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4 basses sounds like the number someone proudly shows off after a massive cull. As a matter of interest, what is it about the Limelight which makes you not want to record with it?

If you're using mega for this, what word will you have for when the white body's black pg is replaced with red tort?

Maybe that's why I like the GHS Bass Boomers so much on it, gently fills in the spaces. Certainly I've never found a single moment when I've wanted the neck pickup on its own, it feels like an ingredient to a successful recipe.

In this video, the live bass line is constantly cutting from 424 to 1024 to 2024, all on the neck pickup soloed. You can hear a relative lack of firmness in the 424's tone, and there's a nice bit of throatiness in the 1024 / 2024.

My tinnitus sounds like silvery cicadas, which just makes me feel like I'm perpetually on some lovely warm summer holiday and someone's about to pass me a mint julep. Some Mitteleuropean classical composer put his tinnitus into a movement of one of his string quartets.

I found this BassChat thread linked to in a TalkBass thread.... Humming Yamaha BB424 ....seems I've just got lucky

Is the bridge pickup on the 424 properly noiseless, or do I just have am extremely well-shielded instrument? Searching around I can find a reference to a "noisy" bridge pickup on a 415 and to the 2024 blade pickup being "noiseless". Which doesn't get me very far. It's only just dawned on me that this is the only single coil pickup I've ever had any experience of – all the guitars and basses I played in my youth had humbuckers or splits – which has led me to be unappreciative of how quiet it is.

After the 4378 year-long intermission in my bass playing ended last August, the second song I tried to play was Living On A Prayer. Recently returned to it and bothered to memorise it instead of trying to read the scribbles I made copied from who knows where. What an intensely satisfying song to play along with

114060 ?

Yeah, in the long run I'm sure the bulk of my playing will be through a nice clean SVT patch I made that simply allows the character of my BB to shine out. My newly-arrived P is capable of sounds that I've not had before, and I'm enjoying finding a handful of patches that couple up with them, in the hope that they will encourage me to stretch myself musically. The tweaking does take forever though... And I was very pleased when I found a good impersonation of this particular sound

This sounds really good when playing my P with a pick – the Vox AC-100 with a ENGL 4×12 cab and a distortion unit the manual say is "based on an legendary 3-knob Blues overdrive pedal providing full-range overdriven sound, great for both guitars and basses" Anyone want to tell me which real pedal this will be? (My guess: Boss BD-2 Blues Driver but can something released mid 90s be "legendary"? There's also one they call "Screamood" which could be the Ibanez Tube Screamer?) At any rate, this combination has a punchy, gritty character that gives a slow simple line real rough-hewn presence across the range. FX2 06 "Dr Blues" (Gain 90, Tone 50) AMP 62 "Voxy Bass" (Vol 50, Bass 65, Treble 75) CAB 39 "Engle" (Dyn57, Vol 40, X 35, Y 80, Z 60) plus some compression, NR, reverb, and mids-heavy bass-light EQ

Do you prefer your post-punk sung by Kathleen Ferrier?

Sorry for not noticing it earlier, but the right justification hasn't been set either:

Bob Geldof another upside downer. Not that anyone's aware that he can play the guitar.

I've been trying out some of the other amps — putting a P through a Fender Bassman seemed an obvious thing to try, and it sounds lovely, in a gentle way. My P with a Dimarzio sounds really *excellent* through the Fender Twin Reverb: clear and firm without being raw, lets the bass's throatiness shine out. The unit calls it "Black Twin" – Amp no.3, Cab no.19. I've got a bit of my usual taste in EQ and NR, but no effects. Amp: Gain 90, Bass 25, Mids 75, Treble 25, Bright off. Cab: default mic settings

Reduced to £825 and only 9 lbs.

The greying out of threads which have been viewed goes a bit far, and is strangely uncomfortable to look at, kind of misty. Also, when the text goes further down than the thumbnail photo, it takes the opportunity to justify even further to the left

So you could move it from the Basses I Regret Missing Out On pile to the Basses I Regret Selling pile?

That one there, the guy who just bought it discovered that it didn't have the stock preamp, but fortunately he liked the replacement very much. More here

I remember a 2024mx being on the list of possible trades for the 1300

A friend of mine came round to see my new bass today. We decided the difference in character between my Dimarzioed-P and my 424 was well expressed by this pair of photos

Thought people could cope with seeing this photo stolen from the TB BB thread BB615, BB425x, BBP35, BB425x, BB2025MX

A friend came round to see and hear the new Squier. We decided that with both basses their sounds match their looks, and that this pair of photos nicely illustrates the difference

I've just been getting used to a new box similar to yours, also going into an active speaker. While I've been very much enjoying building my patches, I can't shake the feeling that essentially I'm making Instagram filters to make my mundane bass playing seem a bit more exotic. If your bass and your bass playing don't need tonal filters to sound good before they hit the honest-as-possible amplification, take the compliment

I get mystified when solo bassists play things like this entirely beyond the 12th fret. No lower than a guitar but with a constricted range and tonal palette, and heavy articulation too.