Mr. Foxen

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=127488"]I've been using this one.[/url] It hasn't been working out for me, but any Bristol stuff, I can go get and have couriered.

[quote name='KevB' post='1357376' date='Aug 31 2011, 12:07 PM']And people moan about Fender bridges not being sophisticated enough for accurate set ups.... [/quote] Wishbass don't have frets as standard, or 'precision' written on them. That way, the intonation problems are your fault (although one harmony central review complains about the intonation being off on a fretless). This one is having a bridge and frets by custom order.

In white as in unfinished.

The pretty much reflect what you put into them, both in finish and sound. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Fretless-4-String-Aromatic-Cedar-Scarab-Wishbass-/130567955786?pt=Guitar&hash=item1e6674e54a"]This one is on ebay for the impatient.[/url]

[quote name='Gust0o' post='1357275' date='Aug 31 2011, 10:58 AM']Ah-ha! Thought I recognised it - looks like a USA model, certainly with the fancier electronics. I am envious [/quote] It is actually a Japanese one, built for their domestic market, imported by Lorne, and done a tour of Bristol bass players. Turns out it rocks a low A tuning like nothing else I've tried.

Last picture is my Mockingbird. Has an awesome growl on the bridge pickup, so figured gun for that. I sent him a full pic of it and he said 'Strange looking bass'. He farms out fretting and doesn't offer it on his site, after people started expecting boutique quality basses for Squier prices, the note on the front of his site reads like a proper grumpy old man. I'm getting it in white and doing the finishing myself, anticipate a lot of sanding, and feeding it oil until around Christmas. Basically it is finish time that costs serious money when you buy a bass, jsut need to bear in mind you are pretty much buying a blank.

One of my amps sold, and freed up some fun money, one of those things I've been intending to get for ages since I sold my last one in a poor bit. Spoke to him a bit on Facebook chat (dude never seems to sleep), for some details. [quote]WISHBASS Custom Instrument Order Form Make checks or MO to wishbass, 612 McCreary, Winston Salem, NC 27105 Name___Oli Foxen_____________________________________________ Address Email Instrument___Fretted Bass____________________________________________ Body Style__Scarab (see attached pic of previous one for general theme)____________________ Number of Strings____4________________________________________. Neck Wood_________________________________________________ Reinforcement None(x) Steel( ) Adjustable Truss rod ( ) Fingerboard wood___purpleheart_________________________________________ Side Dots __N__Fretted __Y__ Body Wood___Gnarly dark stuff and purpleheart___Top______________Back_____________ Controls_________Just a volume is fine, but can I get a double size cavity, so I have the option of tinkering? Front / Back: Rearmount controls, Cover plate__Any___________________________________________ Bridge___Standard__________________________________________________ Tuners________standard_____________________________________________ Pickup (s____Bridge P bass spaced a bit like on the bass in attached pic Other Hardware______None________________________________________ Finish____None, rough shaped only______________________________ Notes.____Going for gnarliest whorley wood you can find, looking like it has been found in a swamp. Bark inclusions welcome, but smooth where my arm will rest would be nice. Shape pretty much like the scarab in the pic, top horn longer than bottom, like it is lunging a bit, and the bottom by the bridge like that, don't really like the hole cutout thing on some scarabs, like the alembic omega thing, rather have like in the pic. General pointy theme, like an evil beetle is what we are after.[/quote] Pics attache were this scarab:

They are a bit different and people think that is important to being good.

Hard to say without looking at it. Shimming will sort bridge adjustment limits. Frets you can check with a straight edge that bridges three frets, if it rocks on the middle one, that fret is high.

Di you replace the speakers with duplicates of the ones in there, or with different ones? Might of opened a whole new can of works there. The Mag cabs don't handle very much power at all.

Or he dislodge or took the slack out of some wires when he moved his, bit of a pull the wrong way can dislodge and make dicky connections.

The pain is when you squirt it into the pot, and it squirts out another hole into your eye.

Is there VAT on the fee too?

Ebay fees are massive, there is never a good time to sell. Actually, last free listing day was good because 10 days went across the long weekend. I got rid of loads of things. Then my fees account balance made me cry.

Other thing it could be is a failing capacitor leaking DC into the pot, which you can check with a meter, bit more involved, and involves poking about in a live amp with probes. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=198"]So see this thread.[/url]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tokai-Bass-guitar-Sunburst-Left-handed-inc-Case-4003-/270808908309?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f0d780215"]Lefty "Tokai".[/url]

Cheap or expensive? Warmoth necks have a rep for being big. Telebasses, except I found the Squier VM one to still be quite shallow. I have a couple of Johnson necks on my basses, that are thick and ugly headstocked. Like the feel still, also dig the feel of the Ryder ones, once the shine is off. Wishbass have massive necks.

I think only piezo one's don't need a crossover. I think this might be more complicated than you imagine to sound right. Definitely a try and get actually suitable cabs sorta thing, Marshall badges are easy to pick up an stick on, much easier than making a crossover.

[quote name='henry norton' post='1354500' date='Aug 28 2011, 05:03 PM']I think it's easy to get mixed up with tone and timbre. Pickup position changes timbre more than tone, otherwise known as the quality of the note, harmonics etc. Electronics generally just affect tone, generally.[/quote] I've always considered 'tone' to mean timbre, just electric musicians using the wrong words, along with using tab instead of notation, and tone actually means a note or interval (as in tuning down a tone).

Would guess the acoustics might not be made in the same place, branding doesn't mean that much, does look nice though.

[quote name='charic' post='1355097' date='Aug 29 2011, 11:29 AM']IMHO I think its all a missed opportunity. Should have advertised at 250 but let the hype carry it. Then the reputation would have been on a major high after initial doubt.[/quote] I'm sure a lot of people would write off 250w right away, see amount of thread (usually TB) that say '300w minimum' instead of the more accurate 'watts don't matter nearly as much as you think'.

I've been talking to the Burman fanpage guy a bunch recently. The new Burman is dead in the water, sadly. Definitely worth taking your amp to a tech and getting it sorted properly, rather than bodging in new valves. Or sell it to me.

Those speaker probably won't benefit from porting. It is fairly specific to speakers. Those look a lot like speakers that are worth money.

Where along the length of the string is main consideration for me. I know that on neck mudbucker stuff, even plucking right at the bridge makes no much odds, no so sure as to the effect of more bridgeward pickups.