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No not here, have you tried Knock Knock Knocking on Kevins Door?

There's a better place down the road, south of Kevin.

All your hard work is appreciated in Chez TheGreek - good work fellas.

Almost.... its in the same ballpark... It' a great bass... sounds great in passive and active...

He did some work from me recently, and I paid him in cash. After I'd left his workshop, he noticed I'd left my change on the table, so he called out of the window and tried to throw it down to me. You could say it rained Pennies From Kevin...

Mmm, could be tears in Kevin.

It's a little-known fact that the position of the P pickup does vary across P/J's. It seems to stem from whether the J is in the 60s or 70s position. If it's in the 70s, i.e. closer to the bridge, the P is 'correct'. If it's in the 60s position, the P pickup is usually shunted closer to the neck to keep the distance between the pups the same. If the J pup is in the 60's position, and the P is 'correct', they'll look noticeably closer together than you'd usually see. IMO, that small amount of shift has a significant impact on the sound of the P pickup.

Difficult to choose just three, but I never tire of these....some of the funkiest happiest make you dance music ever... Parliament: "Mothership Connection" Bootsy's Rubber Band... "Stretchin' Out In... " or "Ahh..The Name is Bootsy Baby!" (can't choose!) James Brown: "Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang" Just outside of the top three (for today at least!) : Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life" Roy Ayers "Destination Motherland" Isaac Hayes "Black Moses" Funkadelic "One Nation Under A Groove" Parliament "Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome" Bootsy: "Player of the Year" and "World Wide Funk" Erykah Badu "Mama's Gun"

His advertising's not very good - I think he must be missing an angle.

Aah, so then Kevin knows I’m miserable now?

Mmmm...I thought Kevin's was a place on earth!

Holy crap, the Aftershock is so versatile. As one of the distortion models you can have “clean (no distortion)”, this means you can set it to just take advantage of the EQ and/or noise and filter gates! You could even have the tone rolled off the (actual) clean signal so that using the mix knob morphs between (actual) clean with tone rolled off to (processed) EQd clean! @CameronJ, did you know this? You can also use it as a low pass filter! @Al Krow, you might want to note that I can now get all the tight tracking goodness from my MXR BOD but use the lowpass filter to get it to sound like the clean subby tone of other octave pedals such as the T-16 and Octamizer! Down side is that I haven’t (yet) figures out how to avoid putting low pass onto the clean bass tone whilst making sure the octave voice has it fully applied. LS-2 maybe? Also need to explore the aftershock’s loop function. @lee650

In all genres that I participate in - pop, rock, blues and classical - I like a good dollop of audience engagement. Even in classical chamber concerts we talk to the audience. A bit of chat and banter makes the whole thing a much more personal experience

Cheers Dan thanks

Cheers appreciate your time & advice. I nearly went for a berg but it was the aged thing which I struggle to get, but I know if I get one I will still hanker for a Ray. So I have a loose plan get a Ray, I don't think I can go wrong there & then secretly save some dosh & then configure my own berg on their site. Oh yeah & grow a pair so I can tell the other half.

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I also like the Chicago version Thanks for reminding us of this.

Awww! Cool! I hope they were helpful - and if not, ask away, I'll do what I can to make your selection easier.. quick tip.. underneath the pick guard for the NG2 and Combustion (standard models) there's routs for both configurations. I.e., I could turn my 'standard' in to an NG2 pickup option should I fancy it.

I have an AB1 and a Combustion. They both certainly have their plus points as you mention. I actually went for the non-Nolly version Combustion as I prefer a more 'jazz' tone I suppose. The neck profiles are a little different on each, so that might sway you - as is also the fretboard radius. Everything else is great at each price point and even if it wasn't, pickups and preamps can be swapped out for other Dingwall hardware. You won't be upset with either, but the AB1 really is a great, great piece of kit!

Same, I suspect set-up has a much greater impact on playability than fretboard radius.

The link broke a little while back. Looks to be back now

That looks really good, Andy

I know that bloke

Yes the 75 reissue is gone ??

where he could well be my Blue Kevin. ( Bit creepy, sorry )

The bass and headphones don't connect via BT so any delay is really a non issue unless you are playing along to a video. I use a cheap BT adaptor hooked up to my digital field recorder, in to my Zoom B3n. it doesn't matter how long the delay is, once it hits the Zoom i play along tohit in perfect sync (as perfect as i can anyway). I know for a fact it has a long delay, so using it on bass is impossible (ive tried), but its not noticeable if just streaming music,

I find it's only a a problem if they break below the 5th fret.

I'm confused - does this Kevin guy actually exist then or is it just a funny thread? I need some proof. Show me Kevin.

Like this

Ha, it was more an "information" i guess! There's one group I play in that does shows with Double Bass every year. The orchestra is in front of the stage on floor height. I'm generally forced to play electric DB for that because otherwise I block out a large chunk of the stage with the DB body .... Mind you, they are probably hte best cast and production I play in every year- consistently great.

No, I don't think that's true - it's about product focus. FWIW, I don't personally think a headphone amp and a DI pedal are really in the same area - I would prefer a decent sounding DI/EQ pedal and a separate headphone amp for home/practice. It's the whole 'do one job well' philosophy.

just to throw a curve ball in, not particulaly compact but happily sits on my board...The Zoom B3

As Lozz and Lewis say, the benefits of the Fender Roadworn series lie in the quality of their build, sound and feel. Somehow, Fender have managed to create a series of instruments that feel as though they've been around for years, and played for the same amount of time. They're definitely a step up from the MIM Classic series (though these are also great basses). Personally, I also say that there's something quite liberating about gigging a bass that already has a few knocks & dings. I've gigged expensive mint or near mint condition basses, and I'm always a bit nervy - in case of being the first one to scratch or bump the bass.... I've often told a story of a singer tripping over a wire and bringing a cymbal & stand down on a mint condition Rick I once owned. Very next time I took it out to a gig (different band) I had a similar incident, and decided it was too good (and expensive) to risk damage. Of course, there are those who quite rightly say, it's a working instrument, and it's going to pick up knocks along the way - but I just don't want to be the first to do this, or make another band member feel guilty about an accident.... I've owned a couple of Fender Roadworn basses, and they've knocked spots off US Fenders I've owned. IMO, they're superb instruments. I wasn't particularly a fan of reliced / roadworn basses before - but the RW's have opened my eyes. The fact that you're not over cautious or living on tenterhooks about whether your bass gets a bump or not is just the icing on the cake for me. Re the pickup position - I'm not sure just how much difference the position of the added J pickup makes, but I love the configuration. I've got a P/J and a straight P, and the P/J just gives me the flexibility I want. P sound with as much (or little) Jazz burble as I want, whenever I want it.....

It might well sound different, but you suggested it'll never sound like a P. I'm not sure I'd agree with that.

Obligatory mention for the Fender Rumble series. Combo or head and cab, these are cracking amps for the money

That wasn't a no - you would always be heard. My vagueness of response was due to it entirely depending on the strength of output of the bass. In addition, it depends on how well your mixer handles an unbalanced, Hi-Z signal. How good the pre-amp is, too. As discussed on another thread about going ampless, the EQ options on a mixing desk can be more powerful than anything on your bass head.

Benefits of Road Worn, quite simply, aside from Fender Custom Shop Pino Palladino Sig, the comfiest playing Precisions I`ve ever played. If they only did them in black, grrrrr.

It pays to tread very carefully.

Seems to have been a lot of these 'If You Could Have One...' threads of late. I don't generally engage too much because I think recommendation can only get you so far, as with YT demos, etc. You have to physically try these things out to know if it works for you, with your bass / rig. However, this one seems different. At first, I thought this thread was reading a bit like looking for validation for the Palmer, as opposed to looking for alternatives. There's a pretty specific list of criteria - including size - for which most other suggestions will probably not meet. If the Palmer meets or exceeds one's wshes, the only way to know if it works is to bite the bullet, so to speak. In any event, I thought I'd look around for something meeting the criteria outside of the Palmer - and found Harley Benton do the same functionality in a similar sized enclosure (2cm wider, 0.7cm deeper) for about 85 quid... https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_custom_line_bass_di_expander.htm Also, has a compressor instead of the noisy o/d circuit on the Palmer. Sounds a lot like the old 3Leaf mentioned previously - the way that Harley Benton tend to operate. As an aside - the Palmer brand is part of the Adam Hall group of companies, I found out the other day. Same for Gravity Stands. I had wondered how they'd grabbed a lot of metaphorical shelf space quite so quickly. I've only used one Palmer product before, which was their bass O/D pedal. It performed okay, and seemed fairly robust. I note that Thomann knock out quite a lot of the Palmer range. I think the general quality of HB gear has been discussed on these pages previously. All the best with your questing!

I think that you're mistaken; Kevin is in your mind.

Apparently the shop is slightly raised above the rest of the street. There are three steps to Kevin.

With my solo bass gigs it’s just me. I toyed with the idea of using film as a back drop. I make my own films to fit my music, but decided a projector was too much else to carry around. There’s no show as such, and very little conversation, just a thank you at the end. People coming along mostly know what to expect. I get people sitting quietly, eyes closed, I’ve had people meditate too, that started at a gig I did in Paris in April. That was great because I realised that people had finally started to understand what I do.

Rikki that is the 6 million Lire question! Even with the paucity of options for lefties I'm spoiled for choice. I have a lot covered with the three basses I already own but I am tempted by most of the Sire basses, the Warwick Star, a Warwick corvette if I save enough, a fender USA or Japanese jazz, or even something custom made but costing less than a grand... It's all to play for! Oh, and then eBay and the forum throw up the odd second hand bargain too.

Like every else I don't really do all time favourites, but these are up there. Tower Of Power- Back To Oakland: This ones a playlist of the full album.

Huge upgrade coming in the next week hopefully. The uptake on the new site was a bit better than expected and we're having to move to a beefier server setup

Dinner time yesterday I'm smoking a fag and deleting emails,it's kinda cold and the day's dragging something terrible Among the junk,one says "You're a Winner". " Aye right" says I an goes to bin it,then I spot it's from Wunjo. Didn't think they were in the habit of sending junk emails so I open it. Bloody hell !! Forgot I'd entered last weeks competition,now I've won the thing Even better was Wunjo don't hang around, 12.45pm was the email telling me my good fortune and asking my address. 3pm today it was delivered What can I say except Thanks Very Much

Worth it. Ashdown's customer service is really good, too.

Yes. I am the same with my Pitbull. There are improvements to make but they lost in the competition between building and practising when I heard how it already sounds. It's my main axe now. You needn't beat yourself up over it though. It's a stunner.

Looking really good! Did you decide against the duck decal the end?