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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1363614348' post='2014735'] Depends on the bass. BTW most "black" basses aren't. IMO for a bass to be properly considered black, the only allowable non-black items are: frets, fret markers and strings [/quote] unlined fretless. No markers. DR black beauties. Anything else is just not black enough

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1363615845' post='2014759'] Being offered a trade for a 96 jap p 62 reissue [/quote] see what the woodgrain looks like. alder=good basswood = lower spec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkgylvDYA4

listed in the wrong place - expensive postage mind!

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1363531385' post='2013685'] In my opinion, they have have great necks - but they don't sound great. Don't have much in the way of bottom end. I was always having to compensate using my amps. I think, personally, they might be okay of you're a slapper and a popper - but for rock tones, they're not my thing. No thump in there. [/quote] depending on the model surely? Also bottom end would be one thing, thump tends to be slightly different place in the mix. I've found they don't suit all amps and I didn't like the whole mec active pups thing. It's got brats in it now - if anything there is too much bottom end on mine, but not much thump. For thump I use a p bass.

How heavy is heavy?

right looking at the OP again... I would ask... when did this develop. Have you changed string gauge? Is the buzzing consistant accross all strings? Have you had any work done on the nut? Whats the fret wear like? What is the relief in the neck like? does it twist at all? maybe it is the wood - but given a weakness in the wood due to weak wood i'm not sure i would expect the consequence to be buzzing on the obttom frets. My guess is fret wear combined with how the strings are wound onto the tuners crossed with something else

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1363044999' post='2007663'] Thanks for the comments on the kitchen. I keep my proper coffee in the freezer,the Illy to me is a lesser qualty coffee, which I only keep for guests who wouldn't appreciate the real stuff I use for myself. See pic below [url="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=W9qnVYiK-CuNLM&tbnid=K2_jKh60MfLmAM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.valentinafinefoods.com%2Fshop%2Findex.php%3Froute%3Dproduct%2Fproduct%26product_id%3D712&ei=fmo-Uf65BOaW0QXVlIDQCQ&psig=AFQjCNECPB2EMgTSMJ18UVxAdCx0Z3U9bw&ust=1363131378130112"][/url] [/quote] ah an espresso drinker. I tend to go for french press.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] MATE TRADE KITCHEN 4 MY TOP OF THE RANGE SQUIRE STRAT-ITS RED. MUST KNOW BY TONIGHT. NO TIM. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] Nice custom colour. Did you know the Hungarian kitchen fitters association only released that colour for a limited period - super rare. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] back OT... I notice you keep your tea, sugar and coffee in tins on what looks like a wooden shelf. Do you find any knots in this wood affects it's tensile strength or do you find any problems happen when they sit on something unstable also on the shelf? also... Wazoo.... try keeping your coffee in th fridge, or even better the freezer! tastes better for longer, I got a illy tin just to do the same in the freezer.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] warm and friendly! What rubbish. A kitchen isn't about warm and friendly- it's about art. Amateur kitchens are warm and friendly but some higher kitchens are about more than that - you can't disagree unless you're kitchen is also aspires for greater. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] Yeah but the Fender USA version is so much better. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363041909' post='2007610'] Very nice job all round . I like your taste . Thats looks like a very warm and friendly kitchen , and that's such an important room in any home .[/quote] Ah I see the wood tops you went for, very nice- though Vinnie Fodera's 2nd cousin once told me that as a tone wood it's not a great one to use for a top. It's too dark and cos of that makes the tone dark you see. I prefer my AAAAAAAAA spalted flamed russian koa which is soooo good it sounds amazing and gives such a warm friendly kitchen. Tone like anything.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1363038026' post='2007525'] [b]Thank you[/b]... Apologies for the off topic (big time) - it's only a small kitchen, the Ikea bloke came and measured the walls, the windows, and the entered the dimensions in his computer and came up with what you see below. In a very small space we managed to cram, sink, cooker, oven, dish washer, fridge / freezer, washing machine and enough cupboards for crockery, pans, cutlery and food stuff. All I had to do was chosing the colour scheme and the type of surfaces, the cupboard doors and the paint scheme. The tiling was done by a higly skilled Hungarian chippy who also did the floors tiles, looks like laminated wood flooring but it's actually tiles. [/quote] that really is a lovely kitchen. All clean and tidy, almost like you're a chef or work on a boat or some other place where space is at a premium......

Garey - a tip.... go home, turn on your computer, go to www.basschat.co.uk click register or whatever it says.... and make your own account! Good luck in the new job whatever you're up too!

[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1362954786' post='2006819'] Both a half-naked Gates McFadden and Lidl seem much more interesting at this juncture! [/quote] but is it art or enterainment?

what a tosser.

If I were in dorset and had the money I'ld be going to visit that!

Cheers for the replies guys! Yeah, wall mounts would be the way forward... if it weren't a rented flat so no holes in walls. As it is I have a stand a wee bit smaller than the second one you recomended Stingraypete - except with the way it stands them up it needs a 20-30 cm space behind it- Just not space we have. Stupid Divan beds mean that we don't have space under them- there is enough space in cupboards that I think all the cases will be able to fit in there and then one of the basses can sit on the spare bed or something. any way we'll work it out! Now where do I stash the bike frame I just bought!

*waits for inevitable sexism*

So excitingly I get married in a month! Woo. And we've a flat we're moving into once we are married- it's a little two bedroom place- so we do have a spare bedroom - but all the rooms are pretty small. Now I have a fair bit of bass/guitar stuff... the bass amp being the main one - though we've a space for that, but currently my 3 basses are all sat in a nice rack. Easy for picking up and playing around the home- and the cases are all stashed in the basement. We won't have space for all that in the new place. Add onto that my lovely but hardly played Yamaha SG electric and the (again hardly played) Line 6 mini amp i have with it.... Seems my options will be store most the stuff in it's cases in a cupboard and have just one bass out for playing, or thin down the amount of stuff I have... or just stuff it and have clutter everywhere. (if it weren't rented flat I would hang them on the wall) I just wondered if anyone else had had similar dialemmas and what you did?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/memorymoog/1011767054 saw this. googled a few others up for sale and thought this looked cheap enough compared to what others are advertised at it was worth sticking up here for someone if they want

you really remind me of a slightly thinner version of a certain famous person.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1362512502' post='2000616'] Yeah, but surely, at his level, he would be surrounded by luthiers examining the minutest problem with his bass, especially the DIY defret [/quote] why? The best chef in the world probably won't let almost anyone touch his best knives. They are a tool to do his job- and as long as they do the job, and work in his/her hands in a way they want they arn't going to change them even if someone brings some knife with a fancier blade out. They are tools. I disagree with the way you suggest almost that a (modified) standard jazz bass would need to be "upgraded" somehow - firstly look at the price preCBS jazz basses go for - they have a reputation of being good instruments anyway, and secondly it's a tool - and if it does the job the artist wants it to it doesn't need to be "changed" for different style just 'cos someone come up with active preamps or something! If you talk to any of the pro musicians on here above a certain level I've tended to see that they will keep hold of their main bass (or basses) for many many years. The constant swapping/changing/upgrading we see so many of us do on Basschat (myself included) are not really the mark of a pro musician. Put another way- I did art at Art School. I'm pretty good. You can get some really really expensive pens and brushes and paints. I'm talking £100 brushes. I've tended to use a 20p Biro. It's a tool.