Owen

While we are discussing it, different strings make a HUGE difference. I had a pupil who had one with ******** strings on it. I honestly cannot remember what they were, but they were proper Arco classical strings and the warm tone could have solved the national heating crisis we are running into. Sadly, DB strings are mind bendingly expensive so experimenting is very scary. NS stuff come with NS strings which are great for what they do but seem like long flatwound bass guitar strings. DB strings are made very differently.

All the detail. We are here to learn.

But seriously, I used to have 5 string CR one. Just fabulous.

You cannot spell Bass without a B. It's a sign.

I don't need any MIDI bass for wrong note action. But I would love one.

I am old enough to scoff at any thought that anything after 1965 is vintage. But I suppose vintage moves with the times and is defined by stuff that you wanted when you were in your teens but is now affordable when you have a job with disposable income. Is my 66 Jazz better than aything else I own? No. Will I be discussing that side of things when I come to sell it? Not a chance.

I should have actually quoted Machines in my answer. The price is optimistic!

His CV tells us that he could play.

Custom builders can be like philosophers where time an abstract concept.

So these are no longer available? What sort of cruelty waves one of these around and then tells us we cannot have one?

Witness the fitness.

I saw this and thought of you. https://www.musicradar.com/news/rnbo-max-launch

I used to have an SL-20 and it was bonkers fun. Putting a Future Impact ->OC2 ->SL-20 chain together was synthtastic. It was the size of a small house though, so this format is very cool.

Very lovely indeed. But for completeness "bass only" in this context = bass and keys. So not only is it funky goodness, but lovely ensemble playing. Above all, for me, it is Jaco's note placement which keeps me coming back.

I had an Audere pre in my long suffering MTD Kingston a long time ago. There was a variable impedance switch in it. When I hit that the bass spoke with the voice of thunder. Then I changed it. And then I changed the pickups. I should not have. I looked into buying one recently but couldn't find one without doing an import from the US.

That is very special indeed.

I have never edited video in anger, but my son borrowed my M1 13" MBP (16G RAM) to edit a 4 camera 4K shoot. Obviously it did not all happen in 10 seconds, but he was massively impressed coming from an i9 Windows laptop with lots of RAM which was just dropping things all the time and being generally unhelpful. For him it was the smoothness of the operation. There was no fuss from the machine at all. A 2nd hand M1 16G Mac Mini can be 650 on ebay if you hang around a bit. Unless budget is an issue (and when is it not?) then I would not consider anything older than an M1.

Jaco. But not for the tone, or for the chops (I would have, but....). I hear his syncopations in what I play. Not the fast stuff or anything we would recognise as "Jaco".

Fixed gain would make me walk away. I am a very happy SSL2+ user.