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currently feeling like ② is closest to on-brand, ④ a close second, ① is stealing an oomf's swag too much (④ has a little of that problem too), and ③ is honestly the coolest but would hikari_no_yume really buy a guitar without the woodgrain showing through. would she really

secret fifth and most likely option (④🅱️): the rosewood fretboard with white pearloid inlays version of ④. as much as we like how black block inlays on maple necks look, the roasted maple necks on ② and ④ in some photos look so dark that the inlays look bad instead

det blev ④🅰️

look at this cute little 4-frame looping animation… thank you DHL

the last tracking update on this package was „Die Auslandssendung wurde an DHL übergeben und wird für den Weitertransport in das Zielland/Zielgebiet vorbereitet“, and it was well over 48 hours ago. that's unusual. no indication it was processed for export or is on its way yet huh

either they already processed it for export and sent it on its way to sweden and somehow didn't provide the usual tracking update for this, in which case we may get it friday (i.e. within ~42h) assuming postnord get it today, or it's stuck in the warehouse and it'll take a week

sorry i'm sleep deprived and have package tracking autism

ooh!! as of twelve minutes ago, „Die Auslandssendung wurde an DHL übergeben und wird für den Weitertransport in das Zielland/Zielgebiet vorbereitet.“ again, but now in Regensburg instead of Kitzingen. maybe things will speed up now

DHL is still having a normal one, what is even going on down there. it's been more than 90 hours since they got the package and it still hasn't been processed. in normal circumstances it'd have arrived by now

!! 1.5h ago it was processed for export in Hamburg and is now on its way to Sweden yayyy

okay well normally when the last tracking update is „Die Sendung wird ins Zielland/Zielgebiet transportiert und dort an die Zustellorganisation übergeben.“ the shipment shows up in the destination country within like 24 hours or one working day. but now it's Tuesday. sighhh

PostNord got it half an hour ago, it arrives tomorrow, phew

ehehehe :3

carrying this box up the steps I was surprised by how light it felt. 7.68kg (lots of packaging material?) isn't that much when distributed over such a large area and gripped by two hands apparently. I'm sure the instrument itself will not feel so light though

Thomann are serious about packaging, this is double-boxed (inner box is Sire's) and the outer Thomann box has half-centimetre-thick cardboard with those huge metal staples

wow, that's him! it's Marcus Miller!

ooh I like the design of the Sire box, it can be opened non-destructively by cutting a single piece of tape, and the top cups the whole circumference of the bottom part, so on one of the axes it's effectively triple-boxed

SILICA GEL
DESSICANT
THROW AWAY
ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY
TOP DRY 𝓖𝓮𝓵®

GEL DE SILICE
No Manges Pas
DESSICANT

SILICA GEL
Jangan Dimakan
Serap Lembab

Niet Om te eten

actually for the real silica gel sickos out there there's this huge one packed in with the bass itself. mm. i wonder if this is Om Te eten. i wonder if i should Manger

oh hell yeah

and finally (after removing both the outer plastic bag and inner polystyrene wrapping), the instrument itself. so shiny…

guitar, guitar

torturing our kitchen scale suggests the following weights:

guitar: ~3.4kg
bass: ~4.4kg

will need to try a potentially more reliable measuring device later (wii balance board)

both of these bodies look more vibrant to this camera than they actually are, but this may give you an idea. the back of the bass is so dark, almost black, but if you're close to it you can see this redness to it that, because it's so dark, comes across as very rich

anyway gosh satin neck with fret finishing that puts our main guitar to shame, this would get 5/5 on the sock test I am certain

“so hikari, as a guitarist, how are you adjusting to bass”

wdym adjust

just in case: that was a joke.

you can play rhythm guitar on bass but dear god you need skull-crushing fingers for that even without trying barre chords, and you also will have the lower strings droning and causing trouble (in this case, the edge of our hoodie is muting them)

5-string bass impressions:

• it does of course want to neck dive but we can sit with it very comfortably if we balance it on our right leg, crossed over our left leg, with our right arm (which has our picking hand) holding it down. that must have been what we did in the music store. the funny thing is we can't sit with it comfortably without being crosslegged, unlike for our guitar
• that lowest string makes everything more annoying…

there's this metallic, almost flanger-like resonance on the two deepest strings, particularly the E string, that I really don't like. I'm not entirely sure if this is normal

“admit it, hikari, what you really want is an upright bass”

i have no idea what you are talking about.

basses are dangerously fun instruments. they don't want you to know this. last time someone told us this, they got got

i have less than five days remaining to decide whether i want to keep this bass and i think i'm leaning towards "sending it back" because, as nice as it may be, 1) why the hell did i buy it to begin with; 2) it's a bit of a distraction from the whole "guitar" thing. but idk

can i speedrun learning to slap in like two days. if so then maybe i can keep it

the bass was very nice and i was honestly leaning towards keeping it, but this was the last day i could return it and some quick investigation found a particularly frustrating high fret, so alas, 'twas not to be, i said my goodbye o7

@hikari o7

@hikari ime learning to slap is relatively straightforward on a properly set up bass. learning to mute the ringing strings, however... that takes a while

@hikari no don't say it! that's how you get got!

@hikari that might settle down with some playtime on the new strings, it's not uncommon to get some weird resonances on unplayed bass strings

@joyces yeah our terrifyingly knowledgeable guitar autist friend said similar to us. they also suggested these strings might've gotten twisted when putting them on the bass and we could avoid that when restringing

@hikari ohhhh twisted strings i will have to do some research there

@hikari thanks for the clarification, I almost had a heart attack

@hikari ...sock test?

@joyces the way youtube guitar nerd Phillip McKnight tests for fret sprout and sharp fret ends. he puts a very thin sock on his hand, runs it up and down the edges of the fretboard, and then shows the viewer how much the sock got torn up

@hikari ahhhhhh gotcha. and now that i have done some more reading i see that "fret sprout" was the reason i turned down that other bass i looked at, good to know

@hikari ooohhhhhh have FUN

@joyces thank you! we will!

@hikari the roasted maple on 2 and 4 are especially nice looking! good color balance on those