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There's a couple of people on TalkBass who DIY'ed composite cabs- not carbon fibre but some kind of fibreglass IIRC. By all accounts it worked very well, but as BFM says the time and effort compared to a traditional wooden build is much greater.

Looks very stylish, like a super expensive Italian kitchen. You just need to black out the colour logos on the M9

Now you can form an awesome death metal band

Are they not made from Formica or something similar (like a kitchen worktop)? Or did I imagine that?

Well, inspired by this thread, I've just built one by cutting up a cheap CD case and taping it to my pickups. I like it, although I think I'm not really getting full benefit without it being radiused to match the strings- on the G string it's very noticeable (especially when using fingers and thumb, Garrison style), less so on the other strings and when playing normally. I can see a properly built one being an asset

[quote name='Gust0o' post='936321' date='Aug 25 2010, 07:43 PM']5-string Beast... Could be a runner; Warbeast, just f***ing no.[/quote] Indeed.

If they made a 5 string Beast I would be all over that (although it looks like they don't do a Beast bass any more, going by that list). None of the other shapes do anything for me. edited to add pic.

Give out Uzis at the door?

About £1k for my bass guitars only; about £3k including the upright.

[quote name='BassBus' post='933551' date='Aug 23 2010, 12:49 PM']Tell you what I'm tired with is a lot of the contributions to this thread recently. BGM is a mag that has to cater for a wide range of players and genres. You can't please all of the people all of the time, as someone once said. If you are that unhappy with it do as some have done and go else where and stop whinging. I think they do a pretty good job. I don't read it from cover to cover but I can usually find enough to satisfy me. There have been a lot of complaints about type setting and typos in the mag. Well quite frankly some of the contributers to this thread should check their own posts first before they criticise others. Rant over. [/quote] To be honest, the content is fine with me for the most part- as you say, they can't please everyone all the time- but some of the issues are basic competencies for publishing a magazine, I would have thought.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='933633' date='Aug 23 2010, 01:39 PM']Anyone got the brand new one in the last day or so? Mark @ BassDirect, Robbie @ RIM and Bernie @ GB have all told me the review of the TC BG500 amp I won is n there and I went to my usual place to buy a copy to be told they aren't stocking it anymore! Nottingham seems to be BGM void :-([/quote] Yep, you get a whole page to yourself.

[quote name='silddx' post='933431' date='Aug 23 2010, 10:43 AM']It completely unfair, and I don't really know why it should be, but I hate looking at that kid's face He has nothing interesting to say really either, it's more of an advert. And I hate the format of the short interviews at the front. It's a load of bass players in bands I've never heard of telling me what gear they use, their influences and what they think the "secret" of good bass playing is. Why do I give a sh*t about any of that? "The secret of a good bass is to stick wiv da drums", "The secret of a good bass is to always do what the song needs", "The secret of a good bass is to play simply and don't be a cheeky monkey." What a load of sh*t. I just got the one with Bootsy on the cover. And I'm bored with it already. I thought they were really getting somewhere but it seems to be going downhill again. I haven't seen any acknowledgement and addressal of the missing end of last month's RHT/WB/NM interview either. Standards and content quality are slipping again I think.[/quote] Er, what he said, face and all. I don't think I'll be renewing my subscription when it ends (which was a gift in the first place).

Yet more typesetting problems in this months issue. The sentence at the end of each page of the Stanley Clarke interview is not the same as the first sentence on the next page. Also, writers who don't understand the difference between a cross rhythm and a polyrhythm

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='932166' date='Aug 21 2010, 07:46 PM']I think I mostly like jazz. I don't like the '80s stuff where it was all synths and electric guitars and knitting machine sweaters with Kandinsky / Cosby Show patterns on, that sounds sh*te, but when it's a bunch of Black Panther look-a-likes flying through a dozen chord changes a bar it's just plain exciting to listen to. That's all there is to "get" about it, to me.[/quote] That's about as good a summary as I've heard. I like having that "How'd he do that?!?!" moment when listening to music and jazz is good for that. [quote name='SteveO' post='932183' date='Aug 21 2010, 07:57 PM']Dont feel you *have to* or *should* like jazz to be a better musician, its just a genre. The people that are really *into* it (myself included) would encourage you to delve deeper, because it can be very rewarding to listen to and play, but then again if you start a discussion showing a vague interest in hyper-speed-death-thrash-black-metal then I'm sure someone will be deeply into it and encourage you to pick out the melodies and harmonies amongst the seemingly random mess of notes (as it appears to this 'outsider')[/quote] Absolutely! Melodic death-black-thrash-hyper-speed-core metal FTW.

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='929926' date='Aug 19 2010, 03:30 PM']I'm not one for P-type basses really, but that one has stopped me in my tracks. Everything about it is just absolutely right, and to be honest I think it sets a whole new standard. I really think it looks that good. OK, opinion of P basses duly amended.[/quote] +1: I'd hit that. I particularly like how they've made the two pickup coils symmetrical rather than the daft looking 3+2 arrangement on Fender P5s.

It could be a Yamanez...

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='928872' date='Aug 18 2010, 06:07 PM']I guess Modulus charge what the american market will pay for a graphite neck. The main competition is presumably from Status and before the pound weakened against the dollar a Status neck probably cost a fortune in the US. Now we're the ones paying through the nose for Modulus gear they may have to rethink their pricing to compete with us. When I spoke to Dawn at Status she told me my order was in with about 15 other basses being assembled that week, and all except mine were for export! (although maybe not all to the US)[/quote] [url="http://www.mosesgraphite.com/cgi-bin/moses/mj144.html"]Moses Graphite[/url] do similar necks in the USA for less, it seems.

Can't really add anything to what's been said. Very sad indeed.

Case: I have one of [url="http://www.thesoundpost.co.uk/bags%20cases.htm"]these[/url] which my local shop ordered in for me ( I needed a big 'un!) and its pretty robust; plenty of pockets, wheels suitable for short distance and loads of straps. Pickup-wise, I've tried the Realist which was nice but I'm really liking the Upton Revolution Solo II. I don't think I would get an under bridge Realist again as they're difficult to fit/unfit yourself and they apparently have a tendency to die after a few years (which mine did).

[quote name='blackmn90' post='927444' date='Aug 17 2010, 12:16 PM']On the sei website a basic new flamboyant 5 is £2100, compared to £6000 thats a huge saving[/quote] Sorry, I think I misunderstood- your post reads as if you're saying the Alembic is half the price of the Sei, rather than the other way round.

[quote name='blackmn90' post='927082' date='Aug 16 2010, 11:55 PM']isnt that the same shape as a sei flamboyant? probably half the price too[/quote] You're joking right? Sei's aren't exactly cheap but the base price for an Alembic Rogue is [url="http://www.alembic.com/cgi-bin/quote/quote?model=Rogue"]$7500[/url].

Try here: [url="http://www.schroedercabinets.com/mini10+.htm"]Schroeder Mini 10+[/url].

Broadly speaking, the higher your strings are the more acoustic sound you get out of the bass, so orchestral players will generally have higher actions than those who are solely jazz players, as jazzers tend to play amplified more. If you're happy with the sound you get (and don't have too much grief playing other basses) I wouldn't worry about it.

If you had long sleeves on the black top you're wearing you and your bass would look like a single organism- a big funky bass amoeba.