LukeFRC

I once set up a delay that sounded like I doubled my speed- I was going at 500bpm and it was getting to the point where it felt like my insides were getting really hot - very strange - I’m not sure what would have happened if I went 1/2bpm faster - would I have combusted or the pedal? Maybe the pedal would have acted as a fuse and I would have escaped with major burns?

what a silly question. We're bass players so generally nice folk who don't really need to divide people into acceptable and unacceptable..... Also our instrument is easy to learn, but hard to master. So the level a respectable bassist needs to get to be accepted is fairly low. I've no issue with people at the start of their learning journey. As for "gold standard" - depends for what where and music style, and I doubt BPM has much to do with it. Turn up at a practice for a regular originals band and 95% of people who bothered to register for a site called basschat will have the skills needed. Play in a wedding band, maybe 70% of us, be asked to do recording sessions - maybe under 30% of us would have the skills and ability to do that. My mate is a studio engineer in a pretty high end studio... I imagine only 5-6 folk on basschat would be gold standard enough for what he needs. None of which has anything to do with BPM

Frequency points in themselves are pretty useless for any kind of discussion without more information about Q and type of curve/filter used. Otherwise you could end up with the equivalent of bigger engines are faster, therefore the 2litre Mazda 3 is faster than the 1.6litre formulae one car. I had it in my old Warwick streamer, the top end was very nice sounding, the bass boost and the natural sound of that bass didn’t jell and was too boomy If boosted so it didn’t stay long. Top quality preamp though I think it would work well in a “fender type” bass (Which a lot of BBs are) - my 2p ... John east makes some of the best preamps available

Have you tried using it? It works very well. When I had one I had more issues with the bass control freq on the bass I had it on.

Or do the solution @Andyjr1515 said - stick a capo on it and tune it

If you don't know what you want it might not be the best idea to drop a load of cash on something just because it's a siginificant date. Unless this thread is all about us encouraging you that you should go for that Status - which you maybe should!

Ah - I was keeping the neck the same, moving the bridge and then chopping the back of the body off!

yes - simple. Remove all the hardware, take of the fretboard, fill the pickup routes, cut the wings off, put the new wings on, shape the new shorter body, attach the new fretboard and frets, put the bridge in it's new place, rout new pickup cutouts... put it all together and viola! I mean I guess you've saved yourself installing a truss rod compared to starting from scratch but hey ho!

The geek in me Knows that if the Yamaha PJ in the opening video was mine I would lower the bridge pup a smidge for my taste... of course saying something like that out loud would make me look a right knob

I fully fully believe you can get a very very good bass for not much money, and also think that there are quite diminishing returns for spending more... But with the basses you've got... which are very nice, but how much will you actually play the HB if you drop the cash on upgrading it?

If it’s an itch to scratch go HB... if you are getting towards Sandberg prices but already have different specs you would like... could you get someone U.K. based to build you something custom P/MM style?

Well I guess that’s one way to shift units

doh sorry!

bass gallery have one

If it was an aged olympic white where the yellowed top coat had rubbed off it would seem white....

I liked that. I wondered what it was I liked... then realised it was the lake placid blue precision! (I've got similar colour precision on order) Yamaha sounds good too, slightly more modern sound?

to my ears one sounds like a jazz and the other a PJ. I listened with my eyes shut and could tell them apart. Which is better? Depends on the track, for that one I liked the Jazz

Why not give John Shuker a bell?

https://www.vintagejapanguitars.com.br/en/kawai-1978-catalogue/

He’s got one I think- I remember having unexplained GAS for it at one point

I’ve been reading @Bassassins posts enough down the years to recognise a Kawai sleekline

On top of that think about regular Pop music - for every Ed Sheeran or Dua Lipa theres about two dozen artists who copy the production and kinda sound the same but not as good - or you get probably good songs hidden behind whatever formulaic sound or production is in vogue that month- I think it takes skill And confidence for someone to punch through the noise With something that sounds original... and that’s in mainstream pop- CCM the budget and talent just isn’t there I think- and the whole structure of church worship music in some ways discourages taking risks. reading reviews of John MArk McMillians album last year was interesting- there were a few reviews In the sorta Christian press/blogs that just didn’t get why bits sounded like it did. By the way “the road, the rocks, the weeds” off that album is a cracking song IMO reguardless of genre and content

It’s sub, by Musicman - made by Cort, sold by Ernie Ball... it’s not as if Leo is still at Musicman - he sold the whole operation including the name. mind you anything with Fender on the headstock post 1964 would also fall into that camp- I mean, using your logic why didn’t CBS just rename the company??