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Yeah, I have an old Line 6 PODX3 Live (and an X3 w/Shortboard as backup 'cause the Live is a 2011 model - never know) so I can run my Ironwood w/ Stickup & 12-string DBR w/ PASV-4 and ACTV-2 into any mono amp if the occasion presents itself. I can deal with the different impedances...the PASV-4 is passive but it's hotter than anything else including active pickups. 

I have an Affinity Strat that I picked up@ a pawn shop for $60 US and I love it. Fit and finish is nice even the frets don't stick out like you see those YouTube vids showing. If I saw an Affinty Jazz used somewhere I would have to give it try I don't need another bass but I had a real one in the 70's and, well, you know...

I remember as a "kid" picking up a SVT and saying I can't believe how heavy that is. I'm sort-of shopping for "something" in the stores and I pick it up to appraise it. (Mostly combos). I want to add I am now 62 and have back problems. I saw a SVT@ Guitar Center and wanted to see if memory was valid. (Up until last year I was still cooking for a caterer and could pick up a 50# bag of potatoes. I swear I thought the SVT was bolted to the floor. REALLY. I tried it again because I couldn't believe it - this time it moved, but SHEESH.

Something you like also so if he decides THE BASS is not for him you have something you can keep and slog around on...

I don't know what it is, but as soon as I pick up a bass I either go "Oooh" or "Ughh". When I "try" to get "used to it" it never works. Except for the Stick. With that, it's more, "I can't play this thing, my fingers are hitting the wrong strings and making ugly noises, but it's ME, this thing is GREAT." Now it feels "right" in my hands, as soon as I pick it up. (But my fingers still hit the wrong strings, and funny noises still come out...)

5 hours ago, owen said:

I tried a Stick about 20 years ago. I still have a mild headache. 

Not for you. Mine makes the headache go away.

Maybe mine has a truss I've never had the neck off. I keep the pickup screws from loosening (on the back) with duct tape...

Oh wow

I had a Pedulla Pentabuzz with a fretless unlined unfinished ebony neck in "Champange Pink". It was actually kinda purple. And it was sexy. Girls thought it was sexy. And it was fun carrying it around by the horn. I hated the electronics (P/J active Bartolinis). I have a Danelectro Longhorn. They don't snap off. To each his own. To me Yamaha BB's are ugly,ugly,ugly. If you gave me one I would trade it for a cheeseburger (and fries). 

I have a 90's reissue and wouldn't touch a thing. Wooden bridge wood screws as string height adjusters, itty-bitty tuning knobs, no truss adjustment...intonation, lipstick pickups, splanky-perfect best $165 US (with antique-looking gigbag). Oh, and yeah, plastic strap buttons just too cool and way playable!

Unless you're running melody and bass side w/ volume pot at maximum, the two leads into a mono plug ain't gonna cut it. Impedance mismatch or something like that. You need some kind of summing mixer. The PASV-4 pu and ACTV-2 pu have mono switches. Stickup no. I don't know how the Railboard pu works.

Woodinblack- "it would be one of the last instruments I got rid of." I would grab my Stick if the house were on fire...it's the instrument I (try to) play every day, and while I have an assortment of basses (and guitars) to get an assortment of sounds that I CAN'T get on Stick, I much rather prefer to get a Stick sound. 

Wild. Should sound good with a fuzzzzz

Linnstrument

As a bass player 1st., someone who wishes to play cool rhythm because none of the guitarists I knew, knew how to play rhythm, and someone who wishes to compose without sitting w/ a bass on my lap and reaching over to fart around on a keyboard, plus totally digging the SOUND of a Stick, is why I blindly put down $$$ on an instrument I had no idea how, or if, I could play. You have to be driven, hearing the march of a different drummer, playing on the opposite side of town, in the rain...People do buy the damn things thinking they'll get on with it, only to find it's NOTHING like they expected. These show up for sale from time to time. Unfortunately (for the buyer) the re-sale value is HIGH. YOU HAVE TO BE DRIVEN. 

I swear - I have said this before - the guitarist I played with called it the "Make our ears bleed" sound - a Morley Wah AFTER a Big Muff. With a Morley you can effectively "cut" thru a mix by tuning in the frequency. Guaranteed to make tipsy females throw-up (I've seen it) and one girl told me after the set she almost lost her bowels. Edited: I had pedals backwards

Ah. thank you sir that was quick (what time is it over there?) So, I was curious because I use (STOP LAUGHING) a dbx 231. I got it used, cheap, and I use it to "un-bonky" my JBL EON 515's thru a Mackie mixer and I run it balanced after the mixer - the only way it's quiet. The JBL's were bought thinking they would handle the full-range of the Stick. The only way they WOULD sound good is if I added a 70lb. 18" subwoofer...IEM's were what Tony Levin was using the last time I saw Stickmen, and they were LOUD

What is the stereo eq yr using?

Folded Horns...anyone using them?

Yeah, but what about, yeah, but what about, yeah, but what about....

I know this isn't "plectrum vs. fingers" post but when I started out, and I wanted to sound like Chris Squire, and I played Jazz Bass, I used all sorts of picks and they kept FLYING OUT OF MY HANDS. So I gave up and used fingers ever since. And then I found an upright in High School, and then I bought a Chapman Stick. I have a set of metal finger, and thumb, picks, that I explore new techniques with on Stick, never amounts to much. Try everything out there, chaps, nothing is best until it's best for YOU.

My guitarist at the time walked in w/ "Snakecharmer" and said yeah, you sound like Jah Wooble.

Android doesn't even make sense. The old Stickist website went down and I couldn't retreive my old moniker, Martroid, which is what my old guitarist called me - Martroid the Android. So I went with Android and all of a sudden it's a cellphone...I coulda changed it again but What The Fuss call me Marty Stick or Marty Taco everyone else does...

There's 280 pgs. so sorry if this has been mentioned but I heard about this guy and band from a Youtube Rick Beato interview - Plini - Handmade Cities. I listened to "Electric Sunrise" and listened to the whole album

A lot of harumphing and a couple of optimists in this lot. Thanks Dank & Smalls for not piddling on everything out there. I'm 62, most music bores me (especially Stickists, but I can't say that on tapping websites, they'd hunt me down or call me a troll) and my best listening is done in the car, tuned to college radio. I like music that suprises me and makes me laugh (CLT DRP) or is just novel and pleasant and not the same I-IV-V. (not ALL blues is boring. Well, after 57 verses...) So I miss the days of getting stoned and hanging w/ my tribe listening to a new ALBUM that might be a little different but I'm still listenin'...Something that I checked out the other day from a recommendation by Rick Beato (YouTube) was Plini. I LISTENED TO THE WHOLE ALBUM. Unrelated, I have one question to you Brits I gotta ask...Do you actually say "whilst" in conversation? And thanks I got Radio6 bookmarked to check out