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Tim Minchin in Birmingham last Wednesday. Hysterically funny one song, tear-jerkingly beautiful the next, f-ing sweary in all the introductions, and man what a talent! Great backing band of clearly top-notch musicians having a blast. Absolutely recommended if there are tickets near you!

I’m a bit surprised. There’s nothing about either bass that would make them over massively bassy. P-basses are pretty much the standard bass in terms of tone. You might find this review of the hybrid useful to compare to what you were hearing in the shop. Could it have been an amp setting thing or just not being used to hearing bass outside of a mix? Your recording doesn’t sound that different from a proper bass tone - and remember EQ settings will be important both on a bass amp or on a recording. I reckon that either bass would probably work really well and give you a great sound. I do like the Japanese basses - really good quality, especially for the price. I don’t know the other one. The difference that does it might just be which ever one feels right to you - personally I suspect the Hybrid’s neck might be a bit too chunky for me but others might love it.

My Best Friend’s Girl - The Cars

Check out this carbon necked fretless Arpege https://www.ferremusique.com/basse-electrique/13092-arpege-fretless-carbon-1987-etui.html I wouldn't mind it, if it was closer and cheaper!

They were very shortlived (2 years end the 1990's) and were quickly shelved because they were EXTREMELY high quality instruments. Better than Fender was churning out in Mexico. Also, what you see is the only iteration there was: translucent red with gold hardware. No other colours.

As far as I'm aware, there's no way of doing it now.

^ no rules,but i'd go for Correct for the headstock, so a LH Decal Just lacquered over, couple or three of light mistings of clear gloss... One thing worth mentioning is how flat 16" the HB neck is... have you thought about a fretlrss neck?

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I wandered in to Steve's Guitar Centre (Cosham, nr. Portsmouth), spotted an EBS Reidmar 250 amp in a corner, had a play, now it's home with me. Nice!

On previous occastions it's been held the day before the Kempton Park guitar show (Sun 26th October this year).

Just got in from a rehearsal with Knock Off. Went well as usual but the highlight for me was the Hartke HA3500 410 combo with their VX speakers, combined with my JMJ Mustang and Behringer BDI21 the sound was awesome. I know some people aren’t that keen on Hartke gear but this amp was just great.

Thanks guys (except Steve). The baritone is too guitarish. I thought to get the PB70 with Piccolo strings. I asked the AI what frequencies it covers, it says between 60 to 600 hz. Which is pretty neat. I thought about shortscale but I have long fingers — something I should cherish! And I'll get a better sustain with the long scale which is important to me.

Girl's best friend - Jay Z

Plastic Man - Kinks

Songhoy Blues, Music in Exile. Something about this band that I really like.

Would they fit with a Hipshot tuner? My A string could do with some help!

Anyone got tips about getting a decent sound when playing along to songs? I put my double bass & electric bass clips on my Instagram channel, but I record video on my iPhone with the song playing through a speaker and my bass playing through an amp, so I pick up extra fretboard and string noise (I know this is less than perfect technique causing extra noise). I've got an iMac and GarageBand, but I don't know how to get a clean digital sound through that to mix with the backing song and the video footage. Would I have to use iMovie to put the three things together? Thanks

Yeah I was a bit late to see the message 😢

got to be loads out there real or carton pics....... be nice to have a collection of them here.