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Dunno - not played one. I just remember the 90s search for a good 'B' and help extended scales give to that...

Clanktastic...

Polished!? Production isn't... agree the song-batch is though... amazing record.

Very nice rig... as well as price, any news on 5/6 strings? (Not that much point in a 4-multi-scale? <*Bracing for impact*>)

Hmmm I can rationalise Steve Howe as being 'scrappy' and well as very good. I've never seen a guitar player use such consistently active parts all over the neck across an entire song-book. Which brings me to the elephant in the room as regards us bass players which is that I contend that Trevor Rabin's song writing and guitar-led arrangements with a lot of 80s power-chording left little room for Squire's glorious tone and counterpoint that worked so well with SH's active parts... Just saying. Would have preferred it if the 80s line-up had gone forward as 'Cinema' as originally intended, leaving Yes be.

'Best' is the problematic term here as it's so broad. With a bass as purely an object, the brands cited, whilst I agree are amazing (though I've not played them all myself). However with a bass as a tool, the brands mentioned would largely be redundant or at least over-specified for say 'Rock' as a style for example. I think we may have narrowed down the field for Jazz fusion maybe but the brands listed here - Fodera, Alembics, Wal to name a few repeated, are largely ignored in many styles. Yes, we can think of exceptions. I guess it depends on whether a bass is a object or a tool...

I have the GT-1B and it's a mixed bag - not sure how it compares directly with the B3n (which may suffer from the same issues) but pros/cons: Delays and modulations - good Synths and tracking patches - glitchy to the point of unusable Octave and tone altering patches track much better Amp models - bass ones good BUT any high-gain ones start to get noisy and uncontrollable quickly Compressors - ok if used very subtlety - any more and they become clothy - some suffer from the gain introduction above Overdrives - same problem of gain and noise It does have good software for adjusting all these parameters but my unit whistles when connected to the PC. (A USB filter did not solve the problem.) Up-shot is, chaining even a few effects gives you multiple EQ points and gains so that controlling your end signal becomes a challenge. Also, Boss do not seem to promote it on their Tone Central sharing portal with only three 'artists' patch libraries shared - and only a few of these are any good. Perhaps B3N users would comment by way of a comparison?...

Ugh, this isn't GuitarChat. And this has been done before... And EVH himself has never claimed to have invented it. He credits Steve Hackett whom he saw do it...

Might be a Rob Armstrong but not the model in the link above. Has almost a reverse firebird body shape in this screen grab:

This isn't strictly an acoustic but maybe worth adding at this point:

Looks great! Could well become a better bass than it was...

"Dad-rock's dead and you're a fat forty plus year-old who dyes what's left of your hair and no-one likes the music you're trying to play so flip-off and let the DJ on." Admittedly, it's not very snappy...

This happens a lot in my experience too... sometimes willfully. I have sympathy for the staff to a degree given busy people have to speed read their e-mails. Best to focus on one point, be clear on the impact on you, and what you would like done about it. Not sure how you phrased your complaint but as a wider point in such circumstances, simply offering up the situation places an assessment, judgement and decision making process on an already attention starved, and usually junior individual. Better to do that for them with your optimal but reasonable (given the good consumer advice presented previously), outcome in mind. Love to hear how the Fendus works out! Could be a great combination...

The J in netcarlos' link is lovely...

And shapes... what's the point in 'masterpiece ageing' a modern shape? Please tell me they still offer P & J shapes?

EMG456 - thanks for the clarification. Re. Flabba - I can see a new thread being born: Bassists with matching bass/hat combinations...

Sort of Rumour at extremities - peg-head and tail-piece base area but with Spitfire horns. Anyway really nice looking bass. Looks like some tasty electronics too. Would love a go on one...

Blimey! Mr Zender's racking them up here but deservedly so... +1 Jaco's 'Havona' +1 Chris Squire's TMR and LDR Could go more fusion, pop Sting's 'Walking on the Moon' but I'll go prog again:

Hmm well if he wears it any higher it'll be up his nose! Can't tell I'm afraid despite the headstock being in shot a lot. I can't read it but perhaps a fellow BC'er will recognise the shape. P.S. The drummer mimed standing-up! What's all that about!?

Well it doesn't look like the headstock on his more recent Spellbinders either:

I remember John Wetton saying in an interview that he had a Spellbinder, and that a customs officer in an airport recognised it from Stanley who'd just been through with his.

Oh yes, Stanley's played Fender for many hours days now... To be fair, he's always dabbled with other makers and manufactured his own once (Spellbinder). At his Animal Logic gig I saw, he brought a bunch of Ken Smiths. He's had Carl Thompson's for Picolos too. Be interested to see what this 'Stratobasster' pans out like...

Well the more extreme the fan, dare I say, the "more craddock" the neck, the more extreme the distortion of hand position for chording in the upper register? So the point is that it's a compromise with different makers taking a different position - literally.

Dear god! That's like being handed Excalibur!

Agreed, that it probably does put people off especially if people playing/who like it cop an attitude. Fact is, the ear you need, rhythmic sensitivity, ability to translate that to your instrument in real-time is sophisticated. What I wouldn't do is exacerbate it with the sort of 'grand-standing' that fusion became.. I don't think playing fast is sophisticated for example but it is a by-product of the study and practice Jazz requires - looking at you Hadrien.