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Awesome, looks like we're around for this one, all being well. @cetera - Charvel 3B, ESP Surveyor '87, Fender FSR PJ Precision, Hamer Impact, Italia Imola, Spector NS2, Spector Euro, Spector EuroX (Spectorbird), Spector Pulse II, Spector Dimension 4HP, Gallien Krueger 400RB & Legacy800 heads, GenzBenz Neox 2x12 cab @TheGreek - All short scale this year - a @Jabba_the_gut scale 5er, Mini Ray, Short scale P bass @Harlequin74 - Zoot Performer, Status Shark, Spector QV4 , Markbass TTE501 and Matching CAB. Maybe the Lehle Basswitch… @Frank Blank - @Jabba_the_gut short scale fretted and fretless, JMJ Mustang, QSC K12.2, Grace Design Alix @TrevorR - Mk 1 Wal, Wal Pro IIE, Aria SB700, Frankenjazz, pedals and MarkBass LMII & Traveler 2x10 @bnt - travelling light, probably a couple of pedals such as T-Rex Diva Drive, Orange KongPressor @bass_dinger - 1999 Washburn XB500, 1994 Washburn XB500, Washburn XB925 in zebrawood, Washburn XB925 in bits, Boulder Creek 5 string (likely to be for sale, SWR Workingmans 12. @greentext- 2008 Spector NS4-H2, 2015 Sandberg VS4, 2000 Trace Elliot T-Bass, my pedalboard and my tin of picks 😈 @prowla- Probably a couple of Rickenbackers and some interesting oddities. Amp-wise a Markbass EVO and a 1x12 (last year I bought some others to try and never switched them on, as the EVO sounded spot-on). @SuperSeagull- Status S2, Feline P Bass, Modded Fender Lyte, Flea Jazz, MB Combo @Merton - various short and medium scale ACGs, Zoots and Conway basses, Barefaced cabs, modern Trace Elliot amps @MacDaddy Shuker (probably no3), Snapdragon Folding Bass, possibly a Rob Allen Mouse. @neilp - matching pair of fretted and fretless 1980 Aria SB1000s, possibly my fretless Wal mk1, Ashdown ABM500/Ampeg 4x10, Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig @NickD - Strunal Schonbach 5 String DB, and whatever else I can shoehorn in the car around it... hopefully a MD CMD121 H, Zoom B6, and maybe a Maruszczyk Jake and a Shuker Series 2.

A cracking bunch already... Glad I'm not up against any of them. Festival and holidays season have left me on a non-starter this month. I'd hoped to sneak an evening or two in, but it wasn't to be.

Cheers! It just looks like a slackening job (more on the bass side than the treble, obvs). I suppose if I feel my way through it I should be ok.

Considering adding a Realist Copperhead to my bass, and looking at YouTube vids it seems like a relatively straightforward job. Is it though? I'm not a complete idiot, but for the sake of a few quid extra is it worth taking it in for fitting, of would you just get on with it? Thanks!

It comes to us all doesn't it? To quote... er... you... "I like/love the Spiros". In your position I'd try and stay put until I had a definite sound in my head that I want to try and get close to, that would be noticeably different in your kind of ensemble mixes, and that the Spiros couldn't get close to... but I'd probably crack!🤣

A cracking winner in a strong field. Nice job!

Tim had a James Jameson book from me. A perfect gent to deal with, the whole thing couldn't have been easier. Highly recommended!

Ian bought an Okko Motorbass from me. A really easy, smooth transaction. Highly recommended.

Ben had a Biyang Tr-Reverb from me. The whole deal couldn't have been smoother. Highly recommended!

My contribution to the July 2023 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by the picture chosen by last months winner, AndyTravis. A tune about racing the weather home... probably from the pub. Tech stuff... Recorded in Cubase Elephants 12, Monster Drums, the Jake 5 through a Zoom B6, a Westbury Standard and a Vintage Strat (the brand,) treated with the bundled effects. A bit of organ from Halion Sonic, mixed way back, and some storm noises from Looperman. Vocals are my usual half arsed attempt, multitracked through an SM58 and treated with CLA Vocals.

Nice one... Cool track!

I bought a book from Alan. Nice easy, friendly transaction, posted pretty much immediately and arrived earlier than expected. Top job!

Fair enough. I've never seen one like it, any idea who made it?

It's a pretty cool design, and if it sounds good you're on to a winner! I'd be sorely tempted to try and fashion wooden replacements for the brackets, that would finish it off really nicely.

Nice one... It's great when you put in the work and there's a payoff!

My contribution to the June edition of the Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by the picture chosen by last months winner, Upside Downer. It was an interesting journey... It was going to be a chilled Bossa, then it was going to be a chilled bossa with a lo-fi triphop thing going on, then I found a little loop that I really dug and started messing around with, and the Bossa idea went out of the window. It ended up as a kinda sparse, kinda brief, lo-fi ditty about escaping the rat race and running to the sun. Tech wise, everything is from within Cubase Elephants, except for the vocal, which is me, treated with CLA Vocals and a bit of Waves Harmony towards the end. I was going to put some DB on it, but I liked the sub part that I'd used so I left it. It is, however, so subby that it probably won't come out on laptop speakers.

Just to update.... What a difference a visit to the professionals can make. I finally got the chance to drop it into Thwaites. I figured that while it seemed solid enough, I'd ask them to give it a bit of an MOT, just to make sure nothing was going on that would cause me trouble in the near future, and to see if it was a candidate for bringing the action down a touch. They got back to me after a week and said that everything is fine, and that a simple reprofiling of the bridge would sort the action, so I asked them to go ahead. I picked it up this morning, and the difference is astonishing, it's so easy to play the whole length of the fingerboard. With what they have done to the action I don't need to move away from the Mittels, they're fine as they are now. I can't really perceive any loss of tone or volume, aside from a bit less thump (which I had been trying to minimise anyway) and a little more 'mwah', which is absolutely fine by me. Thanks to everyone for their input!

Nice one! It was a cracking tune!

onanists! Do you have a shareable link?