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@AndyTravis lots 142-145 Red basses

I was playing a little game in my head, deciding which of A and B would saunter in and answer the question first. I thought for this bass, probably A rather than B?

Toni Basil's Hey Mickey

Blimey I enjoyed that

I was wondering if the Kiloton would be similarly useful, but having gone away and listened again, it's a bit too rounded and wholesome a tone – hasn't got that needling quality that the Stingray can do. Still, can imagine it sounding good growling away underneath a single guitar that's more jangly-fuzzy than thickly-aggressive

When I was a 16 or 17, having been superceded as a guitarist by my later-starting but far-more-gifted friend, I was trying to play bass on a borrowed P, but deciding it was physically too much for me. Half a lifetime of fannying around later, I screwed up my courage, and challenged myself with the least challenging bass I could find. One year on, that's gone, and I've got a P, and I'm loving it. What a muppet 🙄

Sounds perfect for a punk band, tbh: a rhythm section and a singer

I thought it went this way: if the E & A go up a notch of size, they have to go up a notch of tension, and that makes them brighter and less boomy? When I tried Rotosound 66s at 45 65 80 105, that A string seemed to be more bassy, less vivid.

If I've not got my brain in a twist, your spot is about halfway between where a standard swapped around P is, and where the reverse P on a Mark Hopper is

You know somethings going well when it looks good even before the strings have been put on

I voted Jam, and merely specified what kind of jam I would prefer, if possible. Nota bene the groove in the top – as the Assistant Director of Music used to tell us at school, always good when fiddling with a knob to know just how much you've turned it on.

May we tempt sir with the Violone in D - five or six strings, but with frets. And not too many of them neither. "The preferred contrabass instrument of the Viennese Classical era" ie. good for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven etc

The beautiful CLF Research knob for me please

Never heard a demo of OMG and thought, that's a noise I want to make 🤷‍♂️ The single inners in these demos though, yes please

Having given this a great deal of consideration, I've decided that I will be modding my never-to-exist L-2000 thus: neck – series / inner coil bridge – series / inner coil selector – neck / bridge vol – neck tone – bridge tone No active, no parallel, just one pickup or the other, the volume knob the only thing controlling both pickups

I'm enjoying this bit, very much

Factory solder, very desirable

Are the TIs round core roundwounds, and thus more supple than hexcore strings like Daddario and Rotosound? And are there any roundcores which aren't £££ in the UK? The GHS and DR ones are up near £40 as well.

I notice not the feel but the sound difference between those two sets of gauges and would definitely be doing that swap. In fact, have done that swap with very fresh strings.

Looking at the existing colour options for the L1K, that'll be a basswood body, with Caribbean Rosewood (presuming they won't pair that colour with a maple fretboard)

CLF Research range

I noticed that the white Tribute LB-100s Sweetwater were listing recently had acceptable weights, but the natural finish Tribute LB-100s were all ⚓

USA built or Tribute or both?

Thanks for that. I've just gone to look that up. The nut is 1.615" - a little bit thinner than the standard modern P's 1.625". The profile is called Slim "C" (Based on Mendel's '71 Precision Bass®) What all the slims and moderns mean to Fender, I've no idea. So I went to read a review. Here's one: "a C-shaped neck with notably slim dimensions and nut width...... the neck profile is simply superb: there's plenty of meat in the hand, yet it's beautifully comfortable." I'm so confused 😵