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Definitely the same bass! Wow.

When plugged into the FX return you can adjust the Ashdown EQ all you want, but it isn't in the signal chain because you've bypassed the Ashdown's preamp section. So it has 0.0 effect. If you want to make changes you'll have to use the Digbeth's EQ controls I haven't had an Ashdown in years, but when I had an ABM300 Evo II C210T I always thought it sounded very boomy and needed quite a cut in the low frequencies to work for me. Especially with a 5-string. Not sure if that's the preamp voicing or the amp as a whole, but I could imagine it being the latter.

I've got a great idea for a headstock logo too! Quick, where's my sharpie...

Some early Stingray prototypes had a reverse P pickup in the MM pickup position. So indeed absolutely nothing like on the Joe Dart shorty, but it's not weird either.

Not too familiar with PayPal (haven't used it in years, I only had it for my eBay ventures and it's been well over 10 years that I last used that). How is a Friends & Family payment different in terms of buyer protection?

Yes, Jochanan Bax was fired from his position of CEO in January - by his brother and FIL. He'll possibly be looking into buying back the company though.

Ha, I wasn't aware. I only know Hosco from their luthery and guitar maintenance tools. I have some Hosco-branded polish pads and a vintage truss rod adjuster (for the old Fender-style neck heel adjuster type with a crosshead). All excellent stuff. Never knew they also sold guitar hardware under that brand name.

That's lovely! I've always liked the smaller bodied American Deluxe Jazz Basses of the late 90s and early 00s and kinda want one. They made lefty 4-strings in sunburst and a pretty cool black metallic finish with gold pickguard. I'd really love one of the black ones! Prices are gradually going up though, it seems.

Probably! Sanding a radius exposes these layers, but I recon you'd only see the top one if it was perfectly flat. Although I expect a little sanding will always be applied to properly level it after carving it to the right thickness. Unless the laminates are manufactured to extremely high tolerances, and come out exactly right.

The boards on my Status basses are too - you can clearly see the layers thanks to the fingerboard radius. This is my 2012 S2 Classic 5, after applying a little WD40:

This "overengineering" can be quite apparent in wooden necks too, and the difference can be quite substantial. I've had 4 and 5 string versions of several of my basses, and despite sharing the exact same specs in terms of woods, electronics and construction, they always sounded different: the 5-strings have always sounded tighter and slightly harsher, without the warmth that the 4-strings exhibited. The only difference was in the neck, which was always more rigid (and just simply contained more wood) than the 4-string counterparts. My graphite necks are actually the exception here, because the necks on my Status S2 Classic 4 and 5 are more or less "hollow" shells. It was most apparent in my Ibanez ATK's, of which I've had two ATK300 4-strings and one ATK305 5-string (and at one point I've had a second 305 at home that was passing through, so I could compare them). The 5-string necks were much more rigid and those 5-strings lacked the beef of the 4-strings and had more brittle top end than the 4-strings despite being 100% identical in every other way.

That's @lowregisterhead of this parish @woodyratm mentioned having both a CW1 and CW2 and talked about doing a comparison video, so you're probably not crazy.

Oh, lol! I'm on a Dutch bass forum too, and there's a guy there with the username Owjeej which would more or less translate to Owno (oh no) phonetically, who just bought a Mullarkey too. Quite the coincidence! The only thing off was your mention of a Serek, when he compared his to a Mustang instead on our Dutch forum

This sums up my experience on my Fender MIJ 1975 Jazz Reissue pretty well too. Slightly enhanced brightness, tighter lows, somewhat diminished fundamental - and to me, no perceived boost in sustain / note decay. I do like it a lot, it's been on that bass for some 15 years now and it's not coming off any time soon

The bio on their site is quite ambiguous about it, but the concept was in fact designed by this guy, who founded Catalyst Guitars. He called the material he came up with "SoundCompound", which was cast around a carbon graphite base structure. Aristides' bio doesn't mention a previous company using it, and only names "a team of Dutch scientists at Delft Technical University", but Catalyst were a pretty cool company. Their designs were more traditional than what Aristides does, but the technical concept was definitely very cool: Catalyst Instruments est 1996. – Jedistar

Done! Will you be sharing the results of your survey / thesis once it's done? Might be an interesting read.

Fujigen yes, Ibanez no. The Roland G33 is more related to Greco, and borrows some features from the GOB-II range. Ibanez (Hoshino Gakki) and Greco (Kanda Shokai) did work together and share some designs between them for a while, and both had their manufacturing done at Fujigen Gakki.

Modified Roland G33 midi bass Edit: not midi but it does have a hexaphonic pickup to hook it up to a bass synth.

It only just struck me that "Owno" and "Owjeej" are in fact the same guy. Hi Tim

Yep, this one has been posted here before. That's @sblueplanet's. Looks lovely with the anodized aluminium pickguard

Good call! I came here to say Status Graphite. With Rob Green's recent semi-retirement, and his departure from all-graphite necks, I expect prices on used models to go up. Same for Pedulla and Vigier, Michael and Patrice have also retired but their instruments remain popular.

I was wondering that too. And there is the little thumbscrew that locks the sliding part to the upper rail. That could serve as a ground connection too if it's metal on metal.

Nice. They must have gotten a lot of positive feedback on the Ultraburst finish on their current American Ultra line, to introduce a more affordable version of that. I think Ultraburst looks sweet too, but a bit more "orange" than this more classic finish on the Player II. I like it a lot.

This could read like the start of a long list of Chuck Norris-style Spector Facts.

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