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Isn't it great when a bass just fits you? And neck love is the best. The body may have the looks but it's the neck makes or breaks the relationship.

Wonder what a shiny reflective silver scratch plate would look like on that black beauty...

Strange one last night. Pub wasn't ready for us so we ended up setting up in a rush. No proper sound check.

I basically plugged in and played tweaking the sound of the Veyron as I went along.

Thought I'd be eating my words. Could not get any of that elusive heft from it. Sound was just a bit gutless. Turns out I'd wound the compressor/limiter knob way up to nearly one o'clock. 

In the break I had another look and dialled it right back and presto! Heft, weight, depth, ooomph, boom, bang and wallop a plenty.

1 hour ago, HazBeen said:

There isn’t any Behringer hating going on in my opinion, I do see fierce defence of Behringer to a point where people stop seeing nuance.

That's an interesting perspective. Coming from the other side of the debate all I thought I saw was a queue of people attacking the brand in ways entirely free from nuance, subtlety, wit or reason.

That's my fault for being defensive - as if I was being attacked for my choice of gear. I'm not of course, I'm just being intolerant of other people's opinions.

I need to be less ready to rush to judgement and more prepared to respond with a little perspective.

So thank you.

Is the K series the lightweight range?

My God, that's beautiful. Whereabouts are you?

Thanks man, I'll add a Mustang to my ever growing list of wanna try  basses.

Thank you all for the responses. Some great ideas. And Ped for that really kind offer. If I end up round your way I'll give you a shout!

Thanks for sharing. I've always liked the look of a Mustang. Never played a shorty before. How did you find gigging with it? Or have you always used short scale basses?

2 hours ago, scrumpymike said:

Around 7.5lbs

Thank you

What weight is the shortscale?

Thanks guys, I will go and investimagate.

The moment you think the GAS has left you....

💰💰💰💰

Whoever ends up with this is a lucky bass player.

Anyone recommend a travel bass? Folding or otherwise. My ambition is to cycle to rehearsals.

Subscribed. Particularly like when the manicured finger and thumb appear to alter the effect!

4 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

If you changed the thread title to "Cheesy" rather than "Crap" I suspect there would be much less scope for folk like me getting on our sanctimonious high-horses and defending (recently departed and much loved / admired) creative genius songwriters! 😂 

George Michael was a wonderful singer. If I say he could have filled Freddie Mercury's shoes I think that says enough. Wrote some crap songs though 😝

8 hours ago, Al Krow said:

But that's the difficulty here. Who's call is it that a song is "crap"? 

If I could write any of the tunes that George Michael wrote as part of Wham, I'd be a very happy man.  

If it's so awful why is to so fun to play? 

On reflection, I think it's a little arrogant for any of us to call songs that many people love, "crap". At most we can say that we personally don't like them. Which is fair enough. 

Some classical music lovers might regard all rock music as noise. Does that make them right? 

Personally I'd say "Sweet Child" is a much loved anthem, which we love playing and audiences love listening to. It's definitely not "crap". 

Just saying. 

Of course you're right, my tongue is somewhat in my cheek with this thread. However I am declaring myself judge and jury and no matter what you say the Monkees were great 😉

Just now, Al Krow said:

Hah! In that case so are pretty much ALL of George Michael's! 😎 

Wake Me Up cannot surely be considered remotely 'great' can it? My God it's awful. But amazingly fun to play.

3 minutes ago, paul_c2 said:

I don't think it was ever a "trick" - they probably wouldn't check into the USA, but out of it, with a bass, they'd need to see evidence of ownership prior to the trip (ie you'd need to prove it was already yours, not bought in the UK). Do you have a receipt for that crappy old bass? With the serial number and description of the new one??

Dammit. I was sure that was a real genuine ruse.

2 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

I'm a Believer by the Monkees. Carol Kaye's bassline just drives the entire song. 

Sorry I'm not allowing it - it's a great tune!!

40 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

That’s half the fun of being in an 80’s band. Utter cheese fest, but most of the songs are great to play.

Wake Me Up is a great example. I also have Footloose, True, Video Killed The Radio Star, Rio, The Final Countdown and many more.

Footloose is a perfect example. A great challenge to get every note right - especially at speeds some bands play it.

The old trick of taking a crappy old bass with you, dumping it and bringing a different one back not viable any more?

Never could listen to GnR without strong pain killers to hand but I learned Sweet Child Of Mine for a function dep slot and man I love playing it.

Similarly you'd be unlikely ever to walk in on me listening to Wham but I am loving the bass part to Wake Me Up Before You GoGo.

Any tunes or bands you hate but end up enjoying playing?

2 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

I remember the days when I was an important customer ... that was quite fun.

Didn't last long, mind.

 

I'm never going to be important but I'll always be grateful I snapped up your BF cabs.