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The big square Wal headstock, for me, ruins the look of an otherwise very pleasantly-shaped instrument. It looks like something you'd get a pizza out of the oven with

If you like the sound, you like it, no comparison necessary. I've tried various combinations of active EMG pickups and circuits in my two. They all have different flavours. I've ended up with one with the stock electronics and the other is active EMGs with a passive tone control. I had to back off the gain on my drives too - there's a lot of signal comes out of them !

Lovely. . I made a change from mainly playing my Jazz basses to an NS2000/4 a year or two back. Big change in sound - took me a while to get used to it (especially when using overdrive, et. al.) but I'm a big fan now....an 'I now have two' fan What's the pickup and EQ complement ? P.S. I'm a sucker for a bass that looks like a chocolate biscuit !

I hope so. I need all the boosting I can get

If I'm learning a song, out comes the A4 pad and a pencil. Firstly I'll identify all the sections (intro, verse, chorus, etc. - or whatever seem distinct sections) then five bar gate how many times they turn up, so I have a structure. I usually write that out a bit more neatly - which helps me learn the structure - and then I'll start learning the actual bassline, annotating the structure I've written down with technical names like 'Fiddly bit in C', 'Flamenco !!', 'Goth Reggae', etc. After all that's done it's practice time to get all the parts sounding right. I don't usually explicitly work out the musical 'meaning' of the song - chords, key, etc. but I will occasionally as an exercise. HTH

Gut strings for miles !

Binford 6100 ?

And another If fact it reminded me of... https://www.theonion.com/what-the-hell-did-i-cram-in-my-anus-last-night-1819583702

I strongly suspect it's just the pickup cover that's SD, not the pickup. To my knowledge SD use rod magnets not ceramic bars. Not claiming expert status though. Overall, I don't recall them using adjustable pole pieces in their bass pickups.

It's certainly not my main squeeze

That's not extreme relicing.... This is extreme relicing

@stewblack has the imprint of a footpedal in his forehead

Sounds like you need a dub siren !

I have a degree in Astrophysics...it's the nearest I ever got to any star power.

Indeed. When my old band from uni reformed for the guitarist's 50th we all had, by a strange conincidence, degrees.

Hey ! That's not fair ! I paid for my fake qualifications....

I played in a band with a drummer who had a PhD in Climatology, but he liked to tell people it was in Climate Control, just to see if they were listening

That Black Pearl version... Wow.

I can't see a jazz bass in that picture, just a giant explosion of bling

Not grounded in reality...

One from band practice a week or so ago. Lost in thought, it seems.

Agreed, and yes - the UK's was very average chart thump...I was surprised at the votes it got from the juries as well. Croatia were far better than Switzerland, but neither deserved it as much as Armenia

There have been worse years ! It wasn't too bad...no real yawners, a few rather obvious no-hopers, but overall not bad at all. A nice silly evening. Armenia, though...robbed