Telebass

I've had my Super 15 for some time now. It has done many gigs. The handles are fine. It took me 6 years of even heavier gigging to damage the identical handle on my Markbass CMD 121H. However, you lot damaging and moaning about yours means Alex had a spare I could put on the MB, for another years-long run of heavy use! How DO you damage them? And the S15 is at the heaviest level of BF, at 49lb.

LMIII into a Super 15. Earth-mover!

Stop hitting it that hard!

Oh dear...

Hi Pete, there isn't one for any platform, just a good mobile version of the site. And that will certainly work with Windows phones.

Hmmm, lots to discover! The Spirocores ( for no particular readon I can think of!) are what's on my mind so far... Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming!

Although the strings will cost me almost as much as the bass, I'm looking at getting either Spirocore or Pirazzi weichs. Scale is 98.5cm/38.75", so is that tension the correct choice? Action is approx 3.5mm G and 5mm E at the end of the fingerboard - how does that sound? Many thanks for your patience with n00b questions! Den

Why change it? It won't make the slightest difference. Other than visually, of course.

Why worry choosing which? Build your own with the best bits of each. For me, that's Precisions with Jazz necks. Job done.

Thanks! Have noodled for an hour or two... If I try the correct lh shape, my hand is too small. By some distance. Anyhoo, getting a sound out of it. Would probably benefit from new strings - E and A are quite a bit deader than D and G. Post is in right place, bridge also, so what's a good set of 1/2 size strings?

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Finally got the 1/2 size from Raslee of this parish (my delay, not his!). All I can say is: I gonna be asking a LOT of questions! And I can't stop grinning!

It sure felt like it. Band finishes December 20th, so no more!

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1415010022' post='2595489'] I have nothing useful to add, but when I read the subject of the post I thought to myself "depends on how desperate you need to go" My thought was: 20 pence if it's a nice toilet... Sorry. [/quote]

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1415479501' post='2600845'] Are we talking the Fender Standard MIM? There are some cracking basses coming from the Mexican factory, including the RoadWorn and Classic series. Standard MIM's (as someone said above) are in my experience, not really all that much better than the Squier CV series, if at all. I would certainly rather buy the CV and save a couple hundred if it was my money. I sold my 2005 USA P bass because it felt hard, cold and I was unable to properly connect with it. It was an awesome instrument, but my Roadworn just felt more organic- that old cliche of 'it was like an extension of me' or 'it plays itself'. I didn't get that from the US, although it felt more precision crafted. I guess in summary the USA felt like it had been built by robots, and the Roadworn by an old dude with magic in his hands. My JV series feels like a bit of both, which is nice. USA instruments are definitely better, but when there are such good deals to be hand second hand why would you consider anything else? £600 for a second hand USA in the current marketplace is a no-brainer. [/quote] Good post. But no Fender, ever, was built by an old dude with magic in his hands.

The Clays Beer Festival at Roche, Cornwall. Bands from 2pm, us headlining at 10. Nice big stage, great crowd, rotten sound. On stage, there was nothing audible except sub-bass boom from the floor tom and kick. Despite this, we managed to give everyone nearly two unbroken hours of classic rock. The band's final gig in Cornwall.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1415274205' post='2598593'] Transfers. [/quote] yup.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1415352294' post='2599425'] Of course! But you don't buy a Ferrari just because it's a car. [/quote] But then I wouldn't buy a Ferrari either - couldn't get my rig in it... ( I manage to make do with a Merc...)

Just to go somewhat the other way, I've largely stepped DOWN from Fenders to Squiers. I mod them a little, usually just tuners and pickups. Sometimes not even that. More than ever, I could never justify huge costing basses. The law if diminishing returns applies!

Just a note: I have a Squier VM Jazz neck on one of my basses. Takes full size tuners perfectly, in this case a set of Wilkinson HWJB200s. Which is probably what's fitted to the V4.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1415263550' post='2598459'] You can hear it for the next four weeks from now if you click the link in the OP. I'll be hoping to find some Audio CD-Rs at the weekend to do my mate's one - if you still want a permanent copy next week drop me a PM. [/quote] Cool, thanks. Will see if I can't hear ut but if not...

Applied!