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More lovely work Ron 😉👍🏼

Really helpful from some top Basschat experts, thanks 😇 So, if I was to go ahead buying from here in the UK, where is the best source ? I'm thinking they have to come from abroad even if buying from Amazon. Presumably their isn't a UK distributor? 🤔

Indeed, high C to be able to play in the high register like a cello or a guitar and sometimes so high he's close to a violin.

Hi Folks, Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of buying an immaculate Handbox R400 head from Russ, aka @RJB280. The amp itself is fantastic, and with this being the version 2 model with the mid eq, it's even better than I remember these amps to be. Whilst there, I had a really nice chat (about all things bass) with Russ, and I can only reiterate what's been said above in that, he's an absolute gent and a great person to do a deal with. Highly, highly recommend.... 👍 Russ - thanks for your time and warm welcome, and thanks also for letting me have a play on your lovely early 60s P and J basses, which were stunning! 🙏😊 Cheers Nik

I've been using mine live in Alt Rock and pop/synth contexts. In the studio it has been all over everything, from low to high gain and everything in between. As well as on multiple different sources. Bass / Guitar /Drums / Synth...etc.

My last audition, I got to learn some songs I love but had never had the chance to play with a band previously. Afterwards, I realised that even if I didn’t get the gig, I really enjoyed the opportunity. An established band will have history. There will be private jokes and shared gig memories that you are not party to. When these are referred to, prepare to feel a bit awkward, and practice having an expressionless face!

Thread hijack alert! 🤭 Proof 😆 just done some tonight 😜😎

So let me get this straight, this is a short scale Ric that is essentially just as big as an ordinary Rick, just the string length is shorter? For £3300? For me, a big part of the attraction of a short scale bass is the overall reduction in size of the instrument, and I strongly suspect most other bass players feel the same. A scaled down 4001/3 would have been much better and would have been more saleable I expect. I strongly suspect that the economics of manufacturing have been decisive in the conception of this bass, i.e it works out more profitable to make them that way because a scaled-down bass would require a whole new build process and retooling ect.

Cleaning won't be sufficient, the capacitors will collapse on themselves and the motors will burn. It could be fun, but the smell is awful.

I will be 🙂

Only one pole piece per string = more space!

Very good gig tonight. Very successful in every sense - 19 new followers on the Instagram, swathes of posts and stories and the owner of the bar (before we'd even finished, mind) emailing us offering us 9 dates over the next year. Crazy stuff. Rig was the new (to me) fender MIM standard P bass (I'll do a NBD on it, maybe), over Swiff Audio 5.8ghz into the TC Electronic BG250 combo. No pedals, no nothing. Simple as anything set up, and I got compliments from bar staff and audience members on how clear and punchy the bass was. *footwear were the same pair of puma suedes I always wear.

Ashdown 👍

I had a ‘51 P pickup that comprised tow coils side by side. It was made by a guy in Spain: Jess Loureiro. You could wire them in series, or parallel on a DPDT switch, which I tried. It was pretty pointless TBH. It sounded thin and horrible in parallel IMO but great in series. P.S. Now I think about it; not totally pointless because it was pretty hum free.

By the time this bass was made Overwater were based up north and not Denmark Street.

I've been offered a choice of these two amps as a swap for a cabinet. My playing consists of the odd open mic night with a friend and a regular small jam session. Being in my 70's I'm not expecting to play the O2 or the Albert Hall so volume isn't high on my list of requirements, in fact I've just built two BassChat BC110 cabs using speakers from an old Asdown 210, each rated at around 150 watts. I'm also about to build a 1x15, again using an Ashdown driver. This time rated at 200 watts, so I'd have the option of running a 1x10 with the 1x15 @ 8 ohms, capable of handing IRO 350 watts if ever there was a need. Both the amps are rated in excess of the capabilities of the drivers, but at 4 ohms. The Warick is rated at 300W @ 4 ohms, the Ashdown 800 watts, again @ 4 ohms. My career was in electronics so I understand all about impedance and that either amp connected to a 16 ohm driver it will produce less volume. Both amps are solid state, so no problems using high impedance drivers as there would be with a tube amp. I'm sensible so will not be cranking up the volume to max. So my question is, which one would you chose? There's agood reason for wanting to swap rather than sell the cabinet, so selling and using the money to buy something else is not an option, otherwise I'd buy another TC Elecronic 250 Thrust, as I have one already and use it with one of the 1x10's Many thanks for your thoughts. (I think I spend as much time building gear as playing these days)

Nice cover. Sounds really good. Daryl

Ooh. I hope so.

That's better... Now we can see that the pickups are tonally in different positions. But to me the bridge looks stupid there. The illusion of the neck hanger makes the lower edge of the headstock look interesting though.

That's like, so_____ cool.