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This arrived yesterday, only had a go at front room volume but it's nice...

Are not all in Norfolk cousins..?

That's a nonsensical, illogical stance though. But I give you that if you stop 10 random people on the street, at least 5 will agree with you. In the real world however, the most talented musician most probably (almost but not wholly by definition) will be known by, and understood by, very few. The moment you people want to educate your kids, and think that newborn babies have little knowledge, is the moment your popular view has become a falsehood. Cue the Triangle of Knowledge. People who think that Paul McCartney is the most talented musician ever simply have no clue, and when they attack people like me for being condescending, they are in fact being arrogant themselves. It's the Dunning-Kruger effect at large.

Dinner time yesterday I'm smoking a fag and deleting emails,it's kinda cold and the day's dragging something terrible Among the junk,one says "You're a Winner". " Aye right" says I an goes to bin it,then I spot it's from Wunjo. Didn't think they were in the habit of sending junk emails so I open it. Bloody hell !! Forgot I'd entered last weeks competition,now I've won the thing Even better was Wunjo don't hang around, 12.45pm was the email telling me my good fortune and asking my address. 3pm today it was delivered What can I say except Thanks Very Much

Needs a couple of prongs sticking out the top with a blue electrical wave arcing between them (and maybe a hunchback manically turning the dials as well).

It does, and it also looks very, very, vintage and retro! Like something you might find on Flash Gordon's ship. I MUST HAVE!

+1 for RATM and Bodycount and add to that Prophets of Rage. Blimmin mutts nuts and Download this year.

Its not fat, its stored potential energy

I know the last time I said something about not liking Prince's work, I got slagged off. I still don't like the vast majority of what I've heard of his. Like a latter-day Paul McCartney. Still, while it's OK to say what you like about Coldplay or U2, Prince is sacrosanct so I suppose I'll get slagged off again. I won't deny he's composed a lot of stuff and could play lots of instruments, but I'm not convinced of the merit of what he's composed.

Looks like an original Mustang routing to me, especially considering that plate on the bottom, but someone has done a really awful job of perhaps trying to fit a standard Precision pickup in there at some point. If this routing wasn't on the original product description from Mr Baxter, I'd perhaps be having a quiet word, because if I'd known about that at point of purchase, I'd want a few extra quid off. Si

Found images of your amp on Google, and as you say there is an external speaker jack on the front. This will do one of two things - either enable another cab to be added as well as the internal speaker in the combo (in which case will need to be at least 8 ohms?), OR enable another cab to be added whilst cutting out the internal speaker completely. Without knowing the spec of the amp and what ohmage it will work into it is dodgy trying another cab, especially if the former option is the case as it could do some damage. Only thing that may be okay is turn the treble up a bit so you can hear some hiss, then quickly insert and remove a jack plug into the socket - if the sound disappears as you do this you’ll know it disables the internal speaker. UK distributor for Stagg appears to be EMD Music in Surrey, tel. 01293 862612. Maybe worth a call to them for spec details. Cheers.

When I'm playing acoustic pub jams, I often take my tiny Tanglewood Elfin bass. It's about 25" scale.... I'm 6' and yes, it does look a bit "toy-like" - but do I care? Nah! Actually, it's often my backup bass too - surprisingly, it sounds like a full size Precision (don't know what pickups they are, but they sound great) and it probably only weighs around a kilo..... maybe even less

Could be a Runaway success. Arf, arf.

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Was lured out by the rap thread, so I figured I'd make an official introduction. Have been playing off and on for the better part of two decades, mostly guitar, bass and vocals. Stuck with bass for most of it, and have done a few stints playing in bands of varying levels of (mostly low) success. Have a pretty hefty arsenal of bass gear: MIA Jazz, Stingray 4H, G&L SB-1, Peavey Foundation, MIM Jazz Deluxe 5, Mesa D800+ through a pair of Bergantino NV115s, Fender Super Bassman through a pair of Orange OBC115s. Predominantly play heavier styles, and have recently re-embraced the pick. Also have a fair amount of studio gear, and will be starting proper guitar lessons after the new year. Not good at fighting GAS, as indicated by recently picking up a Marshall 1960 stack for a song, which has rekindled the urge to practice the skinny strings. I'm also convinced that my pedals are breeding when I'm not looking. Follow F1 and MotoGP fairly religiously, and am making an effort to start watching EPL and rugby - willing to take any pointers for either of those (asking for a friend). Aside from that, looking forward to the Grand Tour starting back up and I'm hoping someone can explain why BBCA in 'murka seems to only play Star Trek: the Next Generation on loop. Cheers!

well I only responded to your post that Darkglass should offer a clean only amp. There are a million class D ICE powered amps out there. If you like the DG’s EQ points, surely an ultra pedal into your existing class D amp will achieve the same thing yeah?

Score ! Gotta be in it to win it ! Gary

Big Brother and the Holding Company had some wicked basslines in their repertoire..... James Gurley probably doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

His choice of notes, tone and timing are sublime. He's a wonderful and restrained bass player. Frank.

Booker T and the MG's, if I could do the Stax and Blues Brothers stuff as well.

This. Sting is great in my opinion, seem him live several times - very influential.

I've always liked the sound of the ABM amps but not overly keen on the look, the spec of this sounded right, it certainly looks right (to me anyway) and most importantly, over the past 3 years I've learned you are only here once, so if you can afford it... Absolutely. Top of the list, anything else is as nothing. ?

@Osiris he did say though that he would categorically, unequivocally NEVER use it, nor even turn it on. Bas is a man of principles and conviction, he never backtracks on ideals and statements. i think we can give him the benefit of the doubt here. There will not be a thread saying ‘DG was the sound 2 years ago, but not last year, but is again this year’ I promise you.....

Thanks for sharing. Will have a listen tonight. Congrats on the release

@Al Krow are you really suggesting JPJ and Flea lurk in the background? its plainly obvious that those two, especially JPJ drive the songs and the energy of each song. all or the sounds have to blend for it to be a good sound, look at Primus as an example, Les does some crazy stuff, but his guitarist also has crazy effects he uses to fold around the bass and it as much makes the song as the bassline. i would argue it’s the same across a lot of genres in a lot of circumstances, and more than you would think. a classic example of missing how a bass drives a song is listen to Evil by Cactus. Then listen to Black Stone Cherry’s cover of it on their recent album. They downtuned it and slowed it down and it lost all the energy, whereas all along the bass was subtly driving it, in the background and you may have missed it. i agreed with you once earlier today, usual service resumes!

of course i think he's talented. He writes good songs and plays very complimentary bass parts. Love that bass too, sounds like my one

I think Sibob has hit the nail on the head. It looks very much like an amateur attempt to fit a regular precision pickup in there (seems to happen a lot to old mustangs). It won’t affect what is still a cool bass but you should have been informed and the seller should have known about it, especially as I thought he dismantled most of the basses he has in, or used to. You seem to have been really concerned about the bass from the start so I think you would be perfectly within your rights to return it. If it was me, I would suggest seeing if there was some haggling room and seeing if you could get a decent chunk off what you paid. As the Bass had been modified anyway, I would perhaps look at having the route properly done for a Precision pickup to smarten it up, and you have the option then to swap in the future. I doubt it would do anything to the value, especially if you have the work done by someone with a lot of credibility and shielded properly etc.

I hope so. Not so easy now I am turned sixty but I reckon I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

I always send post EQ as well - the sound of the bass in our band is as essential a component of the bands sound as the guitar is, going pre EQ would completely destroy the sound of the band to the point where there wouldn`t be any point in doing the gig.

No, he was right. Please stand in line and wait your turn

perhaps the #1 irritant for me on music fora is people who come out with the '(c)rap ' type of comment probably thinking they're so witty I'm a huge fan of 80s -early noughties hip hop and have around 100 CDs from that era ..Wu Tang, Public Enemy Tribe Called Quest,Run DMC, NWA, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Ice T, EPMD, Ultramagnetic MCs, House of Pain, Snopp, Tupac, Naughty by Nature, The Roots, Boge Down Productions, Eric B & Rakim, Cypress Hill, Pharcyde,. Couple of faves here

Might have been added perhaps, but because the routing around the mustang pickup is so shoddy, I'd probably suggest that the mustang routing and plate are original.....could be wrong though. Yeah, it's still listed on his website lol Si

Ha! Are we doing this..? OK, then...ahem. The project will succeed in a Blaze of Glory!

Not guaranteed - Tribute bands are potentially a Bed of Roses.

That's a great picture!

Why go to Bingo, when you can do that at Basschat ?

I thought I felt tremors......../ that looks awesome and mean. i don’t care about your neighbours we want a loud volume report today thanks! congrats

Stu, in the main forum menu there is the gear porn section. In there, there are dedicated pages, one of which is a Wal only page. You may just want to move your unveiling there since thats where 'we' are easiest found.

Thanks for digging that out, Marc. Hmmm...from my perspective it does look very static and kinda feels both intimacy and vibrancy have been lost... This is for me what a double bass or its EUB equivalent should be capable of - I loved this performance by Imelda May and her band:

@EBS_freak you truly are the voice of reason! Thanks for your posts.

No puppet show ?

Basic is a skill in its own right.

Can ya move that lot mate - I can't see the telly.

I’d been half thinking about getting a P with a J neck for a while when I saw one of those postmodern Precisions in a shop. I was absolutely smitten. Unfortunately - or fortunately, I suppose - it had a hilariously precipitous price tag. So I set off to do a bitsa/build. So far it’s been great fun, and if (when) I do decide to spring for the high-end neck I’ve been eyeballing for a while, it’ll still not be half as much. Granted, it might not be half as good. We’ll have to see.

This topic is not helping my Mustang GAS by the way...