miles'tone

Sorry to hear that. I hope things settle down for you soon. The objective answer is yes, you do need all that stuff. Maybe doesn't feel that way this week, very soon it will. Best of luck mate.

It sounds to me Andy that you just haven't spent enough time getting to know the Modulus yet. A great nugget of advice that I read on here once comes to mind (from StingRay Pete I believe): When using a 2-band 'Ray he suggested setting the bass control to suit the musical situation and room then forget about it. From there just view the treble control as you would a passive tone control which you can tweak song to song. Volume dialled I presume. At your next rehearsal, if possible, try setting your amp flat and stand as far away from your amp as you can so your judgement isn't tainted by what you hear right next to it. You'll have a much better idea of what you need to tweak and what other people are hearing too. Don't mean to come across as trying to teach you to suck eggs mate, it's just I had a great old StingRay that I regret selling because I didn't get how to dial it in at the time. I read Pete's tip too late unfortunately. Spend a year or two with your Flea before you make your mind up and give it a good go, you'll probably find your sound in there eventually. Plus you scored one in the best finish!

I think you can go pretty slow with immac, don't take too long though as it will start to burn. On the other hand if you're waxing it's best to just grit your teeth and rip it right off hard. Horses for courses..

When it's Crap Rock. There's plenty of it unfortunately.

To stay off social media. It doesn't make sense or mean anything and everyone's gone mad.

https://youtu.be/1mqLii-8SPY Bring back Kenny. So subversive YouTube won't allow it to be embedded!

Yup, it's all the same thing; life, the universe and everything.

I'm currently learning Funky Monks by RHCP. It's a bit of a challenge as I don't have a 5er anymore but kicking on an octave pedal for the low parts is getting me by ok. Having fun!

I suggest keep your pedals and buy a quality set of flats for your L2500. Change strings to suit whatever buzz is floating your boat. Would only take 5 mins out of your day, just make sure you buy a set of flats that more or less matches your rounds tension so it's a straight swap with no farting about. No regrets, and you're welcome! 🍻

I see what this is all about. It's about getting everyone to off load all their excess basses, thus saturating the BC marketplace and bringing prices crashing down so we have more choices for much cheaper. Well played sir, and thank you! 👏🍻

They certainly do when I make them.

How does it sound then? Can it do the traditional P/J thing well? It looks like it would be a monstrous funk machine too! I've got an incoming passive JBS but I'm wondering now if I should have held out for a Power JBS..

I moved back to rounds too. Loving Dunlop Superbright Steels on my P. Bloody excellent!

I'm not in a band now and I'm relishing the thought of having no musical commitments for 2020. I have made a Spotify playlist of songs I always wanted to learn and can't wait to work my way through them now that I have the time. I should be 'shed' loads better this time next year!

By ages I meant about 6 months mate. Once I'd healed it was fine, like it never happened and I could play again. You really have to be very conscious not to use that hand though which is hard at first as you instinctively do. I put myself back to square one on one occasion by doing that. I wish you a speedy recovery, as in less haste more speed. 😉

I had it. It took many months of resting it, wearing a splinted wrist support for the first few weeks. No surgery required thankfully but I couldn't play bass for ages though.

Lovely bass!

That just made me 'LOL' and scare the shoot out of everyone on a very quiet train! 😂😂

I was just thinking yesterday that maybe an upside to the current state of our country and the tough times no doubt ahead, will hopefully be that we'll get some great new meaningful bands arising from the debris.

I love playing along to The Free Design 😊

Yes I only heard this a couple of years ago! Always did wonder what happened to it after seeing them writing it on Funky Monks. I can understand why it wasn't on BSSM as it sounds more like a Mother's Milk track to me. Pretty darn classic all the same!