AndyTravis

The Yamaha was based on the AES guitar. suppose the BEX4c was the closest bass.

I’m in the car on my way to you...

@Cuzzie is always the first person I think of when I hear Kings X. Great band. And I just wish it was available in something other than Matte black. If you get this Cuzzie, can I buy your Hamer?

My local ice cream man wings a cig dimp out of his window before he starts serving. ”a 99 please” ’toppings?’ ”benson and hedges ash please”

Spitfire seems to have cornered that market. What I’d do is figure out how to do it at a more reasonable price. But as spitfire seems to be a bit of a lone wolf...they command near vintage prices.

Sent a link to both of you - which may, or may not be the mentioned item...

Will send you

Oh god. I’ve seen it. Oh god. Please god, no.

It’s a beauty of a bass - and I was stumped as I’d not experienced the issue you were describing. Maybe I need to get my hearing tested 😂 Enjoy x

I dunno. Atelier Z and a few other Japanese builders have done s/MM/s J basses before, and while he’s not the slickest bass player I’ve ever seen - he’s no slouch. Initially it sounds a bit dead, but when he’s describing the 3 pickups, switching and Pre, it sounds great - lots of useable sounds. visually, quite cluttered...but sounds great.

Well yeah, I read back over this thread earlier today. Ive gone through more band members than basses in 2020 - isn’t that shocking? 😂

Two recent rehearsal performances nicely edited by our very own @PatrickJ

Again, @PatrickJ managed to mix the first video I posted with another angle, just feels much better (thanks mate xxx)

Kiedis.

Well, had a chat with our very own @PatrickJ who’s kindly messed about with video and audio. (Thank you mate - beers on me x) so this is the original “guitarist audition” track... but live.

What a great idea

The RM’s are excellent, so are the ABM’s. I went from an ABM500RC (evo2 or 3 - can’t remember) to the RM800H and the sound was very similar. Loved that head. Small, light and loud as sin.

@Hiis contact BTN music - they carry spares for all Sorts of Yamahas. The last pickups like that were on the Bb424/x

Well...just getting going...and another lockdown. Anyhow. Feels this journey is complete for now. tried editing 2 videos and audio together on iMovie (iPhone) and couldn’t get it to behave. So...here’s a video of a song we’ve been working on...me and Tom playing (the other angle is Max and Andy guitar) The rehearsal space is closing, but the studio will run for drum takes so...we might get to do what we want during lockdown.

Good bridges these Hosco units. Nicely finished, I’ve used a couple on self builds.

Aye - it really has great depth in the finish.