LeftyJ

Too much compression to my taste.

This is interesting! I've been playing nickelplated steel ever since I picked up my first bass, and have never looked at anything else. When I first tried Elixir nanowebs I was sold, and I've pretty much stuck with them until I got my first headless Status and needed double ball strings. I'm now playing their own brand Hotwire double ball strings, which incidentally are Stainless Steel and feel and sound great. I now have two sets of stainless steel Elixirs waiting to be used on two of my regular 5-strings and after reading this thread I might just have to stop waiting

I have three that I'll never sell: My 1983 Ibanez MC924 because it's my year of birth, the serial number dates it just one month younger than me. It's also absolutely brilliant to play and sounds amazing. My 2003 Warwick Streamer LX5 that I've played at nearly all my gigs with Eve's Fall. And my Ellio Martina Forza 5-string, my be-all, end-all workhorse that I've gigged and recorded with and it really can do it all! It lends itself to any kind of music I could think of and it just works.

Not too familiar with the genre, but just over a year ago I was asked to play with Akelei. They're a one-man project now mostly, without a fixed line-up, and the singer needed a band for a show he was doing in January 2020. The drummer of my former band is his brother, so it was easy to just ask all of that band and we happily agreed. I love dark, melancholic music and was almost instantly drawn. I like listening to Paradise Lost, Agalloch, 11th Hour, and especially Alcest (not really doom but more shoegaze mixed with black metal with a beautiful atmosphere) so it was a small step to adjust to Akelei's music. The lyrics are in Dutch: https://akelei.bandcamp.com/

So would this qualify as a hollowbody? I bet it cost him an arm and a leg. Or two.

If this was mine I would most definitely have a decal made in Fender-style that said "Boner" instead of "Filip".

Came with OHSC and matching tour bus.

The Holy Trinity of Japanese high-quality basses around 1980 Wouldn't the batwing headstock of the SB700 date it older than 1981?

Thanks, but not really. I'm lefthanded, I couldn't play it if I wanted to

Greetings, fellow Dutchman! I'd think so too - this pickguard looks much too angular for the period it was probably made (1960s, Japan). The original pickguard probably matched the rounder shape of that Burns-like separate piece of pickguard on the upper horn. Also looks like the pickup may have been moved closer towards the bridge. Here's one exactly like it, but with a more curvaceous pickguard: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/66725/bass-identification-no-name-anywhere

That should probably be Meinl Shop, after the drum brand. They sell Ibanez spare parts too: https://www.meinlshop.de/en/ibanez/spare-parts/e-basses/tuning-machines?p=1

I'm currently at work and unable to take pictures of my actual setup, but I'm using the Yamaha MW8CX. Not the smallest solution out there, but it works for me. I could make do with just two inputs, USB, monitor out and an aux in. The FX are fun but low quality. But then again this is already 10+ years old, I bet newer ones are more advanced and better and have faster USB connections!

https://rs-guitarworks.myshopify.com/collections/basses/products/contour-bass-54 Probably the inspiration behind the Squier Parallel Universe Jazz Bass '54 (which has J pickups instead of SCPB's).

I enjoyed mine a lot! I even recorded with it through the excellent balanced line out. The only thing it lacked, to my ears, was a tweeter. It could get really woolly and lacks brightness. That's what I do now: I have a little Yamaha mixing console with built-in USB recording interface with two KRK V4II's hooked up. When practicing, I usually plug my bass straight in because I'm lazy and I like the tones I'm getting. EQ is limited, but I don't EQ a lot anyway. I have played with a Bass POD xt in front, and with several preamp/DI pedals (Hartke VXL Bass Attack, EBS MicroBass II, Darkglass B7K) and all have worked equally well. My PC is also hooked up to the mixer for music playback and to play along to, but any other audio source would work too.

I'm sure Aguilar would work too. I have an Ellio Martina bass that used to be passive (VBT) but had an OBP-3 built in later in its life. It is wired with MEC pots, and configured with: stacked volume (reverse log because lefty) / balance with push-pull for active/passive; stacked mid / treble with push-pull for mid frequency; bass Very happy with it!

Forgot about this thread! Might as well crosspost what I posted in Gear Porn yesterday: My two Streamer LX's Left is my 2003 Streamer LX5 in Nirvana Black transparent HP (high polish), right is a 2002 Streamer LX4 in Burgundy Red HP that I recently acquired and have barely been able to put down since. The 5-string originally had gold hardware too, but when I got the bass around 10 years ago, much of the goldplating on the bridge had worn off and I felt it would look better with the black. Yay for the Warwick webshop and the affordability of their hardware! Both have chunky ovangkol necks, but I find them comfortable enough to play. The 5-string has been my main axe in my metal band, where it's had to punch its way through a full mix with two 7-string guitars and some keys, and it did so with ease. The tone is a bit scooped but thick and bright, and with just a tiny edge of Ampeg dirt it really does the trick.

Would have been cool, but Sandberg are way past their 2nd, 8th, 20th and 21st anniversaries

PRS differentiates between the Standard 24 (I just looked it up, those are solid mahogany) and the Custom 24 (flamed maple top on the US models, flamed maple (or other exotic wood) veneer over a plain maple top on the SE's). By that logic, the one you're working on should be a Custom 24 that has lost its flamed veneer.

Nice job, I like the new colour so far! Was this a Standard 24, or did someone accidentally sand through the flamed maple veneer?

My two Streamer LX's Left is my 2003 Streamer LX5 in Nirvana Black transparent HP (high polish), right is a 2002 Streamer LX4 in Burgundy Red HP that I recently acquired and have barely been able to put down since. The 5-string originally had gold hardware too, but when I got the bass around 10 years ago, much of the goldplating on the bridge had worn off. Both have chunky ovangkol necks, but I find them comfortable enough to play. The 5-string has been my main axe in my metal band, where it's had to punch its way through a full mix with two 7-string guitars and some keys, and it did so with ease. The tone is a bit scooped but thick and bright, and with just a tiny edge of Ampeg dirt it really does the trick. They're only 1 year apart, but have two striking differences: the 5-string originally came with a JAN2 (which was broken when I got it, I replaced it with a corian JAN3 but none of the available nut widths fully matched! I had to sand one down to the correct width) but the 4-string has an original JAN with individual string height. The 5 has the quick-access electronics cover, but the 4 has the old-style cover that is screwed on in threaded inserts in the body. I wonder if it's a lefty thing, I'm pretty sure the quick-access compartment had been around for a while in 2002 but maybe only on righties until then.

Like @hiram.k.hackenbacker, I did too but totally by accident. I have bought and sold many basses but one has just stuck with me. It was only my 3rd or 4th bass I think, and totally wasn't what I was looking for back then (I wanted a Stingray 5 but also considered ordering a Sandberg Basic Ken Taylor 20th anniversary new, but I ended up with a superjazz) but the moment I saw it online I needed to have it, and it didn't disappoint. Many more basses came and went after it (and many stayed, too) but it's still The One. My Status S2 Classic 5-string almost took the crown, but that Ellio Martina Forza is still my One.

1999 Fender Hot Rodded American Standard P-bass on Facebook, in Coventry: link

Ibanez Mezzo series, if you can get over the more modern looks and feel (quite a different beastie than that Rumblekat you have now). Maybe an old Vantage, Squier MIJ medium scale Precision, or a 1980s Ibanez RB600?

Try comparing the 5th fret harmonic of the D-string to the 7th fret harmonic on the G-string. When tuned correctly, they should sound the same. You can play these harmonics by just lightly touching the strings above the fret (don't actually fret the note) and plucking the string like you normally would when playing.