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I get that. For years i have shyed (shied?) away from SR's. For 'a while' i had a rare SR535 just didnt float the boat. Recently taken a part time job in a music shop (remember those?) and been exposed to other basses again that i wouldnt normally go near... Ok. so i am NOT promoting the shop directly, but some things i have found (personally as well in the shop..) for note in your serach if that helps.. SX do a range of warwick-a-likes that have set necks and are amazing vfm easily sub £500 The new range of ibanez Sr's are a very good buy. If i hadnt just bought a Cort A5 single cut i'd bee eyeing up one right now.. I tried a M6 sire and sent it back..poor QC and kept snagging my index finger on the nut. Sound great tho.. V7's are the standard, V3's have cheaper hardware and suffer from a bit of neck dive. Still have the that cool pre amp thoiugh. Cort A5 series, well made and sound really good. Cort space 5 series, great basses, light and well made (actually anything cort tbh). I have owned two the green/purple and the narural one. Excellent instruments if you like the modern sound. I am a certified bass magpie so nothing stays forever! Full disclosure mine is for sale. Squier 5 string. Awesome VFM. Something like £240 something from various places. Play and sound great. We had one second hand in the shop..Literally flew off the wall, gone within the week. For something more unconventional try an Ibanez BTB. Some great 2nd handers out there especially the quilted maple versions. I have owned 5 or 6. Great instruments. Hope that helps. GF

Lots of new colours announced today to coincide with NAMM.

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

Thanks for the response! It has an incredible sound and very resonant acoustically, here’s to another 42 years because this is going to get played a lot! Out of interest, there is a “P-006” number on the neck plate. Would you happen to recall if that meant anything, e.g. part number, serial number etc? The bass was given to me by my father in law so I’d love to be able to tell him about all this!

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Big frilly bloomers.

The ubiquitous use of Class D amplifiers and Neodymium magnet speakers. ie speakers and cabs are smaller and/or lighter. Playing with a pick and playing slap bass, and flatwound strings are now illegal, so don't be tempted.

very few Drophead's were made Scarce as , nice one

Sterling Ray-5 (£449 from Anderton's) Retrovibe Stinger preamp (£95 from Retrovibe) Darn it, broke your budget so you can't sound as good as me 😜 ... unless you buy used... Edit: ah - just noticed that's too tight string spacing for you. Ah well.

artefakt can do that on the second fs ... It's a pretty awesome envelope filter if you could make use as that. It's also £300 and lots of editing on a computer to get the best out of it so it's got that going against it.

Don’t know if this is of any use, but it’s FAR easier to add a TRS plug to a MIDI cable than the other way around - bigger terminals make for easier soldering. Get yourself a MIDI cable and chip one end off rather than trying to fit a MIDI jack to a TRS. Why make life difficult for yourself?

The following words/phrases will cause me to leave all threads: "wearing" strings Bitsa Unnecessary shortening of names - Yammy, Wick, etc "Leaning Towards" basschat Collective/hive mind Snagged Pulled the trigger "won" on Ebay "she" when referring to their bass Alternatively I can use these as part of Basschat bingo and include: if only it was a 4 / 5 / 6 string What's the weight? is it any good for metal? I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than have a tort scratchplate. it's the musical equivalent of having the most beautiful woman in the world wear big frilly bloomers. It can turn the most amazing bass into something that I'd be embarrassed to be seen with in public. It's like putting mayonnaise on a fruit scone. You get the idea 😅 Are these bonkers enough? Yet here I still am nearly 19 years later 🤔😂

That is a lot of money for a bass that has a bit of a school woodwork project vibe about it.

Twee but catchy

I’m a massive fan of Mesa Engineering. But Ashdown Engineering is also Ashdown Art 👍

The Halon, looks the part...

Hi, many thanks for your thoughts and experiences with the SR505. TBH I've always liked the look and feel of the SR's right across the range but never been a fan of the tones from the stock bartolini but most of all the tight spacing on the 5's. Had the same problem with the spacing on a Sterling 5 Stingray so moved it on.

The certainly work well on my Lee Sklar copy.

These are essentially the same as the fender ones in different packaging - D'addario make Fender's strings for them; so yes that';s my experience of these strings too (in Fender guise). I also have two identical Daphne blue tuners - one branded Fender and one branded D'addario.

I'm a bit late but Guitar Workshop was a small/medium music shop in St Michael's Hill (number 159 IIRC but I could easily be wrong), Redland, Bristol. I used to frequent there in the 1980s but I'm not sure if it was a chain or a single shop. They sold a range of new instruments from cheap (like the guitar I bought - the headstock snapped after about 2-3 years and I didn't even gig with it - not GW branded BTW) to expensive and out of the price range of a 16-year-old FE college student with big dreams and a terminal shortness of cash. Wow, that was 40 years ago and that's all I remember so sorry I can't be of more help.

Yep, I think so too. Either that or grab an M5/M7 then sell the M2. I'm also a sucker for a maple fretboard.

I can only get my head around this by seeing it on a graph. Power (W) vs. output (dBA)