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Glad you like it. Looking forward to a full review! I found it compared really well with the Musitronics version despite everyone saying it was rubbish (but obviously they had never tried either)

Yeah I like it too. I think k it was Ian Allison on Scott’s Bass Lessons who said it. He’s such an enthusiastic guy it’s hard not to like him 👍🏼

I’ve heard vintage basses (or just instruments in general) described as ‘functional art’ - which makes sense to me.

Very sad. I’ll remember him as a lovely bloke and amazing bassist.

You’ll get a list of every OD pedal ever! But mine is the Valco KGB Dist. The impedance and polarity switches make a huge difference to the way the pedal behaves and I haven’t seen that function on anything else. It does a low gain breakup perfectly for me.

Should be ok now thanks to @Woodinblack we would have done this behind the scenes a bit more if we had a chance but our server guy was so quick that we didnt have a chance 😂

OK new server is purchased and we're migrating everything in the next few days. We'll test it for a bit and make a switch over soon. This will involve importing the database. The site itself shouldn't be down/offline at any stage but I'll let everyone know.

I've been having trouble even logging in just now, so perhaps... I'd be perfectly suited to government

We're running out of room on the server. I'll look into an upgrade - a quick look at current offers shows we can upgrade to one which will be 3x faster with double ram and storage... It'll happen in the next few days, all being well

I actually think pickup placement is more important to the P sound than the pickup type. I’ve had really good P sounds from a few different basses with a variety of pickups. Standout ones are humbuckers with one hot coil, such as the MFD in OMG mode (iirc) or a custom thunderbird dual coil like I have now from Gemini pickups.

Oh yeah it was hot as hell! But dial the volume back a tad and it sounded very P like

I found it very close personally

Is a G&L SB1 too much like a Precision shape for your taste?

On it's way today!

You can install some taller rubber feet to give you some extra height

Speaking of which (the DIY scene) - I'be been borrowing this funky thing from @LukeFRC It sounds great - with a fixed fast attack it excels at the bubbly funk sound. Build quality is great, I really like the punched lettering.

I know a bloke who works for the company who do the contract manufacturing for Origin (Tioga Ltd). I'll see if he knows anything!

Beef If Fifteen

Love it when that happens!

Yes they have. It can be harder to find an original as they are often modified (not necessarily badly) but even some of the badly modified ones are silly prices. A good one with a racing stripe seems to be around £3500. Pre-stripe is about 4K. Post stripe around 2 grand? I do think they vary quite a lot probably more so than P basses I have tried from various eras but a nice one is a terrific and versatile bass, and a little bit different. Are you looking for a specific one?

A simpler way to deal with it is to give your opinion and back it up, and if someone proves otherwise (and you disagree) just say: “OK, my evidence shows otherwise, but there you go” Not hard. Let the silent majority who enjoy the well presented experience and information make up their own mind. Nobody knows for sure anyway. Surely that’s part of the fun.

A young Andy Baxter dismantled it to check its authenticity

Back to normal now please? One of the most useful threads on BC. Don’t ruin it by arguing about something so daft.

Hi there. I know what you mean. I think it’s a cool sound too, it really works and the clicky clank makes the bass really stick out if the mix and fits in so well with the drums. I’m not sure why Fieldy is often a figure of ridicule. It’s not my sound but I remember asking a similar question years ago on Talkbass. To this day I like a slightly clanky sound. He plays an Ibanez Soundgear, but a modern 5 string with two pickups will work. Super low action, detuned of course. His amp is very clean and probably somewhere there’s a limiter to give the sound a definite ‘wall’ so it can drop in between the guitars and drums. A similar approach without limiting would likely lead to a fairly uneven sound and struggle for volume. Oh and not much in the way of mids!

I bought a vintage mustang which had a pickup change to P/J in the 70s. It sounded great - just like a full scale P/J but more even across the board. It lost the 'tubby' sound and had a much wider range. However the pickups weren't installed perfectly straight (and shrinkage of the pickguard pushed the P out of position a bit) so i had them changed to Thunderbird (dual coil) and Rickenbacker pickups, mostly because they were the only ones that would fit the existing cavities. Full story here and clips of what it sounds like here