LeftyJ

I have to agree here. I have an OBP-3 in one of my basses and "in your face" is fairly accurate. The bass control gets boomy quickly, the treble control is voiced too high to my liking and mostly adds finger noise, and the mid control (with, in my case, a push-pull to switch between 400 or 800 Hz) is all or nothing: at the 400 Hz setting it gives a really ugly and nasal hump which is too much at even the lowest setting. At the 800 Hz setting nothing happens until the pot is maxed, at which point it adds a lot of brightness and a Rickenbacker-ish high mid growl which is just too much and leaves nothing of the original character of the bass. I run it at 18V, I don't know if it makes a difference in the boost level versus 9V. It was wired like that when I got it. I never gave it much thought, but now this thread made me want to experiment more with that bass! I've found that I like my controls simple. Of all my basses, my Jazz Bass has the control layout that suits me best: volume, volume, passive tone and a rotary switch that adds a 6dB active bass boost. It just works, and that bass control gives it a solid but subtle kick. Especially when you're using the bridge pickup soloed.

"Are you in?" by Incubus. Lovely groove, just puts a smile to my face everytime

I guess the last sentence of the article says it all: There's FOUR people in that pic. We can only guess which one of them is not a pal of the other three

Edit - double post.

I think he played that MC824 at Live Aid. It was later auctioned for charity, he only used it briefly - but it stuck with me too!

That's no Gotoh but a Hipshot style B. The Gotoh 201B and the Fender Hi-Mass bridge don't have the top loading feature, you need to feed the strings all the way through. I much prefer the Hipshot! It's a fair bit more expensive than the other two though. I had this bridge on 3 Carvin basses, and there's a custom version with 16.5mm spacing on my Atelier Z Baby Z.

I don't own one anymore, but sometimes I still kinda miss it. It was such a lovely workhorse, with a great neck. I never really bonded with it tonally, and never quite got it to sound right in my bands, but I always enjoyed playing it. It also had quite a spectacular finish, the rare Autumn Redburst sparkle finish. I traded it for a Status S2 Classic with Rob @Bonin-in-the boneyard and haven't looked back, that one is my main bass now and I'm still madly in love. Rob has since sold it, but bought another out of seller's remorse This SR5 was previously owned by Phil Barker of IONA. I bought it from him off eBay, and when IONA played a gig local to me he got me on the guest list to come pick it up after their gig. Awesome guy!

Very valid points indeed.

Not exactly. On the Verso, the pickup doesn't necessarily have to be below the strings. You can also use it as a handheld pickup to do volume swells (OK, maybe more useful on guitar than on bass). I think they're incredibly cool, and would love to own the guitar version.

Excellent point. It was hosted here in the Netherlands in 2021, and it didn't help. And our presenters were all (quite literally) overshadowed by Nikkie de Jager - who is awesome, and put the other three to shame with her English pronounciation.

Just get a good sized strap and you're sorted. Tuning will be awkward though.

That would work, in case of emergency, but would feel like throwing away 300 GBP when I could have bought a bass that I'll use more than once

Lefty here. Wish me luck. Probably a black Ibanez GSR by lack of anything else, if the local stores carry anything at all.

This sounds familiar. Both my Warwicks (2002 Streamer LX and 2003 Streamer LX5) have ovangkol necks, and they're without a doubt the most unstable necks in my collection. Especially the 5 moves a lot with a change of seasons, and when detuning (my doom metal band plays in A tuning, and I didn't want to sacrifice a 5-string to keep in A permanently. The Warwick is completely unfit to tune down a full step and back up again, as the perfect setup will always be a compromise between the two - and at least in one of the two tunings it will barely be playable. It's just that bendy.

I've never tried an LB-100 (or any other Tribute than the L2000, as it's been the only lefty Tribute bass until the Fallout came along) but I did own a USA-made SB-2. As others have pointed out, it's a hell of a lot louder and hotter than a traditional P bass. The MFD splitcoil is incredibly hot, and the bridge pickup soloed feels underwhelming in output compared to the splitcoil. But it offers some really cool and unique tonal options. With the neck volume at 75% it's about as hot as a traditional P bass, and there's a little treble roll-off. The bridge pickup can serve as its tone control: Blending in the bridge pickup adds some bite, some slight mid scoop and a wide variety of blend options. I liked mine a lot, and really shouldn't have sold it. It's one of the many basses and guitars that I've owned that I would appreciate a lot more now than I did when I owned it, because I always just turned all the controls on my amp as close to neutral as I could and all the controls on the bass fully up and didn't like tinkering with onboard controls. That's changed, and it has opened up tonal options I never really explored before.

Ibanez EHB shortscale and short multiscale versions! The EHB1000S is the headless shortscale, and there's the EHB1005SMS 5-string headless short multiscale. https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/model/ehb/

Pfff, I can sell you one of these for half the price of one of these stupid bedmats and you're sorted!

Nice! I like the look of these, except for the short headstock in relation to everything else. They seem well-built, and the first reviews have been great! I like the concept of outsourcing the manufacturing of all the individual parts to China, and doing the assembly and QC in the US to keep the prices low. They offer lefties too. Looks tempting...

Voyager are awesome! I saw them open for Leprous once here in the Netherlands, and have been listening to them regularly since. I wasn't aware they were competing in Eurovision this year, but that's awesome!

That looks stunning, and I love the shape! It looks very ergonomical and well-thought out, and it's absolutely beautiful. It's also not as tiny as many headless designs thanks to that 37" scale B! I look like a giant with my 34" headless Status basses

I have, my Atelier Z Baby Z-4J (Mustang-shaped and -sized) doesn't fit. It does (barely) fit my M80.

I carry my headless Status S2 Classic in a Mono M80 guitar flightbag (this one) and it's perfect. It's rigid, incredibly well padded, fits nicely and the padding in the bottom feels like it will withstand the dual lower strap buttons of my Status basses. I also have a Mono Guitar Sleeve and have tried fitting my Status 4-string in there too, but the way the Guitar Sleeve opens (from the top) doesn't accommodate lefty basses very well because the longer of the two horns goes in first. It might work for a righty - but the flat design of the Guitar Sleeve without sidewalls means there's some stress on the control knobs when moving in and out and I'm not too keen on that.

They do Rather than bridge pins, it uses a normal Warwick tailpiece.

It always seems funny to me how Warwick's slogan is "The sound of wood", when I wouldn't describe their tone as woody at all. All Warwicks I've tried were bright, clanky, a bit scooped and very tight. Acoustically, my two Streamer LX's aren't nearly as loud and lively as my other basses with more "traditional" tonewoods or even my two Status S2 Classics. I don't really play my LX5 (or my other 5-strings) anymore, my Status 5-string has taken its place a few years ago and is here to stay.

Cool! Looks like the Rockbass version? I think the Warwick one has the same tailpiece as their solid body basses?