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Sterling also makes a short scale StingRay too - here's a demo with some slap:

My introduction to Danny was this David Sylvian song: his playing is at the fore, utterly distinctive, but still only adds to the song without taking anything away:

Yep, it's a Schecter: he's now up on their website as an endorser of the Stiletto Studio-5.

That's a Nope: mono/stereo unbalanced only.

I’m not an amp connoisseur, but I find the factory SVT amp & 8x10” model (The Fridge) to be very good. I’ve never played through a real rig for comparison. There is at least one B15 model for free on ToneNet. Another thing I’m trying is a ToneNet model for the JHS Colour Box, which is a kind of...

I recently bought a NUX Sculpture, since I'm putting together an "affordaboard" of mini pedals. It has two modes: a clean mode which is indeed very clean, and a "clip" mode that is still pretty clean, just with a little "hair" on it. It's been called a clone of the Xotic SP, a Ross compressor...

Well, there's a reason why Leo Fender called his first bass the Precision ..!

To say Geddy Lee never cared about weight is pushing it a bit. In the 70s he had a P-bass with a lot of wood chopped off, the notorious “teardrop” bass in this picture: And he’s holding a short scale Rickenbacker 3000, I believe? His Steinberger XL has already been mentioned: they were heavier...

Quick updates: Best I can tell, we do have humbucking at the 1&2 and 2&3 positions. I had to use high gain through headphones to test this, so the shielding definitely works. The problem I'm having is not the switches themselves, but the way the ground path is wired. Between the ground wires...

My observation is that the Bongo looks better in its natural habitat: strapped on to a bassist and being played hard, like Dave LaRue and John Myung do. It's not so attractive in pictures or on a stand.

I joined the club last week, with a Squier CV Bass VI in Black. I ordered from Thomann with some La Bella flats that went on pretty quickly, in all 4ths. The string spacing is going to take some getting used to, but I wanted this one so I can do more pick playing in particular. So far I'm...

A Bootlegger Ace bass might work, they come in long and short scale and quote a nut width of 42mm (1.65"). I have an eye on a Lime Green one, though shipping from California to Ireland could be ruinous:

From what I read w.r.t. the guitar, NS is outsourcing the CF work to Sankuer Composite Technologies (SCT). This isn't their first instrument: they already sell a guitar under their own Detroit Sound brand name. I can imagine Patrick Sankuer jumping at the chance to work with NS.

That looks like a bass version of the Phin guitar that NS has designed with Sankuer Composite Technologies, as seen in this article:

A full explanation of Class D is a bit beyond the scope of this forum, but anyone who’s played around with synths may be familiar with pulse width modulation (PWM): the analog input signal controls the “duty cycle” of a square wave. A Class D “switching” amp does that at a frequency far higher...