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Jens Ritter has that kool looking white fretless. There is a green Alembic Essence in Reverb that looked nice and compact. The best Jazz ever has been a seafoam green (?) Pensa-Suhr. A dark brown unlined fretless Wal, was really fab. Atlansia may be a bit 80's, but different altogether. Steinberger, why not, industrial type. I like Overwater Original / C. Affirma is looking good. Oh so many basses, so little time.

Sir S. Mandrel, take a look at the videos, please. Especially the latter.

A very tiny detail: the inserts are upside down. Use a bolt with a nut or a coupling nut for the installation. (A spacer may help screwing the insert to level.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBvEtmmCUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIhEqoKE8Dc

If you hear the eq that is set flat, it is of low quality. tce 1140 (sorry, that's mine, not the 1144) is dead quiet when flat, but if turned to extremes, anything can be noisy. Do not forget that the signal source is also one part of the equation. If the preamp (and any preamp, that is) is inside the bass, the power consumption has to be so small, that it may already affect the sound quality. (Alembics are an exception with their external PSUs. Their usage of that power hungry NE5534 is certainly one part of their sound.) An outboard unit with 230 V power line and lots of amperes is not limited the same way as the tiny unit with single 9 V battery problems. A tube preamp like an Alembic F-1X inside the bass? Overkill. And definitely does not work with that single battery. Of course you can leave all adjustments of the bass out and put that outboard unit straight after your bass. I bet you get better quality than with a small Sadowsky (and a tiny battery), but also different. We need to think about the practical side, too. If your work is in studio, the built-in bass preamp (or those terrible carbon pots) is the worst quality element in the signal path. But it is very feasible for the gigging bassist that has to change the sound on the run - and some noise in the circuitry does not mean a thing in live situation.

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My Passions have semi-parametric preamps which work very well. Parametric is a powerful tool if you get accustomed to it. I have a parametric pedal (simple Artec, works well, too), and a tce 1144, which is a classic. In a boomy place parametric is far better than basic two or three band eq, but the usage is slightly more complicated to understand than a 2/3-band unit. I downright love parametric, but took a bit of time to get the most out of it.

If they just take an ordinary ply and slice it to two... will get my coat. The machinery seems to be big and the speed too. Sure they are able to fine tune the process. Still three layers is fine stuff.

Plywood, one video about manufacturing:

400+ 4 x 10" The house was shaking.

Coca-Cola has phosphoric acid in it. It has been used with gunsmiths for ages. Let the bridge be in the coke for 24 hours and if the result is not good enough, repeat. Maybe a shorter trial first to some smaller part...

A quick look and I would say it is a Steinberger. Ibanez has started to produce nearly a look-a-like. There are some older and a bit similar looking instruments popping up every now and then.

Anything from The Cure... oh dear, where was my coat?

A secondary battery (i.e. rechargeable) lifetime is around 500 - 1000 charging cycles depending on the usage and chemistry. Then it has lost around 20 % of its capacity. Active usage may result even greater loss in performance. I would change the current one now and write the replacement date to the battery. A visible reminder.

I have put some 16 prototypes together from ready parts, mostly. They are far behind from my fretless 4, that a local young luthier built to me. We were drawing the shape for one month, and when he found out what I was after, he made it real. His ability to read my thoughts was the key to a succesfully designed instrument for me. And definitely one very hard task. She is one bass I will never part. And she signs like a dream. Can be seen in my pictures. Keep going. You are making great progress all the time and the next may already be your key to success.

bartolini has or has had these multi coil versions during years. Study their offer.

A bag type Li-Ion battery. Evilbay or Mouser may have something similar in their storage. Remember that size matters (LxWxH), because you have to fit it in there. Thickness is important, as the battery gets slightly bigger when charged. If there is space, you can put even bigger cell instead of this one. By the way, how many times have you charged this old one? Over 500 times?

When I first read the starting post, I was thinking this guy knows G. Lee, but no. Still, a Rick and those Taurus pedals make me see this famous trio. I do not understand how he could play bass pedals and guitar and sing at the same time.

In Bass Player there was a story of Jonas Hellborg holding a Schack 10-string. If the bass was just a really wide headless, Hellborg's face looked like he was totally amazed. I do not know whether he ever played that spade in public. A friend (?) of mine sent me a picture of an instrument that had a backside of a woman's body carved to the backside. Grouse...

I think Mingus could be counted in.

Iron Ether Nimbus is a bass specific reverb with functional eq. You can exclude frequencies that do not need the processing = no mud.

You do can mix and match an amp and a cab. Consider portability (weight as well as size), dBs (sensitivity + wattage = loudness), and versatility (from jazz to metal and anything in between). Amp = adjustments and the driving power. Cab = sound. If you will be a gigging bassist, the amp power output might be 300 - 1000 W. Cab is very personal, but two elements (or two similar cabs) is better than one and 4 can be considered (4 x 10") if the size is not an issue (yes, an 8 x 10" exists, but...). Of course if your gigs were with a folk band, a single 12" can be enough. My preference has evolved from 15" to 2 x 10" to 2 x 12". And few others in between. But I like the power and the sound of two elements. Still the box is reasonable in size. 10" and 12" are flexible, 15" is a bit too dark for me. Your music suggests a 4 x 10". If the loudness is not enough, buy two similar. Remember to cut the lowest frequencies to get that power efficient and loud scream out feom your system. Very low freqs (<50 Hz) are truly power hungry stuff.

Iron Ether has the Divaricator in a small pedal format, and KMA has the Tyler, which is a bit bigger. I have both and they are in two different pedal boards. Especially chorus/flanger and fuzz can be turned close to insanity through those X-overs.

Six strings and such a short scale... aren't these called something like, erm, guitars, maybe?

Would there be a place to share that HB in mscz-format, Mr. @stewblack? By the way, it looks a bit like that Maruszc¥xz$cts#xcz luthier had its own file type.

Me neither. It would be two rests and that's it. But notes over the bar lines, many.