MoonBassAlpha

Are you going to use the same neck at 28" scale and refret it with fewer frets?

Guitar and bass for me and I own a drum kit. Since lockdown, my drumming has come on a bit. I recorded along with a jazz backing track yesterday and it sounded almost like a drummer. Anyone who has heard my composition challenge entries can decide for themselves on the merits of my drum wrangling

As an addendum to my earlier post a few months ago, I got the Studiospares m1000 Mark 2. I think they were £59. They have a more robust headband now, still have removable cable and now come with 1 set of leather ish pads and 1 set of velour ones, similar to Beyer. Sound wise they are quite similar to the mk 1 but slightly clearer top end. I always found the mk 1 a bit shy there. The m2000 is the same in open backed design.

I've always wished more builders would do this. Nice detail Andy!

Looks great!

Wilkinson do some Hofner lookalikes that don't cost the earth....

I think it is consistent with Wal basses generally.

Looks super. The bass in the background is my favourite single-cut shape out there though...

Thanks Gerry! I had completely forgotten about the feedback thread, so I've popped some on yours too. Using the Mustang a lot now! Cheers!

Lemo connectors are indeed things of beauty. They're so well made and finished.

Bought Gerry's (@jezzaboy) mex Mustang just before Christmas. A total gent, the comms were excellent and the packaging, bomb proof!. A flawless transaction from start to finish. Deal with confidence, basschatters!

Is your preamp balanced output?

My mate's Verithin had both pickups die after an extended vacation in his loft. It was very inexpensive to get fixed. I think the failure mode is corrosion where the hookup wires attached to the coil. The flux used was probably acidic and gradually corroded the thin coil wire over the years. Don't write the dead one off!

Sorry to hear that Douglas, hope you feel better soon!

I'm loving these Hofner rebuild jobbies! For me, they are a nice size bass, quite small and light, and the lovely neck inlays have so much character! I think a mid and neck pickup placement would be well worth trying , as is often noted, the bridge pickup doesn't yield particularly useful tones.

Is that an active bass, and can it be switched to passive?

I didn’t quite read the picture text properly, that makes sense to me now. With this sort of thing, it's worth bearing in mind that Gibson guitar headstock breakages probably account for 90 percent of all across all makes and brands.

At least you've got a head start on getting this one off!

I know it's a bit late now you've cut wood, but isn't that a rather extreme headstock angle, or are you making it into a bass lute?

Wow, one of the strongest months so far. This is going to be a tough one to sort out!

The spacing of the Rumblekat bass gives nice tones with middle/neck positions

there's some awesome stuff in biab.My mate used it on a tune he did backing for me to practice drums along to in lockdown. I used it for an early lockdown composition challenge entry, Frantic Hamster Wheel. Everything except the drums sounds amazing!

Basschat composition challenge January 2021, as promised yesterday! Piece inspired by this month's photo. Any fans of Janek Gwizdala will be familiar with his Baby Elephant sound, which is what I'm using here, played on my new Mustang bass, with half-round strings, it's first competition outing. The usual poorly played drums and a couple of guitar tracks on the Eggle (Berlin Pro)and that's about it. Mostly in a slow 12/8 but slips into a bit of 13/8 near the end (I just can't help making things bloody difficult for myself!) and a bar of 13+1/4 / 8 just on the drums where I got a bit confused.

I must admit it looked like the opening sequence for an episode of Casualty...

I think mine is done. I'll sleep on it and put it in tomorrow. Any fans of Janek Gwizdala will know what to expect for a baby elephant sound. It's slightly annoying, but that's babies, eh! A first outing for my new Mustang too.