Wolverinebass

Superb news!! Congrats!! I must admit that (probably like everyone) I immediately thought of companies I'd like an endorsement from. Ironically, none of them are basses. D'addario strings. Darkglass. Vanderkley. Tech21. Maybe DR strings as well. That's my list. Are you listening fine bass gear makers?!!

Four of us Si. I'm still all in.

Oh come on. That doesn't count!! Contracts have been exchanged before the cutoff period.

Well, those Richard Bona basses look horrible. I can imagine the design meeting where they couldn't figure if they should have a smooth outline or pointy. Let's have both!! That won't look weird!! Let's make a headstock like a fender. That always gets people to buy stuff. Shall we make it look like a hippo has bitten off the back of the bass? Oh man, this is going great! Let's do a massive pickup that might have a ramp in the middle. That's never divisive on looks. I think we're done here. This is a WINNER! Or alternatively, this is an object lesson in how to design something totally hideous.

Surely something new and shiny will help you through the disappointment?

Why do we not get that?!! That looks amazing! Sort your lives out Aria!!

What @TrevorR doesn't mention is the reason that picture looks a bit squint is because that bass has tilted the axis of the Earth as it's so heavy. It's an amazing bass though it's just unfortunate that you can only lift it with something that contains hydraulic fluid.

I guess I'm lucky. I've acquired most things that I could use already. Willpower is overrated. However, if myself and Si are the only ones left, that makes me laugh.

I'm not going into withdrawal yet so I guess I'm okay for the moment. I might need a pedalboard if one of my projects starts gigging more after April, but that's a long way away.

Funnily enough, I saw the "world renowned" Tickled Trout on some band's tour dates the other day on Facebook. It made me laugh so hard that I almost splintered my rib cage.

@Al Krow, really my dear boy. This is futile. You have an 8 string! Besides, as I'm sure after you played my 8 and 12, you realise that pedals won't have the same effect. If you emphasised the harmonic content of the signal more nobody would even have any doubt as to which was which as the top end of the pedal signal would sound too uniform and plastic sounding.

Well, obviously that has a fault. The tone on the Lutz stuff is classic, unfettered, in your face Tech21. The sample posted sounds broken. Maybe a replacement unit might be the best option @Tech21NYC? @NancyJohnson is a dyed in the wool Tech21 customer with not just this, but a Dug pedal, RBI and GT2 in the stable. From what I understand Rocky Road looked at it and sent it back unfixed which is a bit unamusing.

Unless they're amazing pedals, the bods at Ashdown are have smoked too much gear when they decided on price. Unlike Darkglass they don't have the hype nor consistent track record to justify those prices. I'd take Wounded Paw over this any day. 150 quid will get you a 4 band parametric EQ with a distortion and parallel fuzz (both separately switchable) with the fuzzes ability to be turned into an octave up fuzz. 150 quid versus 260 for this.

It's probably damaged stock. Look at that bass! It's been melted like a marshmallow over a fire.... Oh, it's a singlecut. But yeah, 7 grand cheaper.

Totally agree. I don't even like 5 strings and that is a beautiful bass. I remember playing one like it at the bass guitar show a couple of years ago. Similar wood, but left naturally blonde. That was an amazing bass and a "step away from the vehicle" moment.

If you want a Wal or Alembic, good luck getting them for less.

Just to clarify, I wasn't advocating violence towards him or Daphne & Celeste. I should have put that bit in quotation marks as it was representing the hypothetical thought process of the people who thought about the potential train wreck of a show whilst rubbing their hands with glee.

My mates who are going are doing so for the "irony." The Underworld have thought along the same lines as the idiots who thought it'd be a good idea to book Daphne & Celeste at Reading festival. I mean, nobody is going to bottle them are they? Obviously not. But if they do, wouldn't that be good sport? Irony or not that guy isn't getting one penny of my cash as he's a narcissistic, manipulative creep.

Possibly something that Hans Peter Wilfer won't falsely claim to have invented first.

A fair point. I should have said his music is "derivatively challenged." Not crap. At all. 😋 However, it just kind of strikes a raw nerve in me how he treated his bandmates. The fact that I find his music cliched, hackneyed 80's throwback dreck is just an extra justification for wondering what's happening in the originals scene where the underworld will book this tool. Now for the best bit. 2 of my closest friends are actually going. I declined their invitation. "But you like rock and metal Andy!!" was their reply. I had to literally hit myself on the back of the head to get my eyeballs to come down from inside my skull, they had rolled so far.

Shake hands with the right, overhand cross with the left?

Well, that's sold me into going. "Come and be part of the meme." Er, no. Whilst there's a lot to be said for the sheer insanity to dream all this stuff up, there are certain things outstanding which need to be addressed. Firstly, this guy is a tool and if you go to this show you're enabling his narcissism and literally sticking the middle finger up to the musicians he screwed over to book his first tour and were left out of pocket trying to get back to America. Secondly, the music is crap. You're going to heckle, not to see your favourite band. It's not 1986. This guy's stuff has had its time and it flies so in the face of the current "Mumford and sons acoustic indie crap" which is somehow popular that you know that nobody would go and see it were it not for the story and "irony factor." Thirdly, it's doing someone else's band out of a slot. Melodramatic possibly, but everyone who's been in original bands has struggled to get a fan base and play bigger and better gigs. To see this knob blag it all especially when his tunes are crap quite irritates me. The originals scene is hard enough if you don't do insipid acoustic crap, but to see this guy and his wife literally screw folk over and then get asked back really is irritating especially when there are many members of the forum whose respective bands would just destroy this jumped up, narcissistic, hair metal donkey's music. It's a sad day that "irony" has now replaced "talent" as the driving factor. Welcome to the apocalypse.

I've played a few Foderas. They were very well made, but I didn't think they were tonally amazing. "Polite" would have been a nice way to describe them. "Characterless" would be a slightly harsher. Now, I own quite a few expensive basses. There aren't that many basses in general that I can't find some sort of positive aspect of regardless of price. I think Foderas are overpriced. Alembic as well though I've owned one for almost 20 years. Wal are getting there as well. Ultimately, if you don't like the product, it's overpriced if it costs a fiver or 20 grand. To pick on Fodera alone is pointless. Fenders are overpriced!!

That was interesting. Certainly, he's right about rack products, but what I'd like is the pedals to have midi presets. I'd certainly be intrigued to see what they come up with next as recent developments have been great.

Warwick "We invented just a nut in 1982!!" Alembic "Try 1969." Hans Peter Wilfer reminds of that Family Guy skit where Thomas Edison is going round all these inventors stealing their ideas and then saying he invented them when he doesn't really have a clue what they are, only that he can make money off stealing their patents. I bet he does loads of outdoor cooking in Heidelberg or wherever Warwick are based. The correlation becomes almost undeniable......