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Possible issues if you're sure the wiring is all complete and intact - worst case scenario is that the bridge pickup is faulty. DC resistance of an RD Artist pickup should be around 6.5kOhm according to Fly Guitars. It could be the selector switch not making great contact in the bridge position - look to see if the contacts are being pushed together nicely by the switch arm and maybe give them a [u]little[/u] rub with fine wet n dry to brighten them up a bit. You could fit damn near any tone shaping preamp in there you like, there's plenty room You have tonnes of flexibility to use whatever pot/switch configuration you like with 6 holes to choose from...

I enjoy gigging and I get annoyed at missed opportunities to gig because someone's on holiday or someone's playing with their other band and whatnot. However, if gigging went out the window then I guess I'd settle for writing songs and recording them to get them out there. Still not the same as seeing people dancing around to the music you're making right there at the time. But I wouldn't jack in bass completely if I couldn't gig - I would probably trim down the collection though - use the proceeds to go on holiday or something

Pretty sure you can get some EMGs in white and cream.

Hmm, bit of a gap between me and the next person - no other helpful BCers in Scotland?

Yup, I have taken breaks before. The worst thing you can do is announce it - like anyone gives a monkey's! I usually leave when the holier-than-thou, a P-bass is all you need, Leo got it right, one true bass brigade get so sanctimonious and preachy that it's either leave or risk a ban for what I might say. But I usually get enticed back when the levels of BS being spouted about Gibson basses reach levels that I cannot leave unaddressed

Me, Aberdeen

Don't look like wrecks, do they? (obvious play on words taken care of)

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1453494580' post='2960114'] What else? No one here can write a decent riff! *ducks* [/quote] You haven't listened to everyone here

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1453494156' post='2960106'] which money? [/quote] Money crops up in at least one post per page of this thread. The whole thread was started on the basis of how much to charge for playing a party and a difference of opinion within the band. Are you trying to get a rise out of me or something?

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1453489546' post='2960043'] Not from my perspective no, we play originals and often play free, especially for friends. [/quote] The money figures being bandied about in the thread recently don't bear any resemblance to my experience.

I presume this is yet another cover band only discussion?

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2nd January 2016 @ The Tunnels, Aberdeen - [/font][/color]A quick phone vid from the same night, thanks to Debby Harley Quinn for providing the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61WV0w90LA

So it's their P and PJ bass? OK, suppose everyone else is at it so why not EBMM too?

Two bands with whom I'm friends played at my birthday party for a slab of beer and food. They're good friends though.

Interparcel/UPS for me too. Sent more than 10 basses in the past, and there was never a problem.

The vast majority of the basses I have owned are second hand and usually already have dings and scratches when I take ownership of them. I actively protect them from further damage, but if it happens then so be it. I would be annoyed if damage happened through my own negligence or carelessness though.

I happened upon this thread again - it's like one of those old school car mag "long term test drive" type reviews My Red Sub is still rumbling along - mostly nicely. It has developed a small fault - there's something iffy about the headphone jack which causes it to short occasionally, hence having the effect of muting the amp as if a plug had been inserted. Easy fix, plug something in it then remove it and it clears the problem (I always have a 1/4" > 3.5mm converter in the aux input so something suitable is always to hand). It only happens once in a blue moon so I haven't got around to looking into it. I guess the socket needs replaced which shouldn't be too troublesome. It has been used at least once a week at "war volume", mostly in the combo at rehearsals where it is the only bass producing equipment in the entire room and makes itself heard over the top of drums, keys, vocals, trombone and sax. In March that'll be 4 years I've had it and it keeps on doing exactly what I need. I will be sad if it ever does give up the ghost - to me this amp does everything I need and it'll be a right bugger to replace as I don't think there's anything quite like it around at the moment - not that I've been seriously looking.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1453105513' post='2956288'] Only if you perform to an audience of nothing but bass players. [/quote] Damn all of them! Oh, wait a minute...

Seems on balance here that I'm wasting my time writing lyrics that are carefully crafted with the occasional poetic device to mean something (or sometimes more than one thing...)

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

Make sure it stays friendly and welcoming. I went to a jam once, there was a clique of regulars clearly "in charge", I got glared at for making mistakes, the whole atmosphere was rather unfriendly. I never went back.

9 at home, 1 at work. I play whichever one takes my fancy at the time and I make a point of playing a different bass every gig where possible, basses which don't get played get sold. It's as much a fashion thing (will it go with my shirt?) as anything else. All basses sound bassy. Usually someone else handling FOH sound anyway so how much "control" over it do I actually have?

You don't need to justify anything to me, buy what you like

It's no accident that you get a Spartacus-like chant of "OBBM" every time this subject comes up

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