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Shuker 3 is currently wearing the pink ones...

No worries. Mine works fine with my Android phone, but I was just checking out other options. David

Well, as you say, there is the nickel allergy. For me though, it's how they respond to distortion. I'm someone who looks for maximum clarity. The preservation of all the overtones and harmonics which you can get whilst playing. Optima's really respond to this and my own style, so that's why I like them. One could also argue that they are surprisingly downtunable and still maintain pitch as well as lasting longer than a lot of other strings. Obviously, if you want to play with a fretwrap, this isn't for you. I don't use them exclusively, but I have tried them on different basses so I know what difference strings can make even within the narrow category of just nickel roundwounds. As ever, it's if you think it's worth it to get more expensive strings or go cheaper or just cheap. It's all about what's important to you. For example, I don't care if Rotosound steels are cheaper, they're still rubbish and die within 4 hours of playing, so I don't buy them.

I promise this isn't a "tone is in the fingers" comment, because it isn’t, but in Lemmy's case most of his sound comes from the bass and the way he plays it. His actual amp sound, and distortion, changed a lot over the years - you've got the classic early neck pickup tone to his later oft-quoted bridge pickup "bass off, mids full, treble off" which to me sounds like chewing tin foil. People also forget that those EQ settings will only work on a Marshall Superbass, so the bass and treble are effectively flat rather than fully cut. The Okko seems like a decent pedal but the distortion was only one part of Lemmy's sound.

I love that they’ve got a strong family visual identity. I like the look of the OBM500, but damn, look at the cab covering and cloth combo on the SBM112! Want…

Saw this is the classifieds and thought it’d be an exceptional buy for someone. Congrats!

I made my shuker build course on the assumption the Bass strings would be more piano like /less boomy and the high string less tinny sounding. But who knows. wrong positioning and you could mess up the sweet spot?

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/bass-collection-sb315-5-string-bass-guitar-made-in-japan-lovely-bass-/1499771017 Oh all right then 😆

I recently bought a new P bass pickup for my 51 bass, however, the pickup cable won't fit through the existing hole going to the control cavity. As the hole is at an awkward ankle, any idea how you increase the size to allow the cable to fit though?

The '96 being used to run a little rehearsal for friends, SOD a few months back.. 👍 The 'classic' being used here for a few test mixes of the Barflys from a live recording at the Eleven Club. It's funny, I also did a few ITB test mixes which sounded pretty good but out of all of them, I still preferred the ones done on the 02R. Maybe it's evidence of me over thinking and complicating things within the software or simply the tactile, physicality of a real console causing me to make different choices - who knows.. 🥰

Thanks I don’t think Viv made many long scale basses.

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As does that long scale Wilcock MM

I love this thing..

I'm watching an old episode of Jonathan Creek and it made me think of this thread. Maddie walks into a studio where a band are rehearsing and a minute or so later three guys walk in with four pizzas. They were the drummer, bassist and guitarist and the singer had replaced them in the 20 minutes it took for them to go out and get the pizza. 😄