Kev

Can you quote some? I'm not seeing anything that would differentiate AI over just bad unoriginal writing borrowing pieces already written.

There's nothing too glaring there really, to me anyways.

Those who are talking about the strings, you don't get them until month 5 so that sounds about right. Not about to send strings out until you've at least covered the cost of them! Any links to any articles? Can usually spot AI articles a mile off.

Joking aside, as much as I love Nate's playing, his bass demos are actually entirely useless for this exact reason. Everything sounds overwhelmingly like him, and the techniques he uses overpower anything unique about the bass itself. I just wish influencers would just stick to playing the most basic riffs, or recognisable riffs, so you can really get a feel over what the bass can do, not what they can do.

All very exciting stuff! I haven't tried a FI since the initial launch version/firmware, couldn't get on with the tracking and found it quite difficult to use, I wonder if this is the time to revisit... I have to ask though, when the opportunity to put the device in a fresh new smaller case arose with the new hardware, whyyyyyy wasn't it taken??? *Edit, I read a few posts up Still such a shame though, that and the lack of a USB option.

I would love Fodora to explain their rationale behind that design. Utter horror show, especially when you compare the break angle of the top and bottom 3.

At risk of sounding silly, surely tension goes beyond the speaking length of the string? If you have a 37" B that has a tuning peg really close to the nut and a string anchor really close to the saddle, and you have a 34" B that has a tuning peg on the far end of the headstock and a saddle a good distance from the ball end, does the 37" truly have anything like 3 inches/equivalent lbs more tension? I don't see how it can, which again will play a part. My headless Leduc 34" scale has a really notably articulate B, yet it anchors directly behind the nut and the break angle is close to ball end, so its as short a string as you can get on a 34" bass really, therefore lowest tension, but still sounds and plays better than most?

If there's one thing I've learnt by owning dozens and dozens of basses over the years, its that scale length is only a very small part of what makes a good B. Far, far more influential for me is the neck relief, action and string gauge, and there is definitely something going on with neck/bass construction too that I don't pretend to understand. Two B strings on two 34" scale basses can sound and feel entirely different, even with identical setups. I remember a few years ago I had a 34" Thumb bass that, no matter what I did, had the deadest, dullest B string imaginable, whilst simultaneously owning a 34" Alpher Mako bass that had the clearest, tightest B I could want. Same strings (even swapping the strings on both), same setup, unplugged so no pickup/preamp involvement, one sounded great and one sounded unusable. Go figure...

Didn't even notice that haha! Yes, it was rather fun!

10 points to anyone who can name last night's venue

I still remember when the first one came out and thinking it was literally a joke, with that ridiculous knob and video that went along with it. And now we're three sold out iterations in. Madness.

The Warwick finish dulls and darkens with use, if they're played hard enough! Sweat stains the finish etc, it's all part of the labour of love that comes with owning a natural oil Warwick. I found the whole wire wool and wax process rather therapeutic!

Depends how brave you are. With my old Thumb basses, I would once a year scrub the whole body down with extra fine wire wool to get all the muck and grime off, then reapply the warwick wax all over and leave overnight, before buffing up in the morning to make it look brand new again.

The MK2's are not built by Bartolini, they are built under license. Lower output and quite a bit darker than most US made models.

I'm pretty sure the whole Groove Regulator/Wonderlove/Chromatron series is based on the Meatball, but as said above, could be wrong!

I thought the Proton was a Mutron based circuit, rather than meatball?