume" is a bit different, because I've been using a 150 watt EBS NeoDrome 12" at home for so long I've also found the speakers and the way the housing are built make for a very narrow angle in front of the amp where the tones are good, with sufficient brightness. Move outside of this angle, and you'll be tempted to turn it up too loudly or EQ it overly brightly, which really isn't necessary when you keep this angle in mind. I haven't played bass through it in a while, will need to retry with the amp dead center in front of me at ear level. This realization came to me only recently, so thanks for reminding me Overall it is a very impressive piece of kit, and the guitar tones are incredible. Don't use it without the excellent Bluetooth app (or on your computer, through USB) for patch editing, it really opens up possibilities that aren't accessible through the onboard controls. Like 30-something fun factory presets that are a great starting point for creating your own sounds, and additional fx and amp parameters that you can't access through the limited controls on the amp itself. The app is very easy to use and the amp responds to changes immediately. It works great on both smartphone and tablet, but I favour my tablet because all parameters fit on the screen at once.

Was looking for that too, but @Jean-Luc Pickguard beat me to it

The CW model has a wooden body too, it's made of alder but with woven graphite facings. In essence the CW is based on the S2 Classic with a few custom features. You're probably thinking of the Stealth model or the old S2000 models

Actually, it's not a feature typical to cheaper basses. It's intended to make for a stronger headstock joint, because the headstock is placed at an angle. If you'd have to make an angled headstock out of the same piece of wood, you'll indeed waste a LOT of wood but you'll also compromise the strength because the headstock no longer follows the direction of the grain. Manufacturers and luthiers often incorporate a volute in the neck to compensate for this weak spot. You'll find scarf joints in much more expensive guitars and basses too. And on some guitars (especially cheaper acoustics) you may even find the scarf joint in the headstock section itself...

Italia tried this once, with a singlecoil lipstick pickup per string, mounted parallel:

Beautiful! If yours has the solid machined brass bridge I wouldn't touch it (wickedly expensive to replace, and a really solid piece of hardware) but if it's one of the molded bridges: Warwick sells black replacements in their webshop at very fair prices. The solid brass bridge + tailpiece is €385, but the molded one in black is only €55. https://shop.warwick.de/en/parts-for-instruments/warwick-spare-parts/bass-bridges-tailpieces

Those are double-ball, but not flatwound.

No double-ball end flats though, and looks like they're all NOS. Picato still has a website which isn't very helpful and directs you to Strings and Things.

http://stringadapter.com/string-adapter/compare-prices/ This adapter will hold regular single-ball strings without modifications to your bass. It anchors behind the headpiece. I'm not aware of the issue @Jean-Luc Pickguard pointed out about it not being suitable for flatwounds. It might be worth contacting the company to ask though!

Black maple? That's the first time I've ever seen a mention of such a thing. Looks incredible!

That ziricote fingerboard looks fantastic! The grain on that wood always blows me away, it looks so wild with all the overlaps and randomly appearing and disappearing lines. Olive can have a similar effect, I love it

I think he quit a few years ago. His site is gone, he never posts to Leftybassist.com anymore. I tried contacting him on LinkedIn recently, but he didn't accept my request to connect.

I'm not really into dance, I'm more of a metalfan myself. I do enjoy dance acts that actually play live with a real band, like Faithless and The Prodigy, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Pendulum sometimes play with a real live band too! One of my favourite tracks of theirs is Watercolour: Frontman Rob Swire is actually a huge metal fan, they even did a collab with In Flames ("Self vs self") on the album that Watercolour is on too. I dig a bit of drum & bass, and can really enjoy some dubstep too.

When adjusting the intonation, loosen the tiny set screw that locks the saddles in place from the side. Then, adjust carefully by loosening the tension of the string that needs intonation and move that saddle. Be careful not to move the other saddles if they're intonated correctly. Keeping the tension on those strings will help avoiding any unwanted slipping. That's basically all there is to know The old Status bridges were roughly identical to the old Steinberger bridges but with the tuning assembly in a separate tailpiece instead of a one-piece assembly. There's a wealth of information out there on old Steinbergers, you might be able to find more info on those that might be useful.

Fingers Elixir Nanoweb .045-.125 or Status Hotwire .040-.125 on my 5-strings, .045-.100 on my 4-strings Wide range of various basses, but mostly my Status S2 Classic 5-string and 4-string or my Warwick Streamer LX4 or LX5 Spectraflex cables Pedaltrain Nano with a TC Electronic Polytune 3 Noir, EBS MultiComp, Darkglass B7K and EBS UniChorus Ampeg SVP-PRO 19" tube preamp. Depending on the gig, it either goes straight into the PA, with an EBS NeoDrome 12-150 as a personal bass monitor, or into an EBS HD350's power amp and an EBS Proline 410. At home I plug my bass straight into the NeoDrome 12-150. Awesome amp!