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I have taken the decision to rid myself of additional delays, fuzz effects and additional drives now that I am doing more ‘meat and potatoes’ rock music. The result is my smallest board since about 2011. Tuner, drive, compression, Sansamp. Not especially original, but it works! Forgive the cable spaghetti…

Paddington says he's not stopping you from starting a new thread with whatever rules you like

Hole in my Shoe - Traffic

Lovely job. Respectful to the original. Didn't Nick Lowe refer to one of these after getting a massive shock on stage? Probably an urban legend, unless someone else knows better. These are the lines I'm referring to from So it Goes.

I bought a Sub Phatty on a whim. It is proper lush!

Not seeing anything in the logs here that relates to that. The 'Sorry there was a problem reacting to this content' is an error caused by mixing http and https, but I can't see why you would be doing that. if you force reload the page and click does it do the same?

Massive difference imo, they really do look the business, very nice

Paging @Phil Starr. You seem to have a good understanding of cones and horns and the boxes they are mounted in... Andrew (above) is search for his holy grail. Failing that... he'll settle for a good reproduction of Andy Fraser's tone

Hi folks. I just wanted to show an idea I developed and turned into a product having had some issues with guitar stands damaging my basses. Id love to be able to get it to market and I’d also love to hear some feedback from you guys ..

The Steinberg L2 will always be the bass I wanted most but never got. It's a beautiful object. Some people used to complain the sound lacked the warmth of wood. It was supposed to! These basses had a tone all of their own and it's unique. I love it. I too remember when these basses first came out. In 1982 the UK retail was £999, and Sound wave in Essex were the sole importer. That's about £3500 in today's money. At that time I was lucky if I could muster £9.99, so it was just a dream in those days, but I passed on buying one in the late '80's and the early '90's when I easily could have, and then before you know it thirty years has passed, Steinberger are long gone and it's all ancient history. Regrets? I've had a few.

I’ve had three Mustangs this year. I still have the 2023 American Performer in ‘Aubergine’ which I’ve almost sold a couple of times, but secretly I’m glad it’s still around. It’s strung with cut down Elixir 40-95’s (Fender put 40-100 on as standard) and plays & sounds phenomenal. I also had one of the Vintera II’s in “Competition Burgundy” for a while, which was a fine bass, but I didn’t like it as much as the American Performer. It came with Labella Flats which sounded very dull and had far too much tension, so I changed them for a set of Thomastik Jazz Flats I had. Better, but still don’t particularly like flat wound strings. (Don’t shoot me!) = And for about five minutes I had one of the Player series Cherry Burst P&J’s. This was the biggest disappointment. Yes, it sounded huge, but it sounded like any given P&J full sized Precision. Not at all like a Mustang. There was none of that short scale delicacy to the sound.

Welcome Andrew.

Quite a bit, but more like a fretted guitar with very small frets, a bit disturbing at first, but after a few minutes you'll notice it's, in fact, very easy to play.

Just fitted a celluloid pick guard on my p bass. Here’s a before and after photo

I have two piezos on the AliKat, but a Schaller 411 on the Alcoa, and the BSX Allegro uses a multi-sensor piezo bridge system coupled with active circuit Bartolini electronics so it's piezo Paul, but not as we know it.

Are you sure you read what @andyhaines was looking for?

To really, really, really ruin the band's name: Ye