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Bob promptly bought my Levy's Signature Series strap - Quick comms and a very easy transaction, which is always appreciated. +1 to the above and thanks again🙂

I always moan about modern prices. Musicman are probably my favourite brand, if not tied with Fender. Both are guilty of very high prices now. However, what I have gathered is that Musicman USA do not simply make hundreds of basses continuously now; they make smaller runs and are a little more 'built to order', so have scaled it down a little. Their guitars are also now becoming much more popular, and I think the same production applies to them. Make less, higher price. If people want the Musicman sound but without the cost and ultimately that high end feel/fit and finish, then they can get an import model. Whether we like it or not, that is how they have stayed doing what they do and this was a change during/after covid I believe.

We all dread the day don't we, Me and the Mrs packed in our wedding functions band after 30 years, just before Covid hit. Thought we would miss it. But haven't as we had all the hassle of running it and lugging the gear, so now just have great memories and have found other interesting projects to fulfill the need. In a couple of Big bands where i can sit down and read the charts, but have been coerced into joining a pop/rock pub band, but luckily not involved in serious gigging. As I realise now, i can't stand and play for hours as i used to, the legs ache and angles swell, ah! the ole blood pressure tablets are great aren't they onward and upwards, never give up never surrender

My wife (who runs a major UK fashion company) designates anything electrical/mechanical as a "blue job" sadly, so I'm stuck with those in the house. Beedster, there are these amazing new things called "patch bays" change your life mate.

I play in Sad Lovers and Giants We're based in Watford. We've been going since about 1980 although I've only been in the band since 1985 and even then not for the whole of that time. This is our discogs page where all our records are listed. And here is our merch shop - it seems only 1 of our albums, an EP and a 7" are currently available but hey why not buy a tee shirt or a fridge magnet or even some old skool button badges? We play almost all our gigs overseas but we don't play very often. Our next booking is at Gagarin205 in Athens Nov 15th. Last summer we played a large outdoor festival in Murcia with The Mission and The Charlatans which sort of felt like we were going up in the world. The Dutch film makers who made a documentary about Adrian Borland of The Sound [Walking In The Opposite Direction] are currently making a documentary about us! It's taken them over 2 years so far but they have sponsored 3 gigs in Rotterdam in that time so they can secure live footage of us for the documentary. I have no idea when that might get released. We are inundated with requests to play gigs through our Facebook page but many don't make financial sense. We have regular booking agents in Spain, Greece, Italy and The Netherlands. We have toured USA once in 2016 and there's a thread here where I told the story. We are currently working on a new album - it's nearing completion but currenly doesn't have a name or a firm release date. Our guitarist is 1/3 of Above & Beyond who have a new album out next week. This is the main reason our output is sporadic and we take up so few offers to gig. He just doesn't have the time. I have posted many vids of us live over the years. The first 30 minutes or so of this shows clips from our early evening set at Visorfest in Murcia Spain last September: and this was the video for our last single (made in lockdown) - It's about time we made another one!

I wouldn't know what a 3 or 10dB change is. Besides dB measurements have to weighted to be meaningful.

+1 Gavin promptly bought my bitsa precision bass and has been polite and courteous to deal with throughout the transaction. Parcelforce however have not been so prompt(!!!), but Gavin has been very patient while I've been sorting out the delays, which is much appreciated. The bass is a cracker, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over 7/8 years 🙂. Thanks again.

The La Bella 760 FS medium scale set has black silks IIRC.

If I think something is too quiet or loud in a mix I ask for +/- 3dB. If its inaudible or dominating, +/-10dB. Don't know if that's usual but it sounds impressive 🤣

Thanks. Having watched this it looks like a considerable amount of time and attention to detail went into this bass. Is it worth the price tag? I guess the people who buy it will think so.

Pino is the reason I’ve always had a fretless and one of the main reasons I play bass at all. Having played a fretless from almost the get go, I (think I) managed to get a handle on it early enough to get over the, “Yikes, that sounds horrible!” Opinions differ of course .

Every time I hear someone talented play a fretless, I think I need one. Then I remember that I won't sound remotely like them and put that idea back in it's box 😅

I've learnt from experience unless something important is either deafening or inaudible not to mess with the monitor mix by asking for "a bit" more or less as the SE's idea of a bit and mine are completely and utterly different.

I might judge you a bit.

It's interesting how the signature market has split in two directions. It always used to be the artist's vision of their dream instrument, usually (but not always) a standard design with custom tweaks like pickups, wiring and hardware, an instrument designed to facilitate the needs and unique playing styles of established iconic musicians. Since fake wear became a popular thing, signature instruments have drifted to a point where it now also means replicas of standard instruments with no real tweaks other than imitated wear. EBMM are stroking both sides of this particular piglet, with the likes of Pino and Cliff Williams on one side and the radical designs they've built and put into production for the likes of John Myung, John Petrucci and St Vincent, among others. Being honest, the replica instruments do little for me, particularly when you can buy actual instruments from the same era for a lot less. Getting your hands on what exceptional musicians have done to push beyond traditional designs from the previous century is far more interesting, to me at least. 6k seems crazy for this as, once you start playing it and putting your own dinks and scrapes into it, it becomes less and less Pino's and more yours, which is the opposite of what you bought it for in the first place.

SPECTRUM THIEF by Ghost Audio (FREE). "Spectrum Thief is an EQ-matching plugin that can export impulse responses. Great for capturing the frequency response of speaker cabinets, or creating adjustment filters to tone-match your guitar tone (or even a full mix), to a reference sound. The plugin is FREE and requires no authentication or registration, so grab your copy!" https://ghostnoteaudio.uk/products/spectrum-thief I've used various methods to capture EQ curves and create custom IRs, but this simple app is free and works really well. I've also discovered it makes a great applet for comparing the tones of different basses and their pickups and, of course, mix curves for full mixes too!

I checked the dust cap gently and it isn't loose. I also unscrewed the speaker and it looks like a screw is missing, i've attached a photo. Could this be the issue?

I too can see no problems. We had a guitarist who used a Helix which tbh sounds consistently better through the PA than a mic'd up cab or a DI. He used in-ears or an Alto TS10 for monitoring which he upgraded to an RCF310 after borrowing mine. I've also worked with other guitarist using multi fx/modellers and it's been a positive experience all round. Reducing stage volume and using the PA for heavy lifting is the future