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Police - Every little thing Double bass ideas, try So what Eagles - One of these nights Sade and that song, where the bass has a short solo... Smooth operator Oleta Adams - Get here Morphine, any song (fretless two-string with slide...) Fernando Saunders - The Spin Some harder and really hard stuff: Peter Gabriel - So, Paul Young - Secret of association, Tribal Tech, CAB (Bunny Brunel) Here are many more: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/what-are-some-good-fretless-bass-songs.7100/

I do not see the temperature changes a risk until you keep only the neck facade against sun. Think about a meat that you want to prepare on open fire. This is just the same. Turn it.

UV will affect the colour of the lacquer or colour first and then the wood (lacquer may contain UV inhibitor). The temperature changes are big (although the color of the wood is light) so the neck could turn all the time. Take a picture of the neck before starting the ageing. Then after 100, 200, 500 and 1 000 hours. If your studio has steady lighting, you should see the change. By the way, UV rays (A and B) get through the clouds, the sun does not have to shine from a cloudless sky.

Status is sold nowadays in two colours, but no tuners, so...

There are several painting ideas that can be found from cars: flake, candy, pinstripe etc. Just make a picture search.

How about material manipulating methods along with materials? 3D-printing (plastics, fibers, ceramics, metals, composites of all these as well as functional parts) is the new black, so there may be several ideas coming towards consumer goods. No, all ideas are not used. Something new is coming round the corner all the time.

Congratulations on a neat bass. That Pentabuzz looks very good, too. I have a Modulus Q5 Custom ('91), two Vigier Passions series II ('88 and '89) and two Status necked instruments. Status can be ordered with satin and tint finish. Modulus had a tint finish option and they still offer gloss as an option for the neck. I have tried two Zons and their necks were glossy at the time (early 90's). It is probably up to the customer to get certain neck finish. Also no dots or LEDs or whatever are just (pricey) options in this category. Carbon fiber neck is nice in a country like where I live, as the weather changes lot from freezy to relatively hot and the necks are stressed. I have had so called better quality wood necks that need a tweak at least twice a year. Carbon just stays in place round the year. (I sometimes wonder, have we seen anything new since 1980's and 1990's bass development? Sky high prices of so called master built instruments and awkward looking single-cuts?)

I will take one more approach. Do you use pedals? Do you want to take the line out after effects or before? Basically all effects outputs are lo-Z (low impedance) so practically their output fit any mixing board. If you want just the bass output to the board, a DI-box is reasonable. Many lo-Z (so called "active") basses can be connected directly to mixers. Some kind of a splitter (so a DI-box) is needed if there is a need for an amp, in both occasions. HIgh impedance (so passive) bass output loves DI-box (so a hi-Z to lo-Z conversion) before connecting it to a mixer. Preamps, yes, I think I will write a short book about them and how they behave.

Please lady Bluejay, take a tour in a shop that has several models, and let your ears decide. Even the volume level and have a player (phone, maybe), that has some song(s) you know well. Then try to find those details and sound you like. My brand, or model suggestion is only good for me.

Have to say that these are all good, but so different: Wonderwall by Oasis, Ryan Adams, and Paul Anka. Talk about arrangements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1Bh8ZvH84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVxRvNfFLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzyBWZf6wQ

If your band has different setup than the original - or doesn't - you have to arrange the song anyway. I think it is very important to understand that the original version may work well in the original context. How about with your group? Just arrange any song to a bossa nova (Anarchy in the UK, anyone?) and you just have to adapt and arrange. I have been a few times in a place where I have no idea of the original song. I have opened my ears and tried to find the suitable notes and feel to support others. Sometimes it is just root-and-five. Latest song I have been learning is the Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes, because of the movie. Luckily, I have the score. First thing (for me, that is) is to copy it note-by-note and then try to find possibility to change it, if the band's arrangement is going away from the original.

If you put the bridge as far back as possible, you may be able to play with the balance and reach (how to reach the half and first position) a little bit. The neck has to be "deeper" in the body. The instrument becomes slightly shorter, too. I like the idea of having the hum at the neck position. Would have been my choice, too.

Sir, this is not the price tag porn thread.

Absolutely fabulous! (The comment has no connection to any TV- or any other series.)

5-string: Modulus Graphite Quantum SPi Custom, Ibanez SR506 modded to a 5 wide neck, and Clevinger 4-string: Vigier Passion II '88 and '89, 36" fretless built by Kristian Ukkonen, Status neck fretless J and a fretted sort of a P (built by K. Ukkonen), Ibanez Affirma, and a plywood double bass and few others that are in permanent loan, so ten etc.

I just move my right hand to get the sound I want. Closer to the 12th fret for thicker and closer to the bridge to get brighter sound.

...and the magnet has to be very close to that coil. One foot is very far. Less than an inch is pretty close.

Where from and how did you get that neck? Dorsch is everything but easy to reach. Nova (Andre Passini) seems to be from Brazil and he has only FB pages, am I right?

First I thought that your wife stole the new bass from you and plays it.

It is true that such a module may not be too easy to repair. Usually similar ones are not impossible to repair but it takes time = it has a cost. Who wants to try to find the issue, if you get no help from the manufacturer - and here I mean the original power module manufacturer, B&O. The single part probably costs £1 or less but to find the faulty component and hopefully the reason, too, may mean hours and hours of work. Naturally the company could offer some kind of replacement program in the name of recycling, but I doubt it. Machines put those modules together for that low price. If someone fixes those faulty ones by hand, the price may be higher than a new one. Mixed feelings? When Aguilar or any other shop buys thousands of those powers, the price is negotiable. When some Jane-Joe Ordinary, like me, wants to buy just one single unit, the price is naturally something else.

If you have so powerful magnets that you can hear the sound difference, you should avoid them. You may have to leave your keys to be able to walk away... Seriously, if a magnet is very near of a transformer (stuck to it), there may be subtle difference in its behavior. I try to think, which effect pedal might suffer from a nearby magnet but can not think of any. Cables do not care at all, if they are not wound to coils. Tubes can be affected but again the magnet has to be powerful and it has to be very close to it.

Bourns has these blend pots, where both are fully on (0 ohm) at centre. Double pots, markings are MN250K and MN500K. Check these from Digikey or similar: PDB182-GTRB1-254MN PDB182-GTRB1-504MN

If you get a beaten up "g-word" Marshall, just change the elements to bass drivers. Probably the elements cost more than a modern bass cab, but when in need...

I have been using Marshall 4 x 12" "g-word" cabinets in my youth. Worked really well. Very good rock sound. It is true that you cannot drive them as hard as bass cabs, but before you reach hazardous levels, you can get pretty much noise. Think one as a bass cabinet that just has less power. It is possible to cut the lowest end and drive the cab harder but is that the sound you are after?