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Quality thumbing there.

Awful miming. Great song though. Think the bass is Chris' though although I have a recollection that it was stolen.

Any correlation between Chris' hand movements and te vass sound appear entirely coincidental...

That wasn't very Christmassy at all. Just crashing the thread I assume. Back on topic, I've been listening to Chris Squire's 'Swiss Choir' through December. Lovely arrangements of classic carols sung by a good choir of youngsters... with dirty great clanking Rickenbacker throughout and Chris' great voice too.

Expensive is, to my mind, linked to the concept of a thing being more than it's worth. A Warmoth Precision with woodwork coming in at around £600 with perhaps another £400 on high quality components, gives me a FCS level instrument at £1000, and IME I'd have to spend upwards of £3000 to get anything better from Fender. So, if I'm buying a Precision, anything over £1000 is not only expensive, but unnecessary expense

2x Vol is a Juggle, Blends often too Subtle or All or Nothing SR500 Passive, Vol and 3 way pup switch - simple and Hohner B2, Vol and 3 Way Pup switch. I'd give Simple a try.

Yes and maybe. If you wire two in series they may work at 9V, but these £2 cheapies rely on the internal resistance of the power source to limit current.

Oooooh, yes it does!

Oh no it doesn't! 😁

A Honer B2 is the equivalent of a Steinberger Spirit these days, which retail at about $400. We live in glory days of inexpensive basses.

Great looking bass and as mentioned perhaps one or two high frets I would get a luthier to work on it if you want a flatter neck and don’t attempt it yourself unless you’ve done it before

We've just come back from seeing Jack & the Beanstalk at The Hippodrome in Bristol. We had cracking seats and I sat just in front of where the bass player was in the pit (under the stage). How does it all work? Can the musicians in the pit see the stage performance on a monitor? I couldn't see any? I guess it's all IEM and that the musical director (the chap at the keyboard in front of the stage) speaks to the band through his mic? He also used what looked like a proper old fashioned phone handset. How on earth do they get their cues? Panto format deviates from script a lot, so I guess that you have to really pay attention. It's worlds apart from anything I've ever done and I'm fascinated to understand how it works. And in case he's on here, the chap on the SR5 did a cracking job and, guessing again, that he plays an SR5 because it just does what it does in that environment with 100% reliability. It would be great if some Basschatters that have done or do this could give some insight as it's so different from what most of us are familiar with.

They would still consider it expensive.

I'd certainly not want to be spending a months wages on a bass now!

To me, expensive means paying more than you need to. So I'm firmly at £1,000 as that's where the law of diminishing returnd really kicks in. These days you can buy a bass perfectly capable of the standard required for any stage in the world for comfortably under £1k. I paid over that for a couple of basses and a couple that would have been more new. The extra pays for things that aren't actually necessary that take them into the realm of being luxury items where you choose to pay more. 25 years ago or more, you had to pay proportionally a lot more to get something of the quality you can get for £500-£750 these days.

Could just be a tall fret.

One More Night - Phil Collins

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing these are not professional level lighting fixtures.

I prefer traditional VVT, that way I can of course get all things Jazz but also get very near Precision if needed by neck full, bridge 20%-ish, tone 80%-ish.

Maybe, but if the SpeakOn jacks are PCB mounted it's going to be more difficult and with a greater chance for a more thoroughly damaged speaker.

It’s all relative to income too isn’t it? I’ve worked on min wage when a Mexican fender was beyond my means, and I’ve had very well paid friends who could drop £5k on a bass if they wanted - but in careers that probably wouldn’t give them the time to play much. Ive known people who have a seperate bass fund and spend out of gig earnings, vs hobby funds vs people on here who buy expensive things they can’t afford on credit … all going to affect what you see as affordable.

In that case I might go with the ambients - I don't think we'll be silent stage any time soon. Thank you.