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Acoustic version of mustang sally?

Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman

I had a girlfriend who had one of the Vester Warwicks in a transluscent green colour, must have been around 2000. I was really taken with it with it, probably one of the first really impressive budget instruments I ever played, before that kind of quality became the norm for cheaper basses.

Weird. Followed your link. Left click to highlight address, right click copy then right click paste here. Just pastes the item description header. Same result with left click, run the mouse, Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V here or when I used Crtl - right click paste. Now copy/paste is working but only if I skip .html

S P A M M E R / S C A M M E R A L E R T Folks, the above poster has added a link to the quoted text. This is a new member who did similar twice, within minutes after becoming a member here. In their other post, they'd edited a quoted link, thus adding a second link to it. This looks innocuous, but isn't. I've reported their posts, but there's no mod here right now. Be aware!

S P A M M E R / S C A M M E R A L E R T Folks, the above poster has edited the quoted link provided by @Sparky Mark, and in doing so has added a new link to the old one. Yup, two links now, looking like one. Just another nasty example of what goes on these days. I've reported their posts, but there's no mod here right now.

Have you tried Rotosound RS66LD? Great 45–105 stainless strings that stay bright way longer than most.

Good to know Lenspeed handled everything smoothly — sounds like a reliable option for high-value instruments.

Interesting timing:

Put mouse cursor at start of address bar, hold down left mouse button, move along to the .html (stop just before the question mark), Ctrl-C and you have it all ready to be pasted. That's in Chrome, other browsers are the same.

Had my BB734a since my 21st birthday and it's served me so, so well. Every time I catch myself lusting after another bass I just think about how perfect it feels in my hands, how good it sounds, and how much I love it, and that wards off the GAS for a while longer! Literally everything about it feels perfect to me - the way it balances, the shape and feel of the neck, the way it looks, the headstock shape, the finish. And the sound is perfect too, I love the way it growls and has real depth to it but also a nice bite. I always play mine in active mode with both pickups on, and sometimes a smidge of onboard EQ. I like a bit of bass and mid boost and a touch of treble cut. Perfect, snarling growling roaring goodness. I actually quite like how the transparent matte black finish looks - the marks and wear show how much you play it! Hah. Only reason I bought another bass is that I need something pointy to play on stage. Otherwise I'd never need anything else! Maybe one day I'll own a vintage BB too, now that would be grand wouldn't it...

@tauzero You're a star. No idea how you managed it but you did 🙂 Thanks for putting in the effort, it's much appreciated 👏

@stevie and @Phil Starr might have some suggestions - after all, measuring speaker frequency responses with a specific microphone and measuring microphone frequency responses with a specific speaker are two sides of the same coin.

There is a very elderly website that has at least some relevant information - https://www.ymec.com/hp/signal2/index.htm

Admittedly rather (width of a) hair splitting, but according to Vigier they're 42.5mm.

My Vigier Passion iii 5 string provided the original inspiration.

Well, after weeks of deliberation I finally caved and have absolutely no regrets. MusicMan Pino fretted signature (I have enough fretless basses). This sounds immense with the flats, probably pop some rounds at some point. It is an expensive piece of kit but I can justify it. Cracking bass 👍.

Good call. I asked Chatgpt for advice and that was one recommendation. Another was to use software that allows me to calibrate using a reference mic... I know someone who may lend me one.

Everybody hurts - REM Mad World - Gary Jules Will you - Hazel O'Connor Hero - Enrique Iglesias Take on me - A-Ha (acoustic version) Times like these - Foo Fighters (acoustic version) Fields of gold - Sting Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff Stand by me - Ben E. King

You might want to have a look at sweep frequency generators - these generate a single variable frequency sweeping typically from 20Hz to 20kHz, and so you can get a frequency response by mapping amplitude against frequency.

Got me googling as well! 😁