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An SB-1 (I didn't want to send the thread down a G&L sidetrack again!)

Btw, the other day I was complaining about the blend knob on my TRBX being of limited utility. Since then I've read - and again the technical details went miles over my head - that blend knobs work much better on active basses. My opinion had been based solely from using it on passive. And now I think about it, I've noticed that Yamaha have Vol-Blend on active basses (eg BB734, TRBX604) and Vol-Vol on passive (eg BBP34, BB434, TRBX174)

Feeling sorrowful at the continuing non-appearance of the bass I ordered way back in September, I had a go at persecuting myself by thinking of readily-available shiny new basses I could have bought instead. Eg the BBP34. One of the videos of the I just watched was an A/B comparison of it alongside a Fender Original 60s P. When the neck pickup, there was almost no difference at all. So the lesson to be learnt was that if you want a P, you should buy a BBP, but since I don't want a P, my attempt to annoy myself failed.

Getting borderline obsessed with that colour

400 euros ... £350 plus shipping ... can't see that meeting with approval

Can't now remember what I was searching for, as once my eyes fell on this 614 in Pewter, everything else was forgotten. Mmm, shiny. (Mmm, matching headstock, too)

Very well-used Gramma Pad box

Is someone going to start an Were You A Dog, Which Guitar Would You Prefer To Slash Against? thread?

Gullible, stupid and *happy* ? 😊

We've a, er, recently refreshed selection of sites available for the intrepid retailer 😔

When I got my 604, to get the tone closest to what I wanted, I fitted flats, played passive on neck pickup. Now I've a BB to satisfy that need, I'm able to be a bit more relaxed with the TRBX, letting it find the noises it wants to make. I can't now remember where I read this advice but it's been good: with the TRBX 500/600 3 band eq, boost the mids and cut both the highs and lows. I've found that works especially well with the pickup blend 50/50. However the Chromes are now wrong for this sound (too bassy, and their husky quality is fighting the tighter focus the eq is trying to create) so I'll try a 45-105 set of Rotosounds next, either Roto Bass RB45 or Swing Bass RS66.

What's the name for the poor deluded fools who think they just want a nice pair of basses to settle down with, and are just sorting out exactly what it is they need? 😒

Yes, and if you go back in time and travel to Australia you can have it red, too:

Jim Lindsay of Oranger - Keith Moon reincarnated as the Pink Panther

Perhaps a group of friendly but persuasive Pocklington bassists need to organise some kind of picket line. @ped? I pass through Pock fairly often, it lies on the path to my support bubble. I hadn' never imagined there was much of anything there....very wrong, clearly!

I was thinking the other day, if Yamaha continue the slightly different style of BB sound, then that will mean the 2024 will remain unsuperceded. Unsuperceded, impeccable quality, and zero fresh supply....does this mean that 2024s will never be as modestly priced as this again....?

Vow Wow filmed a gig in Newcastle in the mid 80s. I saw a clip or two of it on YouTube a few years ago, and was jealous of everyone who was there, the atmosphere looked fantastic.

The one time I had the pleasure of a proper car journey in 2021 I found myself travelling alongside a van with PJD GUITARS written on the side. PJD Guitars, I learnt, started in 2010, relocated to York in 2017, and offer three basic styles of six-string guitar in a variety of versions. No sign of the word 'bass' on the website. Some reading: PJD Guitars website Music Radar review with quotes Does anyone know anything about them? Especially future intentions....

I've only just spotted this helpful little paragraph in the OP. By this, my very fresh-looking BB424 is Jan 2012, which fits with the years of production. And by it, my TRBX604FM is Nov 2017, 2 months before the instrument was announced, and 2½ years before I bought it. I guess the Yamaha Music Shop don't bother with stock rotation in their storeroom. (And why would you bother? Instruments weigh a lot, don't like being thrown around for the sake of it, and don't go off)

This is going to hurt me more than you

Bourbon or Custard Cream for your prize?

There was a band whose album I bought when I was 15 under the impression they were part of something called West Yorkshire Hardcore Thrash. Much later in life Wikipedia told me that they were in fact thrashcore/protogrindcore/crust punk (a biscuit to anyone who can work out which band it was from this wordrubble)

My head was getting fed up of my going back and forth between mm and inch, so I sat down with my calculator to make myself chart, so I don't need to think anymore. Once I had done it, I realised that Yamaha's frequent sizes of 40mm and 43mm lie almost exactly in the middle of the gaps between 1½" and 1⅝" and 1¾" (40mm: 100.8% of 1 & 9/16" ; 43mm: 100.3% of 1 & 11/16") My head is so pleased to learn that it'll never have to think about this again 😅

Will you have to change your forum name?