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It was translucent dark green. Nice colour. Tried to sell it on basschat for £800 but no takers sadly

Do Burners not have super tight string spacing? I had a green 5 string bought from this parish many years ago. 16mm string spacing. Didn’t keep it long for that reason, though top quality luthiery. Still have a BT5 & 6 with much better 18mm spacing.

Yep, especially after the exploding commando trousers incident 😁

They’re both 18mm. top wood is ebony. Rear is walnut

Just checked mine. My BT6 ends with EW which is probably ebony walnut. Whereas the BT5 has no letters in its serial number

Dude, Marcus was a major player already in 1978. Maybe not in the UK but in in the NY session scene. Where it mattered. In 1980 he was playing with Miles!! He did not come from nothing.

Peak Bowie for me. read an interview with Dennis Davis where he said that Adrian Belew was the best lead guitarist he played with.

He did an amazing line on Every kind of people by Robert Palmer

Ashley's Roachclip by Chuck Brown and the SoulSearchers Soul II Soul, Enigma and host of others built their career on that 10 second break

Yep, Oasis, a rip off of the Bootleg Beatles 😁

Looks like Sub 37 is toast. No more production (if at all) until end 2022

Quatschmacher I’d be asking myself what it is about the Sub Phatty that you find lacking and go from there. (For me it’d be the small number of presets, short keyboard and the fact that lots of hidden options are only accessible via convoluted multi-button presses. Subsequent has almost all of its info accessible from the panel, and the menus, when needed, aren’t too deep.) Can’t fault the sound of the Sub Phatty - its beastly Thank you all for the replies & advice. I have a Little Phatty (not Sub). Bought it on ebay last Summer as 1st synth. Programming & key skills have improved (albeit from zero). It does sound great but I would like to have a sequencer (LP has none) and an Arp (extremely basic on LP). LP patch memory is limited and it does not have a PC editor. Consequently I am programming patches straight - ignoring presets which led me to considering Matriarch plus it has Fatar keybed. However the Matriarch maybe a step too far for me (e.g. patching knowledge needed) and I am not sure I would use / benefit from everything it can do. Hence the dilemma with Sub 37 / Matriarch. I have considered other manufacturers but would like to stay with Moog and expand on what I've learned with the LP (which has a similar control layout to the Sub)

About to pull the trigger. Selling a little phatty to move to the next level. It’s got to be a moog. what do you suggest?

Hi, not sure how to merge iphone video with separate recorded mp3. So just have the mp3. My very basic attempt at Your personal touch from Evelyn C King on moog little phatty. Tried to get close to original sound Your Personal Touch synth.mp3

Has anyone tried an Alusonic bass?

Ok, here we go. My list is quite short despite playing bass for close on 40 years. 1974 Fender Precision, natural. 1st bass. Bought in 1983 from a music shop in Charing Cross Glasgow. Neck like a banana. Sold it after 6 months for a 1982 JV Precision '57 from CC Music Glasgow. Great bass but wanted 2 pick up, so sold it after a year for a 1982 JV Jazz, CC Music again. Painted it yellow, then blue, defret byJimmy Moon, EMGs. Sold on ebay 25 years later. Was my only bass until 1989 when I bought a 1987 Stingray 3EQ from Sound Control Glasgow. Replaced neck with a Status graphite. Didn't like it, went back to original neck. 1990 Epihone Semi acoustic. Moved to Paris. Thought would be there for 6 or so months [was actually 10 years]. Bought it from a Paris music store. Gave it away. 1978 Stingray. Always wanted a pre-eb stingray. Bought a great one on ebay in 2003 which I sold to a basschatter in 2015. Great bass but preferred the contours and the cutting sound of the 3EQ which was 1 kilo lighter plus I had moved to 5 string. 1990s Ken Smith Burner 5. Bought here on Basschat. 16mm spacing a no go, so sold it for a 1993 Tobias Killer B. Bought on Basschat. Amazing sound and neck. Crap balance and painful truss rod adjustment. Sold it for a 2000 Stingray 5. Bought 2013 on ebay. Still have it. Incredibly light. Will get a Status fretless neck for this in a few months. Then went the boutique route with funds from the 1978 Stingray sale to buy 1991 Ken Smith BT6. Ebay bargain. Was after a 5 string but hard to find so bought this instead. Looks great, sounds even better. But the heaviest bass I have ever had and don't need 6 strings. Not sure I will keep it. Also found out the circuit has been replaced with a Warwick one but sourced an original from Ken Smith himself this January. 1990s Alembic Essence 5. Neck heavy and small body don't mix. Sold to a basschatter. 1990 Ken Smith BT5. Bought from a basschatter. Don't use it as much as I should. Very light. Amazing condition compared to the BT6.

Found photos Got a status neck fitted to a stingray years ago. Will add photos later. kept it for about a year then went back to original wooden neck. At the time had 2 stingrays. One original and other with status neck. The status neck sounded and felt great. But it was noisy or my technique was crap. Hammer ons and offs always created unwanted overtones and fret clank. Nothing on the wooden one. So sold it and went back to wood.

Would a ground loop isolator help?

Great stuff!! will be adding some vids soon

Looking at most Alembics, including my former Essence, they all appear to have bridges that are placed a bit too forward. If the bridge was even an inch back, may be it would help the balance

Quite a small body (bottom half based on the short scale SC bass I believe) coupled with the bridge placed a good few inches from body end = neck dive unfortunately. I would have kept it otherwise

Essence 5 that I had for 6 months before moving on to a Ken Smith. Sounded great. Top line luthery. Let down by severe neck dive