LukeFRC

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.

Ahh I think you make a common error. Once you get past a certain level there's no such thing as "upgrade" - just different. A (good) standard Fender does not need "upgrading"- you can do things that make it different - like expensive pups or something - but that's more a matter of taste than anything else. An alembic would be more expensive.... but a different bass rather than a "better" bass.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1362012687' post='1994626'] Yup, I do need to spend more time in that forum browsing, not just modding. +1 to that Kiwi. [/quote]don't do that - you'll realise what crap we all talk!

boys and girls..... the lesson here is if we see something missing, like a brother of the bass' name - in a magazine from the last century.... there is nothing - nothing that can hold back the collective might of Basschat to track down the person given a photo, a gear list and a waist coat. the lesson lies more in when folk try to scam on the sale forums and a bass goes missing.....

It's been really touching seeing WoT using the Basschat community to put him back in touch with an old flame...

I like my other half more than I like basses. Given the choice between having one bass and one lass for the rest of my life and being a lonely man surrounded by bass guitars I know where my priorities lie.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1361567187' post='1987839'] Pickups? Undecided. But it will be reasonably simple. I'm thinking mostly one of a) single P pickup, reverse configuration (DG coil on top), placed at the Stingray's pickup position. or two Jazz pickups, quite close together, at around the Stingray's pickup position... and in this case, I would probably hard wire both pickups in series and that's it... but I will try it for sound and if I found that having a pickup selector and/or a parallel/series switch was a good idea... then I would do that, but it has to be worth it, I don't care for lots of different tones from this bass, I just want a basic one that is good, and then use the preamp to modify it slightly if/when needed. [/quote] the jazz option sounds in my mind like thumb bass positioning. Could be interesting on a more traditional looking bass.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1361480335' post='1986496'] My main Jazz Is a Silver Squier with a Precision neck. The pickups sound deeper than most Jazzes. They were made between 1992 and 1994 in Japan and go for about £200 normally. I forked out £250 for mine but that's because I really, really wanted one after playing a friends Silver Squier and really liking the sound. [/quote] mine is the same - japan silver series jazz, silver series Precision neck. New body and pickguard but the same pickups... they do sound good don't they! Not much like a normal fender jazz

ahh glad that this thread had a happy ending!

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1361467982' post='1986203'] People saying they're pro is like gear that's advertised as pro. As in not. [/quote] good way of putting it there. One of my pet hates is people wanting to be "professional" - super serious folk, trying their hardest to get into "the industry" with their crappy little band and bad attitude - not realising that they are now to old to make it in the "industry" they are aiming at and refusing to beleive that the highly derivative durge they put out was never good enough in quality or songwriting skill even 10 years ago when it still sound contemporary. Who seem to think art is all about yourself rather than the viewer*. I like the kinda professional that just gets their head down and works on what they want to do, cruise ships, theatres, teaching - making their living out of their musical skill. I like that kinda thing. Or other folk you see in bands- where they all have jobs in other things, and they all treat the music in a professional manner - but know that it's all about having fun. And you go see them and that rubs off on you, cos it IS fun and you enjoy it and it hopefully wipes the memory of the pretentious w*****ers who played first that evening. *or listener

I picked one up as part of a trade. Great wee bass. £180 I think we valued it at in the trade - but it was quite beat up. £200-240 propably the right value depending on condition and to a lesser extent body wood.