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The Detroit is 43mm nut, the Power 40mm. Same 1st / 12th fret thicknesses though, 20mm / 22mm.

The aural equivalent of waxing your bikini line, the more objective your perspective, the more welcome a bit of a tidy up is

£250-300 to refinish a bass whose market value is only £250-300 sounds madness, but on the other hand, just £500-600 for an instrument that sounds and looks magnificent.... As far as I can see, there are plenty of ways of spending more on instruments that are neither.

After a thorough google search I've decided I would like to buy a beaten up 424 and have it lovingly refinished in Pharaoh Gold I got the idea after coming across a really bad photo of a natural finish 2024 that made it look like dullish gold. I'm now trying to picture the BB's pickup surrounds against that textured gold (initially I wanted to write "metallic gold" but that seemed tautologous....🙄)

The first thing I do with his videos is put the playback speed on 1.5×

Please may I order a custom paint job for a 2024x? Cackhanded mid 70s Fender 3 colour stripes please. Oh, you've one already to hand? Astonishingly prompt service!

Thanks. Once my G&L arrives and takes over being My Bass With Flats, I'll try those, I think they'll suit that setting better than the Chromes I've on my TRBX atm. Getting back to BBs, yesterday I was watching Yamaha's own demo video of the 734 on YouTube and thinking what a terrible job it did of making me want one:

Still got another two months of waving a begging bowl under Rishi Sunak's nose to looking forward to 😀

Doing one's tax return two months before the end of the tax year seems a bit fatalistic.

Tuesday 6 April will be the most action packed day of my year, for sure.

Anyone else intending to have got their 2020/2021 tax return submitted by Wed 7 Apr?

Now I've found that setting, I'm wondering what it might be like combined with a set of, say, Rotosound Swing Bass

I feel obliged to note that Hermes delivered a parcel to me today without damaging it or stealing it. Impressive stuff!

Seeing that I was intending to buy a Auralex Gramma pad, Brian got in touch offering me his in excellent condition for an extremely reasonable price. A few days later and it's now happily sat under my amp. The brown paper wrapping the box was done so nicely that I regret not taking a photo of it! Lovely when people put real effort in, no matter how low the price 😊

Surely a bannable offence?! 😳

Chord VI in F minor is "C# major"? Mkay 😁

It was quite nice leaving off reading that thread and deciding not to return to it.... *meaningful look*

I've got Chromes on it, so theres no shortage of bass.... I started flat, added mids until there was a satisfying warmth, took off treble until the frizzy clatter was gone, and then turned down the bass slowly until the muddiness had gone, leaving a focused and - to my ears - fairly modern sound. The burr of the flats wasnt entirely removed, but the sound is quite sleek. Sounds best with both pickups on - I suppose because that's putting in a harmonically rich sound which is then being constricted. Since I like a bass to sound bassy, it would never have occurred to me to take this approach. I haven't read many compliments about the BB73x's active preamp, so I'm wondering if this combination would be just as satisfying on one of them.

Somewhere on TB there was a post saying the trick with the TRBX's 3-band EQ is to raise the mids and lower both treble and bass (or vice versa) So I put the battery back in and tried it and, what do you know, a noise I like coming out of that preamp. Treble and bass both -40, the mid +60. (Didn't think much of it vice versa, but then I wouldn't.) Anyway, idle curiosity has me wondering, is the same true with the BB734a's 3-band EQ?

When Yamaha decide to make the Ricky Rioli signature BB, I shall insist that it be called the RD350

I called mine 'Grandma', does this mean I'm obliged to called it a 'Yamha'? 😕

I only ever play it on passive - couldn't find anything for me in the active controls

Is the preamp in the 735a the same as the one in the TRBX504/505/604/605?