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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?

I've just replaced the GHS Boomers nickel coated rounds on my BB424 with a set of pure steel Rotosound Swing Bass. The Boomers made a very pleasing consistent tone, easy to play. The Swing Bass strings seem to have a much wider tonal spectrum available, but that means it's harder to control the tone: harder to maintain an even line, easier to play a bum note. Is what I'm experiencing because that's how pure steel strings are, or because that's how Rotosounds behave? I'm curious to know whether if the nickel coated Rotosounds (either Roto Bass or Swing Bass Nickels) would have the same tonal range, or if the nickel coating will inevitably narrow the options.

What's that, Miami Blue with parchment pg?

I try to forget, but everything reminds me of my missing bass.....

The producer leans back in his control room chair and thinks, either I can hire an okay singer and tart things up with this software I've already paid for.... or I can shell out for real talent, and spend time capturing them at their very best.... gosh this is a tricky one....

Not really an answer to the OP, but perhaps interesting - Simon Gallup in 1982 playing the bassline on a pedal keyboard with one foot, here and there adding a melodic line high up on his Rickenbacker

Some large opera houses, wanting to cast box office names in roles they werent suitable for, have given singers acoustical enhancement, and yes everyone who learnt about it thought it was cheating. iirc it was Sir John Tomlinson who made the biggest fuss about it.