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I've gotten up to chord Ab#7☆min♤¤¿dim*Q. That's a real tricky chord...

I've paired mine with a 15.

So... you have some jazz chords too?

I've seen tapered ones that look more usable - those look 'strum only'.

Just found an interesting comment from myself! Four more years' experience in tone shaping and a HPF at 30Hz seem to have addressed the fab issue. I wonder how many good/bad low b tones are mostly down to settings signal chain.

Never played through this, however the Lekato brand has never let me down and I wouldn't hesitate to buy anything they produce.

That's 9 of the 16 acoustics... Problem? Me? No... 🙄

I love this look

I bought some many years ago. I retry them from time to time, but every time they just go back in a box - they're not for me. Each to one's own. They are big and clumsy and take off lots of high end. I don't think that they do do a good impression of playing with your fingers. I reckon that the closest I've got to that is a flexible leather plectrum. (I got all of these from the now defunct www.ukulele-plectrums.co.uk.)

One of those got sold at the last bass bash!

My critical mass has been my only vocal pedal for years. Mine sound great.

I'm a teacher, I have to manage no end of annoyances with near heroic levels of self control. Repeated bad aim at the urinals for example ("Stand closer! They will not bite you.") and a lack of familiarity with western toilets ("We don't squat on them. We sit. Yes, sit! ... Well don't use them then."). Bass stuff is a walk in the park by comparison.

Sign me up! Well, I had a Kay, it was about the same thing.

Andertons are great however they don’t like too many returns as sometimes they end up as B stock items I have had my share of goods and returns and their service is awesome but be careful of sending too many items back as they do react after a while

At least it hasn't got a headstock tuner left on it.

The best affordable low B I've encountered was on a Lakland Skyline (can't remember which exact model). I tried a Spector Dimension in a shop which was pretty good, too. Haven't played a Dingwall, but have heard them sounding great in the hands of others. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the rig is very important when things get seriously low. At around 31hz, the fundamental of low B is below the range of many drivers/cabs, so a lot of what you hear is made up of harmonics. You need gear that covers its tracks well and gives a convincing illusion. Leaving proper subs aside, the bigger BF cabs do it better than many I've heard.

I’m not in any bands anymore but do a bit of studio work occasionally, I still play pretty much every day, I’ve always got new songs I’m learning or working on improving my techniques or trying to learn more theory, I think it keeps the mind ticking over, I don’t feel right if I’m not doing something

Sounds like theyre worth every penny of the inflated price 👍

My Little Board seems stable as a straightforward bass board - except I switched out the Mosky Silver Horse for myT-Rex Diva Drive - so I'm playing around with my Big Board: In signal chain order: Landlord Cheeky Pint compressor. It's OK, but clips if I push it hard, and running it at 12V doesn't help, but then I don't need a lot for this application. So it's set fairly mild, as a buffer/boost. Mosky Silver Horse: mild drive / mid boost MXR Bass Octave Deluxe Tone City Matcha Cream fuzz. The last three are old standbys by now Lead Foot volume pedal (at right). IK ToneX One That is enough to gig with, but I'm also setting this up to connect to my iPad, through the ToneX One's USB-C interface. I can run the ToneX One with or without direct monitoring: if without, the signal must go through the iPad, which is risky if anything happens to that connection, so I'll probably run it with direct monitoring on. That means that the ToneX will always be responsible for my base tone, even if the iPad connection fails, which is fine. You can use an iPhone too, though mine is pretty old and needs the "Camera Connection Kit" to do anything over USB. So the iPad can be treated as a mixer send bus, running in parallel, and I won't use it for preamps or processors that should be inline only. I could run in to phase problems if I did. Instead, I'm trying out various modulations, delays, reverbs etc. I'm using the AUM app, which can chain multiple effects plugins, though I might try Audiobus too. To control AUM I have the new switcher at the bottom, a M-VAVE Chocolate, with four controls and the Akai expression pedal attached through it on the left. So far it's worked great over Bluetooth, though cable connection is also an option. I've tried an effects chain where I can bypass individual effects with the footswitch or control e.g. the rotary speaker speed in Eventide Rotary with the expression pedal. I'm also trying my version of Frippertronics using the Gauss Field Looper plugin,with the switches controlling recording / overdubbing and the expression pedal controlling the speed of the "tape" loop. If anything, I have too many options to play with.

I'm pretty sure Eubassix has that exact bass for sale on Ebay at the moment.

I was in a shoegaze/dreampop band on and off in the 2000s and 2010s called Soundpool. As if you can't tell from the rig in the photo. It's the most stereotypical shoegaze bass image ever.