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[quote name='ChickenKiev' timestamp='1364397148' post='2025902'] Aye yeah, plus I think the Phoenix is made of Maple or Basswood with a bolt-on neck, so it's a different animal completely to a real Gibbo. Never knew the neck was the same length though. I suppose it's an optical illusion. [/quote] Product knowledge: http://www.espguitars.co.uk/bass-ltd-phoenix204.html [quote] Okay I'll place the split-P in the middle then and squish it next to the bridge-position soapbar. And I definitely want it to sound like a P . Hopefully it'll be like a Precision+. Maybe like one of those Precision Deluxes I've seen knocking about. [/quote] I didn't say squish it next to the bridge pickup or any such vague thing. I said place it in the same place as it would be on a Precision with reference to the scale length. That means taking your measurements from a known common point between the two basses (like the nut, or the 20th fret) on a Precision and then applying that exact same measurement to the LTD when marking where to put the pickup - ignoring how it looks - it will appear to be slightly closer to the end of the fingerboard than on a P because a P only has 20 frets and this one has 21, but it'll be in the same place with regard to the scale length and the speaking length of the strings.

Let me address a few misconceptions: The LTD is exactly the same scale length as a Precision (34"). An Epiphone Thunderbird is hardly representative of all Thunderbirds. Different wood, different pickups, different construction. The only thing that an Epiphone Thunderbird (a bolt on neck one anyway) has in common with a Gibson Thunderbird is the shape and the parent company. Misplaced generalisations are not helpful. Put the split P in the same place as it would be on a P bass relative to the scale length and it'll sound ... similar to a P.

This probably isn't going to do much good because we're up in Aberdeen, but I may as well try The Inevitable Teaspoons are looking for a singer, someone with a big voice, a small ego and sense of humour. We're a new band, primarily playing R&B/blues/rock originals. Current band composition is bass, drums, keys/mouthy, trombone. We work very much as a collaboration so all songwriting input is welcome. If you can play a bit of sax when you're not singing, that would be amazing Recent rehearsal recordings are available for interested parties.

Would love to help, but I'm in Aberdeen, so it's got quite a way to travel before it even thinks of meeting up with me, sorry!

All I would say is that there's no reason on a new build to use tuners with press fit bushings. Screw in ones are a little more chunky looking, granted but they never lift out under string tension unless something else is seriously wrong. Any Schallers apart from BM/BMFL use screw in bushings. Hipshot Ultralites also use screw in - very nice quality, reversible tuner available in lots of finishes, sizes and button styles. Oh, and also Grover Titans (which are kinda like Schaller M4S, but are secured with two screws instead of the pins of the M4S (which you must make holes in the back of the headstock for)) and Gotoh GB7. Oh yes, and pins are neater than screws, invisible fixings: But a little bit more of a faff to install - place tuner where it's supposed to go, push down on it to make the pins leave a little mark, remove tuner, drill some very careful, not very deep holes then refit tuner. It ends up like this:

As I always say to any torturer - "if you're going to remove any fingers, make them the pinkie and ring finger of my right hand"

Pretty much. You'll get there, keep at it.

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1363354948' post='2011689'] Has anyone gone from a clan to 1? [/quote] No chance, I love the variety too much. I think I have 9 just now with one perpetually under construction because I'm lazy. I do feel like that's a ceiling figure though, dictated by storage space. A 6 in line rack, one in a gigbag, one on a single stand and one at work. No room for any more

Just got me one of those Epiphone Jack Casady models:

[quote name='Smythe' timestamp='1364025962' post='2020968'] The power amps Behringer do (crossover ones for PA speakers) are great. Their bass amplification is something left to be desired.. Mind you its no worse than Hartke. [/quote] Great. More generalised bitching about a particular brand in a thread about generalised bitching about a particular brand - that's exactly what we need. I've had nothing but positive experiences with every Hartke amp I've used. I take it you got a bad one. These things happen, but it's not a barrel of apples, you know...

"Instruments are to be played". My wife is cool with me buying as many basses as I like, but I have to get around to playing them all at some point - no collecting, no basses stashed under the bed. She also has threatened to divorce me if I bring home any "pointy" basses, so it's just as well I'm not keen on silly shapes as I don't want to test how serious she is about that point

And a very squiffily placed decal at that. FAIL.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1363949008' post='2019908'] I've recently picked up a Google Nexus 7. Can anybody recommend any good apps for bass related activites? [/quote] Chordbot is good - generates chord sequences for you to play along with. Knows about lots of chord types. The free version is not bad, but the paid one has lots of different comping styles and has the randomise option to generate random (but musically sensible) sequences. Can save chord sequences out as WAV. I find it very useful for coming up with ideas and for general mucking about.

Cash by Johnny Cash. Pulls no punches, especially about his pill popping years. And yes, it was High Fidelity that turned me onto the book

I'd say put them forward to at least 80% of their travel. They nearly always have to go back to compensate for intonation. Use the highest/thinnest string as your reference point - almost guaranteed to be the furthest forward saddle. In fact, I'd go so far to say if the G saddle isn't the furthest forward then there's something weird going on. One time I didn't put them forward enough and I only just made it for intonating the E string - really had to squash that spring!

[quote name='ryuu' timestamp='1363881739' post='2018870'] Ok, my beauty is here and its stunning!!!!!!It's made in Taiwan.But it's very, very dirty...its as if she never been cleand since the 80's...even the strings are rusty..Anyway, i have a question for the BB owners here...The serial number is nothing i've seen anywhere on internet.It's 7 digit, no letters.It begins with 00 and i tought it may be OO, but it's not.Any idea? edit: just saw a post from a guy in 2009 asking the same question about his BB5000A with serial 0030017, but no answers there... [/quote] It is "OO" two letters and five digits - http://mycoolguitars.com/useful-info/yamaha-guitar-serial-numbers-dating-your-guitar/ The first "O" means 1968, 1978, 1988 or 1998 (probably '88 for your one), and the second "O" means August.

I don't buy into this at all, although I know some people do listen with their eyes. A local bass player who I really rate gigs a Squier Precision Standard (the PJ one) through a mishmash of amp and different cabs by different manufacturers and he consistently sounds great. My bass tutor gigs a Yamaha RBX170 through an Ashdown Electric Blue combo. Doesn't seem to hold him back any. It happens on here (where to be honest I expected most people to be above all that). Definitely got a "can't possibly be as good as an Ibanez Promethean" feeling during discussions about the various "clones" (Harley Benton/Red Sub), accusations of the combo being made of MDF or chipboard (it isn't), allegations of poor build quality (you'd break a toe if you kicked it), and continued suspicion despite it having EXACTLY the same driver in it and the amp being made in EXACTLY the same factory as the Promethean. I think each individual instance of a product has to be evaluated on its own merits, regardless of who manufactures it. Maybe I've got the only good, working Red Sub BT5110. Even if that was the case, and every single other one on the planet has failed, that doesn't stop my one being a great amp. Sure, failures are never good and will make people wary of taking a chance on these things, but we live in an age where manufacturing processes have come on in leaps and bounds to the point where even some of the cheapest stuff out there has a decent chance of being competent and capable.

[quote name='ian' timestamp='1363802635' post='2017939'] hi can this head run a trace elliot 4x10 ok ?many thanks [/quote] Depends entirely on the impedance of the cab. A Little Mark goes down to 4ohm minimum I think, but someone who has one will be here to confirm shortly.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363783717' post='2017493'] I've never been in a music shop that had any amount of fenders hanging on the wall TBH. A lot of the music shops around here (apart from a few of the bigger stores in and around belfast) don't keep a big stock of them, if any at all. I see plenty of acoustics and copies of other designs, but hardly ever a fender. Best guitar i ever played was a Fender telecaster american deluxe though. [/quote] One of Aberdeen's two music shops: wall of Fenders (and Squiers): Wall 2 of (mostly) Fenders and Squiers I count 5 non-Fender products on two walls. Definitely a "wall of Fenders". The only thing in those two pics that's even remotely interesting to me is the Yamaha BB424. You see what I mean? It's pointless me even walking in, given my preferences. There is another wall with some other stuff like more Yamaha guitars, Gretsch stuff and Schecter, but it's all guitars.

[quote name='TurnItUp' timestamp='1363780876' post='2017417'] As in donations very recently made, or perhaps within the year (i.e. yearly donation = subscription). [/quote] Ahh, but these donations were given out of love, gratitude, goodwill or guilt and they never said it bought you anything except their gratitude. Got to wipe the slate clean, this is a new regime. If you made a big donation very recently and your nose is out of joint about it, PM a mod and talk it over. Maybe they'll see it your way and give you a free sub for a year.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363781127' post='2017426'] This. I know you mentioned Fender in particular, but there are plenty of other brands that people want, but you said you aren't in any shops target market, which lead me to think that you want something that isn't particularly common, like those weirdly shaped boutique bases. [/quote] Perhaps I was over-dramatising the situation but I was merely referring back to the aforementioned "wall of Fenders" approach that I see in most shops that I've visited. If I don't care for or aspire to own a Fender then I guess I'm SOL. I therefore feel that I am outside your average shop's target market - i.e. anyone who likes Fenders and is wowed by a wall of them (and furthermore, that's perfectly fine and I'm not taking the mick. In fact, in a way you're kinda lucky if this is your taste in bass). Maybe you've got sigs switched off, but there's nothing boutique in my collection. My tastes are Gibson (and certain Epiphones), G&L (Tributes are fine) and selected Yamahas (mostly BBs). Hardly what I'd call "boutique", but we're not exactly swimming in them, certainly up my way.

[quote name='TurnItUp' timestamp='1363777757' post='2017332'] So do fully paid up members who love to support BC's work have to pay the marketplace subscription as well? [/quote] What is a "fully paid up" member? Do you mean past donations?

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363776700' post='2017300'] Sorry, but i was getting that impression from your previous posts. [/quote] On what did you base this impression? I'm genuinely interested.

Get a cheap, but good bass and don't spend anything on it? I picked up a slightly ratty Yamaha BB300 for about £100 just for the purpose of playing a festival, because of some of the concerns you highlight. It was great without having to spend anything on it. And I've replaced that with a Yamaha BB450 which I rescued from a maxed out truss rod and some other issues for less than £100. Both fantastic basses which I would gig with no hesitation, but if they came to grief it wouldn't be a disaster. The trouble with modding is that you get a bit personally involved with it and then it's more of a ballache if it gets nicked, quite apart from the fact that you'll never get your money back on the mods if it came to selling.

The Schaller 3D is pretty low profile and gives you side to side string spacing adjustment with the wee rollers. Thanks to those ever so precise and efficient Germans, here is all the skinny: http://guitar-machine-heads.com/download/C1ffcfe16X12a3cdeff9eX1d97/BassSteg_3D_4.pdf