Baloney Balderdash

I love that one! Wish I owned one. It is such an original and elegant design. A shame it was discontinued way too early, because of.... well let's not offend anyone... But this is why we can't have nice things, unless paying more than I could ever afford.

May I ask why are you hidden away in a corner of the very back, behind the keyboard player? But since you are why couldn't you just sit down on a chair and play?

These are the always on effects of my "amp-less" setup: So a combination of several preamp stages makes up my "amp-less" tone, but I suppose the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI being the main one.

Really I could see the FreqOut being used for somewhat more traditional bass playing too, the same way as people use synth pedals to sound like a synth bass. The FreqOut can be used for much more than simply emulating feedback.

Because I play a 5 string 28.6" scale bass, tuned in G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. And I really play it more as sort of a 5 string bass/baritone guitar hybrid, or like you would a Bass VI type instrument. And I plan to use it with a TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper pedal, as the main instrumentation, with a backing track of drums/percussion, and more flavor oriented additional instrumentation. And this setup will be used for my drone/ambient project as well. I also plan to sometimes use the FreqOut in conjunction with the Sub'N'Up, which is loaded with the Organ Emulator patch, and both those sometimes in conjunction with the Sample Sustainer.

Still haven't gotten down to rearranging my pedalboard, so I still use a temporary pedalboard free setup, consisting of just my always on effects, my dirt pedals, and my delay. But this is the most likely outcome of the rearrangement, using an online pedalboard manager (note that some of the pedals are placeholders, as some of the online app I used lacked some of my pedals): - The EHX English Muff'n is really an EHX Black Finger, tube driven optical compressor, though used more so as a tube preamp stage, with minimal compression dialed in - The XVive Golden Brownie is really a XVive Undulator tremolo pedal, though exclusively used for it's great buffer and never actually engaged, which are to be mounted under the pedalboard. - The HoTone Wally Looper is really a HoTone Trem tremolo pedal - The Mooer Black Secret is really a Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone - The Arion Stereo Chorus is really a Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger (which is a rebranded Arion Stereo Flanger)

The bass sounds great, pretty awesome bass line too, though not my personal taste of music, but does sound good, despite the low quality.

Yes, personally in that price range I would chose a Harley Benton over a Squier, any time!

Remember to plug the current screw holes. Just fill with wood glue and squeeze down some slightly oversized sticks/strips of wood.

Looks like a deformed solid body Longhorn bass (which I by the way love the looks of). That said I can think of much worse looking basses. And yes, definitely single cut basses also looks wrong to me, especially the "whale hump" ones, butt ugly, though I have actually seen a couple of single cut basses that looked genuinely great.

Also, you might want to invest in a neck plate (or make one yourself) to prevent the screws from gradually sinking into the pocket wood over time from the tension, potentially causing the neck to loosen in the pocket, and to help distribute the tension of the neck screws over a greater area, giving an overall more tight and study neck/body connection.

That is with the octaver and thumbinator running in a parallel signal path, or? And A0 or A1?

Looks great. The string spacing at the bridge is pretty wack though. To me it looks something like 15mm - 18mm - 17mm - 16mm, from low B to high G string.