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One of my students has one of these, I love the sound of it. Wouldn't mind one myself!

Yes. It is also slightly obsessional. I like to have two basses, workhorses, that I can switch between without having any worries about tonal or set up differences. A "back up" instrument, if you will. For different types of gigs, I have different basses , but it's usually the same instrument if I can get away with it. It's #2 will hopefully be replaced in the near future with a matching custom build. Just got to sell a kidney first! Dood

My work here is done! * I was going to embed an gif, but I seem to have failed miserably!

All of my reviews go through each pickup and a variety of tone control options as standard, so, yes, definitely making sure the basses get heard properly! 👍

I guess I better review the new Cort basses in detail, right?

The Stingray should get an honorary mention to make up the "big three", even if it was '76.

Put a set of Gotoh Resolite GB640 tuning keys on any bass and I would be very surprised if you couldn't notice a difference. They are the most accurate, silky smooth tuning keys I've ever had the pleasure of using. The GB350's are ace as well. Rock solid and highly recommended.

I agree that when the choice of components in a system compliment each other, the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Some combinations just sound great, but still, some speakers just deserve going in the bin ha ha!

I read the first couple of pages and gave up. Even on a standard tuned four string bass, we're still not hearing the fundamental frequency with any sort of energy. It's interesting that most of the comments have seemingly not recognised that a note produced by a bass guitar isn't just one centre frequency alone. The rich harmonics, over tones produced by the vibrating string and electronics is a full range signal easily reaching up in to the treble ranges of our hearing. Even with a 24dB/Oct HPF at 200hz, you can still absolutely discern the sound of a bass guitar

Yup, every time I've had a crap sound, it has been caused by speaker cabinets, not amps. Sure, some amps sound less girthy or not as loud, but it's always the cabinet that has ended up making the bass sound incoherent, muddy or just plain horrible. * Ok, so there was an amp or two that was pretty bad in the past.

D'Addario also do a 170, which I would much prefer to drop on a 34" scale to get some tension back - or, as I had to do before anyone in the UK was making a 170, (well over ten years ago now) Newtone Strings custom made me a 145 with a custom core to get the tension up. Thank you for the tags, I am not sure why I didn't get a notification. Drop tuning this low on a standard scale length on a bass that isn't really up to it, can be problematic at best and a PITA at worse. I watched one of my students do all manner of upgrades to his Ibanez bass and was still rewarded with being left wanting. My Shuker basses on the other hand help to focus on the frequencies that matter should I need to drop low. (My 7 sting is an F#'er and is currently dressed with a 190 gauge string that will give me enough to go down to E0.) It's like having a bass with a great sounding B string. Some, no matter what you try, just won't "do" a good B. I have a £200 5 string here that has a wicked sounding B string! The statement "why would you do this, you can't hear it" I feel is based around experiences failing to get the tuning to work or a misunderstanding of how it works in reality. Yes, everyone chimes in and says that the fundamental frequency of that F# is 23.12hz - and 90% of bass speaker cabinets on the market cant deal with that fundamental and plenty of amplifiers are HPF'd long before this anyway. BUT!!! - It isn't the fundamental you're needing to focus your attention on, it's the harmonics of the note, 46hz, 92hz, 184hz etc. Anyone who has heard isolated (mixed) stems on a recording will know that generally speaking, the lows that deep have been carved away anyway. It still sounds deep and brutal though. Your ear fills in the rest. ...and you definitely don't wanna be driving those kinda frequencies hard on stage with your own personal sub either. FOH engineers will not love you!

Julian Krause is a superb resource for interface reviews including Motu.

I've been trying to get the QC to sound like a chain I created in the Cory Wong plug in last night, so I would love to see the individual "plug-in unique" effects dropped in to QC too.

Due to lockdown and covid and all the other nonsense that the last few years have brought me, my journey with QC has been a slow burner. It's not getting out to nearly as many gigs as I'd hoped. However, we've bonded and I'm really enjoying the unit. For the most part I have it on a cool laptop /iPad stand and it makes for a brilliant desktop processor. The form factor works for me given the touch screen and rotary foot switches. I know that I can put it straight down on the floor again and away I go. I am still a massive Helix fan and all of the units available are superb. The LT was my "best fit" at the time and it did many gigs with me. QC, for my needs, physically is a better match for me, though I do miss some of the effects, amp sims and functionality of LT. Sometimes I'm a bit frustrated that QC doesn't do something I have become accustomed to. But then QC can do a whole bunch of stuff that Helix couldn't too, so, its about finding what is your best fit - much like players choosing the DAW they like best, or strings, or IEMs! Now, since Gregor is holding an Attitude bass in the thumbnail, I'm off to go listen to that

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Babicks

It's pronounced:

I've Spanish family and they pronounce their surname EE-ban-yeth, but I can't stop calling the brand eye-ban-ez!

Da-Dairy-Oh

Heart-Key not Harkur

On a related note, I wonder, in an anonymous poll, how many female members have experienced sexist content on this forum including that dressed up as "banter". I guess we won't know as they've probably just left.

@SteveXFR- Dunlop 0.88mm Tortex : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bav1kzLD00_/?taken-by=darkglasselectronics

My digital callipers agree with you, I measured 0.87mm!!

The link above still works - but, you should drop a line to @Ashdown Engineering anyway via their website, they'll be able to help for sure.

@Darkglass @[email protected] tagged.