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Although, when I bought it, I was just a kid who didn't know much about nothing, I do appear to have been able to recognise decent quality.

You made me feel obliged to go and take a look.... yes this looks like the same thing

Now this bit would have been of interest to me back then:

Good news would deserve a fresh thread, I think?

My joke was so unfunny as to be imperceptible

When I was 13-15, very skinny, easy to bend strings were exactly what I wanted, they were right then. Now I'm wondering if the coil taps and phase switch would benefit from having a richer tone coming from the strings.

Thank you, I'm beginning to build up a picture of its capabilities now. Since the neck is such a dream* I would love to get this in the hands of a someone who would actually play it, and am trying to decide if restoring the electronics would be worthwhile. I'm hoping the circuit board is still in it. Though given the stupid ideas I had in my midteens, heaven knows. iirc I had a plan for replacing the preamp with a distortion unit..... *despite its many many years of sitting in its box, playing it now feels exactly as it did back then

All I wanted was a bridge humbucker and a volume knob. And all the distortion.

Feel free to spell this out for me - does this mean active pickups and no preamp? I presume my Westone was the other way round

I've looked up the specs for the knobs - I was wrong about them being like a standard 2 band EQ. I cant say I understand the terminology: Switches: coil tap, phase, active circuit on/off Knobs: master volume, passive tone, equalizer tone

When I was 13, I bought a gently used Westone Thunder I-A guitar. Two humbuckers, a 3-way selector, three knobs and three switches. I'm going to have to look up what the switches did, but I'm pretty sure that the knobs were vol plus a 2-band EQ which in a bass would be totally unremarkable, but which on a guitar....I can't recall ever having seen another active guitar since. So, simple question: just how short was the history of active guitars? For what it's worth, the active EQ drove me nuts, so when I was 16 I attempted to rewire it bypassing the entire preamp.... Yeah, that went well. I still have the guitar. The previous owner had got the action so low, they had been able to grind down the frets. With 008 gauge strings on it, playing it was so so easy.

Mon 21 Sep - Order placed by dealer >>> 12 weeks 0 days >>> Mon 14 Dec - SB-1 returned to G&L >>> 13 weeks 2 days >>> Wed 17 Mar - shipped >>> 8 weeks 0 days >>> Wed 12 May - today Total: 33⅓ weeks - is this a record?

I think that shade's correct name is Bathroom Suite White

I found somebody clearing up the confusion between the Roto Bass Nickels and the Swing Bass Nickels. And if I was looking for approval of the 66 Nickels, here it is: "Rotobass and Roto 66 nickels are NOT the same ... I suspect several of the comments in this thread about Roto nickels being dull, muffled and indistinguishable from other cheap NPS strings must be about the cheaper Rotobass sets ... after a couple of weeks the Rotobass set will be muffled/dead and the Roto 66 nickels will still sound reasonably fresh ... The Roto 66 nickels are VERY different to Rotobass and MUCH better quality IMO. They have more uniquely voiced mids, somewhat more aggressive, edgy and metallic sounding than the Rotobass sets ... last considerably longer ... Very unique sounding, nothing else out there like them."

I was about to calculate an estimate but then I spotted the studded belt and that's got to be adding a lot right?

Which Asś is Best For Metal?

I asked the owner what the two outers setting was like: "like an extreme reverse P: extra growl on the low strings (almost like Ric bridge pickup), extra depth on the high ones (similar to J-bass neck pickup). Sometimes it seems slightly unbalanced if I'm playing over one coil or the other and not directly between, but other times I think I'm just imagining that"

Everything would have to sound like Sussudio?

Many years ago I chanced on the Making Of Band Aid documentary on the telly. The footage of Simon Le Bon singing his lines (11'00" to 11'30" here) really drove home to me the point that in performance every single note needs to be packed with intention. Genuinely an epiphanic moment for me.

Pinched from TB, a custom bass

I've been trying to read as many opinions of the swing bass nickels as I can find. The approval they get is never anything like the approval the regular steel version gets.

I got two months out of the Boomers before they suddenly changed character (and rendered the tone knob useless) Which is pretty good, I guess.

It's not just that they're brighter, they have a wider tonal range than the Boomers. I can still get a warm mellow sound from them, but playing them is a lot more of an expressive experience. This is not a problem, I don't want to shut them up, I'm happy letting my fingers learn how to control them. I would just like to know whether this extra benefit is coming from the nature of Rotosound strings, or if all pure steel strings are going to be more responsive to touch than their nickel-coated equivalents. Specifically, will the nickel coated @Rotosound strings be lacking this degree of expressiveness?