LeftyJ

I was unaware they made these in a short scale length! That's pretty cool. I see there's one in their online shop that was a special order by a Japanese dealer. They also made this incredibly cool shortscale Streamer CV with Gibson EB-0 specs! But €5000 is eye-watering... They made shortscale basses under the Rockbass brand too, those might be more easily within reach. In the second generation Rockbass line (with the two-point Warwick bridge) there were a shortscale and medium scale Corvette. I don't know of any Streamers though!

Aye! I found it surprising I had to scroll all the way down before finding a mention of these The (late) 1980s also spawned the most iconic and successful of all Ibanez bass designs, in 1987:

For emulating an acoustic tone, I'd say the amplifier is much more important. A passive splitcoil (i.e. P-bass) or the neck pickup of a Jazz Bass through a wide-range amp with a good presence or brightness control to shave off the brittle top end to your taste will actually get you fairly close IMO as long as you keep things clean and properly EQ'd. That said, installing piezo's in an electric bass isn't all that hard. Most will come pre-mount in a complete bridge assembly, and will only require hooking up the electronics to your existing jack, stashing the preamp and battery somewhere in the electronics compartment (if there's room, since most piezo systems will be active and require a 9V battery) and adding a blend control or switch. I've owned an Esh Stinger I for a couple of years that had a Schaller 2000 piezo bridge and it worked great. In that particular bass, the piezo's are there to compliment the magnetic pickups and Esh wasn't going for an acoustic tone at all, just added brightness and cut to the magnetic tone. However, through my EBS amp with the EQ flat it did sound a bit like my ABG.

OMG! Looks like there's still some Ibanez ST980 left somewhere in there, but you need to look hard!

I've seen that for sale, I think it was in the Netherlands? Absolutely gorgeous! Looks like an S2 Classic neck through, with the old Hyperactive soapbars. I have a bolt-on 4-string S2 Classic with those same pickups and it's LOUD. I think mine has the old Board 300 preamp without a trimpot for the output level, unlike the current Board 303 preamp.

My Warwicks came with this absolute unit of a wrench

I also have the CruzTools multitool, but I much prefer using a few good, separate tools. Especially for truss rod adjustments, a perfect fit is very important because you don't want to damage the truss rod nut. I have the CruzTools in my gigbag for small adjustments to the bridge, or quickly fastening a loose screw.

Exactly! The "Custom projects" page on their site pictures the original model with an Eastwood-logo photoshopped over it, but the final product never looks (and sounds!) exactly like the original.

I remember drooling over this on eBay somewhere between 10-15 years ago and ALMOST pulling the trigger on it. The only thing holding me back was potential resale value if it wouldn't suit my taste, because Goodfellow is fairly unknown outside the UK. It still grabs me, it's such an elegant interpretation of the classic Jazz Bass shape!

Funny thing though: Warwick barely do oil finishes anymore. Most of their satin finishes are now a thin polyurethane lacquer finish, including their necks (!). So "OFC" doesn't really cut it on the recent models if it does indeed mean "Oil Finish Colour".

Cádiz is still on my wishlist, and Ronda

Wow, that sounds very weird and unusual! Still kind of cool though, and I can definitely see that working well as long as the EQ frequencies make sense

Does the other way around count as well? I know of a number of unexpected actor sightings in bands I know Johnny Depp plays bass (but is more famously known as a guitarist), and I've seen footage of Keanu Reeves and Ryan Gosling with a bass. And Gary Sinise has the "Lt Dan Band", named after his Vietnam veteran character in Forrest Gump.

Hi, and welcome here! I've been in Andalucía a few times, and hope to be able to visit your region again when we're allowed to travel again. I've been in Sevilla a few years ago during the summer, when it was way too hot to do anything. I'd love to come back in spring sometime, it's such a beautiful city with all its tiny alleyways and patios.

Can you elaborate further? I'm quite intrigued, since you mention five parameters but there's only 4 knobs. I'm curious about that EQ, and especially the twinned-bit. Do you mean the magnetic EQ is like a balance pot, but between the bass and treble frequencies?

Hey, it's the guitarist of that band "Free candy". Pretty sure this is their van:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LO4i1Gsf84

None. My bass is an extension of my manhood, wouldn't want to cover that up. When I really need to, I favour the googly-eyed goodness of these:

Are they those funky guitars with ridged fingerboards instead of frets? Pretty wild, and very innovative!

Will do!

It doesn't sound all too unlikely to me, after all the tone and resonance of an instrument is determined by the sum of all its parts. When I added a neck pickup cover to my Jazz Bass, I was also convinced I heard a tonal difference. It was as if it added some top end harmonics and a ringing sound to the instrument. When I recently removed it though, I didn't perceive any noticeable difference and now I'm not so sure any more

So far I love it for guitar, but have been slightly disappointed by the bass amps and haven't used it much for bass. The tones are great, and very useful, so that's really not the problem. But you really need to be careful with the volume levels to keep the amp from clipping and the speakers from farting, and it can be a bit finnicky to find the right balance between input gain, patch level and master volume for it to sound right and clean. The same happens with my 7-string guitar. But maybe my idea of "practice volume" is a bit different, because I've been using a 150 watt EBS NeoDrome 12" at home for so long I've also found the speakers and the way the housing are built make for a very narrow angle in front of the amp where the tones are good, with sufficient brightness. Move outside of this angle, and you'll be tempted to turn it up too loudly or EQ it overly brightly, which really isn't necessary when you keep this angle in mind. I haven't played bass through it in a while, will need to retry with the amp dead center in front of me at ear level. This realization came to me only recently, so thanks for reminding me Overall it is a very impressive piece of kit, and the guitar tones are incredible. Don't use it without the excellent Bluetooth app (or on your computer, through USB) for patch editing, it really opens up possibilities that aren't accessible through the onboard controls. Like 30-something fun factory presets that are a great starting point for creating your own sounds, and additional fx and amp parameters that you can't access through the limited controls on the amp itself. The app is very easy to use and the amp responds to changes immediately. It works great on both smartphone and tablet, but I favour my tablet because all parameters fit on the screen at once.

Was looking for that too, but @Jean-Luc Pickguard beat me to it

The CW model has a wooden body too, it's made of alder but with woven graphite facings. In essence the CW is based on the S2 Classic with a few custom features. You're probably thinking of the Stealth model or the old S2000 models

Actually, it's not a feature typical to cheaper basses. It's intended to make for a stronger headstock joint, because the headstock is placed at an angle. If you'd have to make an angled headstock out of the same piece of wood, you'll indeed waste a LOT of wood but you'll also compromise the strength because the headstock no longer follows the direction of the grain. Manufacturers and luthiers often incorporate a volute in the neck to compensate for this weak spot. You'll find scarf joints in much more expensive guitars and basses too. And on some guitars (especially cheaper acoustics) you may even find the scarf joint in the headstock section itself...