Owen

I cannot deny, I am proper gutted. In my mind's eye you were 6'5" and probably wearing some sort of platforms on stage becasue of your screen name.

He had a thing, I fancied it. I paid, it came. He is a professional packer!

YES! Right there!

There is a lot of it about. https://reverb.com/uk/item/52022127-fodera-wal-emperor-2003-crotch-walnut

Excellent news. I do not actually like them, but I am in a minority of 1 in my close and broader family. The rest live for them. I get the process and the way the flavours morph from one to the next, but coriander is not for me.

I am a bass tart and will go with any bass.

Bass Police are coming for you.

70cm and not tight together shoulder straps.

I hope not, I am waiting for the first new bass I have ever bought in my life.

I am happy to measure mine if you like.

I have a bit of a thing for gig bags. I have a Protection Racket one at the moment which sits nice and high. I have a Gigblade one which sits over one shoulder but to the side which is very easy to carry.

If you have a competent keys player handy, then they play them in. However, songs that are older than 10 year old are likely to be available as midi files for free. You can download them and mute everything but keys, IF you are DAW friendly. However, commercial tracks might well be just less hassle.

Whenever I have played a fretted bass in an orchestral setting, the intonation has been interesting. An orchestra will intonate within itself. Frets don't do that.

Very easy

£50 2nd hand. Then sell it for £50 if you do not like it. Nothing not to love about that.

That picture is giving me anxiety. Gravity never takes a rest.

I am PAINFULLY aware of the piezo into a front end which is not high impedance. Nothing is quite as sad as an unbuffered Double Bass piezo. What I was enquiring about was what Audere offer in some of their on board preamps. I had an Audere once. It had some kind of impedance switching option. It was utterly bonkers, in a good way. All I know is that when I flicked that switch back in the day all sorts of super gnarly stuff happened which was very attractive. Not just LF, but grunt and edge. I should have left the bass as it was, but........ you know how it is....... It could just have been a level rise which in turn drove the front end of the amp harder. It could have been how the preamp was interacting with that specific pickup (also long gone).

That brush work is not hurting things for the overall vibe.

FWIW, I have come into the Sadowsky camp in the past 2 years. It just sounds right.

All I know is that when I flicked that switch back in the day all sorts of super gnarly stuff happened which was very attractive. Not just LF, but grunt and edge. I should have left the bass as it was, but........ you know how it is....... It could just have been a level rise which in turn drove the front end of the amp harder.

Correct! My wife worries about my lack of detail as well. So does my boss actually.

The answer is no. I guess I will have to look for someone in the US to be my friend.

Now I know But unless I ask, I just will not know. Thanks.