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Thomann also do a flight case for it for £200. Also, the Hiscox STD-EBP might do the job. Or look for a generic oblong case and use foam to make the bass a snug fit in it.

Why not take some pride in it and look after it instead?

My Sei Original 5 headless fretless My Antoniotsai 5 - the one with the dragon on it, not either of the other two My Warwick JD Thumb A natural Ashbory Mk II A Sei Flamboyant 5 headless fretted

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1375361871' post='2160261'] So why not buy an actual bass? [/quote] It's not an either/or thing, you know. I own an Ashbory, an Ashbory Mk II, about fifteen conventional basses, and an NS WAV-4. Owning the Ashbory didn't mean I couldn't have a conventional bass. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean that there aren't those of us out there who appreciate them for what they are and not for what they arent.

I started playing bass in 1975, and back then it seemed to be [i]de rigeur[/i] to play fingerstyle. The music press would frequently pass comment along the lines of "I was disappointed to see that he was playing with a plectrum". So I don't think that pick playing was as prevalent as you might believe from watching TotP.

Mondeo estate - fits 4x10 cab, guitarist's Peavey combo, 2x Mackie SRM450, 2x10" powered monitors, large-suitcase-sized lights case, small amp, small mixer, effects pedalboard, leads bag, mic stands, speaker stands, two basses, myself, and Mrs Zero. Less practically, I have used a Lotus Elite 2.2 with a 1x15 cab on the front passenger seat, and a Triumph Tiger 900 with a Gallien Krueger 200MB on the pillion seat, leads and effects bag and sleeping bag on the rear rack, and Westone Quantum cricket-bat bass strapped on top of that.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1375358869' post='2160195'] If you're doing that, you may find this site useful: www.largesound.com. Have a look at the user forum, there are several people there who like tinkering with short-scale builds with plastic strings. [/quote] They also sell things like Ashbory tuners which will take super-thick strings. I've got all the stuff ready to build an Ashboryalike, I just haven't got round to doing anything about it yet.

Having just come from the M D Phillips thread, I must admit that when I saw "Westone Thunder 3" I briefly wondered if it was a Westone Thunder 4 that had been visited by the master.

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me) Bad Co - Can't get enough, Feel like making love Mott/Brucie - All the young dudes T Rex - 20th Century Boy Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama and, of course Mustang Sally

What's the actual address of cheddatom's studio?

It's on ebay too, for £169.

I'd go for an EA iAmp head and reasonably hi-fi cab.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1374490042' post='2149202'] Favourite Stanley track ever is probably "Desert Song" from "Schooldays" - John Mclaughlins playing on that is just superb. [/quote] Knowing that John McLaughlin has played on a track is quite sufficient for me to decide to avoid it altogether.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1374666470' post='2151482'] That's very true, but I tend to be sort of 'living the lyrics in my head' when I'm performing. (Hope that doesn't sound too pretentious for a newbie who only does jam nights! ) [/quote] That would lead to serious existentialism problems for me and Mrs Zero, as one of my songs is about when we split up 30 years ago. I do have another song about us getting back together, but the guitarist is having a hard time trying to play it.

Not an experience I particularly want to repeat. Not the pre-gig stuff, anyway, though the gig itself was good. We, The Lightning, were playing support to Seventh Syndicate. The venue was supposed to be sorting out the basic drum kit, with the respective drummers bringing breakables. The venue organiser emailed Mrs Zero via Farcebook at 3.30 (we were supposed to be getting there at 7) saying that she couldn't get a drum kit after all. She had phone numbers for both me and Mrs Zero but didn't bother using them. Mrs Zero isn't a Farcebook addict and so didn't get the message. Then the organiser told us that the main band's drummer had injured her leg and wouldn't be playing. Our drummer would have had to journey back to Redditch from Tamworth to pick up his kit. Eventually Mrs Zero asked the organiser to ask the main band (who hadn't yet arrived and were closer to home than us) to bring a kit. I'd already gone back home once for my stool in case we finished up playing a set that would last longer than my back did, then again because the extension reel that the venue had provided was completely shagged. Then I finally got to plug in the bass, and got no sound whatsoever. Thought that the amp had gone funny on me, so went home yet again to pick up my little Crate Powerblock. On the way home, thought I might as well pick up my 1x12 speaker as well, just in case. Got back to venue, plugged in 1x12, and got sound! I haven't yet mentioned that the venue has no car park and the closest one is about a five minute walk away. You can park outside to load and unload but that's it, and it means going through a long one-way system, so after the initial load-in I carried everything from the car park. When Seventh Syndicate turned up with the drumkit, the drummer showed remarkably undamaged legs but there were only three of them (band members, not drummer's legs). It was actually the lead guitarist who'd broken his foot and they'd decided to go ahead as a three-piece. So after all that, we finally struck up and had a really good time of it. Mrs Zero was wearing a bright orange wig as part of a fundraiser for the MS Society, which subsequently got passed round the pub. Audience enjoyed it and so did we. And Seventh Syndicate were enjoyable, despite being a man down. Photos of the evening taken by an audience member finished up on Facebook: [url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.547077801996523.1073741828.100000829252794&type=1&l=3894607ff4"]https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.547077801996523.1073741828.100000829252794&type=1&l=3894607ff4[/url] And even Youtube: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1JnNaMF7M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1JnNaMF7M[/url]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1365010902' post='2034150'] I believe dear old Sam Fox prefers the company of women these days. [/quote] She seems to have left the price tag on that bum-bag she's wearing round her frontal nether regions.

Sennheiser HD419 for me - around £40. Very good bass response.

Number 3 - "Arguably Gibson's greatest bass". So it's a pretty low bar then... PS. Is "EVAR" just "RAVE" backwards?

It would do you no harm to get a drummer in who's done a gig or two (or more), as long as they're happy to wait a bit before you're ready to gig. You want someone who can play more than one beat and keeps reasonable time, and doesn't get lost doing overambitious fills. Note: it's all very well saying "enthusiasm more important than ability" in an advert but you have to be prepared to find yourself trying out a series of enthusiastic [politically-incorrect word that rhymes with "enthusiastic" and betokens poor physical co-ordination]s. Presumably you'll be playing in the Town Hall and not outside the Village? At least you'll have a captive audience.

I bought a pair of B-stock SRM450 V2s for £325 (there's still some going for a little more money on That Ebay, search for SRM450 B-stock). I use them with a small but perfectly formed Behringer Xenyx 1002B mixer (very small footprint but still has slider faders) for vocals. Still looking for decent (and cheap) monitors, currently using a pair of cheapo QTX PAJ-10As. Avoid Behringer powered mixers - the power supplies are made of fragilium. However, if you want a bombproof power amp, the discontinued Behringer EP2500 is good (but heavy).

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1374516072' post='2149616'] The problem hasn't arisen as it's been managed as described, but that's the point, what you've said is obvious, what isn't so obvious is their tele is forcing issues in my household, and always seems to be used as the measure; 'well, I could hear it above the tele", as if that's the worst possible thing that could happen. [/quote] If I could hear someone next door practising drums loud enough to be heard over the telly, I would think they were being antisocial bastards. As flyfisher says, it's not what they're doing. Just think of the telly as a calibration of sound level and extraneous noises as going from inaudible = acceptable to louder than the telly = unacceptable. And please, don't ever move in next to me.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth[/url] Other than that, my vinyl album "Sunshine Possibilities" by the Famous Jug Band.

Certainly, pm me your address and I'll send it on to you shortly.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1374426379' post='2148593'] But what if some people do have dire taste in music and I am offended by that? What shall we do then? [/quote] Post to Basschat whinging about it, of course. It's what everyone else does.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1374339106' post='2147818'] Dinosaurs is not a species. [/quote] Species is a singular and a plural.