Al Krow

Lozz playing a 5 string?!! Blimey you'll be getting @bassfan to pick up one of these devil's instruments next! Mind you, you've finally got me round to getting a variation of your beloved Paradriver (only took 3 years to get there) and I've started playing P basses (well PJ to be more accurate); so let's face it - this lockdown madness is getting to us all 😁

I see that you are really slumming it with that down-at-heel collection! 😁

Btw - if you're heading down the Markbass route, recommend checking out the MB AC 121 Lite. One of the very few combos to deliver it's full 500W output through its own single 12" cab without recourse to a second cab. It has extended speaker excursion to handle the lows and on board LPF in the form of its VLE control. Will give you a one stop shop solution with an all-in combo weight of around 36lbs and you can pick one up for £600 for a vgc used one.

Barefaced dubster & gen 3 Supertwin? Time to reinforce the neighbourhood windows 😁 You thought about a pair of BF SCs as a flexible alternative to the Supertwin? 'Cos it seems to me that is exactly what a ST is...two stacked SCs.

"Tube grind & punch" sounds blo*ody marvellous! Isnt that pretty much the holy grail of bass tone? And if your WD-800 is delivering that in spades, then it sounds to me that you've got a bit of a keeper!

It's your blood*y thread, pull yer finger out mate! 🤣

@Deedee a little bird tells me that you recently beat several us to the draw and managed to get your hands on a WD-800. Well, please spill the beans - how are you finding it?!

I'm gonna give @bassfan's new Sad a spin when this lock-down malarky is done and, if it turns out to be nicer than his Status, then... But that one is solo P; I'm a died in the wool PJ man these days (you can blame Yammy for twisting my view of life!).

Nice clip showing off the P7 tone from a TB'er who's recently just got himself one:

Dang now up to 10...that was careless. One of them is going to have be shown the door!

Chap selling his lovely NYC P5 in the FS. Quite eye opening for me what he's willing to consider in trade! It's clearly true that the bass isn't always greener on the other side...

Dammit - was one of the four Fenders! The first one to be precise: Fender CS Pino P bass And a very biased / limited sample of 18, right i.e. no Yammys, Ibbys, Spectors, Warwicks, Sires, Squiers, Laklands etc etc? Least fav was the nasally MM Stingray which came next. And yes I did listen to the rest (twice!) 😁 Yours?

I see that Sad are no longer taking orders for Metros, so a bit tricky to guage prices. Does anyone know what something like that Rome model would have been new? Must admit if the key difference between the Metro and the NYC is just that the latter has a chambered body (anything else significant?) then that's not necessarily a minus in my books, just a difference. I'm guessing the solid body will have slightly greater sustain.

Ah I can see you and me are after the same bass! Dammit, it's now gonna take twice as long 😁

Just need to find a 5er version of that white one you're currently looking at or a PJ version of Dave Swift's NYC in white (now that would be a find!). But they don't seem to be that common, so may need to wait a while for one to crawl out the woodwork as I did for the "horribly gold clad" Yammy (to quote a recent convert to the Sad brand). And maybe it's my Yammy BB affliction, but there's just something decidedly reassuring about a PJ: you just know you have a "best of both worlds" set up at your finger tips. Tbf I've recently acquired a very capable Sad clone of the white NYC PJ 5er I'm GASing for and for < £500! In the state of inebriation that most pub audiences are going to be in after the lockdown none of them will notice the difference. and my band mates certainly won't - lol! I;m just gonna have to commiserate with that until the real thing pops up...

Dammit the OP is not helping my Sad GAS by managing to sell a bass and thereby putting himself in funds to get one and then asking my opinion on which one to get. Just plain rude, if you ask me. 😁

Mine's going spare (new condition, never ended up needing). You're welcome to have it for free - PM me if you want it and I'll pop it it the post.

Yeah...there was a reason for my caption before the pic! @therealting you could really hear that Sad sing in that clip you posted. A really (unhelpfully!) good tone. Starting to get a sense of what all the fuss @AndyTravis (another Yammy lover) is making about his Sad...

Dammit, that's TWO of my basses that have been given that accolade on this thread! Gotta be a conspiracy!! This is (i) gonna go to my head (ii) make me realise pretty damn quick that it's not my basses that are the cause of what my bass playing sounds like (must be the rest of my rig, right?), and (iii) make it really hard to justify ever getting that Sad NYC PJ5...

*cough* let's hope this never comes up in the FS...

I really do think it helps having an extra string to your bow. They make for really good thumb rests, as you know. I've got myself blood*y scouring the web for white Sad PJ5s now...

Another sucker for white basses, and with bassfan in taking a shine to that PJ4... I've got two white Yammys...but that just doesn't have the same cache as two Sadowskys does it?! Fortunately I've not seen a white Sad PJ5 posted on this thread yet!

*cough* Is it just me - or is it fair to say that Sad PJ a great looking bass, whereas the J bass' bottom end does look bloated in that particular outfit? 😁

Phew! 😊

Speaking of Royal Blood, or at least the commoners' version of said fluid, I went with my Digitech Mosaic instead of the Red Ripper on my mini board and having it dialled in at just 3/10 provides a really nice octave up thickening without dominating the bass line. SMR400 amp setting on the B1X-4 plus clean blend via the LS2 and that's just the ticket for a bit of Billie Eilesh Bad Guy! (Which is such a fun bass line to be play btw). So @Old fart if you're trying to get a decent octave up / down combination I don't think you're going to get there with a B1X-4 by itself, something more like this will get you closer: