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A mandatory smartphone to change the configuration with the risk of self configuration of the switch by accident.

Put a set of EMG pickups, the X series with dynamics closer to a passive pickup is really excellent.

Chorus: JAM Pedals Waterfall Bass, the best analogue chorus on the market, but very expensive, more fluid than the already excellent Boss you had or the mythical CE-2. Octaver: Boss OC-5, does what you want and more, furthermore it has way better tracking and is more reliable than the OC-2. Reverb: You already have what you need. Delay: JAM Pedals Llama analogue delay in an affordable iteration. Drive: One Control 360 AIAB as it emulates the Acoustic's Jaco Tone with the musical drive needed for a fretless. PS: I'm a fretless player only too and these are the effects I use with a very light touch, but I am considering getting rid of everything but a reverb.

Most of the basses look like banjos on me. 🤣

And six are for the lazy sods, which is why I'm a sixer guy. 🤪🤦🏻‍♂️

There were around 250 adverts and a bit more trackers: simply deliriously amazing! Check my post above.

Alembic does @franzbassist.

This what I've got today after the Ezoic era is, I really hope, over. Check at the right, these are the ads and the trackers blocked since yesterday evening when I activated the ad blocker only for BassChat, where I logged in and out 13 or 14 times to check what was going on, and each time cleaning all the mess to start from scrap. Just check what happened today after Ezoic has been paused: only 3 ads blocked and absolutely no tracker, which is totally standard. Don't tell us there isn't a big issue with Ezoic. Furthermore, not allowing people to have the ability to refuse cookies is a violation of the GDPR (where it applies) and as I already wrote, BassChat is de facto a worldwide website, so even if it's not mandatory in the U.K. anymore, it's elsewhere, like in the EEC. According to all answers, it looks like no moderator, except @Silvia Bluejay really understood that this inability to refuse cookies (ads and trackers) was the real issue.

For those interested I have History Kill for something like two decades now, it's a fantastic tool to do what it's supposed to do, but the fact is that we are now aiming to AI to decide what's good for us... 🤦🏻‍♂️ Come on, there are other ways to make a website viable.

Ezoic is what is now used to help BassChat raise money through "intelligent" ad placement for those who don't know. And for the mods, better take a look at Hi-fi Critic, a paper magazine with absolutely no ad at all, which is self paid by the subscriptions. This could also become a reality here with the amount of members, just ask for a fee to have a totally ad free website for subscribers only and it will work for sure. German website www.bassic.de has absolutely no ad for the members when signed in.

I agree with the fact that in the U.K. this "no" option is not mandatory anymore BUT it's a worldwide website including EEC where it's mandatory to have the ability to refuse cookies. Better act and put that option before some radicalists decide to lodge a complaint and ask for money BassChat doesn't have. And don't tell us it's hard to implement...

Loads of subtleties in this excellent bass line(s). Thanks for the amazing job.

Didn't realise until now, but I receive notifications for (maybe) all the new threads. Looks like a bug to me.

Thanks, but I think I know what microtonal means having learnt Indian music.

Amazingly amazing and even more amazing work! Lovely looking and excellent sounding unique bass! 😍😍😍😍

I had one in my early days too, really good bass, and I also like headless basses a lot.

Some explanations here, on the same microtonal guitar YT channel: watch instead of laughing, Turkish and Oriental music is just amazing. Of course, I'm a subscriber to this channel as I really enjoy microtonal music.

Indeed, and add the shipping fee and administrative fee to the equation plus the import taxes to calculate the VAT. We are closer to 33% than 25%... That's why I stopped importing things even if the original price is low. These taxes are a real deal breaker.

Very expensive firewood... 🤢🤮

The Sadowsky VTC is a direct replacement preamp, so it might be interesting too, just like a lot of John East dedicated models as said before: https://www.east-uk.com/product-category/j-style/?v=d3dcf429c679 Check the J-Tone as it seems to be what you're looking for. John is always there and you can talk directly with him to get exactly what you want. And the volume potentiometers not doing much is quite typical for a Jazz Bass. 😉

Not really a prototype, but a 1992 model, when the design was still not (quite) definitive. There's also its sibling fretted version that was sold for peanuts a few months ago, but needed a lot of work that João Godinho in Luxemburg did under Christophe Leduc remote supervision.

My brand new Leduc U-Basse 6 Fretless Custom ordered a bit more than 5 years ago was delivered to me by Christophe for my ... birthday. What a self gift ! I'll post way better photos later. The specs are: One piece Brazilian mahogany body. Red cedar patented floating sound board, Set in Canadian hard rock maple neck, 128 years old Brazilian rosewood thick fingerboard, Luminlay's as dot positions markers as well as on the 3 quilted maple knobs, Macassar ebony bridge as well as the 6 tuning knobs, Original Q-Tuner magnetic pickups, Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup at tuned locations under the sound board, Fishman PowerChip preamp buffer that allows "stereo" splitting or "mono" mixed output with a stereo or mono cable, Blend of the magnetic pickups, volume of these, volume of the twin piezo, Weight is 3.490 kilos.

This French guy makes some amazing instruments and he can play them too !