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Update to the Pride gig on Saturday 26th July: We're now on at 3.30pm.

These were sadly discontinued before the Specials. Quite a niche but cool instrument.

That was absolutely lovely. IMO, the modern Fender American P bass 5 string is actually a really nice instrument. The P pickup will always bring a certain tone to a B string, and often it's nice to have the bridge pickup to get it to sound a little 'tighter', but I'd go for a Fender P5 if I wanted a passive 5 string P bass. I've tried many types of 5 string, and still, despite different scale lengths, I absolutely love the Musicman tight and aggressive B string 5 string basses.

First Bass Owned: Beautiful |Jap Sunburst bass - Zenta - Looked lovely but very cheap and nasty hardware 'Go To' Bass: US P Bass Deluxe 2011 - Will cover any tone / sound needed ranging from solid thump to Ric Crunch 'Your' Bass: Ric 4003 thru Ashdown ABM 500 and Genz Benz 410 or 212

I would be interested if headstock matches wooden stingray necks a la Status

Me too

Year started playing: 1978 Number of basses: 32 Music theory: 2 Technique: 4 Groove: 8

Sure. I guess my angle is coming at this from an accessibility / marketing stand point. Having popular synth bass patches in 1-10 or 1-20 is going to be a great start. 20 such patches => already 12 more presets than the MXR But then making it clear that Bank 3 is for delays / choruses and reverbs (in the style of which band bass-players?) Bank 4 for ?? Bank 5 for ?? Banks 6-10 free for 49 user created patches (which is more than enough for 95% of bass players methinks?) Now that v4 has apparently cracked the tracking and glitching that plagued so many of us with the earlier iterations, and which is very much one of the MXR's selling point, the rest of the FI's capabilities should make it really shine, not least given it's a similar price point: FI "synth-multifx" vs MXR "synth". Also multifx users are very used to getting their hands dirty when it comes to PC editing of patches: the moment you label the FI a mutlifx, it's suddenly then worth investing the time, because there are a plethora of different usable patches rather than it being just about tweaking a few usable synth bass sounds. Just a thought - I'll leave that all with you!

@cetera’s card is the one that’s going to scoop a few with ‘number of basses’.

8th/9th Nov works for me

As a recent convert to the world of double bass, I have followed your rebuild thread with great interest. He/she/they/them looks an amazing bass and another one saved from the great gig in the sky. Well done 😎

First Bass Owned: Squier Jazz 'Go To' Bass: Fender Japan FSR 70s Jazz with PJ pickups 'Your' Bass: Fender Japan FSR 70s Jazz with PJ pickups with the J pickup volume all the way down

So 24 hours after the initial website enquiry I received an email from Dave Green requesting that I sent her back to them. She’ll be on her way tomorrow, arriving in Essex on Monday. Outstanding customer service again from the guys at Ashdown 👏👏😎

Does anyone here have a diagram and parts list for the pre-amp/active tone control board?

51 Fenders had pretty wide nuts, they tended more towards 44mm - 45mm instead of the 42mm we find today. Congrats on a successful mod project 👍

That’s already the case to some degree: the latter patches are given over to delays, choruses and reverbs.