Kev

[quote name='karlbbb' post='552539' date='Jul 27 2009, 12:51 PM']I'm really gassing for the V1005SP (spalted maple top 5 string): It looks so nice, but seems to be in most shops for around £429+, and considering I could get a Spector Legend 6 for around £489, I'm unsure whether or not to buy it over the Legend.[/quote] whilst it may seem better value to go for the spector, consider with vintage you are getting the whole bass for the money, whereas with the spector your paying for the bass and the brand

the attitude you get from alot of music shop workers when it comes to trying some gear out is enough to persuade me to nearly always buy online.

bidder one, the origninal big bid, has never made an ebay transaction and is only bidding on this. Shill bidding? But that doesnt explain the other bidders... tis a very weird one

sounds like an OLP to me

fitting a nice vintage fender pickup in my icon next week

gotta be the classic vibe jazz, or if its out of your budget the VMJ

i think its quite nice!

im gettin the pickup upgraded soon hopefully, after that i cant see me being able to find a fault in it

very recently bought myself a Icon V4, very happy with it!! Makes me wonder why people can spend thousands on a precision

Don't think 'right, £1400 to spend on an amp...', why not just go round, try out as many amp heads as you can without considering price, and buy the one you like best, be it £500 or £1500

the stock pickup isn't the most powerful on the icon v4, but tonally i quite like it, although upgrading to a wizard pup would be great im sure. Im quite happy with the hardware, i like the aged bridge . I hate the fact iv bought it new as i know that il get nothing like when i sell it, but not selling is fine with me

well, i took the plunge. Tried it again today and decided it was worth it, cracking little bass

yeah as i said i was impressed and it did easily match the MIM (and was a lot lighter too), just really inquiring about build quality really.

Tried one of these in the local soundcontrol/reverb yesterday, and was impressed with it. Played easily as well as the fender mim i a/b'd it with, but with a slightly weaker pickup. Otherwise its great, and against what i thought i really like the relic finish on it. However, for £199 im not sure whether its worth it, partly because im sure theres better on the second hand market for that price, and partly because as soon as i set foot outside the shop, it will halve in value! Anyone else got one? Iv seen quite a bit about the jaco esque vintage, but not too much about the P.

RATM is one of my favourite albums ever, you so rarely get so much passion locked into a music track like that, one of the only albums iv listened to that i can truly say blew me away.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='548317' date='Jul 22 2009, 10:14 PM']i get a nice p sound from my $$ with the neck pickup on single coil but it's not [i]quite[/i] the same [/quote] haha, Warwick owners often buy their lumps of wood to impersonate fenders besides, this hideous hack up has a bridge humbucker!

must be one weird electronics package to create a p sound...