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Cor! That’s rather splendid. Well done, Sir! 👏👏👏

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Of course, I’d forgotten about them. Solid suggestion, Sir.

They have a mute system in the bridge, which, of course, is a PITA to use quickly, so quite possibly.

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Plenty of folk here who also play the skinny stringed thing.

Very much this ^^^ It's a right of passage for playing a stringed instrument. Also @itu makes a very good point about material sensitivity. The D'Addarios you're using are pretty soft feeling by my reckoning, but are nickel plated, as are EB Slinkys (very similar strings IMO) and your issue may lay here (although I'd expect fretting hand issues too). After long, heavy playing sessions, I would often find my plucking fingers became sore, so would revert to a pick for the rest of that session and revert back to finger style next time around. However, when I changed to EB Cobalt flats, this was never an issue and the joy of these, price notwithstanding, is that they pretty much retain that roundwound sound and I never found them to be sticky, unlike other flatwounds I have used. Like others have said above, I would avoid Rotosounds as I too have found them to be very rough in comparison to others. The same for any stainless steel ones I have used (although I have not tried many). It may just be a case of playing more often, but for less time and building up your calluses.

Being sold by one of our own IINM.

I believe my MXR compressor is based on the Urei; works for me.

Speaking of Bass Direct, this Elrick caught my eye, but not my wallet, fortunately. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Elrick_Gold_4_30".html

I think it should, made me smile at least.

@Lowhead Congrats on your new acquisition, let the fun begin! The thing I seemed to spend a lot of time getting right was the height of the thing. Because of it being fixed on the tripod, there’s none of the pulling it towards you and cosying up to it like you would do with a DB (I tried it ‘floating’ for a bit, but have gone back to fixed) However, once I got it right for me (I suspect everyone will be different in this respect), it became easier to play and my intonation improved. Altering my fingering from where I would play mid neck on an EB, to more towards the nut on the WAV and incorporating more open strings has been another step forward. I was initially a bit disappointed with my progress, but I’m a lot happier now and think that the WAV (or at least the move to upright) is a keeper. I tend to play with the switch in the up position (which I believe is primarily for arco), having the tone control halfway and scooping the low mids on my amp. This gives me the sound I’m looking for and sounds more DB than fretless EB to my ears and produces a nice thump on the note.

From A Whisper To A Scream - Robert Palmer

Feline Guitars are a custom builder based in Croydon, headed up by Jonathon Law. I had some dealings with them many years ago when I was local to them.

The pictures on the Guitar Guitar website all have the bridge pickup closer the bridge.

It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy

Bowing out with some style I feel. Nice one.

Oops! I Did It Again - Britney

You can always add floor stands later .

The Cherry and Pacific Blue (green) ones look tasty.

Finally watched the OP video and I’m left wondering why someone as relatively little known as JG would even warrant a signature bass. I can only imagine that Fodera bigged him up because of the differences he had installed in his personal instrument. The same goes for Matt Garrison, hardly a household name, even amongst the bass community, and not particularly high profile IMO, but suddenly there’s a signature instrument. If Janek is to be believed, Garrison is a bit of a diva (I wonder if Anthony Jackson threw a hissy when either of these 2 ‘signature’ basses were produced? I’m guessing no, as AJ is high profile in our world and too busy working), but given that Fodera lavished both protagonists with ‘signature’ basses, I guess it’s easy to start having an over inflated opinion of oneself. I have 2 custom built Maruszczyks made to my specs, they must be my ‘signature’ models and perhaps I should approach Adrian about making them available at a cheaper price point for my acolytes? Oh yeah, I’m a nobody, as you were. As to the, “I wish I could pick up the phone and apologise,” comment, man alive! Come on, you’ve sat there, recorded, edited and generated a long video, you could’ve picked up the phone during the upload. Passive/aggressive perhaps? Finally, with regard to @ped’s editing comment, it irritates me too and seems all the rage in an effort, I guess, to be edgy. Other folk I follow occasionally have these jumps, but it’s plainly where they’ve ‘dropped in’ due to an error/retake, either that or they’re not very good at the edgy style.

Master of Puppets x Metallica