EmmettC

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1398151846' post='2430853'] Stunning. *cough* tort guard *cough* [/quote] Agreed

I bought this for my partner, but replaced the electronics (mostly because I had all the bits already) it's a great little bass, I use it a lot for messing about at home. [URL=http://s214.photobucket.com/user/EmmettChristie/media/IMG_20512385210269_1_zps1bb9eebe.jpg.html][IMG]http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/EmmettChristie/IMG_20512385210269_1_zps1bb9eebe.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I tried one when shopping for a short scale for my partner, she bought the Squier Bronco because it looks better, but I think I'd have gone for the Gretsch if it was my decision. It is a lot of bass for the money.

I put new pots and pickup into my partners affinity bronco bass, the only thing to watch out for is check the space available in the control cavity. I ordered some cts pots and they were too wide for the cavity. I had to do a little routing, but it was worth it.

I've always fancied an ATK, I will get one at some stage, but I wouldn't sell my main bass to fund it.

Not a huge fan anymore, but flea is one of the reasons I started playing bass, and Blood Sugar Sex Magic is one of my all time favourite albums. I'll definitely be picking this up.

Any updates?

I'm working on this just now, I'm thinking preamp with normal (on/on/on) switches for parallel/series/single coil, though I may well look at sorting the pickups too. I fell for the neck on this bass, and the body seems decent quality so I think it'll be worth upgrading.

It's going to be a bit of work, but should be reversable and if you want to do it then you should. If we all did the sensible thing all the time the world would be a boring place.

Really great bass, probably one to keep even if you get a more expensive one later. Can any one tell me though, is it pronounced west-tone or west-one?

I'm also typing on a used iPad 2, there's a few in the sell anything section at the moment.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1397663912' post='2426235'] I'd suggest ignoring any legal and/or financial aspect, and simply wish them luck in their new ventures, playing the 'magnanimity' card, but that's just me. I couldn't be bothered with hassles for even a modest return, let alone a small one. I understand the notion of 'principle', but wouldn't whip myself (hard...) over such matters. Move on, whistling..? [/quote] +1 Though, I would ask to be listed as player on the album sleeve. It might be useful for your C.V. at some point. I keep a copy of everything I've played on, it gives you a portfolio of work to show to potential employers or collaborators.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1396612174' post='2415662'] Is anyone here actually getting any money from the PPL as a performer? I'm a member as both a performer and as a "record label" I've had a fair bit as a label but nothing as a performer. All my performance money comes from the PRS because I'm one of the registered composers of the songs that the Terrortones perform. [/quote] Exactly the same for me. Never had any money for the performance, even with the one moderately successful album I played on.

I accidentally went to the L/H forum and got sucked into reading all of this. We've had a beautiful sunburst american l/h strat on sale for below cost for 4 months now, only one person tried it, but admitted he wasn't really looking to buy, just wanted a "shot". I have sold a dozen or more similar right hand strats in the same time. It really is a stunning looking guitar, there's just no market for it. On the other hand, I bought my 2 year old (right handed) nephew a Ukulele recently and he plays it left handed as much, or more, than he plays it right handed. When I say play I mostly mean hit, but he certainly doesn't seem to find either position more natural.

I really like the Fender Custom Shop guitar cleaner, I get it in 2 fl oz bottles. It's about a fiver, but you pour it on instead of spraying it, it's creamy rather than watery. I got a bottle before christmas and it's about half full (or is it half empty), I don't like cleaning though. I think it works out a bit cheaper than the Dunlop one, but muck better imho.

That is lovely. Wish mine was in such nice condition.

I love my P, and my J and my Stingray. Oh and my G&L. Mmmmm, bit of a Leo theme going on. Shouldn't we be celebrating our similarities, not fighting over our small differences, now anything not Fender designed is absolute rubbish, no exceptions. Even the ones I haven't tried, they're obviously terrible.

I would like to put in a pre and switches, but I don't want to make any irreversible changes. I'm really happy with it now, and I'm thinking about an outboard preamp that I can use with my fender Jazz too. I'm looking forward to gigging it soon, I've had this bass for so long and never been happy with the sound.

Well I finally got my hands on a set of SD New Yorker pickups, and I fitted them this afternoon. They were replacing a set of EMGs, and I wanted to wire them up to take advantage of all the options they offer without drilling any new holes, so I ditched the EMG preamp too. [URL=http://s214.photobucket.com/user/EmmettChristie/media/IMAG0749_zps38978f64.jpg.html][IMG]http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/EmmettChristie/IMAG0749_zps38978f64.jpg[/IMG][/URL] They look great in the Bass too, I think. [URL=http://s214.photobucket.com/user/EmmettChristie/media/IMAG0750_zpsb83060bc.jpg.html][IMG]http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/EmmettChristie/IMAG0750_zpsb83060bc.jpg[/IMG][/URL] They advise wiring these in Parallel, but I wanted to use series too, so I wired them up volume/volume/tone with 3 push pull pots. With all the switches in its running the pickups in parallel, the volume switches up put them in series, and when they're in series the tone knob pulled up coil taps both pickups. [URL=http://s214.photobucket.com/user/EmmettChristie/media/IMAG0752_zps2d3e67c0.jpg.html][IMG]http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/EmmettChristie/IMAG0752_zps2d3e67c0.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Not much to see wiring wise, just my dodgy soldering, but I'm delighted it worked first time. I've only tried it through my practise amp, but I had a short recording on my looper of the EMGs (good planning for a change) and I'm definitely happier with the Seymour Duncan's. I might add a preamp at some point, but I'll wait and see how it sounds passive for a while before doing anything.

I have a John East pre and 2 Nordstrand pickups in my Stingray 5, it is a great combination. Really punchy, but it can be a little gentler sounding than the standard electronics too.

The biggest advantage (for me) is the ability to change the key of a song with minimum effort, I try and learn songs in one position with no open strings, then if I play in a different band, or have a dep singer it's no effort to change key. It's also nice if a song is in E but needs to go down a little, you don't have to go up an octave.

It's also worth considering that whoever hosts the site would most likely shut it down at the slightest hint of a legal problem. I worked in a bar, we used our website to advertise gigs, one complaint (unjustified) from a competitor that we were fly posting and littering and our site was shut down, it took weeks to get it back up. Even if we were fly posting or littering it would have nothing to do with the website, but the people hosting it didn't want any part of a legal issue.

Cream, they are great pickups, but it has to be cream with tort. Here's mine. [URL=http://s214.photobucket.com/user/EmmettChristie/media/IMAG0106.jpg.html][IMG]http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/EmmettChristie/IMAG0106.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I've been thinking about the same thing a lot recently. I used to use my Ibanez fretless 4 fairly regularly, but I've only really being playing my fivers recently so I was wondering about getting a fretless 5, and how much to spend versus how much I'll use it.