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The ball ends of the E and G strings in the head are mounted incorrectly (twisted). Ball ends should be seated flat horizontally 👍🏼

Sire (Marcus Miller) also do some great jazz style bass guitars for around £500

Great video , love the teal colour …I’ve just got myself a second hand Stingray Special , great bass , but , a little noisy, thinking of getting the East and Aquilar pickup . I have a J Retro in a Fender Jazz , and it’s completely silent . Is that combination quiet ? As in no buzzing at volume?? Thanks for the video 👍🏻

Best bases under 500? Harley Benton duh! Every one of their bases are fantastic and well under 500.

What was the song being played live around 2:02:05?

That sound!!!! What are you playing this through?

Thanks Mike! Great to chat with you again mate, cheers!

Bob Malone!

On my Warwick Streamer ProM unfortanelly the tracking is awful, even 1 semiton, when i play the E string it keeps "searching" the note. I solve this problem putting my Boss Bass Limiter before the digitech, and compressing very Hard, but, by doing That, the sound change so much compared to the standard tunning. At the moment i dont have other basses to test, but i think the Warwick sound is too strong for the drop

Love the sound!

Great Live chat, great guest.

After thinking about it for a couple of years, I finally ordered one. I am NO fan of P-Basses, but this one is FAR better than any of the "real" Fender P-Basses I have tried, and I have tried quite a few. More recently, I gave Fender another chance and ordered a fretless Tony Franklin ($2200). The neck is unbelievable, a terrific fretless, but the tone? Meh, at best. I did an A/B comparison and the Profile (at about 1/3 the price) sounded so much better that it was unbelievable. I returned the TF for a full refund. If there is one thing I know for sure, I will NEVER sell my Profile. I play fretless more than fretted btw. Still, when I need that P-Bass tone, nothing sounds as good as that Profile. Definitely a keeper (I've been playing bass for over 50 years). To sweeten the deal, not that it was necessary, the Bass Centre threw in an autographed copy of Bruce's excellent book, Rough Notes and Grainy Images. A great read from an excellent author as well as bass player. I'd been playing bass for about a decade when I saw EC and the Attractions in person at Davis CA (which Bruce refers to in the book, to my surprise). Other than the great John Entwistle, I had never seen a player with such command of the fretboard. They would never have been as great a band as they were without Bruce Thomas. After seeing him, I absolutely wore out my copy of This Year's Model and learned so much from dissecting his lines. It says a lot that Bruce Thomas didn't just go and create a signature model for the money. He actually plays one of these. It says a lot for someone's character that he didn't want to charge an arm and a leg, but made sure the bass was affordable by a majority of players. Trust me, it's worth every penny! Thank you Bruce, and thank you to the fine folks at The Bass Centre. Also, this was one great demo of this outstanding bass.

I still have 2 Aria MAC Standard and Deluxe Guitars and I personally play nothing else live and an Aria SLB bass from the 90s I picked up in high school because you can always find a bass player if you own the bass and amp they can play. LOL I love Aria guitars and have converted another friend to their guitars as well.

Any experience with TC Electronic Toneprint? I bought a second hand head which came with their Spectracomp loaded onto it, turned it on at a gig the other day and suddenly the spectracomp had become an octaver! Haven't tried re-loading the compressor yet, but odd that this could happen.

I had to come back and watch the end, sorry I had to leave early. Great show, see you next week.

I have a 1980 Natural finish (not Oak like this one). Awesome sound, 11 pounds.... Xtra wide strap a necessity!

I love my sr300 but one of the pickups is giving me a bit of trouble. I think one of the screws is slipping and won't catch. I'm a beginner and kinda scared to disassemble my bass.

Cool spot Yo! Can't believe you haven't popped up in my feed til now just subbed!...I did so enjoy my month in London back in 2016 for the ch 4...

Hands down the Trace Elliot outperformed the Markbass, Gallien Krueger, Fender, Ampeg, and many others. When you see a Trace Elliot, yes it's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Hi Mike, Thanks for the information regarding the MXR Vintage Bass Octave (small one) and the Digitech Drop pedals. I'll be checking them out, and hope one of my very few shops in the area carry them. Once again, another outstanding Live Chat.

miss you Miki

Pretty much an Electro Harmonix Bassballs but with way more control options. Has the exact same moist "quack" sound as a Bassballs.

Hi Brooksy, im about to purchase a batwing 1980 model SB1000 aparently all in good working order could you give me some tips on things to look out for with these basses please many thanks.

i wanted to love this thing, but i get nothing but warble any time i let a note ring out. especially on the b/e strings. honestly just sounds bad. i have used the helix detuners with far greater success. also the parallax x plug in is almost perfect... maybe im just unlucky. glad it works for you though.

Hi mate great video, just a question do you leave your amp controls flat? and adjust on bass? cheers :)

I have one just like that one!

Someone needs to get the rights to re release the X Factor Basses.

15 months! Wow!

So how long did they last?

8 semitones are not an octave.

Sorry for the stupid question, what does FSR stand for?

Stunning bass!!! 🎉 The gold hardware on the blue/purple body… 🎉

looking forward to the next one!

Geheimwaffe für den Bass kann ich nur bestätigen. Er gibt dem Bass endlos 'punch' und Durchsetzung. Der High-Regler kommt echt drahtig gut beim Slappen. Besonders gut geeignet für schwierige Räume wie Kirchen mit viel Hall. Außerdem gibt es dem Fender-Rhodes einen extra-glockigen Sound, so wie bei alten Aufnahmen von George Duke. (Inner Source, Solus, The Aura will prevail...)

Re: Space Bass - how about attaching the strap to the lower button and having a hole further up the strap to attach it to the upper button as well, to prevent it tipping forward?

Great to see you again Mike, I'll see you on the next one!

i missed the kubicki part

Great pedal. It hasn’t left my board since I got it 3 years ago - only downside I’ve found is, when powered on DC it can sometimes pick up RF (popping and clicking). Doesn’t always happen, but when it does it’s soo annoying. Never got an answer from Aguilar and do wonder if the update has fixed that. But, lovely pedal, great review 👍