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That's my afternoon sorted! Thank you. I do love Badfinger but I have to be in the right frame of mind, it's all just so heartbreaking.

Welcome to BC; if I have one piece of advice it's this: stay away from the sales section for the sake of your wallet.

Actually probably one of the reasons I wasn't so keen on the outdoor gig is that I didn't have IEMs, it wasn't as much fun

Ok, I'll bring a Decision P4 and a Mercalli 5

Very true. I'm happy now with how it came out. My tech and I were talking about it when we did the pickup swap yesterday, and it presents so well as is, and sounds amazing with the Aguilar pickup, that it's best left alone now. All I need to do now is swap the Alun key bolts on the mute spring for the knurled knobs and we're about there. I've got the full mute kit ready anyway, so I have a full set of spare mutes. ⭐ Anyone need a modern Alnico MM humbucker or an Aguilar single coil J pickup? ⭐ I may have some spare...

My first gig using a pa with multiple monitors and a little mixer for each of us. Feels ott to me but works well.

Feel Good Hit of the Summer - QOTSA

My phone adds a wrong file extension when downloading from basschat. Rename it as something.pdf or use a pc

That's beautiful! My Vox Starstreams have that same AG-4M and OBP-2 combo. Has a great range of usable tones, and so easy to get a good sound out of it. Sounds like your 'blend' mod is effectively giving you single coil options - that's a feature on the short scale Rays! It would be right that you'd get a little bit of a scoop in the centre with both coils running together, same as any bass with 2 pickups running together. The particular placement and proximity of the 2 coils running in parallel on a Ray gives it the signature MM sound. Oh and side jack every time. I know you started by saying you wanted it close to stock as possible, but IMO you've ended up with some great mods to that bass.

If you even try that Sonuus (B2M), buy a piccolo set, too. Prepare yourself to play everything again and again to get something reasonable out of the MIDI rig. The best solution is to use a keytar, MISA Tri-Bass, Industrial Radio (split fret) bass or similar. Bass is so slow in frequency to MIDI conversion.

Agree with al of that, pretty sure it's a pic, although he might be mixing in other styles also 👍

Isn’t it just! Genuinely one of my favourite bass parts to listen to (and play along to). Some lovely bits down the low end, some lovely bits up the high end. Melodic motifs, a few double stops and everything he does is sympathetic/adds to the track. But the killer thing for me, amongst the terrific playing/part, is the space he leaves. It really makes it. The tone/sound has often baffled me. I always assume it’s played finger style, but at times, when I listen to it, it sounds like it could be a pick. I’ve spent way too much time over the years pondering this!

Interesting. Have you routed the shape of a scratchplate into a solid top or does it detach?

Novocaine - Fall Out Boy

My Sandberg Electra TT4 Jazz has upgraded pickups and pre-amp (done by a previous owner) - and its battery compartment is roughly behind the control panel. But every pic I see of the current TT4 has the battery compartment behind the lower horn. Do you think mine is an early model, or was it re-jigged when installing the new pre-amp?

Comfortably Numb - Floyd

Here's a few more of my latest builds......👍🏻🤟🏻

Ooh, that's a shout. More Reverend variety, I'm all for it.