Recent content by Koshchei

I've never owned a Fender bass, or Fender inspired bass. I find them a bit clunky.

I wish Eastman would jump into the ring with an electric bass. Based on the quality of their guitars, it'd be a world beater for a price that just about anybody could stomach.

Fodera are about as well built as it's possible for an electric bass to be. Sonically, they do they thing they do extremely well, but you have to like that thing - same ballpark as Ibanez. I think of them as the Collings of the bass world. In the context of this thread, it's like comparing a...

How does it play? How's the string tension?

That's actually one of the first Rickenbacker basses ever made, not a modern one. I don't know what I'd do if Rickenbacker released a limited run of the new Geddy Rickenbacker 4000V (probably something extremely imprudent), but this one is in a whole different league -- he was playing a piece...

Rickenbacker for me. They're about as different from Fender as it's possible to be (can do a decent P-Bass impression though.) Since 2020, they have really upped their game with respect to QC (I'd put them in the same ballpark as Fender's CS these days -- high quality workshop grade...

Not quite specific enough to be accurate. AI is best used for classification and data regression problems. While Anthropic has done some remarkable stuff with Claude, keep in mind that it's still data regression and classification that's driving the output, which is why it isn't quite (and never...

I'd suggest a company like precision guitar kits instead: Bass - Precision Guitar Kits They're very high quality (made in Canada), have fantastic fretwork, and when complete, will compare favourably with more boutique brands.

Can't see a huge demand for these, but super cool to see that people are open to this kind of music!

Glad you were able to bring yours to life! These little guys are really special. Mine's also become my main guitar amp too. Takes pedals super well and has an enormous, rich, un-Fender tone that makes me smile.

Fixed costs and risk mitigation are good measures. For example: having a rare instrument doesn't make it desirable or even valuable; it just means that it has a very small target market, and unless you're willing to advertise it nation-wide, you might be holding onto it for quite some time. In...

Hate to spell it out like this, but you pay a convenience fee for less friction. If you want to maximize your return, you need to sell it yourself and bear the associated investment in time and effort. If you want better value from a music store, trade up (what you have plus a bit of cash). The...

That looks awesome! How do you dissipate the heat? These little guys get pretty toasty running flat out at a gig.

The cello part for Mendelssohn's The Hebrides concert overture is very difficult and almost completely inaudible. Solution: practice more, sadly.

My comment is this: AI is a statistical classification and regression analysis tool, not an engineer. It is not capable of doing this kind of work, no matter how convincingly it fluffs you.