LukeFRC

To be fair I had issues with a seized bridge on my Bravewood- in possible explanation for both of them their was a shortage of Allparts vintage style bridges in 2020 and when they came back the metal was very soft … which could have been due to covid shortages as much as the actual bridge. Anyway partly my fault for forcing it! the gotoh aged unit thst replaced it is brilliant

Jeez that comes across as a bit aggressive. YouTube clips of basses is never going to be a good way to make definitive decisions. ultimately if someone want the Wal tone they buy a Wal. (Which Funkle has) if you wanted too, and knew the right people you could then clone it, but that’s not a cheap (or commercial viable option otherwise it would have been done) and gets into morally dubious areas around trade dress. another option would be to take the concept of a Wal and upgrade it to the 21st century- and ACG made awesome things along those lines. or you could get bits that are currently available and see how close you could get, which would be fun…. This is a thread on a forum where funkle explores the recipe that make up a bass that sounds but doesn’t look like and spends his money trying things, the rest of us are just along for the ride for our own enjoyment and to learn something.

BTW I'm not disagreeing with this. It's good - it's just that the discipline of being happy with what you have is also good to learn. Then you do the fun things because they are fun, rather than trying to fill a Dingwall shaped hole in your soul

Oh and GAS is a fun mistress to entertain, but it's not really linked to music and musicianship. If it's affordable and fun then great, and there's lots of fun things to try but if you feel you need to or have too then there are bigger issues.

Fender typically didn't do shielding... and when he did with metal plates behind pickups etc he moved away from it, whether on tone or cost basis I don't know but the skinny string players apparently say it it attenuates the high end. I've had a pre EB ray on my bench and that didn't have or need shielding And neither did my early 80's L1000 - they just didn't have or need it and it wasn't part of the design.... that's different to skimping.

Is it tomorrow yet?

whatever that is looks lovely. I like the way the shape of the pickup has been mirrored in the thumb rest/fretboard thing.

Have you just starred out the word “the” in that acronym?

I like the idea Ped has a secret files stash

300-600 will get you a Korean made sire or bass collection bass - a whole bass. So that’s what you are kinda going against. I think the problem is that you might not be solving a problem people have - that kinda money gets you a whole bass if you want and people who don’t really want to spend money won’t pay for fancy then at the top end people who want high end stuff and fancy woods etc will probably be able to afford John shukers prices (of equivalent) and have the reliability and reassurance of a known name

this. And if I did want a fancy wood neck I'm going with a luthier I know to make it.

Orchid DI for the cheap but good option

Save saves it to cloud I think?

That was really interesting- I wonder if the cab IR were on on the Ampeg? it sounded like the bassrig had the analogue cab sim on maybe but then the ampeg sounded like it didn’t

85 one I had I asked Warwick about, “sorry the first few years I messed up the ergonomics and the horn is too short”

I had a early 80's Thumb bass a while back ... the MEC preamp and active SD pickups designed in an era before tweeters/horns in bass cabs were common. I ultimately sold it as I was normally DIing straight into the desk and using IEM and there was so much top end it was painful

Glockenklang on board preamp has the treble control at 18k or something- so it being higher isn’t completely crazy.

I have put it in the shared diary but the boss hasn’t noticed it’s there yet (and house buying project and two weans means it may not happen) - anyone coming down from Leeds or around?

Everyone says it’s inflation but the price of Wals only went up when they had to buy their own chip factory in Taiwan

Will it make you feel even older I I say mid 1985 was within 6 months of being a year of birth for me and I would have been a newborn!

A NT 4 string bass was my holy grail bass - and I managed to find a lovely 1985 model around the time of my 29th birthday it was amazing but after 4 years it spent more time on the wall looking lovely than being played… and traded it.

It would be hard these days to find a IC with as low slew rate and supposedly “bad” performance as the one they use.

having experimented with a few pre-EB copies I made and a real '77-78 pre I think the caps do make a small difference. That preamp and the way it links to the pickup is an absolute masterpiece. I now want a stingray again

A schematic for the original preamp is freely available on the web - if they haven’t got that bit right then something is wrong!

But that’s only copyrighting the layout or schematic drawing - you could just redraw the same circuit in a different way