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Agreed, I wouldn’t rule it out at all. A subscription model or one off software purchase of a pedal with near 100% margin and no possibility of you selling on the second hand market thus depriving them of another sale? They’d bite your hand off to offer it on any platform. If someone at boss hasn’t already started thinking they’re a software company that also makes hardware rather than a hardware company that also makes software I’d be surprised. Another great example is Microsoft developing for PlayStation because they’re more interested in selling software than shifting Xboxes. I think the main obstacle to them putting this in place, boss or for other plugin creators, is going to be developing a robust delivery method as that would take a hell of a lot of dev work in terms of payment processing and authentication etc - so suspect it may be some time off still! Also, yes agreed with some other commenters, the muff and sansamp sound great and are very accurate. Tube screamer is a bit meh though…

Tritium dots are functional for 12.5 years. I'd go for (Strontium based) inactive luminous material that can be functional for decades.

This one is a little heavier than standard as it has a big upgraded output transformer, but yes, still manageable....just.

In my (admittedly short) experience with Fender 9050, they didn't feel much different to Ernie Ball Group flats. I've got two sets of Ernie Ball Group III on two basses, and to me, they feel and sound very good. I play with a lot of slides and small corrective movements, for those being fretless basses. It might feel different on a fretted one though. My only fretted bass is a Stingray strung with Cobalt flats. I think it might also be about one's mind-set. Mine was "it will work whatever effort it needs". P.S.: Dunlops are fine, but they also are bloody expensive. They feel a bit smoother though. Each to their own.

🧟‍♂️ Resurrection time. 3 years have passed, but now I’m well and truly back in the fretless fold. I recently took my custom Maruszczyk fretless to a rehearsal (Stingray-alike), just to show it some love and it sounded great. I avoided slides and vibrato where possible as the genre doesn’t call for that style/tone and it just roared, there was a definite Ric vibe to the tone, especially with a bit of grit from my VTDI. I was so impressed (as were my band mates) that I used it for a gig the following Saturday, both sets. The fretted spare (my usual go to bass) stayed in its gigbag all night. Since then it is the bass that I pick up first and I’m loving it all over again. Good to be back.

Mine would stop at the first part

It looks cramped with 7, perhaps my finger counting isn’t working

Very interesting. Although they are radio luminescent and not radioactive in the eeeeeeeek sense. That has set me thinking. I might be able to use one of those with fibre optics Then I'd just have the one battery dependent device on board but still have side dots or fret lines if it's a fretless neck. Thanks for the link. Here's another one https://www.fruugo.co.uk/tritium-gas-tube-luminous-emergency-light-outdoor-edc/p-234280022-500955548?language=en&ac=tradedoubler&utm_source=organic_shopping&utm_medium=organic

I started to wonder that if you heard high end up to 600 kHz, there was something interesting going on.

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Just bought a wonderful AV2 Jazz bass from Ian. True gent - amazing deal and comms, and packed to survive anything. Deal with complete confidence. 🤘👌🤞

Some very interesting ideas in his rig! the switchable talk back mic makes alot of sense!

You've got almost a thousand posts here, you should know by now that nine is nothing to some of these nutters. 😁 Basses here. Although that page of the new site is even less complete than the other two so no judging please. I don't have anything too wild, but by and large they do different things. The last bass I sold was a Spector because I had two Spectors and whenever I wanted to play a Spector I always picked one of them and not the other. Didn't make sense to keep the other one. They have to be a little bit different to keep it interesting, or at least that's what I'll tell myself when the OP's red Stingray goes for sale. 🫣 What are your three?

Very nice. Expensive basses but you sometimes get what you pay for. Dave

Yeah it’s pretty spot on, just don’t have a use for it for the stuff I play. I like the PiRate muff! Feels and sounds organic. I like it better than duality fuzz. I can go pure chaos or something synthy. I wonder what’s next. I hope they optimise bank switching so there’s no lag. Also a better darkglass suite where you can arrange and set your chain there like Helix editor.

My desk. A pair of Roland Cakewalk powered speakers; Kurzweil SP76 piano; E-MU Classic Keys Module for extra sounds; all into a Xenyx 802 mixer (plus a line-in for the bass guitar); which all connects to a Yamaha AG03 mixer/interface. The PC is new, too - the old one wouldn't run Windows 11, and only had the ability to drive one PC monitor. All this will change next week. EBay, basschat, and Thomann have together worked to enable a major upgrade.

Indeed, but it looked like it was designed by Elon Musk... That said, I really like my BassLab L-Bow V, excellent on all aspects, and feather light as it's hollow carbon:

And there's my wife asking why I need 3 😁 Do you have any duplicates or are they all completely different from each other?

All about planning, I can get 8+ basses in this….