LukeFRC

cheers - you mentioned $2249 new earlier- I'm guessing USD$ is that including taxes and import etc?

I had 8 once with a acg preamp. No switch though. what preamp is it? and pups changed too? Edit - hold on that’s the sire not the bass collection?!

That’s a lot of knobs

For the rest of us who only see pictures on line of them: why moollon? And why over any of the other similar options out there?

Ah you’ve still got it, I thought that got sold. I thought he reached perfection with the L1000?

G&L? Edit :no you've got an SB1??

Who owns a Roland D-Bass 210 combo? next question... did I sell it to you? I just found the manual and for the life of me can't remember who I sold it too... about 5-6 years ago. YOu've probably figured out how it works by now, but if you (or anyone else with the combo who wants it) would like it shoot me a PM and I can stick it in the post. .

good thread to share this that one of the members of the forum is selling. Moollon jazz... i want it! (but can't afford before I sell something)

high praise!

More pics!

My findings this week... the stomp is awesome. Rochester comp into svt4 - I don’t even know how to optimise the comp really, but it’s transformed a bottom heavy and thumpy sounding Lakland 55-94 its not even doing anything that special. i love the way I can tailor a rig to a bass. I don’t really use it for more than that at the moment but it’s fantastic!!

+1

nice - I was enjoying looking at that when it was in the "for sale" section - I'm glad it sold!!

I’m also building a bench. There’s at least 7 others too!

Could you record the sound With no mistakes and then mime along with your smile on And splice together?

I have no problem with a finger a fret on a 34inch scale, I’ve been doing it on a 35inxh scale without thinking since November and it was only yesterday where I was doing something Fast that was having me stretch Over two frets that I noticed the extra scale length.

My mate from church has an original Hammond organ. He went to the professional electronics expert in town to get it serviced. He did his thing, It was ok but still not 100%. Then this old guy turned up at church to help the leaders for a few months. He asked to have a look at the organ, stripped it down and fixed it. It turned out he used to build them for a living, and now restoration was a hobby of his. The professional knew the basics and could do a decent enough job. But their expertise was in electronics generally and they would work on anything. He knew a lot about a lot, but not to a massive depth. The somebody we knew nothing about had one very small window of expertise and knew a massive amount, at great depth, about one make of organ.

I've no idea where Canada sits, but having had flatmates who played in worship bands in the US I can compare it to there... typically we don't do mega church as much, most churches will be small, and less professional in terms of worship bands etc. Typically if you're good, and part of the church you will have no problem getting in. You possibly don't even have to be good, but there's a culture of being part of where you serve. I know my friends in the US used to get paid and play in lots of different churches, I'm not sure that happens in the UK. So "performance quality" may be down, but you gain things with a lower key community approach too... That said all cities and a lot towns will have a bigger church that models itself on the bigger Hillsong style big church with a focus on performance - so if thats your thing that's there. I've got friends at Emmanual church in brighton, but beyond that I don't know the south coast - but a "more mature, progressive Christian who doesn't like to listen to fundamentalist dogma being proliferated any longer" - that's probably so subjective to what you're looking for I've no idea! There will be something for you, whether the church that fits where you're at had great worship playing too... or the place with great worship fits with you I don't know! There's probably less of a cultural gap between 'progressive' and 'fundamentalist' in the UK compared to north america, and what you mean by those terms, and ones like evangelical, might be understood contextually quite differently

I like this thread

Aww cheers. I think I'm outwardly processing with this bass quite a bit. There's the 5 string thing. (which I'm fine with and like) the 35 inch scale thing (which I'm only now getting used to the bass enough to go 'erm' with) and the sound of it (which I don't like, and love all at the same time) and the preamp and switching (which I've got my head around now) And it's trying to get my head around it all - there's been enough times that if someone offered me a half decent 4 string Precision bass in trade I might have taken them up on it... but also wanting too persevere and not take the easy route. Musically and having the notes on hand I'm a fan of 5s. The trade off is hand size needed. It's a really easy bass to play... but it seems to lend itself to a certain style of playing...

One month later... With some bass preamps you boost the bass or treble it makes them louder. With this Bartolini on you turn it up and it makes them sound fatter too and adds harmonic content... which is fine, but I was setting it flat and not liking it... my big penny drop moment was that "flat" on the bass seems to be cutting it a little bit. I was all ready to give up and move it on up till then. what I really really like about this bass is the fact that it's got loads of low mids - if I set it right I can get passably into the way that a P bass sits in the mix. - which is amazing. Now I've got the preamp kinda figured the tonal range of the thing is really really nice. What it doesn't have much of is aggressive or cutting high mids and digging in doesn't give you any more of them either. In terms of the 5th string. It feels normal now. BUT for the first time I was playing something fast tonight and I noticed the 35inch scale and I was stretching more, and some bits couldn't move my hands quick enough. That's not anything to doc with having a B string, just small hands!

I am not @Bassassin, I am not even a Padawan of 70s Japanese stuff but it looks so similar to the Cimar I had, even that bloody horrid bridge with the adjustment screws sniffing for blood. I seem to have lost the images from around then though.

maybe that's why he sold it?!

Not mine anymore. Sold it (v cheap) to a mate. He’s still playing it