mcnach

As a teenager I hated country, but now... I still haven't changed my mind. So that's twice a 180, right? There are things that I like better/worse than I used to but I don't think I've come to truly dislike something I used to like. In general what's happened is that as time passed I discovered more music and my tastes just widened.

AliExpress is huuuuge. You can't judge all of it just like you can't say all eBay sellers are the same. I've bought a lot of little things over the years from AliExpress. No more issues than I've had on eBay. I've been unhappy a couple of times and I got my money back easily. In fact, I'd say that as a buyer, AliExpress is easier than eBay. Just be sensible, like anywhere else. I once got a pair of brown shorts that were labelled as being red, on eBay. It happens. That's what returns/refunds are for.

That's my understanding. I think it used to have a guitar 'bank' and a bass bank of 3 presets each or something like that, and later they just made it to hold 7 presets of whatever kind, there's no longer bass or guitar specific banks, you're free to have all 7 being for bass if you wanted to.

not for long...

Hotone Soul Press II? Only 4 leds 'though, so it may not give you the resolution you are looking for. https://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/press/Soul Press II

Big fan of tapewounds here. I use the D'Addario black nylons on my fretless Precision. I used the Rotosound Tru-Bass ones too, which gave this bass more of a "double-bassy" character, but I'm liking the D'Addario more. It doesn't do that thump as well as it did with the Tru-Bass, but I find the D'Addario a bit more versatile and feel better (to me).

Every Sire bass I've tried has been really nice... but heavy. If weight is a concern, definitely try before you buy. Not that Squier guarantees lower weights, but at least there seems to be a better chance, judging by my limited personal experience.

Yup. Most don't seem to put the MM pickup at the Stingray position. Weird that.

No EQ issues here, but I suppose you can use an EQ app and have a preset saved that you can apply when you're using your phone with the NUX? I have a handful of different EQ presets, depending on what speakers/headphones I'm going to be using, so maybe this is why I didn't notice any bass-heaviness on mine?

That's the very same one I got. Same seller. He was just advertising for a bit more, so I got mine for £135. Love it. Now that the tuning is pretty stable it's a lot of fun. It took several days of constant retuning to get there, 'though. Warning: I like it a LOT... but it's making me look at the Gold Tone 23" solid body basses with lewd (not literally, but you know what I mean )... I might get one of those too. They can take standard flatwound strings too. Labella makes a set specifically for the Gold Tone basses.

Mine looks much like the picture above.

I've got the 4.5" version. Pretty happy with their sound.

Mine also came with a few too many turns of string on the A tuner post :shrug: Fun little bass eh? Amazing how well built it seems to be.

They vary. The MB-5 SBK (black 'stealth' Stingray style) is 16.5 mm. Mine weighs about 9.5 lbs. The JJ55OP/PJ55OP are 18 mm. I've got one of each. The JJ is around 9.5 lbs as well and the JP closer to 8.5 lbs if I remember correctly (there is a thread about those basses and I stated the actual weight there).

SBMM SUB is 16.5 mm. The USA SUBs were 17.5 like the Stingray 5.

Merry Christmas!

morning or afternoon?

That's the seller I got mine from. Took 2 days to arrive.

The first few days were the worst, the first week even. After a week or so, I still retune it everytime before I use it but it's now just a very small adjustment and typically only on the D and G strings. Of course, now that it is stable enough... I just received the Aquila Thunderbrown strings, so the whole process will repeat The Ashbory with silicone strings took a lot longer to settle, but it was a cool bass. I wish I had kept it, it would sound a lot better with the strings available today.

Looking at their username, I bet they forgot.

The tuners are not great, it's true. The ones on my girlfriend's PB-20 SBK were equally bad. One chewed itself out the first time the bass was restrung. The tuners on the MB-5 SBK look exactly the same. Mine are doing ok so far, and I've used the bass a lot (gigged with it over the summer too), but they won't last long. At least it's a cheap bass. I've seen the same on £1300 SBMM Ray35 basses, which is insane.

Not exactly NBD as I've had it for just over a week... and that's nearly as long as it took for the strings to stop stretching and the tuning to stay relatively stable. Which was great, as I was starting to think that I would never ever be able to play this thing in tune! I've been curious about these things for a while. I owned one of those Ashbory basses with silicon strings years ago. It was ok but never really gelled with it. However I have listened to a few of these 'uke' basses and they often had a 'doublebassiness' vibe that was missing on the Ashbory. I recenly came across these "Batking" basses (made by a company called Musoo, you sometimes find them under the Musoo label and others) and for £135 delivered... I had to bite. There's a channel on Youtube where you can see this (and others) in action. The woman does talk a lot but there's good info in her videos... It's great fun, it's got a basic 3-band EQ and tuner built-in, standard 1/4" output socket and an XLR... and sounds pretty good once the strings settle in. There's a fretted version too, and a solid body one as well. The solid body may actually be a good thing if you're planning to use it live. I took mine to band practice last week and it worked great but there were a few times when I got terrible feedback... you need to be careful the amp is not pointing at the bass, easy to avoid, but a solid body would probably make life easier in general. That's the very bass, with the strings it came with: and this is the same bass with some rather tasty Aquila Thunderbrown strings: