Woodinblack

Kay guitars - as the generation who know how shit they are and wants to burn them, people will buy them for retro cool.

Has he used the player circle code on them?

The front knob of all basses shall always be volume! - obviously if you have twin volumes, they shall be the front two knobs!

Stripes you say?

of course it will!

Yeh - it is currently at the F#0

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ok, not that F# - the one above E Seems the AI is getting a little confused there! I think it might need heavier strings to get to E, although not much. I could turn it to a sub bass, E-C if I did that!

I was a little surprised. When I pluck up the nerve I might investigate more. The strings are currently good but I am sure newtone can make some

Actually, pretty good! Even when you take it down to f#!

I do - I thought I corrected that everywhere. Might be getting a bit flappy by then!

Nah, sure that newtone will be ok for that

No, pretty sure it is quite old, but I don't know when. it is serial no. 041, so I am guessing that was a while back.

Does give me a bit of a contrast though!

Haha - maybe not tall enough! I have just tuned it down to F# -> D and it works really well at that tuning!

I realised that I had just made the assumption that it was a BEADG tuning and the action was a bit high. I just tuned it to C#BEAD and it handles that well

Oh I hadn't listened to that yet, will have to soon!

Oh yes, that string too!

Normal 5 string - b-d Pretty full!

Thanks for the info. ah - the leds don't turn on, I assumed they were broken.. will try the batteries. No, still nothing I think the switch might be a coil switching mod. When I got it, the batteries were dead and I couldn't get any sound out of it at all, so it seems like there is no passive mode. Oh yes, the front volume, which I have worked out is mag pickup volume, has a pull switch.

Now I look, I think there is a bit more sense. There are two commercial preamps - I am guessing bass / treble / pan / volume for the bart pickups, volume / bass / treble for the magnetic pickups and a balance knob between the two (where the magnetic ones are quite powerful). And there are also two 'home made' preamps in the same compartment!

Here we go, my new Sei flamboyant. Resplendant in its 43" scale!

It was marked in the listing as just over 5kg, but although its heavy, it doesn't really come across as heavy, maybe due to the scale? It doesn't feel heavier than some of my other basses. Balance is fine, I think it has been proportionatly scaled, so sitting on a leg it feels fine - it has two strap buttons so I would imagine balance on a strap is good. I will take it to a practice this week and see what it is like to play standing a few hours.