Bassybert

A Mexican player series Strat went for £1.6k 😂 People are weird.

As @grelum kindly pointed out, a simple zoom into the pdf and everything’s nice and clear 😊

I’ve given the Laurel fingerboard on my CV precision a light clean with wire wool and lemon oil a few times and this has definitely darkened the appearance. I found Laurel quite a dry wood with a fault fairly open grain but it’s definitely changed since the lemon oil. How many coats have you tried? It might just be a case of a few thinner coats?

Yeah I’ve been diming the input gain trying to get the needle around the redline mark on the vu meter and then adjusting the valve blend to suit.

Absolutely, I’m not doubting the quality of the product or the staff at all, they seem like a great company. I just think the prices of their products have risen to the point where they’re out of reach for all but the well off. But like you say, you don’t have to buy them if you don’t want/can’t.

That looks fantastic- who doesn’t love a big cab booming away behind them 😊 However… I really like Bareface and how they’ve shook things up but the price of their gear is really getting silly and seems to have risen a huge amount in the last couple of years. £2k for a cab 😳

Thanks for this @PigBass, makes a lot of sense, I’ve definitely been using this a different way 😂

Beautiful 🤩 The smoky neck looks gorgeous!

The amount of passion/effort that people put into justifying the pros and cons of tonewood is always guaranteed to bring a smile to my face, it's got to be one of the most debated/divisive topics ever 😂 For me personally it's snake oil selling. Wood by it's very definition is organic matter that can have different properties from piece to piece, even within the same tree. How people can quantify all of this to say this wood sounds better or gives more definition in the low end etc is beyond me. I don't care what wood a bass is using as long as it sounds good to my ears, that's the true litmus test regardless of what it's made of - I've played plywood bodied bitsa basses that sounded great and expensive basses that sounded crap. As soon as you rock up to a gig and you're faced with a low ceilings, reflective surfaces, an empty room 😁 it all goes out the window.

Probably time to logout and go for a walk or something if that’s your idea of fun.

It’s like the old veganism quote… There’s nothing more a vegan/Precision hater loves more than to tell you how much they love being a vegan/hating Precisions. I love mine. I think they’re the dogs doodahs. They just work without any fuss. An incredibly versatile instrument for something so basic. God bless Leo.

Ha I was going to say that 😂 It’s the secrecy bit that would bother me. I’d rather just know they’re up to other stuff on the side and plan accordingly

I’ve tried. I sent emails to Big Leaves but never had a response. The bass player was called Kevin Tame I think but he left when the band broke up and the trail went cold.

Life’s too short, just do it.

Sold my Fender MIJ 75 Jazz reissue, natural finish with a rosewood fingerboard back to Crane’s in Cardiff around 2001 as part ex on a guitar when I got heavily into Neil Young. It’s by far my biggest regret, the bass was a gift from my parents and I think about it quite often. I really wish I could get it back, I last heard it was bought by the bassist from the Welsh language band Big Leaves who I think later became Sybriddion but don’t know for sure. I still feel such a fool about it 😔

Trace Elliot gear always looks cool, it’s such a great look.

It always makes me laugh when people accuse companies like Fender of not pushing the boat out regarding colour choices or technology, when they probably wouldn’t buy one anyway. I’m pretty sure Fender, being the multi million pound business that it is, knows its demographic and that part of launching an upgraded range would be to look at sales figures for different colours across said demographic and offer something they know will sell. It’s a business after all, not a company driven by artistic freedom. On a side note I see they’ve changed made in Mexico to made in Ensenada which I’m pretty sure is in Mexico 😂. Looks like the marketing team are trying to disassociate the idea of a Mexican made bass being a negative thing and make it sound fancier?

Boney M?

Now that looks like the sort of rig I’d love to play. I can feel the trouser flapping from here!

Just about the perfect set then 😆

Am I correct in thinking the zero is pretty much a power amp and high/low pass filter for £1k??

That’s like comparing apples and oranges, the Sansamp is just a preamp/DI.

Getting that sound is the reason I use a Programmable Sansamp as my preamp, usually into the effects return of whatever amp I’m using. Coupled with a P bass it nails that lovely, fat but warm growl I love about Ampeg’s.