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[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1452355574' post='2949220'] GAK & Richtone both have them, I don't think they ae rare, they seem to come up on eBay quite often. I have played one and don't think they are anything out of the ordinary, if anything they are a bit prone to neck dive. [/quote] The OP is asking about the Gibson Les Paul Signature, not the Jack Casady. The Gibson LPS was only made from 1973-79 and is indeed rare and rather expensive whenever it appears on eBay or whatever. I had a Jack Casady and I could see myself going back to one in the future - they're so lightweight but sound really good to me. To be fair I did fit Ultralite tuners to it (one of the press fit bushings of the original tuners was coming out of the face of the headstock under string tension, and it bugged the neat freak in me ) but it didn't neck dive with me. RE: the LPS, I've never had the pleasure of playing one so I can't comment on them much. Lots of info at [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/LesPaulSignatureBass.php"]http://www.flyguitar...gnatureBass.php[/url] Noteworthy that Jack Casady had one, and when he came to help design his signature model, he cited the pickup of the original as a weakness and sought to design a better one with Epiphone ("I loved the bass but found the pickup to be deficient.") Apart from that I got nothing, including the three grand minimum budget I'd need to buy a Gibson LPS bass

I had a 3 pickup Danelectro Hodad which had all combinations available and the solo pickup settings were the weakest sounding. It had a 6 position rotary and a toggle switch which bypassed the rotary and put all pickups on. That was the sound I liked the best, or maybe neck+middle, so I suspect this is a personal preference thing above all else.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1452090454' post='2946266'] There's a good reason no-one else does it. [/quote] What's the reason? Genuine question, not stirring. While I don't understand doing it with three pickups which are already inherently humbucking, I can see the wisdom in it for single coils.

The whole weekend? The bloke's mad! He's going to fit right in

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1452084883' post='2946194'] I tried out a 2012 Gibson Grabber in PMT last week. It was without doubt the worst sounding bass i've ever played. 3 x single coils, of which they can only be set on a 3 way as bridge + middle / all 3 and neck / middle pickups. The wide spacing of the pickups meant a very muddy sound I could not get any real definition from it, slap was out of the question. [/quote] Can't say I cared for that model either - much preferred the original seventies/early eighties G-3 - the pickups are different and all the pickups are nearer the bridge. The switching is by design - the middle one is wired the opposite way to the outside ones so you get some humbucking effect whichever setting you use. This is true of both iterations of the bass. I kinda miss my '78 G-3. Maybe I'll try and score another one some day.

A "gentle introduction"? I got to all the various meters and my brain said "that's enough" and shut down like a slug in a salt cellar. Up until then it was fine.

Not normally as they already have names (and when the names are as fine as Ripper, Victory and Thunderbird, why change them?), but my Gibson RD Artist is often referred to (only in house) as "the Bass Fairy bass" - my wife bought me it but said it came from "the Bass Fairy" and it kinda stuck

Once again I'll throw this in, only to be told it doesn't count for some obscure reason

Since 2009 I've had the privilege of playing with Chris in 3 different bands - he's my partner in rhythm. Also a couple of years playing with Luke - a terrific drummer with a real (and seemingly rare) ability to play softly. A couple of one-offs which worked great with Ben and Neil. Played for the first time ever with David in a total one-off (no rehearsals or anything) on Saturday and it was also great (seen him play many times, dunno if that helps?). Bottom line is that I've been very lucky in that every drummer I've ever played with has been great!

I like blocks. And trapezoids as well, but I guess that's to be expected...

2nd January 2016 @ The Tunnels, Aberdeen. A smiley bunch of 'Spoons whooping it up for my 40th birthday bash Photo taken by Claire Newton.

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1451388315' post='2940013'] The RD Artist is a slap monster - actually, a tone monster in general. The "money" bass was nice and would do you fine. And the current EB bass is also nice and versatile, All long scale, I believe. [/quote] Don't be daft, all Gibson basses are awful. Are you new around here?

Release an EP minimum (hopefully an album) with The Inevitable Teaspoons. Play more gigs than 2015. Write more songs.

Similar story of using up dead space - we changed from a traditional boiler and tanks to a combi. That left a space where the tanks used to be. Bass cupboard then.

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1450801645' post='2936015'] Play the octave harmonic. [/quote] Could do that I guess, but I still don't think I'll bother unless it can tune open strings, only because it's contrary to how my pedal tuner would behave. I could see myself getting all wound up at a gig because it wasn't working before remembering to use harmonics

I've never really thought about it, the songs I write are called whatever Ifeel like call them. Always been a line or phrase from the song, but not always from the chorus

Boo, did some digging and the E-Tuner (actually a Shadow product) doesn't go low enough for bass - bottom frequency response is 66Hz according to docs. No built in cleverness for me then

Also see the Epiphone E-Tuner - built into the pickup ring. Again, a guitar specific application (I could probably fit it to my Epi LP bass though ) http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2015/Epiphone-Innovations-E-Tuner.aspx

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1450690028' post='2934815'] I am on a roll here. Surely someone could make a tuner which would fit into a volume pot. [/quote] That already exists, look for N-Tune. No specific bass version, so dunno if it's bass suitable (and I couldn't find an official website on cursory search)

Did that with my first bass - was playing sitting down and didn't notice that the lead was under my foot. Stood up and yanked the cord. Unfortunately because the jack is directly mounted in the face of the body, I ended up with a loose jack socket and cracked lacquer. Could have been worse. Never been that daft since!

Tried to play guitar when I was younger, didn't like it/get it. Years later (and mostly through a love of Cream/Jack Bruce) I saw an Epi EB-3 in the local music shop and thought "that's pretty". After years of pottering about, my wife to be basically dared me on stage to play bass in a makeshift band for a birthday party. Joined my first proper band a few months later, got down to the business of actually learning to play because I now had to. The rest is history

"his" tone is fine if he wants to play by himself. Record a practice and play it back to him. If he still doesn't get it - bye bye.

This truss rod was totally unable to move the neck even with no string tension applied, it had all the symptoms of being maxed out - couldn't turn the nut any further for fear of stripping threads/breaking the rod. FWIW, I used whatever wood blocks I had to hand but put cloth as padding between them and the neck. Cork sounds ideal though, good shout. I thought protecting the neck would have been obvious, but I guess it's good to mention it. Also, I don't think this will work for dialling out back bow if you have a one way truss rod. Without the application of heat - the wood will just spring back to its original position unless you have the counteraction of a two way truss rod to fix the change against. Pleased to report that after a day of settling the neck is looking good, relief is staying constant.

One of my basses had too much forward bow and I couldn't tighten the truss rod nut any more for fear of breaking it. At first I thought it was maxed out, but after some measuring of the threaded part of the truss rod and the depth of the truss rod nut I worked out that it couldn't be the case. I was simply asking too much of the truss rod to move the neck to where I want. So after a bit of googling I found this advice: Basically, tighten up the truss rod as far as you dare (this pulled it just about straight on my neck even with no string tension), then clamp it as shown and tighten that clamp until at the desired position then tighten the truss rod again to this new position. I am pleased to report that it worked, and worked so well that I actually had to loosen by a quarter turn once the string tension was applied. I'll admit it was total guesswork - I clamped the neck into a slight back bow because I figured the strings would pull it right and they pulled it straight, ready for me to dial in a little relief by loosening a quarter turn or so. I left it overnight and it's looking good. Relieved to have a much nicer playing bass with action more like what I'm used to without the high fret buzz