Woodwind

I'm not surprised that vinyl is seeing a continued resurgence. If I'm buying new music I'll ways look to buy it on vinyl first. This will generally be artists in a similar or related niche to the music I'm involved with. If I can't get it on record I'll go for CD and I also buy classical musoc on CD generally after checking out versions on youtube or similar. I don't like downloads or streaming both from a sound quality point of view or ethically (specifically spotify). If an artist I like only has their music on bandcamp download rather than physical product I have to think hard about whether I'll buy it : Once it goes into a harddrive library it tends to disappear - scrolling through itunes is the least engaging way of thinking about music I can imagine.

on a tangent what bass is that? Viscount? Vincent? Looks interesting

Isn't this too late? The deal has effectively been made We were all describing exactly this scenario two years ago.

I really hope you can get this! I saw one in action circa 2005 and wanted one ever since. I couldn't work out what it was and assumed it was some prototype Ibanez thing like Percy Jones had. Stingray, but not stingray. Absolutely fantastic tone and looked very easy to play. Good luck! 😎

Have you tried it using the balanced outs? Just running a line from there into the fx and amp?

I have tried this several times over the years and always preferred the sound with the effects going from bass to preamp. Using the FX loop sounded a bit limp (on different amps). Also the sound engineers would always take a di from the bass signal so I needed my effects before that. But do give it a try and use whatever method sounds best to you.

Wow, would love to have tried that. I always wanted an all wood Status 6. The 4's and 5's (wood necks) I've owned have all been wonderful instruments.

Oh wow, I wish I had been in your shoes! Superb find. For my own personal needs I'd be making up two 2x5's. All the best with this project, can't wait to see the results

Sorry if this sounds negative, but all I'm learning from this thread is how not to do review videos (slapped chours effect ) and how not to present products on websites. I really like the look of these cabs and would be interested in investigating, but I don't think anything is doing them justice.

For those reasons alone get it a nice new set of frets and keep playing it for another 27 years. Your fear is understandable - the changes to tone caused by the frets wearing have been very gradual, this will be a sudden change (albeit not necessarily a noticeable one). Going for super Jumbo stainless steel frets will definitely change the tone, where as something like it left the factory with (medium height cupronickel or silver nickel) would be a more sympathetic/appropriate (?) choice. Go for it! 😎

Not to take the thread on too much of a derail, I was listening to I should Coco the other week having not listened to it for 18 years or something. The bass playing and bass tones are really, really good!

Many different levels/facets to what pro is. Playing originals music for a living potentially puts different requirements on what's used than if you were a session bassist for a living. On a tangent, Looking at double basses (and generalising a great deal) a pro bluegrass player could get away with a sub £1k bass, a pro jazz player could well manage on something for a few thousand pounds, a pro classical orchestral bassist would struggle on an instrument under £15k

currently strung with super dead Status groundwounds 40-100. I like very light strings so would like something a bit lower tension than these ideally 😃

Great bass!! I'm a fan of the onboard the three band eq. The mid in particular is very useful to get the bass to sit in a live mix. (I use a fretless Ray34). I don't think you'd gain much by swapping the pre until you've tried it in context. If you want to try some variables in the meantime and have cash burning a hole in your wallet buy a load of different strings and see how differently the bass reacts to them all.

if my stage set up wasn't getting quiter (less amplifers) I'd be super interested in checking these out!

Treat it as two three-dimensional shapes and add the two volumes together: A rectangular volume and the slanted triangular volume. For the triangular section, multiply the depth by the height then divide by 2 and then multiply by the width of the cab. I've assumed the whole front face of the cab is slanted. Is this correct?

I can't see a bass line would add to Kiss. I can imagine his demo sketches would have had a bass line and he just removed and refined elements until he was left with all that was necessary. As you say he had a really great head.

Another shout for Laurence. He looked after my double bass (before I sold it here) and did outstanding work adding a low D extension and increased the neck angle years ago.

Cleaner might be better for my use, so thank you for that insight. Just been having a look for second hand examples and it looks like I'll have difficulty getting one. In terms of workshopping the music I think your idea of octave and eq will be the way forward (If I can get it to work with this, then it will definitely work with a dedicated sub pedal).

Bit of an old thread dredge, but I'm looking for a meat box for workshopping a new piece of music next year. Does anyone in London have one of the reissues they would consider lending after Christmas? I'd be able to give an instrument as a deposit etc. If the workshopping goes well I'd need to acquire a pedal to then take out to gigs. As the meatbox reissue is already selling for silly money does anyone have an opinion on alternatives? The Mantic Density hulk for example? Cheers Thomas

I'm still stunned. I didn't know women weren't capable of scruffy indy/rock 😃😂 I can understand though that as most hits in the rock idiom haven't been sung by women, less eyebrows are raised in the audience when a cover is sung by a man

I don't have any advice, but I am stunned that a mixed gender band is regarded as a harder sell.

I would rank as one of the most annoying people I've ever come across.