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Anything saucy happening with electronics do we know? Need more reasons to GAS before the pricing s**ts roundly on the currently appealing fantasy...

I'm in... Miles and all of his 'children's' work: Joe Zawinul - WR, Herbie - HH, John McLauglin - MO and Chick with RTF. Terrific, super-exciting music. Still trying to learn the essence of the language - hugely sophisticated rhythmically and harmonically but satisfying...

So yes I was aware of the compound goings-on at the back of the neck but that top picture of the flock of Strandbergs looks as if there is a twist in the fretboard.... but it could be an illusion caused by the multiscale.

Nice! Let's hope the price is, ahem, 'manageable'. P.S. Do they have torzoidal necks like the LittleGuitarWorks basses as well as fanned frets (like Dingwalls) And headless like Steinberger?

This basschat thread is half a dozen posts in with no contrary views so here goes... Ed's playing to the dogma of tradition and supposition that groove-orientated music somehow has primacy. It doesn't and his approach is wrong for many situations. His wry observations on the latest YT wunderkind are spot-on but they lurch to the opposite end of the musical spectrum to the absurd, leap-froging all the 'post Stanley/Jaco' great music with active, melodic, up-front bass I love...

Reminds me of a heavily processed version of John Entwistle's later sound with his Status Buzzard. The chap in video has a Status so that may be the connection. So as the previous poster said a new set of strings, some dirt dialed in from the amp, and plenty of treble too. See about 1hr into this...

Even Stanley played one... for a little while anyway...

Isn't he. Rick whilst a guitarist/pianist composer, producer and musicologist... he does have substantial bass coverage including interviews with Victor and Jeff Berlin. Also he has a son who has perfect pitch which has got to be seen (heard?) to be believed! He just tripped 500k subscribers too!

Not seen the classic before - beautiful! Sort of merge between the current Spitfire and his earlier Goodfellow shape from the '80s. Very nice. God I hope I don't see one in a five...

Oh and it looks like Darkglass have a new one just out worth exploring... Again on the expensive side but with considerable functionality.

Compressors!? Oh not sure they've been discussed here before so may have caught us out. I'll cut to the chase - the stock answer is Spectracomp or a Cali if you can afford it.

Totally agree - Adam Neeley, Rick Beato and Scott Devine will give you (free - not even talking about Scott's subscription site) so much bass and wider music to work on, plus a broad industry perspective which is intelligent, witty and contemporary. The mags on the other hand are little more than advertising catalogues with bizarrely esoteric bass reviews interspersed with bearded post-metal players of which you've never heard. And Victor Wooten on an endless loop. That said, even the mighty Viz is being challenged online now by the consistently high hit-rate Daily Mash... (At least the wordy articles rather than the cartoons..)

Ibanez's Gerald Veasley (not the custom which is zillions) but the GVB36 has a famously narrow string spacing (14mm)

I was at this one...

Love RTF... 'Romantic Warrior' is great and so is the earlier 'Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy' with Bill Connor on guitar. Struggled a bit with their funk odyssey 'No Mystery' but the title track is great with Stanley on bull fiddle.

Sorry I missed directed you. I was referring to this: Which is neither a 5-string or 33" scale. But it is a Warwick so 1 out of 3. Sorry.

You seem to be deliberately intellectualizing your app here.... You should be going for usability and transparency. So it's a chord-suggester... there's plenty out there... And I for one think you should do that for yourself as part of the writing process.

Andertons have given this model another outing today....

That's a wonderful sight!

Only if they were a complete idiot. This is such a 'Basschat' thread - I want to turn my 'something' into 'something it's clearly not'! installing a whammy bar on a Hofner or converting a jazz bass into a Rickenbacker. Chowny have off the peg short scales.... there's a 33 Warwick for sale here currently. Bit more money will get you an Ibby Volo - lovely shortie 5 E-C. Loads of options.

Doesn't look like current or older models that I'm familiar with, but that said, Bernie is a customer maker and therefore may have made this as a one-off. I don't recognize the logo either: the lettering or the weird 'atom'. Also he tends to use 5 and 6 bolt neck-joints. The controls and bridge appointments don't look particularly high quality. On the other hand, Bernie has been known to finish his fretboards with a split fret at the top. And the 'Nightingale' pick-ups may refer to an earlier model from the range. Appears to be the pickups same as this: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/nightingale-bass-restoration-completed.416410/ Some good history from the posters in that thread too about Bernie and his bass companies. But this bass still could be a cheapie with Bernie PuPs... beware.

Also, in addition to truss rod adjustment, another consideration, particularly when going from E-C to B-G is the nut slot width. Going down a fourth requires a wider slot but going up a forth may result in some undesirable travel/positioning of a narrow string in too wider slot. The former is more risky as it has the potential to break the nut but I guess dedicated E-C nuts are much more uncommon. [Got a feeling that Ibanez' Volo E-C 5 came with two nuts? May be wrong could be another model.]

Very interesting. This whole market is coming along leaps and bounds. Would love to hear this and A/B with the DUG. Also see my (only slightly) tongue in cheek thread about a DarkGlass multi-effect which is basically this with a headphone out...