dannybuoy

Will laugh if someone else bids £120 and it sells for that as there's no longer any other bidders (i.e. you) to compete against!

Sounds like they haven’t quite grasped how eBay works!

I should've stuck with my 1st list, I ended up changing it all around after each listen - at least I might have got 1 right! 4 was the other one that sounded a bit distorted on the low notes, so that could be the Joshwah also. Curious to know what 1 is!

Very tough! C4 Microtron Joshwah Chromatron Only one I'm reasonably certain about is the Joshwah, as it's impossible to dial out the distortion on that sucker! 1 is my favourite by far.

It's not a good thing, no. But amazingly lots of amps are this way including the 1st generation Darkglass M900!

I use EXL 170-5 (long scale, 45-130), and I believe that's what they fit as stock. Perfect fit stringing though the bridge on my BB1025X. No need for super long, as you say you might end up trying to wrap a thick string around the post if you did!

Dunlops dont have coloured ball ends, only D'Addario (as far as I know) plus a few brands that D'Addario manufacture for like Fender. D'Addario nickels are quite lively sounding, when new at least.

I don't know much about the nuances of the SVT4, but this is good for a small board:

Maybe some kind of prosthetic?

Always used D’Addario nickels as they were the brightest sounding nickels I’ve used. However I just tried their NYXLs and they seem even brighter and are keeping that brightness for longer to boot.

Never heard of this guy, but I can't work out ihe's a comedy genius or just unintentionally funny!

Cioks DC5 is great, but since its release it's had competition in the form of the Truetone CS6 and Strymon Ojai R30. Both premium options though, I'm sure there are some good low profile budget options about these days, just watch out as lots of the cheap ones don't have isolated outputs. This looks interesting though if you might be tempted by a USB rechargeable one: https://m.thomann.de/gb/mission_engineering_529_usb_pedal_power_supply.htm

75 RI sounds way better to me.

That was my first ever bass, I still have it!

They get better. I have a fretless that came with them stock and thought they were too grabby at first but they're slick now.

Budget option if the amp has an XLR out is a Behringer MA400. Great bit of kit, a simple XLR + aux input + headphone amp for not much dough. There are plenty of iOS interfaces like the iRig and Sonic Port, they’l also let you run amp sims and effects on the iDevice too. The cheap Zoom multis combine everything you would need including amps, fx, tuner, looper etc. The Bighead beats them all for clean pristine sound quality though, and is capable of driving higher impedance headphones that the iOS and Zoom devices struggle to push enough volume into.

Heard good things about the compressor - multi band is the way to go if you have any brightness or aggression in your tone IMHO. It's digital too which is why is uses so much power. I bought the drive and sent it back after five minutes. Just bland fizz layered on top of clean... although when maxed out it made a pretty good sounding fuzz!

They don’t have to be, but ones that do often have a filter so that the chorus effect isn’t applied to the lows. But there are guitar pedals that have this feature (e.g. Boss CE5) and ‘bass chorus’ pedals that don’t have it (Aguilar Chorusaurus)! EHX Bass Clone, Hartke Bass Chorus or TC Corona are good places to start.

Windows 10 plays FLAC natively by the way now, so don't even need VLC!

Did you ever try the trick of running the strap over the front of the bass? It totally solves the neckdive, if anything the neck goes up a bit when you let go! Neckfly?!

I hear the profile is quite slim front to back... I've had a few 5ers I didn't get on with due to the nut width, with the fretboard digging into the base of my finger when fretting the lowest note.

Here's a great example of the mellower side of these basses: I'm lusting after an NG2 or NG3 at the moment... I'd need to try one first though, fed up of buying basses blind and not getting on with them!