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Slightly off-topic, but how do you find the Talman shortie 5? Si

I'm not sure I'm afraid, I don't want to continue asking him about it tbh, when he's ready, he's ready I think. I still see him posting frequently on his personal Facebook, so I imagine all is as well as it can be. Cheers Si

Echoing what has been said, my direct experience of bitsa's is that, if you ever sell it, you'll get back way less than you spent on it. Parting it out will reduce that deficit usually, assuming you bought the parts second-hand. Si

Popping this in Effects, as you'll likely get more hits Si

11 hole white pickguard, not in the best condition, but perfectly fine and would clean up. Couple or quid on PayPal for postage and free to a good home Si

Although added a heap of weight haha. Look great though! Si

Tough choice there! Maybe split the difference and go for a G&L SB-2, best of both worlds! Si

PM'd lol

Argh, are you UK based? Si

I've got one of their P necks on the bitsa I'm selling and it's really good. Nice maple, really nice Rosewood, solid, holds it's setup. Great Si

Why don’t you just send the mix-engineers you know to this thread? That way, they can learn, and you can do less work. 😉 Si

Ask Carey on socials? He’s pretty active on Instagram Si

But if you don’t know how the rest of the mix is being set up by the mix-engineer....how do you know what needs ‘fixing’. Their ability is redundant at this point, the point is not to second-guess what you think they want from the bass....THEY might not even know at this point, as nothing else is mixed yet either. Si

In my opinion as someone who has done a fair amount of remote recording, the less you do to the stem, the better. Unless there is a specific part of the brief that says 'make it sound like an SVT', I'd be recording DI (as you are), and letting whoever is mixing the piece do whatever they need to, whether that's re-amping it, or using an amp/cab-sim on your track. To me, there's little point in mixing a great bass tone, only to then send that to the mix-engineer and it not fit well in their mix. Si

You sound surprised lol I’ve owned a couple of BB’s before, 614’s and 615’s. Si

Decided to do a little Google of 1983 BB’s (because it’s a solid birth-year bass), and this wonderful BB3000 popped up, was for sale here for a bit! Would like like an ‘83 BB3000 to fill that BB/birth-year hole in my life haha Si

I've owned a couple of Marusczyk's, and they're ok, if you pimp it out with decent Hipsot hardware, then it'll be on the way. But I didn't really get the feeling from those basses that they're doing anything particularly special. Fender, yeah fine, their QC has gotten WAY better over the last 5 years or so. But I find their new basses just a little bit uninspiring, I couldn't tell you why. Sandberg, similar deal, clearly got a lot going for them, lots of love, but they have just never done anything for me really. Where I settled was Lakland, in my opinion, their Skylines are on-par with US Fender stuff, and if you have the budget to move into their US Custom stuff, the necks are wonderful as well as a full pallet of custom options. You said you've checked them before, but was that one of their active models? Worth bearing in mind that they do make straight P and J passive models too. Still a family-run company too. I think the only place I'd go after Lakland would be G&L, they seem to be very decent for the price, even if they are a mild deviation from the 'Fender' aesthetic. Si

Fave 'heavy' band is The Dillinger Escape plan probably, but heaviest I go is probably something like John Frum: Si