mr4stringz

I’ve got a 2x12 bass cab. Got it used so can’t speak so far as their service goes. It’s a tad heavy, though not stupidly so. Sounds like thunder!

Hope this came with the black pickguard included too?

Amazing work! Congratulations!

I get it. Went on a similar journey for largely the same back-related reasons. Out with the Precisions and in with the Mustangs for me too. YMMV obvs but as someone who has always massively favoured a Precision, the JMJ for me feels and sounds like a smaller, absolutely killer, Precision. I absolutely love mine to bits and really can’t say enough good things about it. Mine feels enough like home now that I’m properly happy with it. And I never thought I’d be ‘OK’ not largely playing Precisions. Hope yours works out similarly well!

Pixies tomorrow in Birmingham, then again in Cardiff on Saturday.

I echo this. Had one the same as Cosmo’s bass on the right briefly in a trade. Sounded really good but was just too damn heavy for me.

Yep, L4/L5 prolapses and disc damage years back have left my back…not great. Pilates based stuff seems to be what the NHS physios at least have been favouring in recent years and does help me for sure. Walking plenty when it’s OK to also helps. Likewise (trying to) keep my weight down. Oh, and Barefaced cabs!

Kentish Town Forum has upstairs unreserved seating. Or has had when I’ve been.

Man, that’s bloody amazing!

You’re not wrong if it’s how you feel. But my own feelings are no, you’re well within your rights to be annoyed, especially as it wasn’t clear to you at the onset what the split was. Needs a frank conversation I’d say…

Disappointed to find that the thread isn’t about a one-off gig from a jazz bassist I’d not heard of or something.

I’m like this in practically no other area by of my life, but when it comes to bass purchases I like to think it all happens for a reason.

Sounds rather marvellous.

Cheers FB! Am in deepest, darkest Birmingham. In fairness, my two Mustangs and my Dano are more than enough to cover my shortscale needs, but I do keep getting intrigued by these.

Having switched largely to shorties a few years back I keep considering one of these. I don’t ‘need’ one, but since when did that come into the equation? Nice work and congrats anyway!

Stolen in New South Wales.

AIC will always be one of my favourite bands. Starr and Inez both absolute bass monsters, with no flashiness. Mike Starr really was and remains a much underrated player. My favourite AIC bassline (as harrowing and just damn bleak as the subject matter of the song is) is Junkhead. The bassline in the chorus with the vocal harmonies running along simultaneously still blows me away every time Oddly, I’ve always been fine with post-Staley AIC, but the MITB clip above doesn’t show William DuVall in a great light vocally. He normally smashes the chorus in that IME.

Don’t think there’s anything out there that says explicitly if it’s a replacement or an addition, but the V1 was still getting plugged by Nordstrand on socials a couple of days back and they posted this on their (very) brief V2 demo on Instagram. That maybe suggests both will be available, initially at least.

Sorry if posted already (couldn’t see where if so), but a new version is on the way… https://bassmagazine.com/.amp/gear/nordstrand-audio-introduces-the-v2-acinonyx-short-scale-bass

Mr. Phylzzz - I’d seen them mentioned by the guys in Melvins (who guest on their most recent album). I’m no good at genre descriptions, but there’s a fair chance of you like Melvins and/or the sort of stuff AmRep put out you may like them.

My first ever ‘proper’ bass purchase (after the dog of an Encore P copy and a far better Vantage PJ that I learned on) was a (at the time) fairly recently released natural finish Patrick Eggle Milan IV that I’d so heavily set my heart on at 18 (‘94ish) when some money was released to me that had been sat in trust. Spent £800 on it. A dumbass move. In my youthful ignorance, I had no clue the neck was a state. It didn’t last long. I try and look at things positively where I can though. The massive desire soon after to get as far away from that bass as possible led me to proper Precisions, a habit I’ve only broken recently with the JMJ Mustang.

Nice work. I nearly bought one of these back when they came out. I’ve always loved the mish mash of different bits from different things, as it were. It’s not the one that flew straight out as soon as it went into Rich Tone Music a few days back was it?

I’ve seen that film.