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Have you tried EB Cobalt flats? I spend half my life playing various kinds of dance music and for me they're the best strings by far for those kinds of genres, albeit I'm playing it mostly on Stingray (and other MM pickup basses) rather than a P bass. They have the solid punch and bite of roundwounds but do away with all the metallic clank and fret noise, which I find works well for emulating basslines that are often synth or sequenced to start with. They can also get pretty dark and mellow for the soul stuff with the tone rolled back.

As I said in original post intonation already checked thoroughly.

Interesting how different we all are. I played rounds all my life and just constantly hated the squeakig strings, the rubbing against my fingertips, the cheesegrater feel, the accidental sliding metallic overtones (yeah, that's mostly my crap technique's fault but still). I do love the touch of a flat, and these days there are more hybrid-sounding strings which tends to be my choice, like the cobalt flats from EB.

Hi All, I have an SBMM SB14, the original active one, not the new passive one. I am considering either upgrading to a USA Sterling or upgrading the pickup and preamp in the SB14. Questions I have are: 1. How close are the electronics in the SB14 to the USA Sterling and is the upgrade worth it in sound terms? I have heard the SB14 is pretty close to USA spec in this regard 2. If I was to upgrade the electronics in the SB14 instead, does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks 😁

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Also, a +1 from me for the Wine Cellar pedal. I love it.

This is the latest addition, it's a high/low pass filter which I'm using as a 'thumpinator' because my new amp doesn't have one built in unlike the previous one. It's a clone of a Broughton Low+High that I bought as a rough nearly-finished project and rehoused in a nicer/smaller enclosure. It's an always-on, so to be honest I needn't have bothered with the footswitch, but it was already built so I kept it. Annoyingly the drill slipped when I was drilling the low pass hole so it doesn't quite line up. When it gets so I can't look at it without cringing, I'll rehouse it again with no switch.

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The The return jack can be used as a stereo audio input when adding a return block to the end of the signal chain on the Anagram and mixed accordingly.

I love the sound of flats on a P and I wish I could get that tone on mine, the problem is that I absolutely hate the way flats feel. For me they feel almost slimy, they make me want to wash my hands. Hard to describe, but there's no way I could play them for any length of time. Maybe I'm just weird, but eucchhh. No.

virtually all the Diplomat Basses I have seen were short or medium scale Cimar - were also imported here (apparently) and before they were a budget range Ibanez

Stumbled across this recently. Good fun cover of Fat Boy Slim's Praise you. Particularly like percussionist. Praise You (Fat Boy Slim acoustic cover) - YouTube.url Praise You (Fat Boy Slim acoustic cover) - YouTube.url

So great on paper but stories of reliability issues (again) Any experiences and advice greatly received ? Ahh ignore this just found the thread started by Russ

Got hold of that World Trio recording, Chris. Lovely to hear Holland so exposed.