Hellzero

I was 20 years old in 1985, so for sure Yello Stella on one side and Uzeb Between the Lines on the other side. And another cassette with Joe Jackson Big World on one side and The Pogues Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash on the other and singing (more certainly yelling) like a mad man in the car when Dirty Old Town was playing.

Thanks @tauzero, I'm so tired explaining this phenomenon again and again and again. Just make a real shielding with everything star grounded, so you'll stop acting as an antenna and suddenly everything will become dead quiet.

Fodera to sell their instruments at the right price which is a third of what they are asking.

Free cheese for everyone.

Interesting, so they are taking brains out to coat strings! It's Gore-Tex, not Cortex. 🤦🏻‍♂️ So it's the quite same material enabling humidity to get out but not in that you find in clothes or shoes...

Why don't you simply ask the seller, Alberto? Zimmerly Silly Bass .....Fretless extended range custom bass https://reverb.com/item/27101

So you didn't read.

Do you sometimes read what others write?

Yep.

That's strange, because I use White Nylon's on some of my basses and they are ... white. I guess you had the Copper White Nylon's or the Gold White Nylon's with, in fact, transparent nylon, no white, hence the colour. There are 3 types of White Nylon's. The White Nylon's, the only Nylon strings with round wound string inside: https://www.labella.com/product/750t/ The Copper White Nylon's, with flat wound low copper alloy string inside: https://www.labella.com/product/750c/ The Gold White Nylon's, with a golden alloy (80% of brass, a bit like acoustic bronze strings) flat wound string inside: https://www.labella.com/product/750g/

Yes, but the bass Alberto is after is a Zimmerly, a real luthier, and it has been used by the late Randy Coven. https://m.facebook.com/people/Zimmerly-Bass-Guitars/100063082547861/

In fact Marleaux has been inspired by the Pagelli to make his Diva model, and the Pagelli shown above with the volume control à la Leduc was made as a special edition very small run (5 instruments IIRC) by ... Gerald Marleaux himself. Looping the loop. 😉

Or maybe, it's the Pagelli bass, a true work of art and, to me, one of the most beautiful bass ever made:

I guess it's this bass you're mentioning, @itu:

Conklin and RMI (same look as the Zon Hyperbass) made a lot of 36 positions basses.

Jerzy Drozd is also making some 3 octaves basses or more precisely 36 positions basses.

If he was still alive, it would have been interesting to ask James Jameson who died just after his Funk Machine was stolen what were his thoughts about this...

Nope as he is a bloody cheapskate!

My "one bass" has to be a fretless, and a sixer. I've been playing bass for 40 years now, been a semi-pro (meaning I still had a job) for around two decades divided in two periods and met someone in the early 90's who changed my perception of what is a really good instrument, a master luthier named Christophe Leduc, who has become a friend over the years. During these 40 years, I've owned and played over 400 basses including around 40 Leduc basses, but I always come back to these Leduc basses and especially one Leduc bass that I sold twice and bought back twice. This is a bass that I now own for something like a decade or a bit more, bought to the first owner that I knew and chased it for a decade or a bit more as he didn't want to sell it, and is like an extension of myself. This "one bass" is this Leduc Masterpiece MP 628 SF with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard: But, I ordered a custom Leduc U-Basse 6 fretless, also with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard as they are my favourites, a bit more than 5 years ago and got it for my birthday last month. It's a totally different instrument with its patented floating soundboard and the ability to split the magnetic pickups and the twin piezo pickup. I met a story teller this weekend and it was an instant match, she tells the stories and I enlighten them with just a fretless, so this custom Leduc U-Basse 6 fretless will become the new extension of myself and that "one bass" as the sound palette is broader and fits perfectly the needs for this new project, and I already feel at home with it: And there's a third sixer fretless which is also that "one bass" and is a gift from my wife, a Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block with a stainless steel fingerboard and an amazing tone: So, I own 3 totally different "one bass" for different purposes and reasons. Now, the quest is over.

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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.