Merton

That’s a Finn which is slightly different again from the RetroB which Ewan is having. The Finn is my favourite bass shape ever, I have a bucket list of at least four going at any one time, not to mention that exact one in progress 😎 Might have to have a RetroB at some point too. Or I’ll just steal Ewan’s 🤓

Struggling with the 0% option on the 800 or 1200. Gah.

Get Newtone to make a set for you. I have a set on my new 30” five string fretless and the B is awesome.

That’s coz there was a camera pointed at me 🤣 It’s a bloody glorious bass, @Cosmicrain has done a sterling job. It’s gonna get at least one gig outing this weekend so will report back after that, but initial thoughts are: 1. Flippin’ heck it’s gorgeous 2. Oooh the neck is beautifully fast and well considered (satin finish in the neck, gloss on the headstock) 3. By Jove it sounds absolutely perfect, exactly what I was after 4. The neck pickup solo’d is more pleasing to my ears than a standard J bass neck pickup 5. Flippin’ heck it’s gorgeous.

Sad news

The Super Compact is a single 12 and very different from the original Compact cab. There is a lot of clarity and you get prominent mids, very different from the cabs with their 10” driver. I’ve used a single SC on gigs and been too loud, it’s a very very good cab.

Cheers Mike - thought I’d uploaded that one too but clearly not 🤣 stunning grain in the maple, love it 🙂

It’s finished! It’s beautiful! I can’t wait to ruin the hi gloss paint with my greasy finger marks!

Lovely bass, think it’s been a BCer’s bass before too, sure I almost bought it on here last year 😃

Yeah definitely you are. I certainly got that impression when you came over to buy the CTM100... 🤣

And for comparison with my 32” ACG Finn...:

Unless you’ve been following the build thread you won’t know who Conway Instruments are. So check out this for the history: All you get here is porn (and specs): 5 string fretless, 30” scale with through body stringing Black limba core, English ash top and limba back Limba, maple and cooba set neck, pau ferro board Nordstrand MM5.4 pickup with coil tap and series/parallel switch There's more to it than that but it’s the basics. I’ll let the pictures do the talking. She’s stunning to look at, lovely to play and sounds huuuuge.

A few more pics in the sunshine. Collecting this evening, cannot wait!

Love Ashdown amps, I have three! The ABM is my favourite solid state head ever, the RM800 is my favourite Class D head ever and the CTM100 just my favourite amp ever. I don’t have a CTM100 anymore sadly, but I do have a Little Bastard which is almost as wonderful I also find they work even better with Barefaced cabs but our local rehearsal studio has the EVO IV ABM600 and 410 cab and it is a match made in heaven, a thing of beauty. Based on that experience alone I would say the EVO IV cabs seem to be a step up. Welcome to the gang!

Next week, it’s come up fast! Last In Line on Wednesday and then the following night Stone Temple Pilots. Whoop.

As long as you promise to clean up before I get there, next time I venture up to our Manchester office I’ll make a detour and bring this with me

It’s almost finished! We’ve been having fun with the switching of the pickup, the original 5-way rotary switch turned out to be a bad idea so we’ve gone to two toggle switches. I can’t remember what they actually do so will let you know once I have the bass... Today Phil has basically finished her in terms of doing an initial stringing to let everything settle and acclimatise. In about a week he’ll give it the final intonation, truss rod and action tweaks. So we’re nearly there. And to celebrate...:

Lovely I’ve got s set of LaBella stainless steel rounds on my 32” ACG Finn and they are bloody lovely. £26 fro Bass Direct. My new 32” Zoot Funkmeister (almost finished!) will have DR Sunbeams

I do the same with my basses, pop my head into the room where they’re hanging on the wall just to have a look 😂

Oooh lovely

Glad you go through it ok I did a gig in a marquee last weekend and the drummer complained that I wasn’t loud enough with my Ashdown/Barefaced rig. I was plenty loud enough, but he wanted more. Thankfully our soundman is also a bassist and he had an Epifani 112 in his car, so we plugged that in as well. It was very definitely loud enough after that. Outdoors with rear ported cabs can sometimes be a pain; after reason something on the old Bassworld site I used to stick the desk’s flightcase about a foot behind my old Trace V-Type Combo if there wasn’t a solid wall just to give a chance for that to reflect forwards again. No idea if it actually made a difference but psychologically it did 🤣