LukeFRC

For me... really just an old Thumb bass, the first bass I got to play was a 5 string thumb so they have always been my dream bass. Like most folk I've not much money really to sink in so will rely on selling stuff first, but alas the plan to buy the awesome 1986 JD thumb I had seen fell through months ago when no one wanted anything I was selling ach well - one day, it's my 30th next year and already started priming the wife I may save up for something...... other that that I'm sorted! There is a half curiousity about other amp setup - ideally a Bergantino IP powered cab and some kind of nice preamp/DI to feed into it. That gas is tamed by.... the fact that i never see them up for sale... [quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1378647549' post='2202727'] Modulus Flea Bass please! I got the GAS, got the cash, but ain't got the bass [/quote] looking at your sig... all vintage fender and then a jump to a flea bass... bit of a jump in style there! [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1378658243' post='2202870'] A Lake Placid Blue, matching headstock jazz bass with rosewood 'board, pearloid block inlays and cream 'board binding... Lightly relic'd. [/quote] seen the Steed Herbie Hancock bass that molan is selling at Bass Direct? YUM! [quote name='CHRISDABASS' timestamp='1378723108' post='2203589'] A fretless!! Recently made a fretless neck for a G&L and it got me hooked on the fretless sound and feel! Now to pick out some woods! [/quote] Dear lord, i need to be prepared for pages and pages of wood porn on the alpher facebook page then! [quote name='ordep' timestamp='1378730640' post='2203775'] Tecamp Puma head and Bergantino cabs. [/quote] cool- which Puma amp would you go for? and the current ones or the powersoft ones?

If I were you I would be emailing John East and seeing what custom lovelyness he could make for you.

i then to have the problem that my tshirt hangs between bass and belt. The belt is fine but the amount of tiny holes I get in my tshirt drives me mad

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1378668698' post='2203069'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/12-obbm/"]OBBM[/url] [/quote] what he said

my guess is it's a strat...?

unless he's trying to fish out a face to face sale to avoid ebay fees?

is it a guitar or a bass, I couldn't work that out.....

bottom end of the bottom end warwick made when they were churning out lots. Good price still

i've often wondered why some british luthier doesn't make a bass totally of native woods.

about a year to save up for my ACG preamp in my warwick - kept blowing the money on other things like engagement rings. When I eventually sold enough other stuff to justify buying it I wasn't even sure I wanted it anymore but the stubbon "well I got this far 4 times so I may as well" prevailed. Turned out to be a good move. Getting married was also nice

If I were going to spend 900 on a MIM fender I would for sure want my photos of it instagramed

the bass stopped evolving with the Peavey T40. It's all been downhill since then!

I love that video.... inane questions followed by the tech saying "er it's just a standard"

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1378230463' post='2197448'] I've owned - for a decent chunk of time - an Acoustic Image Focus, TC RH450, Streamliner 900 and Ibanez Promethean... yep, they all sound different but just didn't cut it in the feel department in a similar sort of way. It's not immediate - it took me a while to realise with each that there was something missing (apart from the TC which I hated from the start. ha ha.). Coinicidence? Maybe. Maybe not. At least three of those use the same power module. [/quote] were you not quite positive in your reviews of the RH450 to begin with? I remember your review made me add it on my possibles list a few years back when I was looking for a new amp. [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1378271882' post='2197875'] As mentioned earlier, for me it's more to do with the feel than the sound. And I don't think pro PAs powered by class D use the ICE Power module with clever processing to make the pro audio equivalent of 175w sound like 450w... [/quote] I kinda know what you mean. I can't stand the sound of Markbass (one of the main class D amps I've played through) maybe it's just the amp but it feels like something's missing. My Tecamp puma 1000's got a different power modual (powersoft) and sounds very different. but.... never had to really push it so who knows. I kinda miss my big heavy Hughes and Kettner Quantum 600 to be honest.

If you wanna try a good one out for a few hours my JV is a good un - and I'ld love to try your ACG's!

the one that fits in your hand the best- really how it fits in your hand and effects your playing style will make more difference than who made it or what fancy preamp it has in it. If you left me with one bass I would be happy with my ACGed up Warwick SS1 - simply it's my bass, it sounds like I want a bass too, it weighs little and it's fun to play. But I like having a passive fender style kicking around too. BUT - at the end of the day it's not about the price. It's about the bass- does it sound good, play good and you enjoy playing it. I honestly believe that a £200 bass can fit the bill just as well as a £5000 one - (and custom built basses from UK luthiers seem to start at less than the price of a MIA fender too)

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1377898124' post='2193500'] To put it in context I'd just told him that I'd played a Squire VM 77 Jazz, a MiM Fender Jazz and a MIA Fender Jazz with Custom Shop pickups. The Squier was the best one out of the lot by far. The MIA Jazz had a slightly better sound due to the pickups but those pickups ain't worth £900... So his response was that the US models weren't made for players. My opinion is that MIA Fenders are lacklustrely made as they can sell them on the strength of the brand name and the Squiers have to be good to compete in a very crowded and competitive market. Or to put it another way, Squier has to try harder whilst MIAs don't. His opinion was that they deliberately make MIA basses with flaws to put players off from buying them. Then he started whittering on about them being made for investors (despite very few, if any, that have been made in the last 10 years increasing in value at all). Very strange bloke. [/quote] Oddly.... I had my JV Squier up for sale last year. As you might (or might not) it's in brilliant condition and seems to be a model that the (perceived) value of is going up. It probably just about fits into the bracket of "basses to think about if you want to buy an investment" -Although I bought it cos I liked it if anything the value of it going up put me off playing it - At the time I was using a bike to get around and was worried about damaging it in a crash so stuck it up for sale. Well one fella who was a definate to buy it, was arranging times and the like and he was telling me about his current basses - which included a mexican P bass, and a US P bass. I asked him why he wanted to pay £1.2k for my JV - the answer was to play as a beater bass so he could keep his brand new USA P bass safe in it's case under the bed to keep it's value as an investment!!! Not really understanding his logic, nor wanting to see my JV sold and trashed I pointed him to some cheaper nice MIJ P basses. Strange bloke too!