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I may reassure Mr @JapanAxethat the DoI has no association with this thread. Indeed, our guiding principles are a firm adherence to English as she is spoken, a penchant for clarity and brevity, and a fanatical devotion to the Oxford comma. That said, the 'Level 42 before Level 42' thread has excited the interest of the DoI's Faculty of Humanities; a team of our finest researchers are engaged in a deep-dive semiotic study, the results of which will be published in late 2022.

I took a risk recently and sold off my Stingray 5 and Rivoli and have ended up with this from Bass Direct. It’s a 2021 Nash PB-J 63 in Fiesta Red. Apparently the first owner already had too many basses. Lucky for be though as it plays like a dream and sounds amazing…

I’ve used Direct Courier Solutions and they have confirmed in writing that they insure instruments, but with any courier, close attention to packing is necessary. I pack everything like I am expecting it to be thrown out of a second floor window.

Thank you. I've read it all through a couple of times but was unable to draw any conclusions. Was this via Google translate?

I must say, I loved Nevermind at the time, I thought it was finally the death of hair metal. A triumph of substance over style, for a change.

My Classic Sabre

Be part of the pandemic or not. I don't understand how people are willing to facilitate these events currently. -paragraph deleted- I'm sorry, I have nothing positive to say. I work in a hospital.

Is this an offshoot of the Den of Iniquity thread?

...and Marcus Miller would be working in a McDonalds today if it wasn't for some guys that used to hang out in Denmark St. 😂

I didn't even know he was on life support.

Indeed - I'm absolutely over the moon with the work they did. Extraordinary job. Looks incredible, feels like a veeery expensive bass and sounds wonderful. They even managed to preserve the tricky little plastic sleeve on the truss and the dot locations at the interface between the board and the neck (now replaced with luminlay...a very nice touch). In addition you can't feel the join. An impressive achievement given that the original gloss finish on the neck is untouched....luthier witchcraft if you ask me!

It wasn't even the sound of nu metal that annoyed me the most - it was the LOOK. Yes, I am aware of the irony of that statement following on from 80's spandex.

I'm not sure anyone is being hostile here. My observation would be that the way you write is incomprehensible to a lot of us. There are many on here for whom english is not a first language, maybe even not a second, yet folks always try to make themselves understood. But this weird street patois you have adopted really is next to impossible to unravel. I am sure you have some interesting points to make but I actually have no idea because I can't make head nor tail of what you are writing. And clearly I am not the only one.

So I'll bite in the spirit of the question, i.e. albums where I went crikey!... from bass perspective: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 'Flight of the Cosmic Hippo' Jaco - eponymous, Joni & WR +1 for Bruford Yes - all 70's albums Return to Forever, 'Romantic Warrior' Stanley, 'School Days' UK - eponymous Rush - 'Permanent Waves' & 'Moving Pictures' Mark King, 'Influences' Steve Khan, 'Modern Times' w/ Anthony Jackson Brand X, 'Masques' There you go... some crackers in there.

Fishbone - Truth and Soul, 1988.

The Average White Band, early '70s.

Tuff cab is great, it's full of solids so it builds really well. It goes on as a sort of gel, a bit like painting on Swarfega in texture and it stays workable for quite a long time but it sets really hard. The long open time means mistakes are really simple to correct and you can work slowly and carefully FWIW I have a simple process I now stick to. First make sure all your sanding and shaping is done, sanding back set Tuff Cab is almost impossible it's scratch resistance is also sandpaper resistance. First coat I apply with a paint brush, I apply a thin layer but take care to get it into every crack and crevice. I have tried thinning it to get deeper penetration but it isn't necessary and the adherence is excellent if you have a dust free surface, I've never had any peeling or scratches through to the wood. Second coat I apply a generous coat of paint all over the cab (again I use a brush) and then use a standard mini roller to even out the spread all over the cab. Having an even coat is important for the texturing. I'm aiming for about 0.2-3 mm depth of paint here all over the cab. Having got it even I then do a very light rollering over each panel in turn using long strokes of the roller all in the same direction. This lifts a texture on the paint which I think of as a 'linen' effect like a coarse cloth finish. The texture will depend upon how coarse your roller is, the thickness of the paint and how quickly you move the roller so slow light even movement is what i aim for. The glory is that Tuff Cab stays open for so long if you aren't happy you can just flatten it and repeat, it's a joy to work with. Final coat I apply an even thicker layer, it doesn't drip so you don't get runs. Again I use the roller to even the paint layer first then do a finishing pass with a coarse roller. I have the coarse foam rollers sold specially by Blue Aran but I've used thicker mini rollers too and you can get a good effect either way, just different. I've done a lot of house painting so I'm used to a three coat paint finish and three coats might be unnecessary but this is a system that works for me. The attraction of Tuff Coat is that it is so forgiving, take your time and it's hard not to get a good finish

New neck is on... setup & truss rod tweaking required now. Once it's all set up and working, I'll strip it back again and apply the oil/paint/decal. Very happy with the look. EDIT: setup complete, action now down to a much healthier 2mm. Neck is lovely. Rich is very happy bunny

They have serviced all my basses and I have bought and sold basses through them over the years. If something ain't right Martin and John would be the first to want to fix it. Lock-down taught me not to take for granted really fantastic specialist shops.

Good to see they’re making some improvements, think the UK bass playing world is far better off with BD around.

Great to see Rick Beato talking about and listening to several of my fav bands (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana) in this more than 90min video. Cool stuff. Check it out!

Hullo! I was wondering if any SB2 tribute owners out there could do me a favour and help me out with a quick measurement....... I know it's 38mm at the nut, but if anyone could let me know the width at the 12th fret then I'd be extremely grateful. Having seen the NBD threads from @RussFM and @Lfalex v1.1 as well as the various other new G&L threads, I think there may be a NBD thread on the way if the above measurement comes in about right 😉 Thanks!!

No. None whatsoever. Honest guv.

Got this out today, as I had the time to play properly for a couple of hours. Sorry, its filthy now 🙄 Think I've finally got to grips with the EQ- use it to accentuate/de-emphasize the harmonic content using the 3 position switch (? +12dB / flat / -12dB) to get the sound to sit where you want it in the mix. Use the volume control to compensate for any gain/loss in the output, and if there's any shortfall in the low-end, use the AMP EQ to reinforce it a bit. Live (hopefully) the man behind the desk will do the same.. It's only taken 2 decades!

I have spent three evenings working through a transcription of Anthony Jackson's bass part to the version of 'Not Yet' off the Michel Camilo album 'Caribe'. I am still on page one. It's incredible.

Many thanks for the welcome from everyone. I didn’t realise I was a Leicesterfarian Jonse! Proud to be one and I guess I better get listening to Aston Barrett and Robbie Shakespeare (RIP)

If.........if I had spoken to them, which I'm not saying I have, then I would have been tempted to ask them about the black frost and price matching Andertons. But, of course, I'm not saying that happened. Or didn't happen.

I feel the words, beware someone with just one post complaining, coming on. Not to say that there isn’t a genuine grievance here, albeit delayed, but we have seen this before. For my part, any work I’ve had done at The Gallery has been top notch and very reasonably priced. When they defretted my EB USA SUB, the end result was nothing short of stellar.

1982....it was and Ibby MC924 strung with Superwound, the ones you had to trim and thread yourself!

Haha!! A lot of people do these days - even fitted with flatwounds (a la 1961). However, if this was 1980 you very likely wouldn’t have been 😏

I missed out on a 9 pound Classic they had at Bass Direct a couple of years ago and I'm still miffed about it. I am still sans-Stingray, although my Bongo and Reflex make up for it a bit. I much prefer the feel and durability of a laquered neck on most basses to the oil and wax they use now. So many manufacturers, not just EBMM, go the way of oil and wax precisely because it is much less expensive to apply. Oil and wax can get to look very grubby after a few years unless you really maintain it. I've got enough chores to do already.

(In agreement with much of what had been said before) The real "value" in modding lies in the learning processes; The acquisition of the technical skills to perform the task and the learning curve that accompanies this. The understanding of how the modifications affect the tone and playability of the instrument. The insight that the modification process gives into the original design and construction

Yeah, That’s a fair argument. But, I always STP as a bit more…I don’t know.. sleazy rock band stuff. Quite the distance from how I viewed the rest of the associated scene. It’s all subjective at the end of day.

It was something I noticed when the 2024 came out. None of the 2024s I saw had it, the 1024s and below did. My TRB 4 and 6 don't have it but the Bex4 did. Purely anecdotal, rather than something I could say for sure, though 🙂

The 90's was just the best decade ever for me. The band was doing great and the music around was the best I had ever heard. Grunge was and still is, the most amazing genre (even although it's the vaguest genre ever) of music I have ever experienced. Most of it still sounds fresh to my ears.

I’m going to use Tuff Cab for the outside of the cabinet, just not for the baffle. I’ve used it before and found it very easy to apply and get a decent looking finish, using the rollers that Blue Aran sell. There’s a blog post on their website about how to use it which includes some handy tips.

I suppose I'm as guilty as the next person where tweaking specs/altering stock instruments goes, but in all cases I'll consider the worth of the instrument, the necessity of the upgrade and whether the cost is warranted. Every bass I buy gets Dunlop Straploks. A couple have D-tuners. Both (IMO) cheap and worthwhile upgrades. Stepping up a bit, pickups; I put a (secondhand/as new) EMG Geezer Butler PJ set into an old Hamer as the matched P-unit was hokey. Sub £90, decent upgrade, enough left from £150 for a chip supper. Rule of thumb? Shop around, check the for sale section here. That said, in my case a £200 John East unit on a £5.5k bass? Yes, but on a £350 instrument? No, not so much. As @Raymaninferred, a lot of money is wasted on upgrades.

...which arguably resulted in the best Motley album by a country mile. I honestly wish they'd stuck with John Corabi.

Not so much overrated (it was rubbish, obviously) but the arrival of grunge signalled many changes to metal as we knew it from the 80's. On top of that, weird things were happening ... Bruce Dickinson left Maiden, Vince Neil left Motley Crue, Joey Belladonna left Anthrax. On top of that, 90's metal sounds began emerging that took time to reconcile. I have never really got on with industrial as a result. I remember feeling like someone had pulled a carpet out from underneath my feet.

what happened ? if anything

The Latest combination. changes may be made….. but what to give up and what to replace ? Daunting.