LukeFRC

but this is the bit I don't understand... if you make a cake in a factory in china, and make a cake with the same ingredients in a artisan pickup winder in Brooklyn .... where does the difference come in? I get that a bass is a bit different, there is some difference in wood and how it can be harvested and dried, and there are bits in bass production where someone spending an hour doing a task will give a better result than a factory spending 10 min, but with pickups I'm never sure.

I think there's probably a bit of a difference between the pickups on an entry level Harley Benton and something Boutique. Probably when you get past semi decent the differences are marginal. But then the same is true with bass guitars...

I’ve done some swaps too. Slight differences. High mass nice on jazz. Prefer BBOT on a precision

Vigier?

No I think you can. I think you need to know what you want to play. If you're a precision player and settled on that, or a Jazz or Stingray player or whatever- so that when you see the latest sexy bass that isn't what you have settled on you're happy with your direction. And if you know deeply in your heart and head that a different Jazz bass than your Jazz bass, for example, is just that - different, not better. But I think a better question is "what would you do with the money instead" - secondhand instruments are unlikely to devalue super quickly, the money will gain little interest at the moment (although debts are good to pay off).

of course it is possible. You would probably want to avoid Basschat though. It seems to encourage the "what else would you like" tendancies. I currently have four basses, which is probably two too many. Interestingly I've had unsolicited questions about if I want to see three of the four in the last few weeks... I haven't wanted too!

Not mine, mine is green

Saw @zomnius post from years ago and thought this link would be useful... 1981 slot-pole piece L1000 anyone? https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/g-l-l-1000-1981

I'm half cured of GAS... that said give me some money and... 1- A precision bass. I miss having one. I thought I was over it and then tried the custom shop one they had in PMT. I've a long time half-want for a Bravewood. Ideally a custom colour of some kind. 2- I loved trying @Frank Blank's Rob Allen Mouse bass at a the Midlands bass bash.... I'd have one of them! 3- A random one from years back- Wes Steed used to be on here and make some lovely looking vintage basses. Including a Herbie Flowers replica. I didn't know who Herbie Flowers is, and still don't, but loved the look of that bass... It's from the time before relicing was a big thing too. I think @molan was the last person to own it and then sold it via Bass Gear ... and it's not been seen since. I hope it's got a nice home look the internet found a picture of it!

What’s the sea foam green precision?

Update from me: Lockdown means I have been using my headphones loads. iMac or MacBook Pro into a Behringer Q802 mixer as a headphone amp and then into the headphones. The recent relaxation of the lockdown rules mean that we got to have a socially distanced walk with the in-laws. They gave me the broken Edifier HD850 (which are sold as "Phil Jones tuned" in some sales literature from outside Europe and are either exactly identical to the Phil Jones H-850 headphones... or are from the same company but completely different components and tuning, just in the same shell...) Ten minutes, some plastic cement and lots of electrical tape and they are in one piece, but unable to fold flat. So I got to try them out back to back with compared to the AKG K-240DF headphones. Both were bought on eBay, one set was new at £35 and the other secondhand at £32. They sound so different. Neither are 'bad'. The AKG need a lot more juice too power them (600ohm vs 32ohm)... The Edifier are closed back and the AKG semi open back The Edifier has a lot more bottom end, but it feels like the mids aren't as flat. Testing a few songs, like the double bass at the start of Common's "Be (intro) " the Edifier sounds nice, there's a good stereo-ness going on ... but the AKG sounds a lot more like a natural instrument. I think they give way more detail, stuck on Billy Jean... a song we've all heard a million times... I don't think I had noticed the finger clicks before. On the HD850, now I knew there were there I could make them out, but they were very much lost in the mix. So both very different. I think if I had been given some unbroken Edifiers I would have been happy. But as it is the AKG K-240DF are a league ahead sound wise. (which is probably what you would expect when comparing a random chinese brand with Austrian made AKGs)

be careful how and where in your signal chain you Eq. I've got some Ultimate Ears UE900s or something like that - they are good enough to give a decent mix and headroom to play live (in my case at church) - but it's helpful to realise what you can hear in your IEM and what you want to send to the PA are not necessarily the same thing. Especially if you're used to hearing your bass from a cab, and you're now listening to your bass through a DI

Status Groove was their "stingray" a like. The @lowregisterhead is selling a Lakland stingray-a-like.

case in point - your Jazz... I bet if it was made by a company in Brooklyn you would be selling it for double the amount....

My surprise was I had the USB into the laptop, and then the out into the bass amp... pressed record and the GarageBand click track and drum loop suddenly was coming, very loud, out my bass amp! Was not expecting it to send audio both ways!

Yes I think so. I’m pretty sure that’s what I was doing into GarageBand

As in tip is FS4 and ring is fs5 in stomp, your pedal is the other wayround with A is ring and B is Tip. but seeing as you can assign the pedals to whatever you want in the software I don’t understand why it would matter

But if FS4 = stomp 5 and FS5 = stomp 4 does it matter?

Photos upside down but you can scroll here with what each switch does - so it can be stomp 4 or 5 or whatever

You can change that

Here we go... you will have two or three by the end of the year!

I doubt it was made in Markneukirche as I thought they only moved there in 1992 after reunification

Here’s a question- to the folk who have lots of basses, do you have darker and lighter sounding basses in your arsenal? Do you use them for different things? reason I ask. My main bass for years was a Japanese ‘57ri, I’ve a fairly strong right hand finger style technique and digging in harder would unlock this wonderful grindy sound. (it’s not the strings hitting the frets clank as I have the action higher than that) I use this for a more aggressive louder sound and then hit softer for a less aggressive sound. my latest bass, an old Lakland 55-94 is a darker sounding bass, with supposedly “darker” sounding pickups and preamp... when I dig in the tone doesn’t change much, just gets louder! Now that could be a positive, but it’s a bit unnerving at the moment. I guess the question is how do people approach different sounding basses? Pickup swapping to get similar response vs enjoying instruments for their differences..