stingrayPete1977

Who cares about the sound? If it stops the saddles sliding about and saves the skin on my fingers from being torn off Im all for them

If you put a cheap one without the beeper Nigel it would work perfectly, Its a shame they dont make one that beeps if a fault occurs instead of the all clear, (Its like that for when we are testing on our own especially when trying to find an unlabelled circuit, saves a lot of walking!) with the sorts of leads we use you never know where a bad connection could be, I guess we would look a bunch of dicks If we tested every socket in every pub for 10 years with one only to find the multi gang lead in our rack cases had no earth all along!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1341909384' post='1725837'] Interestingly, after he left Fender Leo never used BBOT bridges again. [/quote] Good point, In fact if anything it was the main area he kept changing from Musicman then again with G&L. For some reason the Fender is too sacred for many to accept the high mass bridge is better in more ways than just tone which is personal anyway, I am man enough to admit that even as a MM fan boy that the G&L bridge design is better

Coming from a guy that can only afford a few really old ones!

[quote name='sime17' timestamp='1341874477' post='1725646'] Thanks Mr. I loved my old Bart loaded 55-02, it was a class act and really nicely put together, just a bit too 'polite'. She now belongs to BC's own mr Chardbass. Not tried the Lakland 01s at all though, or a G&L for that matter, hmmmm... [/quote] I was seriously close to a 55-01 (? 5 string with soap bars) when buying my first 5, very smooth and I really just wanted a 5 string version on my now traded much loved SR4 hence the 2010 SR5, other than that I would of gone for the Lakland

If you need to waste a pint to do it then I'd buy one of the plug in ones instead! Mmm pie chips and ketchup

What's a pack test then?

You mean pat test and that applies to the appliances not the socket outlets, in the op's case notify the venue and use another socket, if they are all bad pack up and leave

You would think the good pa manufacturers would start building a circuit like the martindale into the desk, probably 20 pence worth of bits inside them and would save ages looking for the reason the singer has tingly lips! (I'm a sparky too btw)

Nice post sime17 I have gas for both the Lakland and G&L, the Laklands don't have quite as much bite as a Ray IMO but they have a cracking range of useable tones and match the EBMM for build quality, great basses.

I have had them where the saddles move across the back plate and where the screws unwind themselves until the saddle is sitting on the skunt, whether other people have or have not even after 50 years or are in some way offended by that makes no difference to me, my basses are mine theirs are theirs as long as we are happy with our own basses it's all cool. Plus like Wayne says my Badass looks cool

Your making me want one now! Is it much better than a 9.0? If I can pick a 9.0 up cheap I quite fancy one at some stage, I don't need one nor a 9.2 but since when did that matter? I will have a look at using my 6.0 as a power amp too, thanks.

Guilty as charged although most of the stuff by the band in my sig is fairly complex (for me anyway) normal covers Im not so bad for it

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1341586848' post='1721465'] Rumour is the EU release will come with a Bass patch too . [url="http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-us/downloads/index.aspx"]http://rocksmith.ubi...oads/index.aspx[/url] [/quote] Yes I think the bass version will be available on the Spectrum ZX81 too as its only got 4 strings etc! May aswell beat the guitarists to it before they think of it

[quote name='debwilliams' timestamp='1341742893' post='1723337'] Hey great news, I found an etching of your first gig! [/quote] For anyone that does not read Hebrew that bit at the top right says "Rolling Stones tonight!, doors open at 8, Support will be Cliff Richards playing a medley of his Christmas number 1 hits of the past 200 years". "no glass bottles beyond this point".

I'd be happy to gig with either

[quote name='Voodoosnake' timestamp='1341738817' post='1723248'] That sounds like a fab gig [/quote] Hell yeah! +1

I hear the standard one sounds good if it's in one piece! I knew it would be some kind of tampering

It's just that the pre EB is more of a hand made bass I guess, neck joints are never going to be as good as a computer guided effort, the bad ones (sorry Musicman20) are down human error as its their poor fitting or poor programming skills rather than the actual machine at fault there. Then modern paint finishes are more durable and hard as nails, again computers can be used to help mix the paints and check they are applied to the exact thicknesses the paint manufacturers suggest, 6 bolt neck joint and the awesome wheel of fortune truss rod adjuster speak for themselves. On the other hand the choice of quality timber is on the decline and for me it's the little quirks that make it more special as soon as you pick it up New or old they are still very solid bass guitars though!

Started guitar at school 25 years ago, started a band over christmas '89 using a borrowed bass then had an encore electric guitar for christmas 1990 instead, I later went almost exclusively bass in 1993 as I always got drawn back to it even though by then I had saved up all my own money to buy a decent Ibanez guitar (all the rage in the early 90's!). If I did it all again I would of learnt to read music earlier and maybe gone to a 5 string earlier too but that does not bother me as much as the reading and theory skills I lack

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1341691098' post='1722918'] Are D-tuners common in metall rock ? [/quote] I played in a rock band for years where I had to tune up and down all gig, I didn't realise hip shots existed then. Not an issue these days

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1341690931' post='1722915'] do they have issues when trying to go through metal detectors at airports ??? [/quote] Well they would have take those big gladiator boots with all the buckles up the sides off, and remove all the stuff from various holes in their faces!

I'm pretty sure we have some metal heads around here with Hipshots that drop to A?

Someone might of been messing around previously? A fan of Jazz basses maybe? If they have and they are not total idiots then the wires might be long enough to re solder them back as they should be, some of them have the area to be soldered on show anyway failing that. If only one coil is working then its neither series nor parallel which sounds more like someone has done that rather than the coil failing, I'm not sure I have ever heard of one failing? Pics of the back of the pickup please

If anything the new EBMM models are even better built than the pre EB ones and that's from someone who loves pre EB Rays so there are no worries on that score. Resale values will be better long term on a Ray, some second hand bargain out there now could see no depreciation at all, maybe even go up a little over the next ten years? I like sandbergs but I'm told they don't sound anything like a Ray really so if it's the sound he wants I'd go for the real thing. That sounds a bit harsh but what ever anyone says its essentially a copy. That's my biased view