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Agreed

I have one of the lightweight ones made in 1978. After a deep dive into how the controls work I am getting beautiful sounds from it!

I had a problem with the first couple of frets too, then I adjusted the nut. Now the touch is the way it should be. A guitar tech should have a look at your instrument.

Any Alembic

My heavily modded 1980s BC Rico with Bill Lawrence pickups. Every couple of years this becomes my favorite ba

I haven't been able to put it into words yet, other than to say that I've played a few very excellent basses but the P is my favorite.

Phil Lesh played yesterday in Port Chester, NY with a chair right next to his amp, but I haven't seen pictures of him sitting. In a couple weeks he turns 84.

Scale length?

He and I both made some repairs, working great now.

Those quotes from Miles Davis are precious!

Two old beauties, the SWR Grand Prix and the Ampeg SVP-Pro. Kind of big and clunky compared to the 21st century preamp pedals, but luscious, versatile sound.

Years ago we tried out a sophisticated rack unit from Sabine. It was great, until someone played flute. The Sabine unit thought the flute was feedback, and would try to eliminate it!

Phil Lesh Michael Henderson Miroslav Vitous

Mission: Impossible

This discussion should include the Wall of Sound that Phil Lesh played through in 1973 and 1974. I was a young audiophile at that time and experienced it two or three times. It was a "blue sky" project that was difficult to tour with but was unique and thrilling to hear, like hearing a massive...

There is a LPF but the lowest and highest frequencies can be set to shelving, not to HPF and LPF.

Maybe an early bass by Clifford Roi, AKA Norsang. Later he used a flying dove emblem.

PM sent.

Right now my favorites are Thomastik-Infeld but they cost so much

They're the same except that one drives on the wrong side of the road.

Maybe I should just swap out the preamp for a Tone Capsule. First, I'll replace the OPA2277 IC just in case it is bad.

My Clifford Roi bass needs looking at. Volume pot for one pickup is acting up. I tried a new battery and the spray cleaner. Seems like an electronic problem. The circuit board says "L.B. Hajdu 2006." Anyone know how to contact Mr. Roi? Is there someone else who knows these basses inside and...

I back off when it starts to sound like a synthesizer.

All day today I've been playing through my awesome Grand Prix preamp and now I see this sad news, RIP.

Buddy Rich and his orchestra, around 1972, at Williamsville High School in upstste New York. The great Joel Di Bartolo may have been on bass.

OP I applaud your inspiration. Very difficult to achieve this in a big room. In the 1970s the Grateful Dead had a concert sound system called the Wall of Sound, have a look at that. Some movie theaters have chair-shakers that give you a jolt when there's sub-bass in the movie soundtrack. Maybe...

The fundamental/harmonics psychoacoustics discussion is really interesting and seems to go against age-old audiophile laws of flat frequency response.

His bass playing helped get me through high school.

Rick Laird was exactly just the right bassist for the Mahavishnu Orchestra at that time. I saw them in 1972 and 73, monumental concerts.