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My Antoniotsai 5-string. I finally felt that I could settle down with a 5 after years of trying but not finding any that could even remotely compare with the playability of my 4s.

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='1217816' date='May 2 2011, 05:45 PM']Yes, but how can anyone did this to nice bass as it surely was?![/quote] It was a piece of cheap Japanese tat that he thought he could improve with new pickups. Whether it was an improvement or not is a moot point. See also my opinions on modifying 70s Fenders.

[quote name='Silent Fly' post='1206423' date='Apr 20 2011, 09:10 PM']However, there is one thing on which I respectfully disagree: there is a voltage divider. It is true, as you said, that a voltage divider is when you have al least two passive components connected in series. [i]This is exactly what happens.[/i] The 7 pickups that do not generate signal are connected in parallel but for the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9venin%27s_theorem"]Thévenin's theorem[/url] they are equivalent to 7 impedances in parallel. The equivalent impedance is Z/7. If you look at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider"]Wikipedia[/url] figure 1, Z2=Z/7 and Z1=Z (where Z is the impedance of each transducer), Vin is the voltage generated by pickup #1. For the Thévenin's theorem and the voltage divider equation, Vo/Vi = 1/8 regardless the value of Z.[/quote] I don't see that as being a potential divider - what you have are 8 impedances in parallel (actually nine, as there will also be the amplifier input impedance), with a voltage being generated across them. Therefore the voltage will be the generated voltage. Otherwise you will be trying to make one point in a circuit be simultaneously two different potentials.

[quote name='BassBus' post='1208939' date='Apr 23 2011, 09:21 AM']DB strings should fit through the string holes at the foot of the bass. I have my CR4M strung with Flexocors and they fit through fine, as did the Belcantos before them.[/quote] Yes, they fit through those holes, and then they bear against the body on the back as they turn the corner to go up to the back plate. This protects the body rear.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1216376' date='May 1 2011, 10:05 AM']You have to be a total tardo to pay cash for anything off the bay.[/quote] Um, why? I've bought and sold quite a few things cash on collection (as an option, not the only option). Saves giving ebay yet another slice of money through Paypal fees and saves packing things up (I have recently sold, packed, and posted a bass and two pairs of PA speakers, it's a PITA).

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1211381' date='Apr 26 2011, 02:10 AM']TBH I'm surprised they didn't walk out earlier. Ten minutes of what they thought was an interview turning out to be a set up for some lame gags, pretty poor show. Clive Anderson still comes across as a twat when he turns up on TV.[/quote] Very true, both sides were trying to out-twat each other and in the end Les Tosseurs played the trump card. They've written some pretty good stuff for other people, I can't think of a single one of their own songs that I've not intensely disliked.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1210701' date='Apr 25 2011, 10:41 AM']Doing it to vintage stuff "this is the perfect solution & it will only add value" thats just daft. A shame for the rest of us but if the owner is that silly then they deserve to have their eyes wiped.[/quote] Very true. It isn't as if the finishes on 40-50 year old Fenders will be pristine in most cases, it's a shame to deliberately damage a well-preserved instrument. And, stupidly, it reduces the value of an old instrument if the finish that looks like sh*t is taken off and it's properly refinished (unlike anything else I can think of).

Top horn extensions to eliminate neck dive that don't look like long prongy things.

Ah yes, the Bee Gees... Capable songwriters with no sense of humour and an overweening self-importance.

Late posting, but never mind... Friday was a repeat appearance at the Grapes in Stafford. Coming up to the end of the first set, just hitting the end section of "Sledgehammer" and the guitar goes silent. I look over and guitarist has taken his Strat off. I assume he's broken a string and carry on, working out whether there's any critical points before the normal end of the song where we can't just do bass/drums/vocals. Carry on to the end and guitarist hasn't put his Les Paul on, and he calls an end to the first set. His amp has died. We try another mains socket and another lead (and then check them and they're definitely giving power). Looks like it's the fuse in his amp (which reminds me, must get some spare T4A fuses...). The pub is a regular music venue and they happen to have a Peavey combo knocking around, so guitarist sets that up and we set off into the second set. Peavey combo immediately starts doing a Norman Collier impression, stuttering and cutting out like a good 'un. We continue for about another three songs and then call a brief pause, and put the guitar straight into the PA. This means, however, he's got no distortion. We drop a couple of the songs that would sound crap played clean and finish the set. Got paid extra and another couple of dates to be arranged, which was nice. Lessons learnt - take fuses (now ordered on That Ebay).

[quote name='Grandad Paul' post='1209980' date='Apr 24 2011, 12:55 PM']Anyone who wants paying to do that to a wonderful piece of equipment should be very painfully despatched to the afterlife.[/quote] It's OK, they're only doing it to Fenders.

[quote name='ficelles' post='1170241' date='Mar 21 2011, 01:16 AM']Interested in this, are you wrapping the Obligatos round the end of the NXT and anchoring in the backplate? I've considered this (as the WAV also has the alternate full-length anchoring) but am worried about damage to the finish at the wraparound point and stress on those lightweight machine heads...[/quote] To reduce the chance of damage to the bottom of the WAV4, get a short length of plastic extrusion as sold for speaker cabinet edging and put that between strings and instrument - eg. [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/small-plastic-corner-4-pack-and-matching-extrusion-33236"]this from Maplin[/url] (it's available cheaper elsewhere).

[quote name='XB26354' post='1204563' date='Apr 19 2011, 11:15 AM']What I want to know is why there are so many basses for sale in the For Sale section.[/quote] Because nobody's bought them yet. Not even TIM.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1204376' date='Apr 19 2011, 07:18 AM']See post #2 [/quote] ITYM post #3.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1205838' date='Apr 20 2011, 01:58 PM']How's that?[/quote] Not out.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1205799' date='Apr 20 2011, 01:30 PM']It also tells a piano player what bit to press,or a bass player which bit to hold down-as well as for how long and how hard. Just because the Sax is a transposing instrument doesn't mean it doesn't tell them what the note is.[/quote] It doesn't tell me what the note is (well, if I was able to read music, it wouldn't IYSWIM).

[quote name='charic' post='1205478' date='Apr 20 2011, 08:19 AM']Whats a meme?[/quote] An idea that becomes the equivalent of a gene, embedding itself within a population. See Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene". That's Richard Dawkins, not TIM Dawkins.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1205691' date='Apr 20 2011, 12:15 PM']Doesn't make it right though. Try giving tab to someone who doesn't play a fretted string instrument Notation is universal.[/quote] Notation is effectively tab for saxophones. It tells them which bits to press, it doesn't tell them what the note will be at the other end of the process.

[quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='1205352' date='Apr 19 2011, 11:14 PM']so im absolutely gutted and am very cross but above all that dissapionted that he himself/girl singer hasnt put thier hands up and admitted that he hasnt listedne to the tunes ( all the middle 8s and brigdes of the tunes he didnt even know, and kept telling me how to play the tune)[/quote] Which prison were they recruited from?

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1203044' date='Apr 17 2011, 10:47 PM']Reading between the lines, he just couldn't cut it as a bassist and went back to strumming chords. [/quote] He does say that the band he was playing bass for folded due to "musical differences". I wonder if that was along the lines of "I can play bass" - "Oh no you can't".

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1204476' date='Apr 19 2011, 09:30 AM']That's hideous[/quote] It's a singlecut, sir. They're all like that. At least he's found a purpose for the vast swathe of upper horn.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='1204044' date='Apr 18 2011, 07:56 PM']I had it all documented with Receipts and photographs, but lost them all in a House Fire about 10 years ago.[/quote] Fender don't mess around, you know.

Looks like some extreme relicing to me.

I played the Grind, Cirrus BXP, US Cirrus, and Millennium 5-strings back to back. I preferred the neck on the Grind to the Cirrus, and the BXP Cirrus to the US one. I now have a 6-string Grind but I do find the passive electronics a little restrictive.

Started on guitar and still play it as a duo with Mrs Zero. Main instrument is bass, compositional instrument is guitar.