What's on your list to Santa? What would you like in your stocking, what would you get if money and space weren't an option? 5 items max!

[Bassman2019]

1.  Proper vintage Aston Martin DB5 – ejector seat n all

2.  Lifetime supply of Laphroaig 18, no blended shite

3.  Private island off the Hebrides, windy, quiet, zero neighbours

4.  Full workshop, every tool known to man (and a few that ain’t)

5.  World peace… or a mute button for the group chat 😂

[fretmeister]

Good question.

 

1: NeuralDSP's Mantra all-in-one vocal plugin. I tried the demo and found it very useful and easy and as someone who often gives up at the vocal stages of writing it got me to finish a few in the 14 day trial period.

 

2: A good random orbit sander and polisher as I have 2 bodies to do.

 

3: A set of good Filtertron type guitar pickups. Lollartrons or Oil City or something like that. Nice and twangy and dirty.

 

4: Some good fretwork tools. Fret rocker, files, that sort of thing.

 

5: The "never gonna happen" prezzie - I'd love a shed big enough to be a little workshop, with power and lighting and so on. At the moment I use my work desk to work on instruments so I can't leave anything overnight on a weekday as I need the desk to earn money. It's very frustrating. A big shed would be ace. Alternatively my kids could move out and I could use a bedroom!  

[SumOne]

1. Sound desk: Mackie ProFX12v3+ (£340) seems the one that does most of the things I need. 

 

2. 4 string passive Jazz Bass. My main Bass is a 5 string active but it'd be nice to have something a bit different as backup.

 

Neither are really essential, I can do my home recording just one thing at a time with an audio interface I already have or l could borrow the band mixer for live stuff, and a backup bass is - well it's just a backup. 

 

....other things might come along and tempt me but that's all I'm after right now, which is just as well as that short list is gonna be at least £600 which is a stretch for Santa's budget! I could see Jazz bass creeping up anything from 'backup 2nd hand Squier' to 'might as well get a decent keeper' to 'a vintage one is an investment isn't it?!'.

 

I'm happy with my current Bass setup: Ibanez EHB 1005MS sounds/plays decent enough and is lightweight for rehearsals and gigs, Ashdown RM 500 does the job, Markbass 102 is lightweight and good sound, Boss GX-10 covers most effects I need and is easier to carry than a big pedalboard. Practicality/gig-ability seems to be winning out for that live stuff and what I have is quite hard to beat when it comes to that. 

 

 

Edited November 13 by SumOne

[ezbass]

Lady Ez and me don’t do Christmas presents any more so the first 2 questions are moot. So then we’re into the money no object question. A decent double bass is always going to be in there and I’ve recently developed ’Ray type GAS. However, given my weight requirements it would have to be chambered, which means a custom build and if that’s the requirement, it would also be medium scale and probably passive. That said, Sadowsky do a MM pickup only that comes in at my weight requirements, so that would be an option too.