LukeFRC

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

there was a build thread on here where someone got a nitro finished roadwork jazz or something, and wanted to refinish it. They used acetone or something to wipe the top coat off to leave a nice smooth poly bottom coat to refinish over really simply.

Actually rude? Or just what a blunt German sounds like replying with a no, in a foreign language to them?

in most cases I don't think you can patent a circuit

but equally the odd thing is a £400 Sire, or even a £150 Harley Benton is fantastic quality at the low price point.

I got some circuit boards made up and posted to me from China for less than the price of some etchant… so for one off things it can be doable. Using the surface mounted parts however suggest more involved production!

Side Jack and 4 knobs?

Who needs a B string? Jaco didn't need one. or Who even likes the Beatles? Macca was rubbish on bass or Bubinga is the best tone wood ever for heft

take care of yourself @Ander87

I thought we were talking about regular muting technique to play in an accurate way that synths like rather than palm muting ?

Quatschmacher has learned good muting technique so they can choose how to use it in a song, or not to get the best out of pedal synths. I however have not got great muting technique. So I can't choose to vary my technique according to the song, can't get the best out of my pedal synths and nobody wants me playing in their band. Be like Quatschmacher

Yeah - sometimes everyone gets very excited over some brands when there is an element of chance in everthing. I do like a nice resonant feel. Add into that I’ve played basses that sing in my hands and awful in friends (and vice versa) as their right hand technique is different

Thanks (for the answer and getting thread on track) things to mull over, we offered to buy a new house today so the whole thing might go on the back burner anyway. the back story is years back I tried @Frank Blank’s Rob Allen mouse, it was fretless and short scale when all my basses are long scale fretted. I figured my next bass build project might be make something along a similar recipe and on the cheap! … I had thought of making a neck from scratch, mainly as I had never done that before… but then seeing retrovibe necks at £60 and knowing my propensity to mess things up…