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I play all my ridiculously expensive gear on all my gigs. That's most of the fun of having it! Although I do think I look like an asshole showing up with my 535 (and Vigier Excess backup), big ass rig and high end board. But... it makes me happy and I absolutely play better/easier on the gear I use all the time at home... so I'll keep looking like a corksniffing jackass. Also from a guy on the manufacturer side of things - we make em to be played!

It would need to play & sound utterly sublime to justify that price tag for a bass in that condition. I get mojo, I get roadworn, I get "has lived a life", but that bass looks as if it was used for target practice. For grenades.

Creep - Radiohead

If you consider the actual history (rather than the press release version) of what Sabbath has been as an institution and, indeed, as a business then it's a bit harder to get sentimental about them calling it a day. There's been an awful lot of water under that bridge and the four original members are far more business associates than friends. I'm really glad it went so well, though. It could easily have been an ignominious end for one of Britain's truly great bands. If you asked me what was the most influential British band of all time I would say the Beatles. If you asked me who was the second most influential I would say Black Sabbath. Look at the worldwide popularity of heavy metal/heavy rock music year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation. Sabbath made that mould, and no one has ever bettered them.

Invisible Touch - Genesis

Good circuit design I've no doubt. It would introduce a battery and although the battery last 800 hrs, 200 of them will be struggling, and I have no battery access compartment. Passive. Yep. Def passive

Reviving this thread! What model of case is this in? I have one and im desperately scrabbling for a case that'll fit it

That was the original reason I have used that in few of my basses. Simple blend pot cuts highs and with a vol they change the sound.

Beautiful Basschat x

Once again, another very good 'u-he' VSTi Synth, previously only available from Computer Music magazine, but now a free download direct from 'u-he'. Although, the smaller brother of bad boy 'Bazille', it still offers plenty of tweaking along with plenty of well-crafted presets (265): BazilleCM: Little modular monster | u-he

I was rather bemused when my son told me there was a pedal-sized parcel for me today. I knew I hadn’t ordered anything as I’ve been having to tighten my purse strings due to impending major change of circumstances. I was therefore completely taken by surprise to find this incredibly lovely gesture and gift when I opened the box: Folks, this was totally unexpected and unnecessary, nevertheless I want to express my profound gratitude to the anonymous benefactors who were kind enough to do this. Thank you! My faith in humanity has been given a much needed boost after the kicking it’s been getting lately. ❤️

Production Tools. MT Power 2 drums - Donation ware - 120bpm Little wooden Bajolele, Double tracked and panned stereo (SM57). Claps - Hands x 4, (SM 57) panned wide layered with centre clap sample Guitar - Budget Jackson V with Schaller hot vintage neck humbucker into Line 6 virtual plexi and 4 x 12. Bass - Spector with EMG-SSD passive with real solder bobbles - compressed. Synthesizer - Xfer Serum - played on PC keyboard . Line 6 USB1 audio interface - Pentium 2nd Gen PC - Ableton 9. I already recorded the ukes a few months back, so built a track using them. The image drew me to imagine a futuristic fairground organ style circus sound. Happy tune with running bass, side snare and clapping. Key of C, the happiest key. I can't really say I wrote the tune, more fitted together a load of typical musical clichés, and probably some nursey rhymes and music I've probably heard before, until I had a big happy futuristic showbiz extravaganza. I had fun making it. Left it a bit sloppy too because it seems to work like that? Very different to what I usually make.

Also - hello!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/83-bassists-wanted/ - is the correct forum for this kind of thing - this one's just for saying hello

Thank you. I looked up Mixpot. Tidy solution and other good things. Good to know. I have decided to stick with passive though. I like the sound this bass makes. I might only upgrade the pots and wiring as per factory setup, and stick with that. Having got to know this Spector a bit, it has so much mid range on the bridge pickup, I don't have to find it with other tricks. Stands out in the mix no problem.

... and we then reversed the deal as it suited both of us. The BC circle of life, haha. All good as before!