MichaelDean

Bass players who think just going straight into an amp is always the best 😜 EVERYONE notices when you're swelling three octaves of the same note, with an additional octave up & down into delay, reverb and shimmer reverb and you sound reminiscent of a church organ.

I don't think I've seen Duck Son & Pinker in the thread... Used to love getting the bus into Swindon and having a mooch in the music shops. The other two are still there, but I remember DS&P letting me play a lovely faded Gibson Les Paul DC that I wish I'd had the money for. And a Parker P40 come to think of it. Their bass stock was never great, but I spent quite a lot of time there. I think my mum got my Dad's clarinet serviced there when I decided to play that for a spell. Their Bath store was a bit of a landmark in the city too. I miss PMT too. Not so much the latest Bristol store, I think the old site was better. But it's sad that my closest music shop has gone.

Got another: clip on tuners on stage. Feel free to use them all round the house, but they should never be seen on stage. Even band practice is pushing it.

Maple fretboards and painted headstocks should never have happened. If the headstock is painted, it should be a dark wood fretboard. Ramps make your bass look bad. I don't care how they might help your plucking position. Work it out another way.

Brain fart! I've used too much thoughts to be much good for goodly looking at things and stuff this afternoon. (Power Automate can suck it though) Looks like it's still there on the website, so they're probably sat in a container somewhere, waiting to return. An email to SBMM might be an idea? https://intl.sterlingbymusicman.com/collections/stingray-sub-series-basses/products/stingray-ray4?variant=31560137441395

Looks to be that way. It isn't listed on their website for the colour options. https://intl.sterlingbymusicman.com/products/stingray-short-scale?variant=41301358837875

Could always add threaded inserts and use bolts for the pickups if you need it a bit longer. Alpher use M2.5 bolts in mounting their pickups. I have used a bit of laminate flooring offcut when I routed some P90 cavities a bit too low in a project this year. Turns out fake granite laminate is an excellent tonewood 😂

Yeah, I don't even think about it on my Dingwall. My thumb just rests on the curved edge. Plus it's properly rounded over onto the top of the pickup. No harsh edges. Much comfier than a p bass pickup, and better than the sharp edge of some jazz pickups. I often wonder why more aren't curved - the Mustang pickup looks really cool to me. And then I remember the massive Delano things and I reconsider my position... They're too oval and I can't see them as a "cool" option. Quirky? Yeah. Cool? Never.

First practice in a while. The drummer and guitarist were running late, but that meant we had time to re-record some vocals for the next EP. It was very fun playing loud again, and we chose the setlist for our next gig. And we also started getting a new song together.

There's the American Performer P bass in the current lineup.

Having been in this position and chosen an amp, I'm glad I did. It really elevated my experience and I hope it does for you too. A little Fender Rumble, Ampeg Rocket or the new Laney Digbeth Foundry would be a big step up for not all of your budget. An 8" speaker might be ok, but a 10" one generally sounds better to my ears. Always keep a lookout for used deals too. Here, Gumtree or Facebook marketplace are worth a nose. A little MarkBass or Gallien Krueger might pop up in your price range, or any of the others I've already mentioned could be a second hand bargain.

Yeah, I feel like the Bristol one has really gone downhill. The rooms all used to have decent enough gear. A rootmaster head and a 210/410 cab, a 412 and head plus a 212 combo for the guitarists. Now you're lucky to get a 100w Orange combo and one Boss Katana combo. But wait, "we have two guitarists" I hear you say? Tough sh!t. I really don't quite understand how everything gets so broken unless people are intentionally breaking it. Like, a 412? Are people intentionally trashing that? Or was the quality insufficient for the amount of use it gets and the budget not allocated for good replacements? Or perhaps they can just get away with cheap gear so they do. We use the live room of a studio most of the time and it's so much better. No noise from other bands because there aren't any within in the building. I get an 810, both guitarists have 412s and the drum kit is decent.

My Dingwall has a similar angle cut in. I find it much comfier than the P bass standard cut, which always seems to be in the wrong place for me. I'm seriously tempted to strip the finish off my HB tele and do a forearm contour like that... I might be a bad influence 😅

I told them to put you above the puppet show!

The drive sounds very similar from what I've heard on YouTube...

That's why you need to stack it on an 810. Makes the front controls much easier to see 😁

@BassAdder60 - that's a shame. I thought they looked decent - especially the Lionheart head. My Digbeth is a solid thing. Though the external transformer for the Ironheart Foundry doesn't seem like a great idea. Those flimsy cables are always the first to break. I don't remember ever having a broken kettle lead!

It does fix the only irk I have with my DB-500H, the foundry has a master volume. I don't know why that was omitted from the original. I look forward to your report when you get it!

Booo! Maybe an email to them is needed along with some gut shots?

That looks lovely! I went from mainly playing my Mustang to a SBMM Sub Ray 5 quite a few years ago now. I think I prefer 5s these days, but it's fun going to my Mustang from my Dingwall. Totally different beasts. Enjoy discovering it!

Maybe that's the reason I need to learn to play slap bass 😂

Zilla will do a 1x12 that you can match to whatever head you want: https://www.zillacabs.com/zilla-cab-customizer Sky is the limit. White with gold corners and VOX grill cloth? You got it!

I was doing some googling and came across this: Line 6 Electronic User Guide – Mission Engineering https://share.google/n6GYRtJQ2vG5qcdz6 Have you got metal washers on the output jacks? In which case, you might have revision A where you need a TRS -> Y cable.

The problem I have with NAM is that anyone can make a NAM profile now. They're not all created equal and you can waste quite a lot of time trying to find the needle in the haystack on Tone3000.

I briefly had a fretless bass. Didn't care for the tone and it didn't fit my bands. I was also using flats for the first time in a long time which I'm also not keen on. I don't like mwah and don't understand the appeal.There are a few songs where I don't mind fretless bass, but I don't even really like the tone of other people playing fretless bass. Safe to say it isn't for me 😅 Fill your boots though - variety is the spice of life.