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I think you just summoned a demon.

Nice bass and interesting TEG website. I'm a great fan of having stuff custom-built - especially by a smallish builder you can visit. You can generally get just what you're looking for without spending an arm and a leg and you'll certainly avoid wasting time and money on trial and error. Here are my two beauties (in my eyes!) built by Andy Rogers, who is well known to followers of his Basschat Build Diaries. At the time I commissioned them, you couldn't really get anything like them off the shelf (s-s with 3 x p'ups 7-way switchable in any permutation)- and you still can't.

Well…back to an Ashdown MK500. Some more bits arriving tomorrow, I missed my old rack tuner and MK rig - the “Knight Rider” setup 😂

Look what just arrived from the wonderful @Andre_Passini Soon I will have 2 basses sporting Nova hardware

So having owned plenty of basses I've never had a yamaha, until now 😁. Thought I'd take a chance on this bb1025x as I've always wanted to try one. A fresh set of rounds later and I love it! Always been more of a jazz bass guy but figured I needed some sort of P in my life. This has got such a huge passive tone! The neck is a lovely satin finish and it plays great! It has definitely held its own against my other more expensive basses so happy days. I play my other basses in passive usually anyway however the simpleness of the bb's controls is so refreshing. Anyway, terrible picture incoming..

My custom shortscale arrived yesterday! Thank you Tony Edwards Guitars! https://tonyedwardsguitars.co.uk. Apology for the quality of the pic. It doesn’t do justice to the burl on the fretboard and the tone of the sunburst. It’s 30” scale, 40mm nut, Babicz bridge and Tony’s own hand wound pickups. All for less than a Fender Mustang (USA).

On balance I don't think I own a single bass that wouldn't be improved by a sparkle/metalflake pink refin.

Black and maple

Yup, I've been saying this since the launch day! I appreciate some folks want big cabs for big stages, but if I'm completely honest I don't know many who actually do. Two high powered 1x12 cabs, that aren't crazy heavy is probably the safest bet for most folks I would expect. Laney have made light cabs in the past, fingers crossed they add something to the Digbeth lineup... Eude

Gibson Cherry red , cherry burst on most but not all basses , black on most but not all basses. Most of all I love the dark metallic blue finish on my Washburn. 😎

Agree and quite also like telecaster bass butterscotch blonde

I love ABBA. Cheesy pop tunes disguising deep and disturbing lyrics, written by two couples being torn apart by bitterness and divorce. Which made people tap their feet and sing along, with absolutely no idea what they're really singing about. Genius! I'm looking forward to hearing this one.

Great songwriting is timeless and they really know how to write a tune. Good luck to them

Played an interesting gig this afternoon/evening with Frankin's Tower (Grateful Dead covers). Private party for the 70th birthday of an eminent Oxford chemistry professor held in the very spacious grounds of an Oxford college. We played outside, so the sound was good and we were well received. Not a paid gig (I didn't organise it!) but hopefully will lead to more that will pay.

Holy low end Robin, pass me the Bat-bass

My MIJ 57ri from the 90’s. Acquired off of Bagsieblue of this parish. Stunning instrument, very light and great thump. Usually stick pribora pickups in my P’s but this came loaded with a Fender 62 Original which just sounds great. Strung here with Fender flats as my usual Elites were a little TOO thumpy for this latest project. Seen here with an Ampeg SVT and 2x12 cab

Yet another rainy day in Osaka, stuck at home needing to do some housework and because of a happy vacuuming coincidence these four ended up having to be on the sofa for a little while. Seemed like a perfect opportunity... (L to R; early Roscoe LG3005, Wal powered self-build, Stingray/ Status, Zon Sonus 8-string)

Apparently ... I'm being taken to Cornwall for a weeks holiday, and we're going tomorrow. I thought we were gong next week! Holiday 🙂 cornwall 🙂 missing bass bash 😞 Shall miss seeing you all and your basses. But me and my Wals will be there next time. Enjoy

The four-string is here!

I have a similar thing with black basses with white pickguards. Doesn't mater if it's a vintage pre CBS precision in mint condition , it will still remind me of the Encores in the Argos catalogue when I was a kid.

Natural for me. I can live with a fine colour wash that still shows the grain. I can't stand anything painted. It always feels cheap to me. I know in reality the opposite is probably true. But I grew up playing really crap instruments that were always painted bright and shiny colours to make them look better than they were. I know that in reality, this has nothing to do with a good quality, well painted instrument. I just can't get over the ingrained feeling that paint = cheap and tacky.

I guess the latter is for night time only then? 😁

I heard the new songs earlier and to me they sound like they could have fitted in with the material from back in the day, which is a compliment btw, great band, great songs.

Natural as I love the look of wood.

I just about to do the same to my reverse 424. Just need to set the action and intonation, but it's already pretty good and sounds great.

I'm actually excited about it, remember watching them win the Eurovision song contest and I've been a fan since They were always quality and I hope the new stuff is too, they have resisted enormous financial temptation to re-unite, so I'm sure they are doing it for the right reasons, andwouldn't release it if it wasn't up to their standard

Thanks to @bagsieblue who knows I’m a fan… I have a dirty old Yamaha arriving. This story started 23 years ago (1998…) and I was a beginner of about 14/15 months. Every month my local paper shop go “Bassist” magazine in for me. It was great. My grandad Eoin paid the subscription. They ran articles - a sort of “readers wives” column. in the August 1998 issue it was this - And tonight…I’ve got one. Go me.

A few weeks back I received a five string Sadowsky MetroExpress to write a review about for De Bassist, the Dutch bass magazine. I was absolutely stupefied by its low weight, great sound and playability so I thought: want a four string version of this. And somehow, I ended up ordering a four and asking Warwick (the guys that make the MetroExpress in China) if I could keep the five (and pay it of course), and that was no problem. So now I have two more or less identical Sadowsky MetroExpress basses which I absolutely love, especially for this price.

What! No travel bass?

Not really into the music, but the quality of writing and musicianship is exemplary. Stephen Fry once said about their music is that the songs were over engineered into incredible tracks. They didnt just write parts that could be considered ' that'll do ' They went beyond the call of duty

Getting there!

This is brilliant news! Their hologram tour looks amazing from a YouTube feature. ABBA were, and still, are one of the biggest pop groups ever and I don't think they made a bad record. The first two new tracks are number 1 and 2 in the download chart (whatever that is) and blow all the current formulaic chart offerings out of the water. This 70 year old bass player is a very happy bunny to know they are back!

My understanding is that drop C# would be C#,A,D,G Whereas C# Standard would be C#,F#,B,E BRX is right, though. Each intended solution requires different approaches.

Those who know me on Basschat will know my obsession with Chameleon Flip Paint which has been going on for nigh on 20 years 🤣. Here’s a few of my basses.

Just got my bass back from Tim Batchelar. He re-used the bridge Malcolm Healy fitted for me some 25 years ago (it's very good quality apparently and just needed re-fitting a bit) and fitted it with aluminium adjusters. £230 all told including the re-fitting to the bass's belly and the fitting of my new set of Eva Ps in place of the spiros; he also replaced the rubber thingy on the end of the spike. Including the £200 for the Evahs and petrol to Leicester and back (twice) that's over £450 I've just spent !!!! Ahhh people spend less than that on a whole bass. It does sound good though .. much more mellow than with the Spiros on it, scratch free bowable from the outset (and the Evahs should play in over the next few days). It shows up all the mistakes with astounding clarity as the bass now speaks so quickly! Also it was nice to get it checked over by an expert ... who said it was just fine. NB: Evah Pirazzi Mediums... on the advice of David at Bass Bags. He reckons they bow better than EP Weichs and are better suited to the "larger" bass (mine's 40" scale) and as I'll put the spiros back on for classical free periods, they don't need to be A1 for Pizz... also he had them in stock!! Wonder if I could tell the difference.

That would be ideal, @eude and I agree with you!

Very nice. Yamaha is one of the few mainstream brands I haven't owned too. I've played a few BB's and have been impressed but always found the bodies a bit big aesthetically. They're definitely on the list to explore should I ever decide to buy another bass that doesn't have "Fender" on the headstock.

No I didn't I'm afraid. I don't want to keep hassling him as I know he is very busy at the moment. I think I'll probably get the photos, the final invoice and a delivery date all at once!

Waiting for the Senjutsu CD to arrive, hopefully before I'm off to work.

Fretboard came in the post. I got this with pre-cut fret slots. I do have access to a japanise razor saw, but better have these made by someone with actual tools for it. Also, this is the first time that the main pieces of wood are in the same room together

Interesting post. I play an EBS NeoLine 212 on tour (it stays on the tour trailer) and at my home I have a 2x10 ProLine for local gigs, but I'm seriously thinking of swapping this one for two 112 Neolines. I think it's a good idea to have one 112 for smaller gigs and the two of them stacked for bigger venues.

There's very little difference in the sensitivity of different bass drivers, so that's not going to work. Higher power handling to get more bass out of a smaller cabinet is a requisite, but the thermal ratings aren't what matter, mechanical ratings are. You can't get those unless you have the driver data sheets. If you really don't want to get high output in the lows use a sealed cab. Even when the same size as a ported cab they give up almost an octave of low frequency extension. Look at it this way. Violins don't go as loud as violas, which don't go as low as cellos, which don't go as low as double basses. Size is the reason why. The same physics apply to speaker cabinets.

You're absolutely right (about the number of pedals at least 😁) - I was reading 'Tech 21' and 'YYZ' as being two separate pedals (as I've got a VTDI which is also a T21). I think it was the great bassplayer @bassfanwho said "Al Krow can't count". Probably exactly why I should be hanging up my work shoes and focussing on something more creative? I've just spent a few hours rewiring the larger board tonight as it felt a bit like a bomb-site after I'd filched key pedals off it to put onto the gigging board. Re-doing pedal boards is a strangely satisfying activity, lol! Weird thing is I'm now feeling very much happier with both boards than I was with either before this little rejig. Maybe 'cos they both have a clear purpose in my head now.

We play 90 per cent in drop C# in my band...... thoughts: 4 string bass will be better mostly better than a 5 as I'd expect a lot of open low string based riffs, chord changes based around the C#. Try different gauges but heavier gauges are not essential in my experience. If you are looking for a bright zingy sounds some rattle and clank from low tensioned strings might be desirable. The set up is more important that the string gauge to me. For the 5'er fretless option, I'd use that in its standard tuning with a low B.

I think some basses look better than others in a certain finish. I’ve never been a big fan of the natural finish but I really like it on a Stingray.

They were cool when I was at school, when they first started. I remember watching them winning Eurovision and thinking they were brilliant. Maybe that ages me.😂 Even when they became uncool later on I still loved them and was quite happy to say so. I never really gave a stinky poo whether something was considered cool or not, I always thought that was the worst possible reason to like something, because more often than not it’s based on someone else’s opinion.

Deja Vu album, with Young. Awesome.

Lies! That only has four strings! 😁