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Ahh, but they have no word for "fluffy" (Blackadder Goes Forth, "Private Plane" - incase anyone doesn't get the reference)

I've never been breathalysed in my life! Not that I'd have an issue with it - it's one or the other, drinking or driving. I mostly just guzzle pints of water when playing a gig! Last drink? Saturday night - had a few drams with a mate. Walked home.

Apples (if you'll pardon the pun) and oranges. "Better" is measurable in computers. In basses, it mostly isn't.

I only offer my personal opinion - what anyone else does is up to them. But I have my red lines over which I do not cross for any bass, I don't give a monkeys who makes it or what mythical/mystical properties it may have.

I'll be bringing the "neep" my pedalboard also. It's not super exciting - a tuner, a pitch shifter, a compressor and an EQ/OD/DI

Well, your resident grippy Scot is here to tell you that £1500 is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a bass - I've bought CARS for less FFS! The most I have ever spent on a bass is £1300, and I thought long and hard about it. FWIW it was my G&L wunkay and it was my post-lockdown treat to myself. Apart from that, I try to keep it below a grand. There's so much good stuff appearing around the £500 mark these days (and lower) that there's no need to spend more to get "quality" any more. The "high end" manufacturers know this, and they are running scared from the increase in quality at the "lower" end of the market. They can't make their stuff any better (because they were already "the best", right?) so all they can do to differentiate themselves is to jack the price up to create this artificial aura of superiority - tapping into this "I paid more so it must be better, right?" part of our psyche. It's all smoke and mirrors. The high end aren't innovating, they aren't improving, and eventually people will see through this transparent bluff. I already have, I think.

Of course it matters - a guitarist and a drummer are wrong and need corrected, tag team style with a keys player. Get your head in the game!

I like bacon butties. Pass the HP sauce?

Great, you'll have space and funds to buy one of my basses then

Tee hee, four days to go and guess who is beginning to get distracted by that fact? Who, me?

Interesting - that contradicts what is on their website - it says 42mm nut width for the 4 string and 45mm for the 5 string. Goddamn it will they stick to one story? I don't mind if there has been a spec change, but update your site if that's the case!

A bass bash is when a bunch of bass players get together, bring some/all of their gear, set it up then we all go round admiring and trying out other people's basses. There's the general social aspect of it, there's often things like talks, gear shootouts, raffles and sometimes food is laid on also (can attest to the feast at this one being particularly good).

Hold my beer, where's that router?

I also had to do a double take the first time I saw your pic - I was looking at it on my phone and that towel is obscuring the E tuner successfully enough for me to initially think "has it been converted into a 3 string bass?"

Will be interesting to AB with an unmodified D5, looking forward to that!

You know why I'm here... ONE WEEK TO GO

Ach, we had no electricity or bin collections in the seventies, the eighties were made of plastic, the nineties were a pompous, arrogant "no jeans, no trainers" social disaster, the naughties we're all supposed to have turned into robots or something. I'm still digesting the 2010s. I've lived through all this doom and gloom and i'm still here.

And that's why we always have someone stay with the gear...

End of the world predicted!

I wish Sire would roll out Champagne Gold to more of their models, that's a lovely pale gold, not so yellow.

The controls (for the Z7) are listed as "Volume/Tone, Blender, Treble, Middle/Freq, Bass" - the Marcus Heritage-3 with Middle Frequency Control has a passive mode, on the V7 there's a toggle switch for passive/active, I guess on the Z7 they've hidden it on a push/pull for aesthetic/control plate space considerations. Z3 has no passive mode AFAIK. It does have a 3 band EQ though. Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass.

Couldn't tell you about string spacing - email Sire? I take back what I said earlier in the thread - I'm drifting towards a Z7 in burgundy. Yeah, right, it's pink. Anyhoo, it has grown on me and dat ebony board is also calling.

Every time I see the TU-3s, I can't help thinking it's a TU-3 that's been in a terrible accident...

The bass I've had the longest is my 2004 Epiphone Les Paul Standard, which I acquired in early 2009 and stock it looked like this: It was subsequently tricked out with EMG-HB pickups, an EMG-BQC 3 band EQ, John East knobs and a pickup selector switch in the usual LP location: I then stupidly sold it. Then I found it and bought it back. It acquired Schaller straplocks on its travels. Then I got bored of the EMG sound and also wanted to make it black and gold. So it got gutted, then rebuilt with DiMarzio X2N-B pickups, a Babicz bridge (only there because I couldn't find a gold three pointer for love nor money), gold Wilkinson tuners and a passive VVTT setup with series/parallel push/push pots on the tone pots. So yeah, I've had this bass on and off for about 15 years. I did some of my earliest gigs with it, and I guess it's going to stay with me. Not my first bass, but probably my first "good" one.