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And im the other side on St Annes, We have you surrounded! We do need another NW bass bash, ive been pestering for ages, you wernt at the last one where you Mr Lemmywinks?

Kendal you say... :ph34r: Like Al, I love how you've paired them up. I'd be over the moon with just one half of each pair, in fact, id be over the moon with any of them!

[quote name='arabassist' post='618512' date='Oct 6 2009, 01:24 PM']OK well the harmonic thing wasn't my idea. using bridge pickup solo came from the idea that the musicman stingrays are designed for slap and as a result the pickup is positioned further back - that was just my assumption. I do get a percussive sound from slap and a good result from pop. once i plug it in it just sounds like im fingerpicking with stacatto notes with lots of attack (and bad timing lol) i'll raise the bridge pickup when i get my hands on it. im using warwick emp strings (100-40) if that has relavence.[/quote] I understand where your coming from with regards to the stingray. Firstly, I cant agree that it was "designed" for slap (Although do feel free to proove me wrong!) it just so happens that it sounds pleasing to some when slapped. Some people like the sound of a P bass slapped, personally, i find it dire! The only other thing i can suggest is that you try and borrow another bass and rule out your amp as the weak link in the chain.

Do i really need to tell you...?

+1 on the VMJ and CV Squiers. I'd stick my neck out and say they're the best value basses on the market.

[quote name='jamiejames' post='583839' date='Aug 28 2009, 05:42 PM']Cant praise this fella highly enough, A Curbow 5 string arrived this afternoon, incredibly well wrapped and in beeeeutifull condition. The bass was sent even before the money appeared in his account, bank transfer hassles slowed it down, but he sent the bass anyway, pleasure to deal with and a top top bloke. cheers lemmywinks! jamie[/quote] Quoted for Possible legal reasons.

Well its a nice day so i thought id make the most of the natural light. My poor little shuttle does look silly atop the beastly barefaced.

I had no problem slapping on my VMJ. And i hate to say it but the whole bridge harmonic thing sounds a lot like BS to me. You should get a percussive slap sound acoustically/with no amplification. Start there before you start worrying about the pickups. It may well be that you need to lower your action a bit. You can raise your bridge pickup to equal out the volume between the two but i doubt thats a solution to not being able to slap on it.

If i've intereperated that correctly, does that mean that treble is semi paremetric on these heads? Nice.

Glastonbury '08. Dance stage East. Having Norman Cook stood just off stage bopping away! Mad! I still dream about it!

I'm SURE ive been on a database with all the different string tones on it once... Let me havea dig.

Broadly speaking, in terms of overall quility and sound i've found american and japanese to be the ones i'd risk buying without trying. However, Ive yet to find any Fender that plays as nice as my MIM 75RI! I had a squier vintage modified jazz for a short period, and while it looked the dogs it wasnt put together brilliantly and sounded very anemic.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='615399' date='Oct 2 2009, 11:59 PM']My 1978 Fender Bassman 135 head running through an Ampeg SVT Classic 115E cab. Retro heaven. And pictured at the car park at work not plugged in, just in case anybody wondered what a bass rig might look like in that setting!?! [/quote] That rig has soul all over it. F'ing love it!