Hellzero

Changing sex ? 🤣

Listened to it. Of course, it's the Pino Palladino CS, as it's the only bass suited and fitted for that tune. And as always a super unscientific totally biased comparison... Why not put a banjo bass in the process to be sure it's a complete non sense approach ?!? That said, I liked the Moog sound too.

Improvisation has always been a great part of Hawkwind songs process. Check this from when Lemmy joined the band as a bassist during In Search of Space and the tour sessions for Doremi Fasol Latido : Hawkwind’s bass guitarist failed to turn up and Lemmy was available. He said:

Saw him last year with Steven Wilson in Luxembourg. Great show, fantastic bass and stick player. Was freezing cold and snowing a lot when we went home...

Poltergeist in the house ? 😉

After the heavy relic, the stupid relic. And we have a winner here !

You are encountering what is called "neck diving". Many basses (and guitars too) are suffering this common problem, due to really poor conception of the instrument. You could try to put light weight tuners (machine heads) instead of the original ones. The lighter are the Gotoh Res-O-Lite. But this is an expansive option, so if your bass is an entry model, there is another solution which is to put the upper strap pin away until the bass balances perfectly. Like this :

One of the best cover of this tune to date. What a player. Thanks for sharing this @Old Man Riva. May he rest in peace.

And you get get a second generation new one here : https://service.hkaudio.com/en/product/t-amp/?v=d3dcf429c679

The T-Pro 2 is a Pascal module, a Danish brand : https://www.pascal-audio.com/product/t-pro2/ Better ask them for a schematic or ask them directly to fix it as it's proprietary design and a real pain in the *ss to repair...

Loads of bass drops.

This is the correct link to Paul Lairat basses : https://lairat.com/en/basses/basses-categorie/ 😉

I had the GSS Sumo (1000 Watts) coupled to a Warwick Hellborg preamp and the AudioKinesis Hathor monster cabinet (one 18 inches driver and four 3 inches speakers). The GSS is dead silent, transparent and really powerful and, to me, better sounding than the Pascal module which is quite similar, but not as dynamic and transparent. I know have a GSS FRFR 12 + 6 + tweeter coupled to an original Glockenklang Bass Art preamp and the sound is just amazing and so light and small. You can ask Didier any question : he will answer you. Don't worry he's fluent enough in English. 😉

Can't agree more, the Pagelli Golden Fretless is to me, with the Ibanez AFR, the most beautiful bass ever. Wanted to put the photo last night, but went to bed, you know sometimes there's a calling...

WTF. This the first ever bass drop, why nobody mentioned it ? And yes Tony Levin and Bill Bruford certainly commited THE bass drop with Indiscipline ! My all time favourite tune.

This photo deserves better Flea and his bass ... style Sorry, couldn't resist.

This one, I guess : What about my Spoiler ?

Especially for @Silvia Bluejay

Indeed, yellow and orange mix quite well.

And Rolf Spuler own Avalon guitars were so innovative more than 30 years ago...

Yep, but the originals have something appealing and especially two fretless models : this A104F and the A105F. This one is number 62 and is in pristine condition. It will never leave me.

And I even have the original 1991 hard case that came with it...

I had a Stradi Symphony 5 fretless. Nice sounding, but awfully way too round neck. Some youth flaws in the design like neck diving and an E tuner not aligned. The bass was not really ergonomical. The piezo was certainly not the best one too. And the brand name is a bit ... ambitious.

Let's make a slightly clarification concerning parametric EQ. A full parametric EQ includes, gain, frequency sweep AND Q factor adjustment. A semi parametric EQ does not have the Q factor. So what's the Q factor ? It's basically the width of the chosen frequency. Most people can't use full parametric EQ correctly because they don't understand how it works. Hence getting outer space sounds. If you know how to use it, it's a fantastic tool; if you don't, it's a sound destroyer. A semi parametric with a fixed Q factor adjustment badly chosen will be a real pain in the *ss to use. The Noll preamp you're talking about @B.Flat is a semi parametric EQ and the Q factor is not indicated, as (quite always) usual...