Al Krow

Haha - I know. And that was a genuine answer! 😁 5 strings I've played: Yamaha, Ibanez, Warwick, Fender, Ken Smith - have all been 34" Spector - 35" And then you've got the additional fan frets with up to 37" for the low B.

Depends on brand. You'll find more 34" though, I suspect.

Big fan of Ibanez - but my (very positive) experience is limited to their SR premium range, so I have no idea how good a bass this is: Ibanez Talman TMB35 Short Scale Bass Mint Green (guitarguitar.co.uk) But going on the fact of being an Ibby fanboi... Short scale √ Good price √ 5 string √ Light - likely to be if the rest of the Ibby range are a guide. Good B string...no idea! There have been a couple of busy short scale threads recently so worth visiting those. One take away for me was several comments about the sound being a little muddier on short scales due to less harmonic complexity vs standard 34" scales. Obviously there will be exceptions to that rule!

The NXT kit definitely has a big fan base (for good reason) but DB and in my case EUB on a single pin just has that greater intimacy / dare I say showmanship which can be a cool part of the audience engagement.

Just listening to them now. What a rich, full sound! Love it! But how much is the kit and how much is the magic ingredient: your fingers?....😁

Great, thanks. Is there an up to date list of bass amps & cabs and effects you can share with us? Yeah - not too bothered about presets, I tend to find that I end up creating my patches from scratch anyway!

My turn for a mini thread de-rail! I'm trying to work out the year of manufacture for a Yammy SLB-200 (definitely not a BB - haha!). Serial number is 005390 - any ideas? I'll drop the Yammy store in London a message too, to see if I can glean anything from them.

@Nail Soup - this one by them was a staple of our sets for years...

Worth noting that Hotone are the same guys who brought out the XStomp...which kinda bodes well for the quantity / quality of the FX that's going to be available.

Definitely worth getting your hands on a high end bass and trying out before taking the plunge (in fact any bass if you can, although the downside risk is clearly going to be a lot less with the more budget basses). Obviously how I found the BS Attitude was my own take on that particular model and plenty of others may have had the opposite reaction. For the record, and as you will likely already have gathered (!) I was totally NOT underwhelmed by the BB NE2 which I managed to get hold of, used, a couple of months after that particular trip to the Yammy store; and I've since happily resisted several unsolicited offers to take it off my hands!

Thanks 40 Hz is quite a low Bass EQ centre point - same as on the Markbass LM2/3. Interested that Mesa went for this on the new series - they had it at 55 Hz on the Carbine series (I've got the M6) and have a very sophisticated EQ just on the bass control, which effectively includes an HPF in the cut: The BASS control is actually a gain and frequency control all rolled into one with the Q center at 55Hz and harmonics in both low and high directions are affected because of its broader band nature. As the control is increased past 12 noon there is a 6db per octave rise in gain with the frequency topping out at 321Hz. With 12 noon straight-up representing “flat” (a no boost/no cut setting). As the BASS control is dialled below 12 noon, 55Hz and all associated harmonics are reduced and eventually notched completely out of the signal. Conversely, there is a 6db per octave cut beginning at 55Hz going down to 20Hz where the shelving ends with a cut gain of -20db as the control approaches 7:30pm (off). PS In terms of what you're doing it seems to me you're therefore boosting at 40 Hz centre with the result that most significant cut from your HPF will be 30Hz and below i.e. effectively clearing out low end crud. That's pretty similar to the job that my Thumpinator is doing.

Tbf one of the reasons why a quality multifx (e.g. IMO Helix or better, I wouldn't trust my Zoom to do pitch shifting well) or a decent pitch shifting pedal (e.g. Digitech Whammy) can be a great workaround for the 4 string player - allowing you to change key at the press of a stomp switch.

Yeah - that's the solution we ended up "enforcing" after the occasion that he broke a string just as we were about to play an encore! Absolute vibe killer!

Or in my case while he plays tap dance on his pedal board between songs, or restrings having broken yet another one...😁

With you completely on this one Mark! "Ladies and gents, please stop dancing while our bass player detunes for the next song. Oh and the same after this next number when he tunes back up. We apologise in advance to any disruption to the party vibe..."

@Misdee I had the opportunity to A/B the Yamaha Billy Sheehan Attitude with a BBNE2 at the Yammy store in London back in 2018 (please see my post March 8th 2018, P13 of this thread) and wrote up a short review of each, in case of interest to you.

What's the model in the pic? It has a super slim body!

My Mandarin / Cantonese is zero - but this gives you an idea of some of the neat features on this e.g. the touchscreen and being able to drag and drop your effects rather than needing to mess about with knobs. 【电吉他/贝斯/效果器】2020上海国际乐展Hotone最新单块式综合Ampero Stomp上手体验_哔哩哔哩 (゜-゜)つロ 干杯~-bilibili Elsewhere I've read that it also offers features found in some of top-end multifx's e.g. ability to draw the EQ curve you want. One impressive UI!

Wonderful! Please feel free to play whatever style you would like that you feel shows off the capability of your EUB.

@TheGreek I think your question is very similar to someone asking "Do you NEED more than one bass?" Well strictly, no...but I love having the basses in my herd.

Yeah, I'm starting to get the message! If any of you good folk who have posted on this thread have any clips of you playing your recommended EUBs, that would be marvellous! Please feel free to share.

Sounds good! And ignore the "gold" = "bling" brigade; whatever floats your boat is what counts!

Very unusual! That's lighter than my most of my Ibbys (except the 7.7lb Portamento) and would be completely gob-smacking in fact! So either it was pretty unique and is worth an absolute fortune or there was a bathroom scale malfunction that day...😁

I did clock you really liking the result of boosting the bass EQ whilst engaging the HPF on your Mesa D800+ a while back. And this seems, from the discussion above, to be a really good "take-away" point. If I recall correctly (without RTFM at this time of the morning when I should be working 😁) the Mesa bass EQ is centred at 80 Hz? Out of interest, how much were you dialling up the bass EQ by?

I think the expectation was that the Ampero Stomp was going to be the Ampero One without the expression pedal. But looking at the spec sheet, the Stomp seems to be considerably souped-up e.g. ability to provide parallel effect routing and 12 effect blocks from its Tri-Core rather than dual core processor. Word on the street is that it will likely be at quite a premium in price to the Ampero One, to reflect this. Great that you've found the Ampero One to be terrific - I presume from that there's more than enough bass specific / bass usable effects to keep you happy?