The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!

[Clarky]

18 hours ago, bassist_lewis said:

I've got it in my head I need rounds on my Serek. I was gonna get some Labella rounds, but I think I'll wait til these are available. Did they say if they'd be doing a 5 string set?

FWIW, Jake Serek uses DR Hi-Beams as the rounds option on his short-scale basses (and you can see on some videos). When I owned a "The Grand" it came as stock with these. I'm generally not a fan of stainless steel (as opposed to nickel) but they did suit the bass

[bassist_lewis]

1 hour ago, Clarky said:

FWIW, Jake Serek uses DR Hi-Beams as the rounds option on his short-scale basses (and you can see on some videos). When I owned a "The Grand" it came as stock with these. I'm generally not a fan of stainless steel (as opposed to nickel) but they did suit the bass

Mine also came stock with DRs. I could never quite get on with them personally. I found a set of what I think are D'Addario nickels with the B string cut down (I got quite good at it back when S/S 5 string sets were near impossible to find) and they sound great! B sustains for days now!

[The fasting showman]

The Fallouts that I've gone on about ad nauseum.

Complete with replacement Schallers and OK from a distance DIY competition stripes.

I very gingerly swapped the La Bella DTFs from the white bass to the red. The combination seems to work even better this way round; weirdly the flats on the red bass sound like my old fender messed up tele bass modded into a P bass with TI flats ( now owned by Ash)....somehow the bass sounds 50 years old with flats a year older than they did on the white bass!

The white bass is much more polite in a good way...it left the factory with a nicer setup. The rounds really suit it.

 

The red is more of a bass of extremes; glassy with rounds and more boxy / tubby in a good way with flats. It's useful to have them sound more different from each other.  Thanks to Shepster for stoning the frets on the red bass ( initial setup as stock was a 'Friday afternoon special ') and to Beedster Chris for the Schaller BMs.