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No but I had access to much cardboard and no friends.

Makeshift reverse p pick guard made and all is sounding well!

Your welcome

Just take it on the chin you'll be fine

Careful what you wish for AT!

There’s a trade offer right there!

Flats can do wonders to the tone and feel of a bass. Folks often overlook how important a string change can be to get a different sound. I love TI flats and have Reid a few different brands but keep coming back to them. The feel, tension and tone all work for me. The Fender flats aren’t bad either but that statement could elicit some objections!

There’s one going local to me for £130. Great sounding amps the old SWR. A rehearsal room here used to have a 220w head and it sounded great! Can’t recall the model name.

David Allen 1088p from the U S of A! https://www.dallenpickups.com/product_p/csp 1088.htm

It’s difference in the manufacturing of the pick ups as the materials changed during the switch over to CBS ownership- I’ve alluded to it earlier in the thread.

Let the fun begin!

I’m gonna be doing a double reverse P all passive possibly with a four way rotary switch with bridge, both series, both parallel and neck. It’ll be passive with a simple tone and likely in a CV Precision. Not unlike this but a 4 string

One of the nicest 5 string profiles I’ve played. The Dingwall Super p does a really authentic p bass sound. Maybe a tad modern due to the neodymium mags but don’t worry no one is really listening that closely. It was very easy to make it work in a band.

Not me looking to buy just fancied a gander. I’d agree two different basses both in style and tone.

Was that in the Glasgow or Edinburgh store? I’m planning on a wee trip to play some basses in there over the holidays. I’m in Edinburgh but the Glasgow shop has a much better bass selection.

Was this the one that was in guitar guitar? I was gonna go have a play on it after the new year

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There’s a black one going on the for sales now not too far from me too!

Would a generic fs work as in a TRS cable hooked up to a simple fs?

A massive mini rig of doom

If you want to incorporate the b string but don’t know ‘where to begin’ I’d suggest taking songs your band play (especially if you’re doing some original material) and take the lowest notes or the patterns and ply them off the B string. So if you’re doing a blues in E use the 5th fret B string as your root. By shifting patterns to the B string especially for D E and B (and the flats and sharps in between of course) it’ll get you using the B sting but not having to learn new patterns for songs you already know. There is a difference in an open e and a fretted E on the B string and a low D played in a 5’er takes on a lot of ‘weight’. Just have fun with it and if you can play the 5er exclusively for a few weeks to really get the feel/comfortable for it. It’s a surprisingly quick period of transition!

Yeah but if ‘market research’ or player feedback was showing that it wasn’t delivering a tangible difference then all that cost, expense etc would only make it prohibitive and like you point out not worth translating to a higher priced bass for a non perceivable ‘benefit’ As you know I like that Yamaha innovations make it into their lower priced models as done with the angled six bolt neck fitting previously only found in higher end artist models and the sandwich design in the 734/735. But I think we’re a bit off vibration treatment across the entire range just yet.