Machines

https://www.thomann.de/gb/5_string_p_basses.html?sw=Marcus Miller P7&smuuid=5cc176ca-1550-46f7-8469-80728489e326

I'm far too fickle to assume i'll keep what ever i'd order from a custom luthier, and the depreciation on them is shocking (and the marketplace is flooded with boutique customs currently). I'd get a couple of £1500 ones instead, if not 3 x 2nd hand good ones.

Update: Fender Precision, Dingwall NG-3, Fender Marcus Miller Jazz, Yamaha RBX775.

This is equally hideous: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/181108334549003--fender-custom-shop-post-modern-p-bass-black-burst-spalted-maple And the price 🤔

Uhoh.

If you sell on commision you have to pay it all up front and recover the cost as it sells, but will get more money back than a pure trade.

Because capitalism is what is driving the demand for the highly priced instruments.

I'm not a massive economics scholar, but Hegel's Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis does suggest it is inevitable, as well as circular.

Ok i'll bite. What happens next then ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

I'd have them on all my basses but just too expensive for me for the benefit.

Hmm. In a fire i'd be grabbing the Miller to be honest.

Well I had a bit of a splurge in 2018 after selling my house. Dingwall NG-3 - Wanted an NG for a while. Absolute stonker of a bass and does everything is should, purple is quite different, unsure if the colour works for me in long term. An Orange NG-2 may suit me more. Fender Marcus Miller Jazz - First played one in 2004. Always missed out/didn't have the cash at the time so this was an overdue acquisition. Darkglass Alpha Omicron - Somewhat of a necessary partner to the Dingwall. Haven't used it much yet but did get it for a good price.

Apologies, can't make this as have my lad with me that weekend,.

Poor analogy, as Fender have a wide range of products at every price point and could easily do this whereas Modulus could not.

Oh go on then. I'll bring my Trace Elliot Elf / Eich XS112, along with Dingwall NG-3 with Darkglass Alpha Omicron.

Why thank you

Excellent choice sir. Mine is the same but an NG-3 an has the smoked chrome knobs.

Trying to be clever, i attempted to swap the middle and neck pickups over, achieving this in part. Alas the middle pickup cable was too short.

Yeah, it works for me visually. If they can sort the switching to be on/off per pickup it'd be perfect. That said the middle pickup on it's own sounds superb.

I wouldn't miss the 'all on' mode to be honest. It's a bit overpowering on the bottom end and not as defined as the other positions.

There is a difference between the style of the player and the notes played, to the sound of the bass. In the same way 2 people could recite the same sentence in the same tonality, but it will sound different.