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[quote name='Clarky' post='1229238' date='May 12 2011, 07:59 PM']Laurence is having a fretless Mk1 made and he told me the order time (from order to delivery, to be clear) is about one year right now[/quote] Ouch. Still not Pete territory towards the end of his time though

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1228290' date='May 12 2011, 12:18 AM']Personally I prefer bass direct. I'm still waiting on a gig Skinz bag I ordered before crimbo maybe I should give em a call?[/quote] Do, he's just got some in - see [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=135578"]HERE[/url]

Sold Mark my MB combo. Very easy & quick deal concluded in barely a week start to finish. I'd be happy to deal with Mark again

Sold John my Epifani cab. Very easy and quick deal, which all things being equal (courier willing) should have concluded with it landing at his today. Barely a week start to finish. Now then what the heck do I do Satyrdays gig with!!! or possibly even

Have you got IK Sampletank. They doe a free player & sound set now, and you can build quite a nice layered set from that I think - I have the full version and a load more sample sets so I may have built mine from more than comes with the free version

[quote name='hubrad' post='1223815' date='May 8 2011, 12:44 AM']As a long-term fretless-only type, if you want to play rock on a FL you need to look at an ebony board and possibly active pups.. I prefer ash body as well, but that's me![/quote] My lined gretless L2500 sounds good on rock stuff. I tend to switch for a slower number then not bother to change 'til the end of the set to keep things flowing and have got away with most faster stuff. The downside of a lined f/less is people often don't realise it's a f'less until you point it out to them

[quote name='sockdeluxe_mikey' post='1224457' date='May 8 2011, 08:19 PM']Hello all! I am for the first time seriously considering importing something from the USA - a bass neck. What would everybody think be the maximum amount (i.e worst case scenario) of import duty I should be expecting? The value of the neck itself will be about 120 dollars, and the postage is about 40. Thanks for reading [/quote] It'll be VAT @ 20% on the total plus the shipping agents fee to process the VAT which'll probably be another £10

Not something my lot would or could do, and anyway my son's getting wed that day (it's not him thats in the Wirral)

Strange, but ultimately fulfilling. W/O & Senior Rates mess @ Sultan in Gosport. Wierd sound as we were between two rooms, and it was all carpeted so the sound immediately disappeared. That and it was the first time back after a break so started a little rusty. But like I say, ultimately not a bad night & saw some people we haven't seen for a while. I fear there may be FB photo repurcussions to come though

[b]First [i](proper)[/i] Bass Owned:[/b] Shergold Marathon - I have no idea what the very first plank was [b]'Go To' Bass:[/b] G&L L2500 [b]'Your' Bass:[/b] G&L L2500

Roland R-05. Got one a while back and am getting pretty good results for both rehearsals & gigs (subject to room)

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='1211694' date='Apr 26 2011, 02:28 PM']I co-founded [url="http://www.streetlegal-chainsaw.co.uk/"]Street Legal[/url] in 1995 and the band's still going. Darn we'll just have to send out a cease & desist thang. [/quote] what [url="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alibi/151883998176992?viewas=0&sk=info"]us[/url] or [url="http://www.facebook.com/streetlegalnorway"]them[/url]...

Slightly different scenario, but we have over the years covered material by lesser known bands, most recently a couple of songs by a band called [url="http://www.facebook.com/streetlegalnorway"]Street Legal[/url], and I tend to search out their FB or MySpace page(s), add as friends/like and say BTW we are covering "[i]xxxxx[/i]". General response has been "Cool...got any videos?"

[quote name='Alfie' post='1207034' date='Apr 21 2011, 01:17 PM']This type of thread is becoming a Basschat cliche. Things are sh*t, it was much better when I was younger, when you get to my age etc. Having a bit of live music, in whatever format, is better than having none at all. I will generally buy a handful of albums each year based purely on listening to Later. More than that, I can remember some really brilliant performances over the past couple of years.[/quote] Trouble is they are becoming fewer and farther in between

Difficult for me to answer. [list] [*]Years back I used to sit and (for my own amusement) record the sound to MD [*]More recently I have had it on series record on the +Box and watched it the next day [*]Last series sat on the +Box for ages and I made half hearted attempts to watch the shows and spin through the bits that were dross to my ear, and in the end just deleted the last few unwatched [*]This series I haven't even worried about setting the series record option [/list] Perhaps that means I am either getting old, or have developed a cloth ear, or perhaps both. Mind I caught a bit of Ce-Lo on Tuesday and it looked good, but I was rather wondering where all the b vox were coming from as there appeared to be no-one on mic except him. Perhaps I ought to give it another go, but....

My baby is semi retired now, but still comes out to play & record on a fairly regular basis as it is so easy to play and punchy. And all from a small operation in High Wycombe (as was) over a furniture builder as I recall. Went up in '96 to drop mine off for an overhaul. Nice chat with Pete, try of other stuff in at the time, coffees and came away with it booked in for a great deal more work than I took it up for. Picked it up a few weeks later converted to active. Lovely Mind I don't 'spose that helps much

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='1197078' date='Apr 12 2011, 05:36 PM']Is there a trick to getting the best out the MarkBass kit, or is this just what they sound like?[/quote] Set my MB combo flat with a smidge of VLE & VLF and love it, so I can only agree it was probably the room

When my lot have run as a three piece, which we did for quite some time, I tended towards the occasional bit of chorus and being slightly busier, throwing in the odd chord and generally playing around with the beat and harmony (not sticking to I / V all the time) while still basically trying to keep solid with the kit and play for the song not me. We had to do a gig recently as a three piece when one guitarist could not make it (with a very valid reason) and it was nice to have that extra bit of space. That said as we are doing some Lizzy stuff with twin leads there is still the room for me to make a bit of busy noise