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    Oh, that's good to hear. Did you get to use different tones from both pickups, individually or blended? I think I would have gotten on just fine with that P on its own, straight in to an amp with the necessary headroom to handle it!
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    Another new (?) entry which I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the Rapier Saffire reissue, 31-inch scale, which is distributed by JHS with a RRP of £479. The ‘60s original was a WEM product, I get some Burns vibes from it.
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    I know you saw my NBD thread in which I criticised the stock electronics, but you might get on better with them than I did, especially if you use an amp. That Roswell PM-4 (P) pickup has to have the most powerful output I have ever heard from a bass, it's an absolute unit of a pickup.
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    Syncron Bass Driver

    bnt replied to bnt's topic in Amps and Cabs

    I still have it in my office, though for the actual gig, the house amp was a SWR RedHead 2x10 i.e. much much better.
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    Anderton’s has them for £199-209, so pretty cheap, yeah. Scale is just under 23.5”. Something like this should include a headphone amp, I think, if it’s really a travel bass.
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    Well, here's a new contender in the Like, Rilly Short Scale category:
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    I’m curious to hear more about the pitch shifting mentioned above as being not that good. If I get something like the Ampero, I hope to use it for a pseudo 8-string sound, where an upper octave is present but not full volume. If it can’t do something like that, it’s not for me. (My 8-string model tone would be something like John Paul Jones on Leafy Meadows.)
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    I don't like working with skeletons, since anything I say just goes in one ear and out the other. 💀

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    I can believe that. If I play long gigs ever again, I'll want something light and more ergonomic for the majority of the time, and keep a heavier bass like that for certain songs. I have used it with 50-120 balanced tension strings already, tuned DGCF (opt. drop C) and still have those strings for that. PS Low End Lobster just released a review of the HB PB-20 SBK, the basic P-bass in satin black. Weight 8.8 lbs, he says.
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    I don't have my Enhanced here at the moment, but when I weighed it before it was around 4.7kg or 10½ pounds. I thought it was fine on stage, but for casual use in the home, its size and weight has got me checking out short scale basses like the Epiphone Newport!
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    My Enhanced is Lake Placid Blue, with matching headstock. I think they didn't match the headstock of the Anniversary edition so that they could show off the roasted maple, which mine doesn't have. They both have the block inlays and the zero fret, things I like. (Why don't all guitars and basses have a zero fret? It reduces or prevents nut filing problems and tonal changes on open strings. I've heard that wear can be a problem, but even now that stainless steel frets are more common?)
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    Well, I recently updated my NBD thread with a gig story - a 1-song gig, that is. I was not happy with the electronics in mine and replaced the lot with active EMGs. It doesn’t look like they changed anything there. Apart from that, it’s well-built and holds up well, if big and heavy.
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    I had a chance to gig this baby last night, sort-of: one song at a company do, not my choice of material (an Eddie Cochran song). What I found was pretty interesting. I had been kind-of down on the MMTW tone when playing at home, thinking it was a bit weedy compare to the P, but I didn't think a full P tone would suit the material. So in the soundcheck I just used the MMTW, tone all the way down, and they liked the sound. In rehearsal I tried a plectrum, for the tone, but it didn't seem necessary in the end. The house amp was a SWR Redhead 2x10 at pretty low volume, since they took a DI to the PA. I was surprised at how fat the resulting sound was, and I got compliments on it later. Another bassist had a Fender USA P there, and offered to let me play that, but the neck was glossy & sticky while the HB has a satin neck finish. Overall, I had wondered how confident I would be on stage with this bass, but it handled itself very well. The weight might be a problem on a longer gig, but for this gig it helped the bass feel more "substantial", and I didn't embarrass myself too much.
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    Does anyone have any experience with the (Bill) Wyman Bass from Bass Centre? I didn't know about it before today. It's 30" scale, small body, £600 new.
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    Anyone heard of this thing? I hadn't until today. A few of us at work are going to play a few songs at a company do next week, and one of them said there was a bass amp in storage. It had been left by someone who no longer works there. I have a bass there, since we ran through some songs today, so I borrowed it, and it sounds OK at low volumes. It's very light - maybe 10 lbs - and I'm not confident it would be good at anything much louder. Here's a picture of an identical one, which is on sale here, though that one is missing the tone controls. A search finds others on sale, including one for £12.99!
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    Gibson didn’t go after Serek for the Midwestern or others. If anything, that might have helped push Gibson in to bringing back the Newport.
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    Looking at that nut, I realised that I've never owned a bass (or guitar) that didn't have a straight string pull across the nut to the strings. I don't think I want one, either. If I get a Newport, I know that would annoy me to the point where I'd install some kind of string tree. The cheap plastic isn't helping, but maybe it's less brittle? Hmmm.
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    GAS is not over for me, since I do my own setups and wiring, and actually have one of those Artec mudbuckers here. I considered dropping one in to my Harley Benton MP-4EB, and haven’t ruled that out, but that requires woodwork and I went with active EMGs first. Until then, a Newport could be a good place for it.
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    I asked on TalkBass: answer I got was just shy of 8lbs, which lines up nicely with the above. I've been going back and forth on these - not helped too much by multiple video reviews in which the bass clearly needed a setup. Here's a new one I found which compares it to a Fender Mustang, both with flatwounds & definitely sounding better to me than in the Andertons review:
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    Yep - not stock, Dave said the owner did a retrofit.
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    Dave - the angriest guitar repair guy in Canada - has a look at one. Pickup seems OK, the bridge had already been replaced, but ... frets: video link .
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    The Fender has got its own thread, here. It's pretty bad, more than one instrument affected. About the Newport - in the latest demo video I don't hear the pickup phase problem that "Lobster" had earlier. In both videos I hear something odd with the blend knob, however, it seems to "switch" with a sudden volume change.
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    On TalkBass there are a few more reports, it doesn't appear to be a single example. Either the bridge or the pickup is in the wrong position.
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