MichaelDean

I've been playing my jazz the most recently out of all of my basses. I'm thinking about sanding back the body and staining it purple when it's a bit warmer too.

Enjoy! Good choice on the colour too!

I bet you could be persuaded with something purple, sparkly and with three pickups!

Rubbish! I hope you both find it has been worth the wait!

I'm the opposite. White/mint guards are very rarely acceptible to me! They remind me of cheap starter basses from when I started. Black is generallly my preference. Never had a tort, but I wouldn't say no if a bass I wanted had one.

She's Daisy Pepper. I think she started an online presence for a college course and is now a session bassist. There is a looper on it. It says "LOOP" on the front as a hint 😅

Apparently there's a bass synth on the GX-1B! Hopefully that gets moved over too 🤞

Versus the rest of the GX range, I can see a new drive: SA DI DRIVE This models a TECH21 SANSAMP BASS DRIVER DI. New amps: ACOUSTIC - Might be in the guitar list on the GX-10/100 This is the optimal amp for acoustic bass and similar instruments. SUPR FLAT An amp with flat tonal characteristics. FLIPTOP This models the Ampeg B-15. SW-TOUR This models the SWR SM-400. A new Glitch delay too. Hopefully they'll make their way to the rest of the GX range...

It was a good practice last night. One guitarist was trying out a new amp (a Laney Ironheart IRT-SLS) which sounded and will be plenty loud enough. The other was testing a new practice rig but managed to forget the power supply for his tiny pedalboard amp, so he was straight into the PA from a GP-5 but that worked alright. I was also testing out my Spector NS Icon with the right(ish) strings on, sounds great to my ear for what we do. We managed to get a new song ready except for lyrics, so that was also good!

Zero sugar, zero caffeine coke? They must hate you! 😂

They were screwed in on mine.

I did it on a Harley Benton tele I owned. I felt like it made it more resonant. No scientific measurements were made though! Easy enough to do with a hand drill. Just make sure you go deep enough for the threaded insert and then use a countersink bit to just bring the edge down a little before putting the insert in.

This just popped up in my feed and I thought it looked interesting. Adjustable from 15mm to 19mm. Should make some more basses useable for spacing sensitive types. https://www.fullcontacthardware.com/babicz-fch-aj-4-5-adjustable-spacing-bass-bridge

It's definitely the DB-500H. The foundry has black knobs and silver corner protectors.

There has been some talk in my band of potentially investing in an IEM setup with an XR18. What's the best way of combining the two XLR outputs to one TRS jack cable?

It isn't a perfect bass like you'd expect from a US Fender either. The body is rough in places, the frets could be polished and there are a couple of small dents on the neck. I'd have sent it back if I received even a £200 bass like that. But it's super comfy to play after a just quarter turn of the truss rod, sounds good, holds tune and resonates really nicely. I just want to pick it up and play it a lot, which is the sign of a good bass to me.

That Les Paul is a bit tasty! Hope it's a good session!

It's a Zilla 212. Lovely sounding thing. They'll make just about anything on request, but they've got a fun configurator on their website for tolex, piping and grill cloth options. The cabs are all made down in Cornwall these days. https://www.zillacabs.com/

Enjoy! I love mine!

First place for me goes to my Fazley jazz bass. It just needed a small truss rod tweak and the frets could be polished, but it was a bargain at £63. Honourable mention to my Spector Icon and Sonicake Pocket Master. My pocket master has meant I've done a lot more practice since I've had it. And I think my Spector will come into it's own when band practice resumes next week. I need to tweak my next Newtone order though. The same gauge strings don't work between my Dingwall and the Spector. A bit too much tension on the high strings and the low ones are a bit loose.

I think these look great! Something a bit fun!

It says Ensenada on the headstock...

That's super helpful, thank you.

The lack of full MIDI implementation is what's really putting me off committing right now. I need more than three scenes. I know you can combine the stomp switches and scenes with MIDI, but I'd rather be able to have a MIDI preset per song with bits turning on and off. I was thinking the Luminite Graviton might be a good shout for a controller. I've not heard much about it, but it looks pretty feature packed. I'm assuming there'd be an import fee with it. https://luminitefx.com/en-gb/products/graviton-m2-midi-controller I'd also want more than one expression pedal as I like one as always volume and another for wah or delay times & feedback. Though I guess I could get round that with MIDI, and map one to control one or more knob bindings. One question for current MIDI users: For arguments sake, if you've got scene A on, then you use a stomp, and then move to scene B, would the stomped effects turn off for the newly selected scene?

We're opening up for Epithemus' album launch on the 7th of February, so that should be fun! https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/exchange/sat-7-feb-epimetheus-140572#e140572