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Me! Me! Me! Me! Mark <-- Me! 😂

Toot. Mark

Variations on a theme, I like it. Cracking post. 😊 Mark

I currently have 9 year old Rotosound flats on my Yamaha BB1025x, which has just been put away in it's case for a bit to be replaced by my Reverend Triad 5, so the flats on the Yamaha are gonna be on there for some time yet I suspect. Mark

I revisited my perceived issue with the bridge pickup. It could have been the battery in my headphone amp, it could have been my headphones not plugged into the headphone amp properly, or the amp plugged into the bass properly, or my playing position, but after making the changes any volume issue I originally had is gone. In my happiness to have this sorted out, I never checked which was the actual cause, but I guess that doesn't really matter, because it was definitely operator error and not manufacturer error. I have edited the post I made complaint about the pickup. Mark

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Deliberate manufacturing process to accommodate differing fret combinations but maintaining neck profile across different ranges. Why did this not occur to me. I mean, it does make perfect sense. This was just an observation of mine. The neck pickup soloed sounds just great, as does the middle pickup. The middle + bridge sounds great too. I've not tested my theory yet, but I do think my playing position is what caused the sound imbalance. I'll test this at some point and report back. In the month it took between me placing my order and the bass arriving, I tried to consume all things Triad 5 that I could. Sadly, there was very little, I guess because it was all mostly said for the Triad 4, so I consumed a lot of that material too. I remember reading your thread right at the start, and it did provide ideas. I don't know that I want to go modding this bass just yet (if ever), but it has provided me with ideas reading about your 10 way switch. I'm not sure I'd need exactly all those options, but at least I now know there are there and available should the desire ever arise. Thank you, and yes, I'm so happy I held out for this finish rather than go for the natural finish. I've put my Yamaha 1025x back into its case for the time being and the Reverend is on the stand getting almost nightly use at the moment. Such a joy to play. Mark

The bridge pickup is already higher than the other two. I've come to the conclusion that this may be down to my preferred playing position. I like to play at the end of the neck, in the space between neck and neck pickup. Mark

A few observations … The pickups have this odd (to me) looking lip on the top of them. This is neither good nor bad, just something I never expected. The volume level from the bridge pickup (soloed) is pants. Very different to either the middle or neck pickups. ^^ Ignore the above, stupid person alert ^^ This isn’t really a big deal to me as I’d never be soloing that pickup anyway - I never run bridge pickups solo - but may be useful information for someone else reading this. I’d be much happier if, instead of solo bridge pickup, I could have all three pickups instead. The neck/middle pickups sound great though, and the bridge with middle pickup works very well too, so there’s absolutely zero complaints about the voicing of pickups in the available combinations. Da fuq is up with the fretboard overhang?!? I just don’t get it. It looks, I want to say vulnerable, or fragile, but I guess I just don’t understand why it was left like that and they didn’t have the neck go all the way under the fretboard. Speaking of the neck, it’s absolutely gorgeous to play this bass. It’s effortless to travel up and down the neck whilst playing. I was almost able to play it straight out of the box, there were very minor tuning adjustments needed, no issue with neck relief though, just tuner tweaks. For the people wanting numbers, it’s a 34” scale, 19mm string spacing and 47mm nut. Mark

I only went and bloody did it! After this post in the NAMM ’25 thread, and my reply, I waited, and pondered. Then, once I’d seen that Merchant City Music had the Natural version in stock, I hmm’d and ahh’d a bit more, then sent off an email enquiring about the Silver Burst version. As per this status update of mine, I went ahead with the order. Enough words, here’s the PoiDH … There's more images in this Flickr album … Reverend Triad 5 Mark

Thanks for this. I quite enjoyed that. Mark

I think Brave is a wonderful record. I have some other bits and bobs by them from around the same time, but that LP was just fantastic. Mark

I try and put the Rotosound RS775LD flats on all my basses (except my Washburn semi-acoustic, for which I have some Rotosound RS885LD Black Nylons). I absolutely love the sound and feel of the Rotosound Monel flats. I do have a Vox AC50 amp head, but even just using my Vox amPlug and headphones, or straight into my DAW, I wouldn't be without the Monel flats. Mark

Rotosound Jazz 77 flats on my 1025x. 👍🏼 Mark

Arrrrrghhhhh!!! Why are basses like busses?!? You wait for one and two come along at the same time! My unicorn bass has just popped up for sale in Birmingham. Obviously there's no way I can get there to check the bass out before I buy, is there anyone that can assist with this regard? The seller states they are willing to post, so I'm just looking for someone to give the bass a once over, if that would be possible. Pleeeeeaaaaase? Mark.

Uh-oh. A Paddington stare incoming in 3 … 2 … Mark

Bet Shop Boys Mark

Oohh that matte black on the back. Nice. Mark

+10 Internet points for having all the poles lined up. Mark

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Thank you all for not making me feel like a failure! I may go back to the song that prompted this thread at some point, but not this week. Thank you all for your input so far. Mark

I'll add https://www.geminipickups.co.uk to the growing list. Very good to deal with, incredibly helpful and receptive to emails. Mark

Have you ever tried to learn a song and it was just frustrating you so much trying to get it down that you just walked away from it? I tried really hard to get the bass line for Money by Pink Floyd, but there's a change from verse to bridge (I think, it was about 15 years ago) that I just couldn't get my fingers to work properly on. hahaha You know when you know the notes you want to go to, but because your fingering is in a different position/shape before the change that you literally just trip your fingers over each other? That change in Money was like that for me. I was at the point where I thought I had to relearn how I was playing it to make the changes possible. Which, at the time, that just seemed mental to me, but was probably the correct course of action if I wanted to carry on with it. I may give it another go sometime, but not today. 😂 PTSD or something about that song now. Hahaha Mark

I'm kinda diggin' that hole in the top horn though. Mark