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So. I had about 45 minutes of noodling before having to pop out. (I'm at my mother-in-law's at the moment.). I used my passive Aria Precision and my active Spector 4X. First impressions (after manscanning to instruction booklet), it seems fairly easy to dial in something useful within a minute or two. By way of a caveat, that due to time restrictions, I haven't really noodled too much with the mid boost/cut or the high/low pass filters at this point (see below). It's very nicely made, robust. The clean side of the unit is just delicious tonally, I would say it's very close to a BDDI in some respects. It's not wholly clean, but it's very phat and burpy. The compressor adds nice fullness to things. It like it shares the BDDI DNA with just a little bit of drive. The drive side is likely to be the thing needing controlling; in isolation it's exceedingly gnarly and you're actually asking yourself what it's contributing. I dialed in something that seemed acceptable, then hit the mix footswitch (so running the clean and dirty together) and frankly it was just so nasty I was asking myself whether I'd made an awful decision buying this! Finally, I hit the bi-amp emulator and the thing just came alive. The sweepable High/Low pass filters become active and it is epic. Each filter just directs lows to the clean, highs to the dirt with a level of crossover betwixt the two. Other stuff? There's a 10db +/- input cut/boost an a 10db +/- output cut/boost. The pre/post button controls the mids and puts the mids before or after the amp emulation. I did dial up one of the sample setting for the dUg and it was great. I'll give it a longer test this evening.

Thank you. Am I right that you're in the "Apple ecosystem"? Can anybody using a Mac/iPhone see them at all?

Was the first bass top-loaded, and the second through-body?

Thank you for trying in all those combinations!

The Scott Whitley basses are short scale. The LaBellas for short scales are usually strung through the body, as most higher spec Mustangs can only be strung that way.

Interesting stuff. Here’s mine right now, following Fender’s advice of 3” for E, and 3.5” for all others. GHS Pressurewounds. This is what I mean when I say it somehow doesn’t seem quite right not having any ‘spare’ silk on the E once tuned up. Here’s a P bass I received with La Bellas on. Nicely lined up and plenty of silk on the E: I wonder when I restring soon (with Fender 9050 flats), whether to just cut an inch longer on them all (that would be 3.5” for E, and 4” for others). I’d love to get it looking like the La Bella pic, but is it just the case that they have longer silks to begin with, so it’d make little difference?

Wouldn't get that 'lil headstock knotty on a F. Nice bit of character.

Rob Allen’s MB2, Mouse and Deep5 basses all come with LaBella, black nylon tapewounds and they are are all through body stringing.

If You Have Goat - Ghost

No pelting when I saw them in Aberystwyth, but I made the mistake of putting my pint next to the PA. Huw Cornwell disposed of it with a deft kick...

So would The Chameleon in Nottingham if it was still going. Almost impossible to get to in motor vehicle that wasn't a bus or taxi, and when you did there was no where close to park unless you wanted to risk putting it on the pavement while you unloaded as fast as possible. Then it was down a narrow alleyway and up two flights of steep, dimly-lit stairs to the venue itself.

Nobody's perfect...

Me too. But today I've been playing my P with a vintage C-profile neck. Although it's wide, it isn't deep and it makes me less likely to wrap my thumb right around it. This is good for my arthritis ... food for thought.

I cut mine a bit longer than Chris so about 2 1/2 inches which gives me 3 winds or so, it doesn’t matter how short or long you have them it wouldn’t change the silks lining up I don’t think, most of my labella’s just line up as it’s the way they are made

I know a guy who does local gigs under one band name and originals gigs at festivals etc. under his own name with the same band.

I cut the E string just past the A string tuner, and a similar distance for all the other strings. Looks like that is 2". Gives me 2 turns of string on every post.

Caught this on Pick of the Pops earlier and the bass, and the very heavy use of effects, caught my ear. Found the isolated track and out of curiosity I was wondering if this is a very heavy chorus effect, or flanger? (Or maybe phaser, but thought not). Anyway, it’s very effective (pun intended…): https://youtu.be/AYtG3NSJ5CU?si=4WG4ym4_o98_laVT

Caught this on Pick of the Pops earlier and the bass, and the very heavy use of effects, caught my ear. Found the isolated track and out of curiosity I was wondering if this is a very heavy chorus effect, or flanger? (Or maybe phaser, but thought not). Anyway, it’s very effective (pun intended…): https://youtu.be/AYtG3NSJ5CU?si=4WG4ym4_o98_laVT

Bootleggers on Womanby Street would score highly...

Blamb! - Brothers Johnson

Just put a set of 760FS-TB’s on my Precision bass. As far as I know they’re the only ones suitable for through-body basses. Pretty sure all their tapewound strings would have to be fitted through the bridge

Ha ha, I’m honoured Steve, that’s a winning combination of two very nice pieces of Warmoth at their very best and some nice components finishing it off. Also possibly the most edible looking bass I can remember seeing 😀

La Bella generally say on the packaging whether the strings are suitable for through bass stringing.

Thanks for replies so far. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not obsessed over the silks lining up perfectly, I’d just like them to be close, and for there to be a bit more silk showing on the E once tuned.