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Manic Depression - Jimi

Hello. It's a good setup. Welcome.

Interesting that this thread has popped up on the front page today. I have had the last two days off, and in an absence of anything better to do (and a desire to get outside and touch grass after a long and stressful book project) I've been walking off in random directions across London, stopping when I reach a guitar shop. Today, I ended up in the shop not far from my parents house – it was the place I always went for strings and stuff when I was a teenager. I remembered it as a sort of dusty, neglected Tutenkahmun's tomb of beginner-to-mid-priced-instruments, a sad place with drop ceilings and heaps of cardboard boxes full of plastic recorders piled against the walls. So, it turns out it hasn't changed a bit. Amidst all the utterly unremarkable instruments, there was a Spector Legend – one of the four strings with the twin soapbars. It was covered in dust, but much to my suprise it played absolutely beautifully. I spent a while noodling away on it, but the guy in the shop couldn't tell me anything about it or how the electronics worked (it was in the stock of the store when he bought the place as a going concern in 2019). It seemed like it had active bass and treble controls, but they had no centre detent and behaved really oddly. So yeah. Not sure why I'm writing this other than to A) mention that I played a Spector for the first time and really liked it and B) to ask what's up with the electronics on the old Legend models (the Korean ones, from the early 2010s, I'd guess).

I've owned several Moon jazz basses and they are my favourite FSO. My current one is a 70's style JB4 with an ebony fretboard and a dark burgandy nitro finish. It's immense and really nails that 70's Jazz tone. It does differ from a 70's Fender in a coupe of ways, it's lightweight and well built! 😁 It's looking a bit more Road worn these days, but it looked like this when new.

Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

I would normally say go with the Moon, for sure, but that one appears to have a neck pocket gap you could fit a cheese sandwich into.

Nice one. And yes your homage looks great

Deleted as I found out that Basschat doesn't appear to support GIF's. Damm a brilliant answer lost to tech.

In a new video, Josh Scott reports on a weird situation regarding the current crop of NOTADÜMBLË pedals that has me a little bemused: apparently, the clean channel used the wrong circuit, one from a different Dumble pedal than was intended: This apparently came to light when Josh asked one of his engineers about using part of the circuit with an effects loop return in a future pedal, and the guy went "eh?". It was supposed to be the circuit he made for John Mayer called "a box later", but it's actually based on the rarer Dumble BBC-1 pedal that Mayer also has. Given Josh's history of pranks - I remember the Digitech Bad Monkey situation - I don't mind admitting I'm sceptical. The next and final batch of NOTADÜMBLË V1s will be released soon. Will the V1 gain some kind of legendary (pricey) status as a result? In the video, Josh says there's no difference, sonically. Me, I actually want to see a V2, since it sounds like he's going to put in an effects loop and channel switching, both of which will be welcome. But if you already bought a V1, hang on to it, and you might have a rare-ish pedal at your feet.

Apropo of nothing, today I came across some footage from the early '90's of Bernard Edwards playing his Ferrari Red Spector NS2. Looked like a fairly early model with dot markers rather than the crown MOP inlays they come with now. It must be the bass he played on Addicted To Love by Robert Palmer. I know that bass went to John Taylor after Bernard died.

Is it tone Lego or ordinary Lego?

Yes indeed. I don't think they ever stopped (pandemic notwithstanding).

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Wot No Lego Hair?