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Sterling Ray-5 (£449 from Anderton's) Retrovibe Stinger preamp (£95 from Retrovibe) Darn it, broke your budget so you can't sound as good as me 😜 ... unless you buy used...

artefakt can do that on the second fs ... It's a pretty awesome envelope filter if you could make use as that. It's also £300 and lots of editing on a computer to get the best out of it so it's got that going against it.

Don’t know if this is of any use, but it’s FAR easier to add a TRS plug to a MIDI cable than the other way around - bigger terminals make for easier soldering. Get yourself a MIDI cable and chip one end off rather than trying to fit a MIDI jack to a TRS. Why make life difficult for yourself?

The following words/phrases will cause me to leave all threads: "wearing" strings Bitsa Unnecessary shortening of names - Yammy, Wick, etc "Leaning Towards" basschat Collective/hive mind Snagged Pulled the trigger "won" on Ebay "she" when referring to their bass Alternatively I can use these as part of Basschat bingo and include: if only it was a 4 / 5 / 6 string What's the weight? is it any good for metal? I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than have a tort scratchplate. it's the musical equivalent of having the most beautiful woman in the world wear big frilly bloomers. It can turn the most amazing bass into something that I'd be embarrassed to be seen with in public. It's like putting mayonnaise on a fruit scone. You get the idea 😅 Are these bonkers enough? Yet here I still am nearly 19 years later 🤔😂

That is a lot of money for a bass that has a bit of a school woodwork project vibe about it.

Twee but catchy

I’m a massive fan of Mesa Engineering. But Ashdown Engineering is also Ashdown Art 👍

The Halon, looks the part...

Hi, many thanks for your thoughts and experiences with the SR505. TBH I've always liked the look and feel of the SR's right across the range but never been a fan of the tones from the stock bartolini but most of all the tight spacing on the 5's. Had the same problem with the spacing on a Sterling 5 Stingray so moved it on.

The certainly work well on my Lee Sklar copy.

These are essentially the same as the fender ones in different packaging - D'addario make Fender's strings for them; so yes that';s my experience of these strings too (in Fender guise). I also have two identical Daphne blue tuners - one branded Fender and one branded D'addario.

I'm a bit late but Guitar Workshop was a small/medium music shop in St Michael's Hill (number 159 IIRC but I could easily be wrong), Redland, Bristol. I used to frequent there in the 1980s but I'm not sure if it was a chain or a single shop. They sold a range of new instruments from cheap (like the guitar I bought - the headstock snapped after about 2-3 years and I didn't even gig with it - not GW branded BTW) to expensive and out of the price range of a 16-year-old FE college student with big dreams and a terminal shortness of cash. Wow, that was 40 years ago and that's all I remember so sorry I can't be of more help.

Yep, I think so too. Either that or grab an M5/M7 then sell the M2. I'm also a sucker for a maple fretboard.

I can only get my head around this by seeing it on a graph. Power (W) vs. output (dBA)

I see Yamaha have done some nice colours on the new Pacifica SC. Would be nice to them on a BB. Then again, I’m skint…so. Meh.

That doesn't seem unreasonable - 10 years ago stuff was much cheaper, and second hand amps have always been a fraction of new ones.

If you already have the M2, I would suggest an entirely different 5 string to give some variation tbh.

I had wondered about that, but do not know if it would actually sloooowww ittttt doooooooooowwwwwwwwwwn or just pitch it dow.