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Al Krow

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  1. That's a good price - thanks for the heads up. Also ordered.
  2. Yeah I've noticed an increased prevalence of short scales with us aging BC'ers! But Hooke's law dictates (or, if not that, whatever the relevant physics is!) that we are likely to get a muddier E and certainly low B string with shorter scales, although maybe 32" is still ok for a low B? Be really interesting to see how you find it on that score. 6,000 posts? How did that happen? 🥂 😊
  3. My white BB425 got moved on a while back (not sure which BC'er has it now!) and the current white model I have is the mid range BB1025, which is a bit more expensive than the 425, but still great value. The spacing is usually 18mm on Yammy 5ers - is that too wide for you? If so, I guess you're going to be limited to basses like your existing Ibby SRs with their 16.5mm or Spectors with their 17.0mm - albeit with a 35" scale that took a little getting used to initially for me, having been a purely 34" scale player beforehand.
  4. You about to come over to the light side and get a Yammy, Woody?! Wasn't expecting that! Tbf a £150 BB425 in good nick would be an absolute steal. But also an excellent bass, not just "for the money!"
  5. Agreed.
  6. I'm just responding to krispns query earlier and also trying to get my head around the issue of string forces (which I have now done to my own satisfaction anyway!) With regard to 4 a side headstocks, maybe we're at cross purposes here? The tuner positioning certainly isn't to one side with the traditional headstock, but actually pretty evenly spaced across the width of the head.
  7. John - absolutely brilliant hack, thank you! Ordered a pack of 4 (just under £6) and they fit like a glove on my Metro 24. Bit of Uhu glue going on shortly, as per your recommendation, and a decent PSU (HB Iso-12) to slot underneath on its way from Thomann 😊
  8. I appreciate that Captain Hooke's analysis may only be hanging by a thread 😊 However I do believe it is the best approach here and nice to be able to dust off my physics A-level / undergrad notes for once! "Hooke's law is applicable not only to coil springs...but also to the bending of metal and some other materials, the stretching of wires like guitar strings, the stretching of rubber bands, and the stretching and compressing of chemical bonds." [Source: Hooke's law (xaktly.com)]
  9. Very good! But potentially more relevant / correct than a theoretical analysis of tension based on the concept of mass-less strings?
  10. Here you go, enjoy. Force is proportional to cross-sectional area i.e. the width of the string.
  11. I think it could have legs. What lyrics would you add....? 😁
  12. Actually that's a "deep" (and very fair) question! I've got as far as there is a correlation between string gauge and greater tension for a given string...
  13. Most folk go in at the front with their pedal boards. A few still use pedals in the amps effects loop, but it seems to becoming more of a minority sport this century 😁 I think a key reason for doing the latter is to avoid any colouration from the amp's preamp section. But if you dislike your amp's preamp that much, worth asking the question whether it's worth bothering to keep the amp?
  14. I actually think the 2+3 headstock might be the "right" answer in terms of balancing string weight / tension on each side of the headstock from an engineering perspective. Used by a Mr Ken Smith and actually also by Ibanez. Yup I wonder if Mr NE ever managed to lay hands on a Spector during his many years of playing bass and sneakily plays it at home when no one's looking? 😁
  15. I doubt very much that Yamaha, or any other manufacturer, would willingly ever make such a confession to filching design ideas. So, yup, it's just where I've landed based on observation. Here's a cut and paste of my earlier post for ease of reference: It occurs to me that the NE2 took quite a few design cues from Spector, which has been around a whole lot longer in its classic design form. Both are: neck throughs (vs bolt on for the BBs) sculpted backs, which makes them so comfortable to wear (vs the more normal flat BB bodies) JJs (vs P or PJs on the BBs) 24 frets (vs 21 on the modern BBs) both have 3+2 tuner layout on the headstocks (vs the 4-1 prevalent on the rest of the BB range) neither have body through stringing (present on the higher-end modern BBs) both are purely active with no passive option (vs active & passive on the 735A and purely passive on the rest of the BB range) Key differences are other than obviously different body shapes the NE2 has a 3 band + Nathan East mid cut EQ vs a 2 band EQ on the Spector. But it seems clear that the NE2 is actually much closer to the Spector than it is to the rest of the BB range.
  16. Agreed - 5 string Spectors are awesome! In fact a lot of design cues on the Yamaha BB NE2 have been taken from the Spector 5 string basses (and reflected in their Euro 5LX model which I have): I posted a detailed comparison of feature sets a while back and they have a lot in common! I guess, like Warwick, even Yamaha have discovered a trick or two from Ned Steinberger worth incorporating into their flagship models!
  17. The reverse P + J does tick a lot of boxes as a pickup config. The Yamaha MA versions seem to be pretty rare (in fact @gobasserk probably has all of them! 😁). Spector, Warwick and Sandberg are some alternatives with the reverse P + J set up. The Spector Euro 4LX would get my vote if you're after a 4 string but they're not cheap, even used, and there's plenty of love for the other brands on BC too.
  18. These guys are definitely upping their game on several fronts! In terms of some of the multifx seen on that amp, you might be interested in this new offering from them which came out just a short while back: MG-30 - NUX (nuxefx.com) Unusually amongst the sub £300 multifx's, this does parallel routing.
  19. Looks like NUX have beaten them to it, although not in anything gig-able...yet. NUX Mighty Bass 50BT - Amps and Cabs - Basschat
  20. I think that's 90% right, but sound engineers may want you to turn up with a Fender P etc. simply 'cos it's what they're familiar with.
  21. Aha ok - so which brand / model were your fav £500 Indonesian basses?
  22. Yamaha?
  23. Controversial, but love it! So you're essentially saying that there comes a point when it really is all in the fingers once a bass gets to a certain decent standard? Couldn't agree more with that. For me it would be a Spector Euro5 LX (and tbf to @tegs07 that probably qualifies as a Jag XF rather than a Dacia); that's as good as a bass needs to get for me. Next step is for me to get as good as I need to for it, which is a way off yet! Zero temptation / desire to get anything more upmarket - in fact I'd probably be stressing too much about risking putting a ding in the thing to actually enjoy playing it. Go on, spill the beans, which was that "revelation bass" for you then?
  24. Not if @Machines (of Skynet command) bought it, surely? 😁
  25. Or equally buy a low mileage used Dacia...
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