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Or you could bid on this one... same brand, starting at [u]£45.79[/u]. Free P+P. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ammoon-4-String-JB-Basswood-Electric-Bass-Guitar-24-Frets-with-6-35mm-Cable-D9L4-/311694052700?hash=item489269cd5c:g:tuEAAOSwgmJX0nv8

Depends. Maybe Robyn Hitchcock again. Maybe Joe Henry and Billy Bragg (duo gig) - already bought that ticket.

I might make it to a couple of those. Thanks Also there is a typo in your link... should be a B not an N.

Within an hour of me... but not within my price range. Looks nice though

Just a bit too hot a pink for me.

Three for me. If I buy one, a guitarist will [s]pinch it[/s] borrow it and forget to return it.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1473332317' post='3129137'] I wonder if this sort of thing will be extended to European countries when we leave the EU? [/quote] Indeed, and why wouldn't it?

Really? I hadn't realised they were scarce. Almost every Vester I see is one of these... weird. (Admittedly that's not that many, maybe one every three months or so.)

Can't stand them... I'm sure they are well built. sound nice, etc., but the look

Ah, OK. Thank you.

Me too. One of these years I'm going to learn to play all this kit...

Looks nice, for sure. But I thought piezos need batteries? I can't see anything looking like a battery box.

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1473024624' post='3126253'] I'll just leave this here. Not that I'm biased [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjwHFHDz_Hg"]https://www.youtube....h?v=PjwHFHDz_Hg[/url] [/quote] Now he tells me

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1473019480' post='3126172'] ??? Sorry, genuinely baffled by this. What line-up do you play with? [/quote] At that point, guitar guitar bass drum-machine vox. Originals, and a few covers which weren't like their originals at all. When we started recording stuff I had a serious rethink; it just didn't sit well with what we were doing. Why nobody else said that to me I don't know.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1473012343' post='3126047'] I've talked about this (and bored the pants off of folk) before. My opinion is that the answer is fairly simple: build a bass with the pickups in the right places and you are mostly there. For example, this Peterbuilt bass is basically a '51-style P bass with two pickups in the Rickenbacker locations: The neck pickup on a Rickenbacker is in basically the same location as that of a Gibson EB-0 - EB-3 bass. The classic Rickenbacker tone (Squire [i]et al[/i]) comes from having a reasonably low output single coil pickup in that location and another in the same position as a P bass pickup, as per the picture above. Squire, Lee and co split the output of their bass, with each pickup running through a separate signal chain. I think Lee used different amps for each pickup, whereas Squire actually mixed the two pickups back together into a mono signal chain, bolstered with Marshall amps. The important bit is that the two pickups don't 'see' each other, so don't cancel frequencies or load each other down electrically. You basically have two '51 P bass circuits running independently on opposite sides of a 3-way pickup switch (that basically runs as two kill switches and a 'both on' arrangement in the middle position). Rickenbacker also used to fit 4.7 nF capacitors in series with the bridge pickup, cutting bass frequencies. This doesn't put the pickup ninety degrees out of phase (as some would have you think) but basically scoops the frequencies from this pickup right where they would interfere and interact most with the bassy frequencies of the neck pickup. However if you are running a bass in stereo you can remove these bass frequencies from the bridge pickup anyway, so it probably isn't all that vital to have it there. Chris Squire had a way of making all instruments sound like Chris Squire. Probably a combination of low action, rotosounds, warm-voiced valve amps on the brink of distortion and forgiving producers like Eddy Offord working with him to get a full bass tone. In the world of Yes Chris was given a lot of space so, luckily for us, you can hear a lot of his tone! I've got the multitracks to Heart of the Sunrise somewhere, and Chris's bass sounds the same solo'd as in the final mix. For a lot of isolated bass tracks I've heard you tend not to realise the full tone of the bassist until the other instruments are stripped away. Sticking with Squire for a bit, the other contender is that we don't know what he used in the studio, really. On The Yes Album there are times that the bass is in stereo and panned across the stereo field, but on Fragile it is pretty much in mono and down the centre of the mix. Squire actually acquired a 21 fret Mapleglo 4001 bass around The Yes Album time (if not earlier), so it is hard to know what tracks he used this on. That bass had factory Ric-O-Sound fitted, so perhaps he modified his cream 1999 RM bass to have a stereo output after he purchased the 4001? Beyond the bass we also don't know what amp combinations he used in the studio, and what limiting and compression was added to the signal. From memory there is some drum bleedthrough on the bass tracks to Heart of the Sunrise, so this suggests there was a mic'd amp somewhere in the mix. Another idea I keep coming back to is that Rickenbackers don't sound like Rickenbackers. New 4003 basses sound way darker and less charismatic, in my view, than the originals. I played an early '70s 4001 last year, and the tone was way more open and bright sounding. Admittedly it had quite a low output and, with some fingerstyle playing, I got some ugly transients coming from the bridge pickup. I find modern 4003 basses to sound like dark, rubbery Jazz basses, and the 'vintage' tone circuit (which introduces the 4.7 nF cap mentioned earlier) just muddles up the mids a bit, adding a subtle honk to the tone. Rickenbacker went through an odd period of winding hotter and hotter pickups, using weaker magnets and generally making dull sounding pickups. I hope a manufacturer someday mass produces a bass with single coil pickups in the Rickenbacker locations. Copyists tend to try and copy the outline of the 4003 bass, and then get into legal trouble with RIC. Ironically none of the modern clutch of copies sound much like Rickenbackers, with some exceptions, due to a number of reasons (pickups used and scale length being the most obvious). Somebody could produce a P bass like the Peterbuilt above and RIC could do nothing. [/quote] Thank you. I think I now know what I need to know.

I stopped using a five because I tended to play low notes too much. If I got another it would probably be tuned E-C.

I don't know if this has been mutilated or if it was built like that. Either way, it's fairly strange to the eye. But I do rather like it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Origineller-Aria-Pro-II-Bass-Japan-/222238560675?hash=item33be7351a3:g:UfEAAOSwFV9XypDP

Gone.