robiredale

I've bought and sold a number of basses with Bassdirect over the years (including a dingwall). They are brilliant to deal with in my experience.

Personally I don't look for "genre specific" mastering. More of a consideration when selecting a mix engineer for me. The key I think is getting someone who specialises in mastering, rather than someone who does mostly mixing with a bit of mastering on the side. My most recent project was mastered by Pete maher. It's not out for two weeks or I'd share it. https://www.petemaher.com/ Very professional service at reasonable prices. His client list speaks for itself. Super experienced guy, with great equipment, and most importantly, the knowledge of how to use it.

I contributed the bass for this record, its my brother's project. Has turned out great I reckon. Bandcamp, Spotify and Amazon links below. Give it a go and see what you think! Cheers, Rob Amazon Music Bandcamp Spotify

Bit of a thread revival but just wanted to post about this pedal having spent the last few days mucking about with one. Its an amazing piece of kit. The bass presets are excellent, all very useful, and sound great for a whole range of different applications. So even if you don't want to deep dive into the nuts and bolts using the neuro app, there's plenty to go at. I got one specifically for the dual band feature, which is also superb and very customisable. Does exactly what I want with the minimum of fuss. The app is great. Works well for me on both laptop and tablet. If you're going to use it you'll need a basic understanding of how compression works. That said, it's quite a good learning tool - you can see and hear what each setting does. Yes it's not very easy to make substantive changes to all features on the fly, so you'll want your presets dialled in before a gig, but as far as functionality and quality goes, I've not seen so much packed into a single compressor pedal before. Kudos to source audio for taking their own path with their products. This and the eq2 are two of my favourite pedals.

Yeah the email comms are not so quick. WhatsApp works well though!

If you keep your eyes peeled, second hand dingwall ng/combustion series basses will be priced at just over your budget. They're not light as such but I think that weight/balance is very reasonable for what they are. Otherwise the ibby is likely your best bet. Not aware of much else that ticks your boxes.

I am considering a pickup swap on a guitar, but the ones I have my eye on are a fair bit smaller than the current ones. It'd be lovely to get some custom surrounds made up to eliminate any gaps - wooden potentially might be nice, but a plastic one might also work. Can anyone recommend someone who would be able to do a good job of this?

For standard B tuned stuff, whatever guitar you like will work within reason. I've a 31.5 inch scale ACG fiver that's currently my main gigging bass with a pretty heavy metal band in this tuning. It works extremely well. The shorter neck makes it easier for me to move around the fretboard, which I really like. EQ is such a powerful tool on our guitars, boards and amps these days that any weaker low end that a short scale instrument might have compared with longer scales (and this isn't always the case!) can be easily overcome. If I was downtuning though I'd reach for a Dingwall. String tension on the ACG is a bit low - but equally, it is manageable. No experience with the Overwater's - great rep for quality though and will no doubt be fine instruments. Other multiscales are worth considering, especially second hand Ibby's which can sometimes be had for a bargain price if you keep an eye out. I've no experience with the Spector's but given their rep for quality instruments, I'm sure they'll be very good. The Dingwall will play great, quality is excellent and is likely to hold value well. I love mine. Clearly I am a bit biased as an owner of one, but its hard to look past the NG2 for this application in my opinion. If your budget needs to also stretch to include a suitably Djent preamp , go with a cheaper Ibby and one of the Darkglass AO Photon or Microtubes Infinity pedals too - will get you some awesome tones for that genre (and many others).

Paddy is a top seller - just traded a bass with him and his communication was great, bass exactly as described, well packaged and posted promptly. deal with confidence.

I bought a bass from David recently - great to deal with, clear comms, item well packaged and exactly as described.