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I'm sure it's the new Mike + The Mechanics signature model. Woohoo greasy !

The more tilting the neck has, the more pressure on the saddles the strings will have, increasing the dynamic and the response of the instrument and also its power. The opposite tends to destroy the dynamic and making the strings really flappy and dull sounding, or sometimes even so dampened they seem dead. A neck totally parallel or level to the body will mean less to no pressure on the saddles whatever break angle you might give them inducing a great loss in dynamic. This principle is applied to instruments with a "vibrating" table like a jazz guitar, any acoustic guitar, a double bass or any instruments of the classic quintet, but there's a maximum point after which the pressure will void the string vibration. Check the tilting of a double bass and the break angle of the strings on the bridge and you'll understand the process.

That "thing" deserves an award @PaulThePlug, but I don't know which one...

∆∆∆ Indeed ∆∆∆

The new album of @leitnerjoe is out and is called : Ohrwaschlrennatz. It's an excellent album with great playing and compositions. Buy it, it's really worth it ! And as always with him, you can feel the fun even if you don't understand (Bavarian) German. https://leitnerjoe.bandcamp.com/album/ohrwaschlrennatz

Another Wishbass... 🤢 🤮

The price is well made too. 🤯

I understood that, no worries, I've done the same a lot.

Not a perfect match at all, but a match, as the knobs have a shade of magenta in their colour, but it may be a brownish hue as the white balance of the photo isn't right.

An early Fender, of course !

I've been setting up instruments for more than 35 years including a decade as a professional, so it means thousands of instruments, and sometimes a shim is needed for two main reasons : - The neck tilting, as there must be one to allow some dynamic. - The break angle at the saddle, as there must be one otherwise there won't be enough pressure meaning the string will get out of the slot very easily and the string will sound almost dead or really dampened. If these two points are met, no need for a shim, just remove it and set up the instrument perfectly.

As I wrote, it all went wrong in the 90's and don't talk about social medias, shows and store since the 90's. I was so fed up by this really bad slap everywhere that I stopped going to the shows in the late 90's and just couldn't keep my mouth shut in the stores. I hate slap because of all these abuses, but when it serves the song, it can become really interesting, but it's so rare. Only a few players have the ability to turn slap into music and we all know their names.

The RMC/Hipshot bridge will be far better. 😉

I was using my DP127 with the good old DP123 Jazz Bass and the balance was perfect with the DP127 a bit more away from the strings than usual. Otherwise, you could try the DP 147 which has a similar output level.

Delirious ! I need one !

Nope. He doesn't have a mono eyebrow.

But ToneRider do.

Ask @Andyjr1515 if he can put you some Luminlays, it will be cheaper and faster to do.

If you put your headless bass between your legs instead of on a thigh, it won't move at all. That's the way I play almost all my basses, but headless ones seem to be even more suited for this.

Beware all, you are slowly starting to say that the sound comes from the wood... Beware.

Mine didn't collect anything as they were in their hard cases until I sold the all shebang a few years back.

Not really, see my above comment.

Excellent job. Looks even better than new. 😉

As @Woodinblack said, everything is fine with Bax until there's a glitch and then the nightmare starts. I ordered a Sire P10 in early September that was in stock, then after a few days, not seeing anything moving I gave a phone call, waited the 30 minutes, got a very sympathetic guy who told me that my order had been cancelled because of the payment method chosen (!?!) but never got any message saying that... So I ordered it again and paid through PayPal this time, then got the usual message saying that everything was ok with a delivery date chosen by me on the following week, and then the delays started almost each and every day for a few weeks !!! After some time, I cancelled the order and asked for a refund. And the nightmare started: phone calls with the same sympathetic guys, promises, emails never answered, ... So I ended up opening a claim by PayPal and they waited until the last day before the claim becomes official and legal to refund. Never again !