LukeFRC

I’ve just been playing it and it’s phenomenal. ive played a few of his preamps and this is the second I’ve owned - I think he might be the only UK bassed bass manufacturer who is world leading in his field EDIT: Plus status for graphite?

So update time (for @Richard R if no one else) So you might have noticed the "might sell this and get a Precision" vibe in the previous posts, to be honest that was what was on my mind for a while. I had got more or less used to the 5th string, was starting to change my playing style to suit it and was quite enjoying it. The bass though I was struggling with. It was like it had a eq on it with finger style where the low mids got massively boosted, and the high mids and some of the top end disappeared. I know these pickups are supposed to be 'dark', but theres something in that which should suit my playing style, not loose the definition. Interestingly pick and slap (neither of which I'm great at) sounded great. Very odd. I started looking at precision basses. While I did that the Lakland was sat beside me as I worked. Every so often I've been picking it up to play, and it plays amazingly. It just feels perfect. Unplugged I was liking the bass more and more. Experimenting I also found that if I cut the top end I liked the sound passive too (though it is low output). So the problem seemed to be the preamp... Way's to fix it #1: Turn the gain up inside... this meant that the high mids came back. Seems almost obvious! So this meant I could get it sounding good. BUT generally the treble control was fine, the bass control cut was fine, the boost made it flabby. And I was having problems with the mid control... any cut was fine but seemed to cut too much of it's musical tone, and any boost seemed to be what was needed but to my ears at least seemed to be adding loads of harmonic overtones and made the sound really "wide" Way's to fix it #2: I just stuck a East Uni Pre in it. I need to fiddle a bit more - but it sounds awesome. Why every preamp doesn't have a passive tone control as well I don't know!

Like the last two respondents, paul saw my wanted amp and helped me out with a John East Uni Pre, it came super quick, well packed and in untouched condition. A lovely guy to deal with - deal in confidence Many thanks Paul!

Netflix 'Roma' seemed to do alright...

Yeah please don’t sell it - at the very least somepoint it would be fun to compare it to my Slightly older L1000

Go into a shop and play 30 basses sub £5-600 yamaha will be the least interesting, but also consistently good sounding and with a high quality for their price point.

The Yamaha BB range are fantastic value at whatever price point. And secondhand they tend to be cheaper. Secondhand BB1024 would be nice. in terms of farida @AndyTravis is our resident expert

Looks amazing - so what’s the space used for now?

Noticed the transom guy in the window?

Agreed. My take also is that they seem to produce a £1k bass model bass with millions of options that take the price up. If you spec a £2k bass my still get £1k service

If that’s an inch then I would be more worried about why the neck is the size of a 4x4 fence post!

Super clever really. Odd enough that- as a back up short scale I think a lot of people will go “why not” - it’s not trying to be a P or J, nice colours, he makes pickups so the switches and pups prob sound great and OVAL tuners - v cool plus not silly price

why not?! maybe start your own thread?

I have no idea what half of those are, but appreciate the fact they were in alphabetical order by maker.

our one multitracked a piano part behind last week... not in time!

You’re almost describing a Yamaha bb1200 (except they don’t sound like a p bass)

I love the way the paradigm of modernist aesthetics are contrasted against the warmth of the wooden Material chosen, and with the hand made construction that recalls the ideals of William Morris’ manifesto and the craft heritage you recall of of your ancestors

I forgot the link - sorry @burno70 http://drtonelab.com/lab/balanced-eq/

Try these as a starting place.

Every time I play a load of fenders in the shop the Squier come out second for me, the custom shop was top. Taking price into consideration ten Squier or one CS...