LukeFRC

Mine has frets! might stick to the same Earnie balls it came with - yes I’ve had it three years and not changed the strings

It’s fretted! (But yould probably enjoy trying it sometime)

Before @Hellzero disappears - any recommendations for roundwounds strings for my Capone? Ive got Sadowsky blue steels on my Sadowsky that I love, Sadowsky blue nickels on a Lakland which are ok ish, infeld nickle rounds on a p which were good till they died. DR fatbeams are the pricy favourite I had a few years ago … I think originally Lefay might hsve used Ernie ball steel rounds?

@AndyTravis - you tend to put a lot of your energy into your bands - is there an option of them getting you but more as a "he's a sound guy and great bass player, inderstandably focuses more on his family and job but we're lucky to have him" type deal?

You might have got away with it if you hadn’t been flashing photos of that strat all over your socials 🤣

That’s what I’ve got on my Bravewood P - they are ok - the other one is a roundwound version of jazz flats apparently

Two years into a house building project that’s nearing the end of- it’s bloody stressful for everyone - you gotta take care of yourself

The TI jazz rounds or the TI infeld rounds?

£305 online for vip version. I’m tempted! Though if you’re selling one secondhand in a few weeks I can wait…

This week I was kindly allowed into Chateau @Quatschmacher and try the FI4 VIP ... my background, I'm not an amazing player- but not awful and have messed around with synth type stuff in various Zoom multiFX then HX, H9 then the classic octave-fuzz-envelope thing... I've owned a C4 (twice) and sold it each time... One use which is a bit different to the normal synth bass/keybass type sounds is a pad sound I've used to fill in songs while playing at church (small church by US standards so sometimes only 2-3 musicians) I really really enjoyed the FI4 and need to work out if it will fit on my board... My thoughts... - Really premium enclosure - it's really nice metal box. - The tracking is amazing. I've got fairly good at playing clean and slightly before the beat from owning the C4 ... this you don't need too - it's so so fast and seemingly accurate - It can do rhythmic sounds - and works - you can add that little muted thump as a part of the rhythm and works - doesn't trigger the whole sound - a bit of a learning curve but you can choose how it reacts with your fingers - if your next note triggers the envelope again, or just glides to the next. (this has got a proper term in synth land) - The presets... like obviously you can build your own... but from what's available on the top it gives you edits from the preset! ... so rather than an absolute release time for example, it lets you fine tune from what's there! This makes so so much more sense - the sounds are really really good. Im pretty certain if you wanted the sounds of the fashionable MXR synth pedal it would do them... but suspect you have more control over how it articulates... - But most importantly to me - the C4 feels like you're playing a pedal- and the sounds are good enough to do that. The FI4 makes it sound like your bass sounds different. it's feel and how it reacts is so so natural feeling and musical. Honestly it was astounding - I had pretty much given up on synth bass and was going to go buy a wee synth and learn to play it... but now I'm rethinking. - I didn't scratch the surface of everything it could do! Short version: The very low latency makes it feel like a musical extension of your instrument. I like

don't grass him up

What hasn't been mentioned and is slightly more concerning than the lacquer stuff - is why use a mini toggle there on the lower bout? It's too small for there and just wierd!!

I don't think you need to rule out 0.74Bn potential luthiers just because one guy sends out a bass with a load of laquer cracks!

My sadowsky metro has a Pau Ferro board. If I was only able to play one bass for the rest of my life and could choose any - I would choose that bass... so yeah Pau Ferro is fine