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I do favour 4 string like spacing on my basses, my fivers are both 19mm, and my 6 string is 18mm, although since the start of my upright adventure they both feel tiny now.

Well done both.... A couple of great tunes!

Sold my Fuzz to Sam... Couldn't have been easier. Quick, friendly, funny... Just easy... Y'know, the kind of thing that happens on Basschat every day.

You're just worried you'd need to change your user name to 31Hz?🤣 Another shout for the Yamaha... Maybe even something like the BB235. Ok it's not the same spec as the 1025 mentioned above, but they're well under budget, share the same dimensions, and play and sound great.

Some really great tracks in there again!😎

Didn't @Dood make a playlist on Spotify for this very thing?

Depends entirely on the band I guess. I've got the TC Helicon Critical Mass, which I've found useful on the gang vocal setting for beefy rock BVs. I'm doing lead now so don't really use the effects on it, but the reverbs are really well done.

Graham bought my Keeley Caverns. As smooth a deal as you could wish for, with great, friendly communication throughout. Thanks Graham!

Kinda where it came from I believe. They were after something like the big session legends.... like the wrecking crew et al, someone came up with the wolf pack, and they thought it sounded cooler in a German accent.

Ah, I see. That's a little beyond my usual usage.

You mentioned tempo track problems in Elements... what is the issue? I ask as I'm a sod for time signature and tempo changes, and I always thought it was pretty straightforward.

I've not yet found the limits of Elements, even the bundled VSTs and effects are enough for me for now. I love how simple it is to use.

I'm still trying to figure out why someone would stand wearing a bass for 8 minutes and 44 seconds without playing it.... maybe so people who didn't check the title or can't read what it says on the TV screen know it's about bass? I say that, I did skip bits, did he take it off?... I can't look at an Ibanez for that length of time, and his voice was putting me to sleep. That 'looking at the wrong camera' thing was getting on my t1ts too!

It seems like a lot of fuss over nothing then.... I'd better get on with it!

And so the questions begin! 🤣 So, I have this beast now, and I can't stop playing the damn thing, seems like my Helix handles it well, and given the absence of neighbours this morning I stuck it straight through my Markbass 121H combo expecting something awful from the low output piezo pickup, but was very pleasantly surprised as it turned out. Now.... Arco? Not something I can imagine having a serious use for beyond looped, effected drones and weird ambient swells (I guess you never know though), but a number of YT videos have suggested that using a bow can be useful for honing intonation given a bowed note's less forgiving nature. I plan on going fairly inexpensive to start with as it's only a practice tool for now (unless that's a terrible idea?), but reading around I'm getting mixed messages.... Is it a messy business? 95% on the time I'll be playing pizz, will the rosin make my strings sticky, my bass sticky, my case sticky, my carpet sticky.... does it fly around and build up on the curtains (ok, a step too far, but you get the gist). Is it something you have to live with, do I need to put a towel down, or are are those complaining of such things lashing a ton of sticky stuff on there unnecessarily? Is it manageable, can I spend 10 mins cleaning stuff down when I'm done playing and get everything back to square one... If so is there a string/bass/bow cleaner that you'd recommend? Thanks in advance

I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually. As it stands, straight out of the box it plays ok, in that it's manageable, and it sounds pretty good too. I think I've pretty much sorted positioning on the stand for comfort and posture, and the biggest challenge now is dealing with the monstrous scale length in terms of fingering for good intonation. I intend to focus on that first, then if I think setup/action/strings are getting in the way of actual progress I'll address it. As mentioned above, just based on reading around I don't think there's too much wrong with the out of the box setup, but I'm speaking from semi-ignorance there. What I can judge is that it sounds ok, feels ok (though obviously tougher on the hands), and doesn't have anything in the way of rattle & string noise. I can get a slap out of it, but even on BG I have a pretty percussive right hand technique, if anything the increased action on the EUB plays to my advantage as it seems to like a heavy hand. I'm going to try not to get caught up in the whole thing of trying to get the sound and response of a DB... because it's not a DB, and I will fail. As it stands, with the IR engaged it's kinda close enough for my purposes (maybe that will change in a mix though). I'm sure further down the line I can look at trying to refine things, by then I might have a clearer idea of what I want from it.