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An almighty trip to the other end of the country for an Eagles tribute show in Newbury. Beautiful venue, and an appreciative crowd. Nice to bump into BC’s very own @alant!

You were lucky to have a Hohner back then, I started noodling a decade before you on a crappy Maya EB-2 with the strings at around 1 cm away from the fingerboard... 🤦🏻 And people nowadays are selling these pieces of shīt at silly high prices, simply because they were made in Japan... 🤢🤮

So much so that The Fast Show lampooned the phenomena back in the 90's

Just goes to show that with genes and environment on your side anything is possible! Also growing up with all that awesome kit available in your own home - a far cry from the Hohner instruments into my stereo that I started with!

I bought a Markbass Micromark from Roberto. Great item, great price, perfect comms, immediate postage, an all-round absolute pleasure to deal with all the way. Thank you!

How do people know? They often don't, they just think they do. If you've got a cheap bass that sounds deficient it's not necessarily the pickups or the preamp that makes it sound deficient. It could be shortcomings in how the bass has been designed and built, the structure of the bass itself. If the bass is active and has a preamp you can bypass and it sounds markedly better when doing so that can be a sign that the preamp is poor or knackered, to use the technical term. If the pickups sound very weak or hum excessively or both then they might be either rubbish pickups and or faulty. Overall, if you play bass unamplified and it sounds lively and dynamic and if you then find that isn't reflected in the amplified sound that can be an indication the bits that produce the amplified sound are not up to the job, but working out where and why can take a bit of investigation and experimentation. Throwing money and replacement parts at an inexpensive bass won't necessarily remedy your dissatisfaction.

This maybe in the wrong topic mods?

I was one of the lucky ones who got my money back, after I posted a picture of his house telling him I knew where he lived. He even pretended to get the police to phone me to ask me to stop! What a whopper. Hope he gets everything coming to him, horrible f***er!

I have a couple of sets of custom in ears I had made by Inearz audio in the states, was years ago and they’ve been great but recently they seem to fall out a wee bit and are not as isolating. I suppose over time the old lugs might have changed any tips on how to get a better seal? The sound great but …. I could tape them to my head but I might look like a weirdo!

I think it depends what you need, the OC5 has a lot more options of course, but the ‘vintage’ mode is never going to be ‘better’ than the OC2. It’s an excellent approximation of it though, so if you have use for all the other guff, the OC5 is great. If you literally just want a -1 and/or -2 octave and that’s it, get an OC2 (if we’re just discussing those two). Always ignore the OC3 🤣 Si

I can still see two comments regarding Mick's criminal activity.

You are spot on…I deleted some attachments from old posts and that sorted it.

A pretty easy trial is to bypass the preamp. Then you can hear the signal from the pickups only. If there are hi-Z (passive) components like pots and capacitors between the pickups and amp, they also have an effect on signal and sound. Every hi-Z pot is a tone-like LPF that cuts highs. I would like to add that strings and setup (including pickup height) are also two important parts of the sound.