mcnach

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1426950025' post='2723878'] They are awesome pups. I can`t believe I never thought about changing the covers so they fit better! just done that and put one in my Dirnt Precision and its transformed it, think i`ll remove it from the for sale section now and have a proper go with it and see if I get the `Precision` thing [/quote] it was just a flash of inspiration... I've had other pickups fitted with the "wrong ears" and never thought of just changing the covers until now. So simple!

[quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1426970220' post='2724342'] ^^^ Fair point. I guess it's a choice, some would prefer to lock the thread when they can see the topic is going nowhere healthy, others see where it goes freedom of speech etc. nothing bad seems to have happened so far.... [/quote] it's just... words... about... basses.

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1426937873' post='2723656'] Come on. Stop this childish posting and go and play your bass. Someone lock this thread. [/quote] why lock it? I am having a look and don't like the thread (I don't care for Ricks, but Rick threads are sometimes amusing to watch ) but... why lock it? Don't like it? Don't read it. Sorry, I am not saying this as a personal attack but I have seen recently a few comments on other threads along the same lines "lock the thread"... I say let people discuss whatever they please. If they are not interesting threads I'll move on, but let those who want to stay in them do so.

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1426925541' post='2723445'] Can I just say that you've wasted all your hard earned cash and should have bought an OLP [/quote] and I just want to say that Chiliwailer is not a second account owned by me

Sometimes a cheap bass surprises you. A while ago I found, by chance, someone nearby selling a Squier Mike Dirnt Precision for £115. I was curious as I was starting to feel a certain attraction for P basses after hating them for so long, so I went to check it out. The bass was very light, the neck slim (which I loved then, but now I wish it were wider and thicker), and it was quite nice. Then I was reminded the £115 price covered bass and amplifier... so I went home with them and later sold the amp for £20. Very comfy bass to play, and the pickup may not be the best but it sounded ok to me. I used this bass a lot for busking with my band using a battery operated amplifier... it worked pretty well and it was a bass I did not worry too much if it got wet, or dirty, or scratched... Recently I've been hearing good things about these Entwistle pickups, especially the neodymium one. At £26, it looked like a painless way to try to improve this bass. The pickups arrived, but the black covers have larger ears than the route on my bass... so I then ordered a set of white covers with smaller ears. They arrived today and fitted perfectly on the bass and on the Entwistle pickups... and it looks like this: ... I have not been able yet to play it with the band, but at home it sounds quite nice. Adjustable polepieces are cool, and I raised the G string ones a bit as the G string was sounding a bit weaker than the rest. The first thing you notice is that some of the "Precision" character is gone. It's not a traditional P bass sound, but it's a good one. It's got a lot of "grunt" but it sounds a bit more refined than a classic P bass. Hard to describe! Not a traditional P bass sound, but it's a good one, especially at £26!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426885681' post='2723232'] ...and has it arrived yet? Mine hasn't, and I ordered it three days ago. *drums fingers* [/quote] no, not yet, and I've been at home all day, running to the window everytime I heard a van parking on my street

[quote name='Mike2tone' timestamp='1426884219' post='2723215'] What did you go for Mcnach? [/quote] aaaaah, it's a secret! A Jake P/JJ with very slight differences from the one in stock I was looking at, but they are differences that will make me like it that much more. I'll post pictures in about 11 weeks

[quote name='Markolinni' timestamp='1426782251' post='2721907'] hehe. Congratulations 10 weeks will pass fast (or maybe not..) The first 2 will be the most difficult. I'm passing through the 6 week. hehe. I'm happy.. appear 1 photo on FB of a piece of my future bass Got even more ansious hehehe [/quote] Deposit paid... the wait begins.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426720561' post='2721352'] I feel your pain. I placed my order two days ago, and I'm still mailing Adrian to chat about changes. The poor bugger. [/quote] I made my mind up. I think. I'm placing an order fresh 10 long weeks! uf...

Ah, decisions decisions... Emailing with Adrian right now... Hard times for an impatient man: I can order something they have in stock and have it next week? or order something only slightly different that would be a *bit* more to my liking, and wait for a while (and pay a chunk more)... Hmmm. The difference is just the neck profile... a 4 string with a 40mm width at the nut and 21mm deep at 1st fret is certainly comfy and noticeably wider than a typical Jazz. But I'd rather have a 42-43mm wide one and slightly deeper too, maybe 23mm? If in addition I could get a glossy slightly tinted lacquered neck then it would be *perfect*. But... ah, what to do, what to do!?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426542328' post='2719229'] Alea jacta est... [/quote] aha! what did you go for? what did you go for?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426428107' post='2717933'] He's confirmed that the necks are clear lacquered :-) My order will be placed soon... [/quote]

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1426422837' post='2717847'] I agree, anyone can become amazing if the are prepared to work, work, work at it. On the other hand , some annoying people, like my girlfriends brother, are just born with the ability to be just good right away. He didn't pick up a guitar until he was 13. Within three years, he was a virtuoso, who could play any Rush song you could name flawlessly, since then, he has become the best guitarist I've ever met in real life. It's so bloody annoying! [/quote] Yeah, I hate those. I'd round them all up in a field and shoot them... oh, wait, sorry, I thought this was the Clarkson thread

[quote name='piffle' timestamp='1425576261' post='2708776'] Hi guys, For sometime i have been looking for a GB streamliner head. Sadly i haven't been able to find one (except at a hugely inflated price). So my question is .. what thoughts people may have as to a similar sounding alternative thats as simple to use. I play a Warwick streamer II currently using a 1980's Trace Elliot AH500, with a shiny new Barefaced BT2. cheers folks [/quote] what's a hugely inflated price? I see them not too unfrequently for around £400 (the 900, or less for the 600 version). That's what I paid for mine more or less (I bought the Shuttle 9.2 new, but the Streamliner 900 was used). I am a HUGE fan of the Streamliner 900. My advice: keep looking. It's a terrific amp. I'd consider the Aguilar TH500 as an alternative, but it frustrated me i the way every control seems to interact with everything else. The Streamliner is almost plug and play. It's really hard to get a bad sound out of it.

Coban stainless steel strings, on eBay, £7 delivered for a set. They're not the best. But they work. For £12 I prefer Warwick Red Label stainless steel, but the £7 ones are not terrible

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426415824' post='2717735'] Ah - thanks for reminding me about the lacquer! I'll ask him. I'm gradually pinning everything down. [b]He's being very patient with me...[/b] [/quote] well, finish already! some of us are trying to get in the queue!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1426413680' post='2717696'] He's literally just replied - if I send him the dimensions of my '71, they'll copy it. :-) [/quote] Nice! Did you specify lacquered neck in the end? I'm still hoping that some of the instruments they have already made work for me (I'm impatient, you see and I dread thinking of all the options!!! )

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1426194413' post='2715611'] My bass is the red Jake in the video clip from the previous thread. [/quote] What's the neck like? I like Precision necks... and yes, they vary, but they're generally wide and I like the Classic 50 ones a lot, which some consider "chunky".

Do you have one of these? Or have you tried one? What's the neck width/profile like? Is it typical Precision or slimmer?

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1425940964' post='2712657'] It's blindingly obvious she plays with an ease and fluency that can't just be learnt, it has to come naturally...there is playing a bass, and using a bass, lots of folks can do the first one, but not many the second.. That song is five minutes long, and must have a couple of thousand individual 'hits' on the strings... That's like trying to type at 100 words a minute without making one mistake... Come on. [/quote] You'd be amazed what people can do when they, well... practice and work at it. If music were my job, I bet I'd be substantially better than I'm now, as I'd be playing quite a bit everyday... I remember an interview with Paco de Lucia talking about talent etc, and he said that sure, some people have a gift, but that he still had to spend hours and hours everyday playing guitar to become that good. I think some people use the excuse "I am not that talented" as a self-justification, when the truth is they just don't want to put in the effort. But this is an entirely different matter now...

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1425859052' post='2711646'] Sex-IST [/quote] You must watch "This is Spinal Tap" sometime