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The Laklands I've played tend to favour the jazz sound over the stingray sound. The pickup design is such that you can't really have both worlds unfortunately.

The bridge on musicman basses has changed quite a bit since the 70's and is now less substantial than its ever been, particularly on EB designed models. Not sure what Sterling Ball is getting at but the bridge is also another part that EB don't sell separately.

Do you mean a washburn? They don't have graphite necks, just phenolic fingerboards.

welcome Freddy! What do you like most about Mr Larkin's instruments?

When I'm at work I have a very strong visual sense that permeates a lot of things that I think about. Like, a lot of my job involves managing movement and activities of people both inside and outside buildings and complicated interactions between traffic, pedestrians, cyclists, buses, deliveries while maintaining safety and convenience for everyone as far as possible. Thinking of flow related visual analogies, such as oxygen exchange in the lining of the lungs, water run off, drainage and outflow across a landscape and other things often helps simplify things. I tend to think of music in the same way, like for example if I'm talking about being in front or behind the beat I tend to think about a spinning wooden wheel mounted on a base with a mark on its spinning circumference that matches a static pointer attached to the base. When the beat is in front, I imagine playing a note when the mark has yet to pass the pointer, likewise the opposite when the mark has passed the pointer. So long as I play when the mark is in the same location then its consistent. (Then there's a coloured zone for 'the pocket' which represents how far in front or behind I could potentially play without losing the groove.) If I'm imagining a linear experience (as listening to music often is) I find myself in a tunnel moving through various sized rooms...its probably the presence of space within the arrangement of the music that I'm relating to most strongly I guess. Anyways, this visual analogy thing isn't as special as synasthesia but I find how the brain deals with abstract concepts and ideas interesting. I've heard of some synaesthetes who have developed their abilities to enhance memorisation to remarkable levels. One question for arthurhenry: do you ever feel trapped when you're at a concert and are exposed to ugly harmonies that you can't escape? Does an eye shade help? Have you ever attended a John Mayer or Aphex Twin concert? John Mayer and Richard James are both synaesthetes apparently.

nice instrument, its year will be a talking point for sure. Whats the serial? MM started the serials at 1000 BTW...

In my experience, pickup design and pickup placement mostly with a little extra from the preamp when the eq is in extreme boost or cut positions. Apart from that, its pretty much like a jazz or precision in terms of materials.

[quote name='happynoj' post='737308' date='Feb 6 2010, 03:30 PM']I suspect that no one has made a clone because it's a digital pedal, so all of the information is on the chip and difficult to get to.[/quote] Someone has made something similar... [url="http://www.chunksystems.com/os.htm"]http://www.chunksystems.com/os.htm[/url] But only two buttons for accessing a relatively complicated set of functions. This pedal is begging for a USB interface.

i have two flight cases, one I bought off Tayste to protect the Celinders en route to NZ. The other came with the Alembic. Both are heavy as **** and I wouldn't want to turn around in a confined space. Even the slightest bump against a doorframe on the way out to the car can take a chunk of paint off. Stick with the bass safe, I have one of those too and they're way more convenient.

Just to add to what Colin has already said. He, Rob and Steve deserve full credit for sniffing this one out. While we still don't have any specific proof that fraud was committed, there's a lot of compelling circumstantial evidence to suggest things may not have been as they appeared. So thanks very much chaps, we're lucky to have the Dynamic Trio onboard.

which V8 is that Jonny?

Maddude there are some quite serious inconsistencies with your story which Hamster is still waiting for an explanation on. We're not being unreasonable, all you have to do give Hamster a simple answer. What's the problem? There's no bullying going on and you don't need to get hostile with Hamster and run away. If you're going to ask for money from members you should expect to have inconsistencies questioned, particularly when you didn't ask for permission before posting your request.

Is that a jazz neck on his p bass? The fingerboard is shiny too and the action looks ridiculously low...nice clip!

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='742745' date='Feb 12 2010, 02:15 AM']just damn suprising[/quote] Definitely surprising...and pretty clever too.

Just looked at this thread again...I'd have to confess that my whole collection is made up of keepers, to be honest. I'm gas free apart from looking for a Spector NS5CR in plum, red or blue tinted quilted maple.

My Spector NS5CR that I first tried when Homer owned it years ago. It started out sounding really nice and I've since done quite a bit of modding to it to increase the warmth and sweeten the highs, plus added coil split switches so I can get single coil and parallel settings. It's the best sounding bass I have ever played. The Shuker I have is also now fitted with Wizards like Homers (can you detect a pattern here?) and its a really strong sounding, muscular bass with a very even response right across the fretboard. Haven't gigged it since the pickups were replaced but maybe that will happen soon. I just need to sort the piezo saddles out and maybe install the Noll 3 band para eq.

Found this superb contrapuntal bassline this week while I was looking for old 80's tunes to mash up: If you want to hear what it sounds like on a bass, this chap does a good take:

[quote name='Rich' post='741520' date='Feb 10 2010, 09:54 PM']That Sonic Hammer was mental. I wish I'd had the readies to take it off your hands.[/quote] I was a fool for selling it, but I was fed up with it chewing through its leash, breaking out of its cage and scaring the eldery and the neighbours children. It was either sell it or take it to the docs to get its batteries removed. Its still owned by a BC'er (funkymunky?) as far as I'm aware.