LukeFRC

odd question.... best pickups I ever played were Nordstand - any reason why you went fender rather than nordies?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1436105043' post='2814962'] Funnily enough, that's [i]exactly [/i]what Ned Steinberger did and Stuart Spector said, 'Love it!' A little while later, the head of sales at Warwick said, 'Bass guitar sales have nothing to do with body shape. We're going to copy the worst body shape on the market and I'll prove to you we can still sell millions of basses with it.' And that's how that happened. [/quote] I quite like the body shape. And even if you didn't are you really telling me that Warwick do not make worse body shapes?

None of my current basses came from here! Which was a bit of a shock! I think I've bought 3 or so.

same seller as kegs dodgy warwick post. I've just offered £1....

or ebay had an offer on if you started a sale post at a certain time...

surely the designers are old enough that they aren't using the metric system! The 12mm, 15mm or 18mm chat makes me helpful its going to be in nice simple metric!

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1435878212' post='2813357'] Fingerboard and neck being glued up.... [attachment=195527:11667962_10155706033015405_1544610083_n.jpg] [/quote] think chris needs more clamps

(and I'm not the designer!)

Interesting - I know Stevie is saying he would go for 18mm over 15mm ply, at the same time the trend is for better braced super light 12mm a-la Purple Chili or Barefaced. Personally if I were building it myself, which already is harder than going to a shop I would come up with a design that was more fiddly to build but more lightweight at the end- but that might just be me!

Dunlops fit in the resessed ones if that's what on your bass. Warwick one's should do too - not being daft but you are pressing the button when you go to put them in? Any 2 band preamp will do - you will just need to wire a push pull switch on it to do the whole push pull thing.

http://www.emgpickups.com/accessories/bass-accessories/tone-controls/vmc.html there you go - think that's what you've got. It's not really that weird - unless you need lots of bass boost all the time it probably makes as much sense as a two band eq on a bass.

My money is on an emg preamp there btw

Not mec - possibly the square pot is. But looking at it it doesnt look bad... no markings on any board? Got more photos?

Steed - not prose - and here's a picture that bass gear still have....

one bass I saw up for sale and wished I had bought.... and then he stopped building.... remember that lake placid blue jazz that Prose Bass made? It was modelled on someone famous' bass that I forget. That was lush. ACG über, Basslab, Ritter would all interest me not enough I actually would start saving. I like jazz basses, I like the idea of them, the sound of them - if someone could make one I liked playing live then I'ld be happy.

Worse than a soap opera! Cannae take the suspense

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1435491281' post='2809256'] Not trying to derail this thread entirely but a local festival last night had the bass on a Stingray 5H with a TC Blacksmith cab and 2 x RS410s playing classic rock from Motorhead, Black Sabath, Van Halen to Pink Floyd and he more than cut through, irrespective of his power supply. I was pleasantly surprised by his choice of bass considering the music but never got the chance to talk strings and settings. The tone was more than okay. Surely speaker sensitivity comes into play too? [/quote] Does a local festival not put the bass through the PA?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1435472945' post='2809009'] Hmm.. I was an early Acoustic Image adopter (for the UK at least) and I recall that having the same lack of backbone that I've experienced with the other heads I've used. The TC was - IMO - dreadful (and I'm sure that uses a B&O derivative?). Markbass I've never got on with, and the only Aguilar head I've used was the AG500 which I liked immediately. but then again it has a lump'o'iron power supply even though it's class D. [/quote] Thing that gets me is that my Walkabout goes wrong and I've got the service documents and could probably repair it myself, or pay someone to do it. Couldn't do that with a RH450 could you? My old tecamp puma 1000 used a powersoft digimod module. Mind you it's odd that a £1000 bass amp is essentially their preamp stuck in front of the module and and DI the connectors you need... all retailing then for £1000. A pa amp with the same module inside costs £200 new... that's a £800 preamp?? anyway...

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1435327093' post='2807761'] It isn't - it's just having an amp that can do the amount of power you need for a full note length. With some of the optimistically specced Class D amps you might need a '900W' amp whilst a Class AB that can do its 300W continuously might have similar heft and loudness. But it isn't the Class D or Class AB thing that makes the difference, it's the power supply. The iAmp 800 was Class D with a traditional power supply. The Markbass LM2 was Class AB with an SMPS. [/quote] was wondering, what does that mean when you get to matching a amp to a cab? The trend seems to be for a couple of 1x12 and then people put a lot of power into them ... and suddenly 800w amps is the new "standard" .... and a EBS HD350 or my Walkabout doesn't put anywhere near 800w out.... what does that mean when looking at cabs? I've always presumed that with a lower power A/B amp you would end up trading low end for sensitivity. ....