Grangur

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1405242520' post='2499931'] ^^^^^^^^^ And this is why Basschat is such a wonderful community! Well done Horizontalste! [/quote] This... just WOW!!!

Watch and learn.. These are good videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te44eWXd9pc

Uugghhhhh... You mean here? http://www.giggear.co.uk/c/Bass-Heads/

Welcome Sam. It sounds like you have a good setup going on there and it'll be a great environment for you to learn. My thinking is failry in line with Cairobill. £300 isn't a lot for the whole setup. I'd concentrate first in the amp. Ask around to find out if borrowing an amp at gigs is possible. If not, then you need to think first about the amp. If it come to it you can get a cheap Encore or Gear4Music bass for less than £40, But a £40 amp will be unlikely to meet the need at a gig. Incidentally, I bought a Gear4Music bass in great condition for £20. It's got hot pickups, so it'll work well in a band mix and feels great (after removing the brand name!)

[quote name='slingo' timestamp='1405202526' post='2499736'] I'm assuming it's normal to have some curvature of the neck (relief) though? [/quote] Yes it's normal to have a slight curve in the neck

True, you were within your rights to contact Warwick. As you have no contract of sale with Warwick they were not obliged by law to do anything except refer you to Thomann. Warwick have now gone further than the law demands of them to help you. Round we go again.

Hmmm, it's alsmost like he could be reading this thread. In the USA there's one up for sale at £175 with no bids - amazing value for the best bass in the world! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-Peavey-T-45-Double-Pickup-Bass-Guitar-USA-Made-W-Case-T-40-/121380793288?pt=Guitar&hash=item1c42dbebc8

I just bought a Tascam GB-10 from Stuart. I made the mistake of not checking out this thread first. It makes good reading. Right frm the beginning Stuart was/is a great guy to deal with. It was a nice, easy transaction. Goods well packed and it came in a good case when ch I wasn't expecting! Thanks Stuart cheers Richard

Strange how the title says "Call for £499.00 Price" Then in the listing the price is £595. So if you call and agree a sale outside ebay; forgoing the buyer protection, he'll sell it to you for £100 less? Why would he be SO keen for you to avoid the buyer protection? AND you can have this bargain delivered for "Economy" delivery of £30!!

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405068260' post='2498427'] I would PM you as I do not really think appropriate in the main forum [/quote] Was it [i]that [/i]rude? I doubt it. [quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405070239' post='2498464'] I have given the gist of it but I do not really think it appropriate to put private conversations on an open forum, Would you post a private conversation out in the open? I just don't think it is right to do so sorry [/quote] So, how can we have an [i]open and balanced[/i] discussion with only your interpretation of the answer they gave. [quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405069095' post='2498441'] Mind you it has taught me a valuable lesson keep any packaging and only buy Rotosounds or Ernie Balls lol [/quote] Agreed, if you want to buy a bass, buy one from an instrument manufacturer. If you want to buy strings, buy them from a string maker who's prepared to put their OWN name on the packet, not live off the name of another company and potentially rubbish their name.

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405061524' post='2498338'] But maybe David Beckham might give a sh*t? have you thought about that? And it is there dont care attitude that I am more annoyed about than the strings as you will see in my previous posts [/quote]And what evidence did you give them that you weren't just a chancer after a free set of strings?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1405029441' post='2498208'] +1. Good customer service is all-important. It's not rocket surgery. [/quote] but have you thought about this? He was doing the equivalent of phoning David Beckham and complaining about a duff bottle of after shave. Warwick don't make strings. They probably don't ever see any Warwick branded strings. What they failed at was communication.

Your comeback is to the company you have the contract of purchase with. Warwick owe you nothing. Thomann is the company you have to go back to. Packaging doesn't matter if the goods are faulty. If, as you say it's not worth sending them back, then you have your answer. If it's not worth your trouble to prove they're faulty, then it's not worth their while to do anything. [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1405023329' post='2498091'] This comes as no surprise. When I was arranging the Herts Bass I contacted lots of companies for donations for our raffle. EB UK, Stuart Clayton and D'Addario all generously donated items and were welcoming and friendly. I contacted Warwick through their Forum and Florin contacted the CEO on our behalf - the outcome was they were [i]not in a position to help out[/i] with the event and declined to make any donations - a company that charges over £2,000 for basses can't even afford to give a grass roots event with their target audience a few sets of strings which cost them what?? £10?? I was disgusted TBH. My new policy is not to buy any Warwick products - they probably don't care cos that's pretty much their philosophy... Anybody want to buy a German Corvette?? [/quote] You're being unfair on Warwick. Warwick don't make strings. They BUY and sell strings that have been branded for them. D'Addario MAKE strings - so it's far cheaper for D'Addario to give you strings.

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1405007313' post='2497875'] PS. Although I am getting very tempted by the tins of spray paint idea. I mean, what can possibly go wrong :-) [/quote] And it if does, you start again and learn from the journey

[quote name='sybass6' timestamp='1405004294' post='2497813'] We must understand everything we play, it's so important. [/quote]... if we're to learn anything from playing what we play.. I agree. Some folk are, however, simply happy to [s]regurgitate[/s] reproduce bass lines produced by others verbatim

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1404923900' post='2497059'] The Gallery, Camden [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/workshop.cfm"]http://www.thebassga...om/workshop.cfm[/url] [/quote] +1 £30 well spent. (I heard them quote that about 12 months ago) ... That said. London's a big place. Any preference as to [i]where[/i] in London?

[quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1405005010' post='2497829'] At the risk of getting told off...my own experiences are that many necks do not respond evenly to truss rod changes, particularly in the last few tweaks before "almost straight". A few basses I've had will get so close, then start choking at the last five or six frets at the top. I usually view this as the limit of their adjustment, without any further "spot" fret levelling. Its a balancing act between the available adjustments. I'm around Bristol and happy to have a look if it helps, but I'm not set up for fret levelling. [/quote] This bass is one Hamfist used to own. So I doubt it needs fret-leveling.

From another thread (http://basschat.co.uk/topic/240653-tab/) [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1404981452' post='2497438'] Isn't this really a matter of "horses for courses" ? If you book [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Pino, Billy Sheehan or Jeff Beck, or any other leading bass player, you're booking them for what they will bring to the party and add to the music. This will also be true in a lot of band situations. So in this case no reading is required. I guess in this situation what gets to be the bass part will be what comes out of a jam session.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If you're doing a theatre pit gig you will probably need to read. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]TABs are all very well, but if a pianist is writing the score for a more serious piece of music and wants to write a bass part for you he will either have to learn the bass fretboard to write the TABS for you, or you will have to learn to read music.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Speaking for myself, I learned to read and play from a score because I was reading the TABs in books and thinking "this is playing by numbers", it wasn't doing anything to help me learn the notes on the FB. I'm not sure what it was doing to improve my knowledge. So learning to read has got me more into understanding the chords being used and the logic and patterns. But I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The TAB can be useful as a recommendation to play the score on certain part of the neck to get better accessibility. But then I've also seen books where the TAB has you running all over the neck when I can see there's an easier way to play it.[/font][/color] [/quote]

Going off topic slightly; I was surprised when a guitarist guy who lodges with Mrs G & I was showing me once how he mostly plays in drop C, but for a lot of tracks he changes the tuning, so he can form a simple chord on the frets and strum and get the sound he wants. He's not got the faintest idea of what notes he's playing in ANY tuning whatsoever. This then got me thinking about when, at a pro-gig, the guitarists (mainly) have a new guitar handed to them for each track. I guess this is because each track demands different tuning. So much for fans living under the illusion that [i]*insert name of well-know guitarist*[/i] is a brilliant musician. It's clearly mostly smoke and mirrors.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1404984083' post='2497490'] For a lot of the music that I play, and have played, TAB trumps score for things like drop tunings. For example, there are parts that sound MUCH better where the low C is played on a drop-C tune 4-string bass than a fretted C on a 5-string bass (for pedalled bass notes etc). This is easily shown on TAB but I haven't seen it done with music score. [/quote] WOW! You have shattered my preconception that folk who play drop C and drop D were amazingly talented. I've been thinking "It's hard enough to remember and work with standard tuning, let alone to have to remember the fret layout in the other tunings as well." Now I know, it's all just a case or remembering the TABs. After you've worked out and written the TAB sheet I guess, or do you get that from a TABs site?

Isn't this really a matter of "horses for courses" ? If you book [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Pino, Billy Sheehan or Jeff Beck, or any other leading bass player, you're booking them for what they will bring to the party and add to the music. This will also be true in a lot of band situations. So in this case no reading is required. I guess in this situation what gets to be the bass part will be what comes out of a jam session.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If you're doing a theatre pit gig you will probably need to read. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]TABs are all very well, but if a pianist is writing the score for a more serious piece of music and wants to write a bass part for you he will either have to learn the bass fretboard to write the TABS for you, or you will have to learn to read music.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Speaking for myself, I learned to read and play from a score because I was reading the TABs in books and thinking "this is playing by numbers", it wasn't doing anything to help me learn the notes on the FB. I'm not sure what it was doing to improve my knowledge. So learning to read has got me more into understanding the chords being used and the logic and patterns. But I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The TAB can be useful as a recommendation to play the score on certain part of the neck to get better accessibility. But then I've also seen books where the TAB has you running all over the neck when I can see there's an easier way to play it.[/font][/color]

Hamfist; I thought he had the bridge down to the bottom. I've probably jumped to that conclusion as to me that would be the first, no brain, adjustment to fix high action. I think I'll just try to stop helping folk and just shut up.