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This is like that "Are YOU A Boring Bass Player?" guy all over again. Looks like the OP's been a member here for 12 years - surprising then, that it hasn't clicked that we're largely a bunch of middle-aged, highly experienced, frequently pro/semi-pro musicians, many of whom will have been knocking up bitsa basses for the last three or four decades! Oh, and here's one I made earlier.

Just a couple of extra shots with a bit more detail :

We're getting closer to the end now! The neck is now fully fretted with EVO gold fretwire, the cavities are all finsished, and all control holes drilled. the 4 holes for the frequency/resonance controls ive recessed around the knobs in the redwood top (PRS style), the plan is to aim for a nice smooth satin finish, and so i think this will add some nice highlights on the body and allow the rest of the top to be a bit thicker and sturdier the plan is to have the 2 filter mode switches just below the bottom of the bottom pickup, next to eachother, which should make for a nicely spaced set of controls. the neck is now to the profile i wanted, so im getting the side dots put in: these are going to be the same as my last bass, brass 4mm tubs with abalone dots. this is a pretty easy detail to add, makes the dots very easy to see even in dark conditions and looks lovely and here's where we're upto, with all the shaping pretty much finished: im very pleased with the overall shape and the curves of the body now. its very comfortable, pretty lightweight, feels nice to hold and the neck feels nice in the hand, the swirl of the woods on the upper scroll carve came out really nicely, so im extremely excited to move onto the finishing. that will really bring out the contrast in the veneers that run down the middle of the S shape in the top, as well as the rope pattern on the neck!

I can almost predict the way this thread will go. I've been on Basschat too long. 😀

More windows , doors and walls up to full height. Got an electrician coming next week.

I watched it. You WON'T BELIEVE what happened next!

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Hmmm...I can't help thinking that this is a bit like the middle of "Grand Designs" just before the commercial break. Where things are all going tip top and falling into place and everybody is smiling...just before the announcement that dry rot, death watch beetle and japanese knotweed has been found everywhere in and around the property. Because, so far, this is going suspiciously well. I've just put the level on the neck again and: As I had hoped - but didn't dare to expect - the set in the neck, now it's had chance to fully normalise, has disappeared and it is completely straight Which means no carbon rods are needed So, back to the act, assess, act, assess, fix if feasible - we are now well in the realm of the fixable This will rapidly move into the 'make progress in between the more urgent stuff' (I have a birthday to hit with @Matt P 's build! ) but I now know this isn't going to be returned as a bag of bits. Over the rest of Easter, I will order a new modern trussrod and add some thickness and strength into bottom of the trussrod slot. While I'm doing that, I've lightly sprayed the top of the fretboard and clamped it upside down on the bench to allow the differentially expand and dry flat and straight:

Barefaced or GR.

Well...that went better than I expected. If these kinds of things carry on working OK, then I might end up confident enough to start sorting out some of my own basses rather than just experimenting on other peoples Because this morning the clamps are off... I knew this side was going to be OK, because I could see it: But this was hidden by the carved block so I couldn't see if it was even aligned. I'm well chuffed with this! There's no step between the two sections at all : So this should now be strong enough - just the aesthetics to sort out. So next thing to look at is the neck straightness. I'm still thinking carbon rods but with all the shops shut today (oh yes... and for the past three months ) and @Matt P 's neck splices still not here, I'll give that a good ponder before doing anything rash

Hey @greghagger there’s no rule currently against people coming here to advertise their YouTube channel although it does look a bit like spam when it’s the only thing you post. You’ll see that the demographic here is quite different from the sort of audience you might need to attract via YouTube itself.

you realise we have a whole forum dedicated to exactly what the video is about? https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/15-build-diaries/

£200 neck.. £100 pickup... Triggers Broom?

I'd say that a good starting point would be a Zoom B1 Four, think that they're around £65-ish new, £85-ish with the Expression (Wah) pedal. The only downside to the multi effects, is that most of the preset patches tend to highlight what the effects can do, rather than making your playing sound better. You need to approach them as if you have a new single pedal, and find a good setting with that first, then move on to the next effect you want to try out. IIRC, the Zoom B1 Four is also compatible with their patch edit software, so you can plug it in to the USB on your PC/Mac/Tablet/whatever, and be able to edit effects on there. Another added bonus with them though, is that you can set up and amp/cab simulation for practising with headphones. Individual pedals are somewhat less complex, but have a lot of trial and error before you find "the one", and that's before you start adding other pedals, pedal boards, power supplies, patch leads etc. I think the "simple" Zoom pedals would be the starting point.

Could be worse, could be a drummer (only kidding Douglas 😁)

You could send each other morse code messages via pop and slap

My ‘83 Stingray 😍

Mine's kinda white... ish. Must be an age thing.

@Al Krow - A couple of old ones of the ACG and Conklin...

That would be a good sub forum. We could post about how we don't have any gear 😁

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/geddy-lee-rush-bass-isolated-tracks-genius/ Not my thing but others may be interested...

Just picked her up from Bass Direct. Light as a feather, sounds like thunder. Over the moon is an understatement!

Sat in the garden and can hear someone plodding through bass exercises, they’ve been at it for a good hour - more than I’ve practiced for months. Fair play, I remember how exciting that first voyage of discovery into bass was. I need to play more. So that’s definitely a 4th bass player I know of on our estate. Lovely to hear that familiar thump.

Well...ummm...that was my way of bringing it into the conversation. We need to...well...we need to talk....

Warwick 5th Anniversary Streamer - It may look like any old Warwick Streamer but there is no Streamer with a thinner, rigid neck (count the laminates) or a thinner, lighter body AND the pup combo positively growls... even though I play it 90% just on the neck pup!

This is an oldie, but seen as Daft Punk have now slip up, I’ll pop this up! Get Lucky Trans.pdf Get Lucky TAB.pdf

That is a top-notch piece of kit, with just about every type of Fx, for, in my opinion, a very reasonable price. Hours of fun, and it's solid, so won't wear out, however 'enthusiastic' you become. It works as a USB recording interface, is mains-powered (so no batteries...); no patch leads to mess about with. A Very Good Deal, I say.

A few pages back, actually a few times in this thread I have given overviews on the pick ups (I should save the long reviews!) very Broadly speaking Delano - Modern and hi-fi, but not sterile Sandberg - More vintage, lower output Haussel - vintage with higher output, quite hot esp large pole ones Sandberg Black labels - slightly More modern than the Sandberg originals, punchy as hell The key to this is what do you want and what is in your chain? Do you want it active or passive? - On Board Pre-amps the Glockenklang 2 band is most common but the 3 band is out there on basses. Noll’s are used and are slightly more aggressive and of course there is the Darkglass Tone Capsule Next question is what else are you using? Pre-amps, pedals, amps, effects. All of these pick ups play differently with everything. They are all really good pick ups, When you get your cocktail together then you will get it right for you.

I'd leave this topic where it is, as information for others asking the same questions. It's doing no harm, but could be useful.

Do you mean 0.05” (just shy of 1.3mm) for the saddle height grub screws? Just wonder if you might be searching for slightly the wrong measurement - there are some 0.05” hex keys on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000BPVW06/ Rather than a key, I got one of these drivers ages ago - also from Amazon - and it’s been really handy and much harder to lose!

Love Burning spear, especially the more dubby stuff— only needs a few words from one of the most soulful voices in reggae.

Sweet tune here from Roland Burrell, don’t think we’ve had this one, I can’t track down who played bass on this

Exactly.....

Thought this was positive news for a change. Anyone else heard of anywhere getting grants? Farm Factory Studios in Welwyn, Herts have been awarded some money - although they don’t say how much. https://m.facebook.com/393552414014196/posts/4051954974840570/?d=n

Whiteish, my 2014 US jazz

Thai yer kangaroo down - Rolf Harris

Is this the best BC quote ever?

We have two - one previously described is so stupid that it runs right into parked cars whilst looking at them, the other is her full blood cousin, tiny even for a pug and so insanely clever that I honestly believe that she can secretly read books on astrophysics and speak five human languages fluently - take a guess which one the Labradors respect and don’t mess with clever <—. Stupid —->

The deed is done. Battery box fitted, Nordy MM4.2 and Stinger installed. Very pleased with the results.

It's not the instrument, it's the pickups. Passives have a loss of highs when the instrument volume is turned down, actives don't. It's one of the downsides inherent to passives.

@lowlandtrees the ACG preamps are very sensitive indeed, i agree. the EQ01, EQ02 and EQ03 are all a very wide frequency sweep. as @BassBunny says, there isn't really a "flat" response, because the idea is that the preamp is mimicking different frequency responses as you manipulate the pots. all pickups have a natural frequency response of broadly the same shape, here is a plot that shows a bunch of different guitar pickups plotted next to one another: you can see that they are all broadly flat until 2000(ish) hz, and then they have a peak and then the frequency drops away. when we say a preamp is giving a "flat" response, we really just mean it is letting the pickup's natural sound through unobstructed. with a traditional boost/cut preamp, you're then applying boost or cut of different amounts at different frequencies. lots of different preamp makers allow for different levels of cut/boost, and at different frequencies, and this is generally what sets these preamps apart from one another. with filter control preamps like ACG, Wal or Alembic, its better to think of them as mimicking the sounds of a lot of different passive setups in one instrument. in a passive bass tone control, you have a pot that slowly pulls down that resonant peak, and then starts to roll off more and more high frequencies. here is a (exagerrated) plot of a normal tone control from the tone at 10, down to the tone at 0: (with the tone at 0 you get a low mid "hump" which is the blue line, ignore that for now ) you can see more and more of the high frequencies being wicked away as the tone control is turned. and different cap values change where the resonant peak and dropoff are: what the filter preamps do is allow you to mimick these different tone controls with a smooth sweep. on the EQ02, the frequency knob sweeps from high frequency to low, and the resonance knob changes the height of the resonant peak. here is a sweep from 500hz (red line) up to 5000hz (blue line) and here is a resonant sweep from 0 (green line) up to 13db ( blue line) the reason the ACG pre feels so sensitive, is that the frequency sweep on the bass filter stack is sweeping over a VERY wide range. all the way up to 6.3KHz, and down to below 100Hz i believe. Alan then also has a treble stack, that allows the treble frequencies to be attenuated sperately. I have an ACG EQ02 in one of my basses as well, and i know exactly what you mean. with the resosnance control all the way up (10db peak), even the tiniest movement of the frequency knob can make an enourmous difference to the sound. in reality with a resonant peak like that the frequency knob is acting like a wah wah pedal. my advice on getting the best out of it would be this: try sweeping the low stack frequency up and down a few times with the resonance knob in different positions. when you can sweep it without the change feeling extremely unnatural leave the resonance control there. then treat the frequency knob as a "set and forget" control as well, find a spot where it gives you the right balance of low end and midrange growl. then use the treble stack as you would a normal tone control. the lower knob chooses the actual sound of the high frequencies, and the upper knob decides how loud you want them to be. it really does take some getting used to, and i admit its certainly not for everyone, but you can get some really great sounds out of it if you give it a little time. i hope all that hasn't just made it more confusing. if you want to learn more about low pass filtering the first page of my latest build log has some details about the different examples out there (wal, alembic, ACG etc) (also, if you want to persevere with filter preamps but find the ACG too sensitive / complicated, im working on some at the moment that are based around Wal's current control setup, but that will let you choose how wide you want the sweep to be.) id also second the general advice that you shouldnt give up on a great bass because of the preamp. swapping out electronics is a great way to change the sounds you get out of a bass without major surgery