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A feature is, for example 4-band EQ That’s not a feature, that’s a design flaw and it’s shocking how many leave the factory like that

Same as you woulkd play a normal fretted bass. Seriously that is IMO by far the best way to start. The worst way - again IMPO - is to try and play, Jaco, Karn, or Pino. Best thing I did to was take my fretless along to rehearsals and simply integrated it more each week to the point that I was giging it around 6-weeks later. Good luck, it's fune 👍

Welcome to signature models 👍

I'd not have said that, I guess it's which amps you're used to, as @Bill Fitzmaurice says, if it has independent gain and master you can usually get dirt, I guess it might be you're looking for uber-dirt?

I was hoping for more granularity from Fender, it's long overdue 😁

Agreed, I bought a used bass from this forum that had been bought from Sound Affects what I understand was a considerable time before it came to me. A problem came up and they fixed it for me FOC. Very good people 👍

Clearly not, you tell the truth and offer real solutions. You'd last 5-minutes in government

Ever considered a career in politics @ped 🙏

Yep 👍

Not always a source to be relied upon

Calling @Hellzero

My over-riding sentiment on this - without wishing to further criticise the OP - is that there are too few physical shops that stock decent basses as it is without us lot making their lives and their business any harder than it already is without real justification 👍 I've criticised, among others Bass Direct, Bass Gallery, and Barefaced in the past, usually not because they were unprofessional or in error, but because for whatever reason I was pissed off about something they did or didn't do. It's easily done on a forum like this, and we should all remember that these businesses are part of the UK bass community, not prey to it 👍

I'm going to order one of those now, thanks for posting @jazzyvee 🙏

Thanks for posting Andy, let's hope all is OK 🙏

I've had two of those also 👍

That've very kind of you @BassApprentice, to return the favour I've got some space in my wallet in which I could probably store some cash on your behalf also 😃

The thing that I really like about Precisions.........? No need for decisions . One PUP, leave both controls wide open, plug it straight into the amp's input. And play 👍

Absolutely mate, absolutely, but if one didn't try out new stuff life - and let's face it this forum - would be very boring 👍

This had been calling my name quite a lot when I saw the Buzzard

Update on this monster! Looks like the circuit's an easier fix than I'd feared. There's two relatively cheap components - a pot and a battery clip - which are misbehaving, and when they do so at the same time it gets messy. I'm hoping to get the work done by Status and to get the all clear on the circuit from them, but if they're not able to it's apparently a pretty straight forward job. I've rehearsed it a few times, initially with the original strings, then with some flats, and most recently with Lo Riders, and it's a phenomenal, extremely sensitive, versatile, and if needs be, huge sounding instrument. It's everything you'd expect a top-end instrument for Status to be. But.......... ........after rehearing last night I picked up my Precision, and then my SUB, and knew that my growing realisation over the last few weeks that ultimately the Buzzard is not the bass for me was accurate. OK, this thing makes it extremely easy to play some of Entwistle's more demanding parts, and to sound ballpark doing so, but oddly I suspect that owning it has made me more determined to do the early 70's Who material on a Precision. So for Who stuff I'm going to head back to my hybrid Precision - late 70's body, Warmoth (maple cap) neck, Fender '63 PUPs and some nice rattly strings - while keeping a keen eye open for a used Status graphite Precision neck It ain't the destination, it's the journey 👍