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I saw the guy from Super Furry Animals use them at several gigs. Brilliant concept.

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Of course not, as Leo had sold out many years before. Such decisions were the realm of the mighty CBS corporation who thought "Screw quality, shift more units! SHIFT THEM NOW!!!"

I'm quite partial to SRs in general, but especially the old SR800LE, something I lusted after as a young lad, particularly the Jewel Blue one. The Regulated Lo-Z pickups, the Omni-Adjust bridge, the lesser-sculpted body, the chunkier neck (like a svelte Jazz neck, not the super skinny SR neck they made after this), they just make for an instrument of which the sound and the feel are very pleasing to me. Blue ones in this spec were only made in early 1990 and almost impossible to find. That year, they changed to the SR800 with AFR pickups and Accucast bridge and, well, it just wasn't the same bass. There was a shop over here which had a blue SR800 in the early 90's and I really loved with the colour, but always preferred the LE spec. Over the years, I've had a few SRs, starting with the SR1300PM, a great bass but not quite right for me. I managed to pick up an 89 SR1000, which was lovely but, again, not quite right. I even found an 89 SR800LE in good condition but in black. Loved it, but it wasn't the blue I craved. I couldn't justify having two, so eventually sold it on the basis that if I ever found the correct spec in blue, I would have no excuse not to. I did find myself regretting that sale from time to time. Last week, I finally saw what I was looking for in sunny Italy and, since the Doctress is Italian, took it to mean all lights were green. It arrived yesterday and finally ends a very long search. It's a lot of trouble to go to for a different colour of paint 🤣

Jaco only needed four coats of epoxy.

More likely it's settling into your environmental conditions instead of the shop's. The truss rod is a user-adjustable part and the neck will probably need to be adjusted at least twice every year due to seasonal weather changes as the wood reacts differently to these changes than the metal strings pulling on it.

You don't think Sadowsky are making money out of this?

Interesting perspective from the bassist of the Metal band Exodus who, for those who don't know of them, have been going since the mid-80's, have a record deal, regularly do world tours, regularly feature on big festival lineups, etc, a not-unsuccessful outfit https://blabbermouth.net/news/exodus-bassist-jack-gibson-im-a-t-shirt-salesman-im-not-a-musician

I sold the 5 banger a few years ago but still have the 4. Lovely bass.

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Give the mods a break, lads, FFS

I was, as you may have skipped over, engaging specifically with Diskwave's post so kept it relevant to that. No harm done 🫠

Television in this sense means traditional scheduled broadcasting with advertising breaks, not on-demand subscription streaming watched on a 52" screen.

Do young people even watch TV, really? Most of the "young" brands and ads targeted at the youth are using contemporary music, from what I've heard, but I don't really watch TV and am a prodigious ad blocker when online. You've mentioned Tesco before, who don't seem to be playing the old hits? The way young people are exposed to music has changed quite dramatically this century, from early file sharing through streaming and now just background noise on a tiktok video or computer game. It's a generalisation, yes, but, it seems like the most recent generations don't define their lives through music like many of us older heads on here used to. They don't purchase it, that's a completely alien concept, and they don't consume it in the same way a lot of us do, so our old way of measuring popularity does not really convey what's going on.

Careful now 😉

All techniques are still readily available. You can't smother it in a cloud of mojo and charge a premium.

Is it when one pickup is on, or both? Is it confined to just one pickup or both when run individually? Does your bass have the vintage push/pull circuit? Check the soldering and shielding and make sure that nothing has the opportunity to move, short circuit, etc.

Ah ok, Facebook doesn't let me play ball.

What are the basses? Are you referring to solid body basses with metal strings and a magnetic pickup?

That's the way it should be, surely? Each generation should have its own music. Were you into music made ten years before you were born when you were 15?

Is the difference in volume also proportionally evident when the instruments are played through an amplifier?

A couple of samples from Alembic's website. Clear as mud 😁

When you say upwards do you mean fret 5 to fret 17, 18, etc or frets 5 down to the nut? If it's 5 down to the nut, you don't have enough relief in the neck. Again, check the relief on both sides. If the E string is ok but the G string is not, you may have a slight warping in the neck which a setup won't resolve. Hold the string down at the first fret and last fret and see if the neck forms a continuous gentle arc with the greatest distance from the string at about fret 8-9. Do this on both sides of the neck, the E and G strings, and see how they compare.