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4 hours ago, thebrig said:

Does anyone know if all the SR necks are interchangeable?

 

Cheers.

Some of them, such as the SRF700s are neck-through.

I am aware that the 9 series pedals aren't designed to go lower than open A on a bass tuned to E standard. Having used a Synth9 in the past, I do know you'll get sound out but there may well be latency issues below A.

21 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

I agree. The purple one looks killer. The EMG/DG combo sounds really good too. I had the same combo in my Ras Layer signature bass. Really liked it (I only sold the bass as I did not like the chunky neck).
 

However, I am not sure about the name - HP (High Performance). Is it really performing higher than the previous Aguilar and Fishman Fluence preamp/preamp combos? 

Further, they could have just called them Ethos II and Dimension II (like they did for the Pulse) as the name HP reminds me of a tech company and these two guys 😉

 

  

HP makes me think of sauces and I don't even like ketchup or brown sauce.

On 07/06/2023 at 16:15, Wilco said:

Got my additional 5 string need sorted by picking up this mighty fine BTB1905 Premium off eBay.

 

Through experience, have become a huge fan of Ibby Premium’s & now have three.

 

 

Those certainly are pretty.

Whilst I applaud the use of upcycled wood, that I could literally buy two custom builds from many other luthiers for that kind of money, and have basses that don't look like a rehash of the same tired old 1950s shapes means these are just being put out there to take money off of gullible Fender addicts. I get it, Fender are legends, if it wasn't for Leo we probably wouldn't have the world of basses as we know it today, but things have moved on a long way whilst Fender appear to have pretty much stood still.

I've only ever used active basses, currently run them through a small pedalboard with a VTBassDI at the end of my chain.

On 17/06/2023 at 15:53, msb said:

And another Dano user!

I'm getting Anthony Stewart Head plays bass vibes, nice!

On 24/06/2023 at 23:25, Bunion said:

Many have seen me but for those that haven’t 

Look, I-I know I said I'd get you the money but time's are really hard right now, so just go ahead and kill my parents, I can't pay the ransom.

35 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

I had this issue with a G&L SB-2 Tribute. 

It came with a set of 50-110s on, and too much neck relief. The strings were absurdly stiff,  so I dropped it from E standard to D standard, primarily to take the pressure off of the neck. 

It actually settled rather wonderfully,  so I left well enough alone (for once!) 

I now just use a capo if I need any other standard tuning other than D standard.

I was contemplating doing the capo thing on the songs I'd been recording in E standard, then my keyboard guy left and now I'm just dropping everything not in drop D down into D standard because, why not? I'd been regretting not recording them like that anyway, so I may as well take advantage of the situation.  Glad to hear it all worked out nicely on your G&L.

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

There's no sign of information on the new basses other than the original link in the OP - "Stock basses" under "Online Store" doesn't have any information and there's no other "Stock basses" option.

 

Incidentally, the website is still stuck in the 1990s with its awful frame-based design and "click to enter" landing page, but for some reason everybody on BC is happy with that but not happy with BD's not quite completely perfect modern website. You can't beat standards, especially if you've got double.

Oh yeah, that website needs a big upgrade, ten years ago for preference.

My sole reason for being interested in these was the headless carbon graphite build, but I understand health has to take priority. However, it doesn mean I'm no longer interested - which is very unlikely to hurt Status sales given I was highly unlikely to ever be able to afford one.

48 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

The neck itself should be structurally fine with most reasonable changes of string tension and tuning. 

 

The thing that will be affected, however, is the neck relief and most major changes of either string gauge or tuning are improved by a check of the relief and, if necessary, a tweak of the trussrod.  The string tension pulls the neck into a small 'bow-and-arrow' bow and the trussrod counteracts that by creating a back bow resulting in an 'almost straight'** neck - and so if you down-tune a bass previously properly set up in standard tuning, the string tension will be less and the neck will be pulled back by the truss rod, potentially into a back-bow.

 

 

**'almost straight' because it is necessary to leave a teeny bit of bow-and-arrow bow (the relief)

 

Shout if you need a simple ABC of checking and adjusting the neck relief.

Thanks, I might do, I can never tell whether the necks on any of my basses have been straight or not - they always look fine, but having never adjusted a truss rod even once in 15 years makes me wonder whether I'm missing problems. 

That being said, the string tension on the Ernie Ball nickels my Evil Twin came with was lower than the current set of flats, and the new set of flats in the new tuning should fall between the original tension and the current tension.

Urban Guerilla - Hawkwind

My pedalboard is tuner- comp.- chorus- flanger- delay- preamp and I rarely have all five of those effects on at once, usually only three (compression, a modulation and the preamp). I run an ampless set-up due to walking or taking public transport to gigs. I hope no one's affronted by the use of a tuner pedal, I wouldn't fancy tuning by ear, and I like it more than the other technological alternatives. 

I'm somewhat bewildered that a lot of the more traditional effects seem to be being considered new-fangled, like a Boss Flanger or EHX Big Muff being compared to an EHX Blurst or Earthquaker Rainbow Machine, the first two are more traditional effects whilst the latter two are weird, but possibly really fun. I wonder if keyboard forums have people complaining about "modern synths" and meaning anything newer than a Melotron.

It's absolutely fine to run without a pedalboard, to run with a pedalboard of any size you want to have or to use multi-effect units. I don't know what I'd do with 20 pedals, though I'm not really one for creating lush textured soundscapes so beautiful you would hardly need another instrument and could basically just record the bass and boom, there's a whole piece of music (but Cici seems to be).

I play in a distinctly 80s influenced style, so certain effects are essential. If you want to go all 1950s, then go ahead - I will continue on with my small pedalboard with chorus, flange, drive, delay and comp (not in that order).

Well, I ordered a set of heavy gauge flats (50-75-95-110) so looks like that's decided, I am going D standard. Let's hope I don't hate them!

4 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

Are you initiated in the society of knobs? 

Nah, turned it down, sounded way too much like there'd be a stream of innuendos. 

12 hours ago, danbowskill said:

Finally got an Oc5 , what a fun pedal it is.

What are the two that appear to be doing black ops stuff? Or is that top secret above-my-paygrade stinky poo?

12 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Punching down the low end (below the belt)

Immediately followed by cries of "But Jaco didn't need to punch below the belt!" 

Scott's Boxing Lessons - but it entirely relies on just using one arm and it has to be the left hand, which is the only one you're allowed to wear a glove on.

7 hours ago, BlueMoon said:

Silent But Lingering

Sounds like something viral that might also cause the pained faces Scott likes to pull when a particularly nice bit of jazz is played in earshot.

14 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Lower tuning, hence lower string tension, will put less "pull" on the neck naturally. Assuming string gauges are the same or v. similar. 

Yes, that was intended to be my point I could perhaps have been clearer though.

On 01/08/2023 at 20:17, Waddo Soqable said:

I've tuned various "normal" 4 string basses down that far (and drop tunings too) with the same strings that happened to be on them anyway, in every case they worked fine with no fiddling about needed at all.  

Just tune it down and see what you think.. 

I just realised, on both my Schecters, they came with nickel round strings and I just switched them out for flats and never even gave much of a thought to the extra tension I was putting the necks under, so loosening all the strings for lower tuning probably won't screw them up either.

3 minutes ago, johnDeereJack said:

How about a body modification channel:

Six Boobs? Lovely!

 

Or a liposuction-themed channel:

Sliced Buttock Lard!

 

🥳

Scarification, Bloody Lovely! 

Thanks everyone, that's a good few things to consider. I guess one thing I should think on is how I feel about the tension difference of the strings on the bass I have in drop D, because clearly the low D is less taut than the other strings. Would I be happy with that across all strings? This is kinda relevant because I have two remaining unopen packs of standard gauge flats that I don't want going to waste if I just jump on to buying heavy gauge.