dannybuoy

It's like paying more for those jeans with brown stains and holes everywhere... I don't get it either. Give me a nice shiny new bass any day!

That was one of those Warwick Vampyre basses in the for sale section a while back too, not sure if it's still there. It looks awesome, but would look silly in anything but a metal band!

Check out EZ Drummer or DFH Superior too - much easier to use than BFD!

There's some serious used boutique basses around going for a lot less than £4k as they depreciate quite a lot from day one. If you go used you could get at least 2 killer basses, and not lose out on the resale value if you decided to swap for something else later on. For example, get a nice active 5 string jazz, and compliment it with a nice fretless!

Hartke LH500 heads have received glowing reviews and were going for under £200 new last year, although the price has shot up since then!

Yeah, the 500w heads should be plenty loud enough. I run a VT Bass pedal into my Markbass when I need a little extra tubey grit for pickstyle punk stuff. You should be able to get a similar effect by cranking the gain on the Shuttle 6.0 or LM Tube.

Here's that book by the way: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Funkmasters-Rhythm-Sections-1960-73-Guitar/dp/1576234436/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242404358&sr=8-4"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Funkmasters-Rhythm...4358&sr=8-4[/url]. I have a copy but haven't busted it out yet so I can't vouch for it but it looks good. [quote name='JackLondon' post='488998' date='May 15 2009, 03:44 PM']Effects - Yes Fender-like bass - NO, NO, NO, NO[/quote] No Fenders? You think he should be playing something like this then? [url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/space-bass---bootsy-coll/67561"]http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/space-...otsy-coll/67561[/url] ^ Legend

There's a great book&cd on Amazon with all the best James Brown bass tabs plus backing tracks. Also, a P or J bass strung with flats going into an envelope filter and phaser will endow you with more funk than you can shake a stick at!

Markbass CMD121P. Small and manageable, and plenty loud. It's the same head as the Little Mark II, the whole thing weighs under 13kg. You won't get much lighter than that, but even that will knacker your arms carrying it around so you really need some kind of folding cart to lug it around with. Once you've got one of those, 25kg isn't so much of a problem any more so you can look at bigger amps too!

I think there might be a schematic for one at the Beavis Audio site...

Either pedal will do what you're looking for. I've owned a DHA VT2 and now have a VT Bass with a Markbass combo (same amp as the LMII). Both pedals can be EQ'ed flat to give a bit of tubey warmth. Either will do an admirable job, it'll be down to your tastes as to which sounds better to you - if you can manage to find them second hand at least you can try them wihout losing out on much cash! You might be fine with the simpler and smaller VT1 standard if you don't need the extra bells and whistles!

And if so, this is probably the Myspace page: [url="http://www.myspace.com/lovescandalnonego"]http://www.myspace.com/lovescandalnonego[/url] I like the OP's style, making us guess the band and style of music instead of just telling us!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='487631' date='May 14 2009, 10:09 AM']There have got to be literally hundreds of good precision copies. The SX range were dead popular cheapies, but now the exchange rate is sucking, not so cheap, unless you can find one over here.[/quote] These are the same as SX - Jim Deacon. Make sure you get the 20 fret jobbies and not the cheaper 21 fret ones that come in the packs with the amp. Jim Deacon / SX FPB62 in vintage white... available for [url="http://www.hartnollguitars.co.uk/products.asp?id=4714"]£109 delivered[/url] including strap/lead/bag etc, and comparable to genuine Fenders according to Talkbass hype. I was thinking of buying one myself... I have the white VM P and it's fantastic (pots are crap though but cheap to replace), but if I was shopping for a bass right now I would try out this one for less than half the dosh.

Telling us where you're from would help too - if it's Land's End or John o'Groats then count me out. Just add it to your profile and it'll show next to all your posts.

I'll definitely be in touch, I have a load of pedals I want to build. Won't be straight away as I'm still at the acquiring parts and experimenting with breadboards stage!

May I ask why you want really loose strings? Just asking because I'm thinking of going in the opposite direction, getting tighter ones so that I can dig in with a reasonably low action and get less fret buzz.

A different topic maybe, but I've always wondered why vintage / vintage-style basses have the thumbrest in that position? Surely it would make more sense to have it on the other side of the strings where your thumb goes?!

Gimme one of these beauties: Jim Deacon / SX FPB62 in vintage white... available for [url="http://www.hartnollguitars.co.uk/products.asp?id=4714"]£109 delivered[/url] including strap/lead/bag etc, and comparable to genuine Fenders according to Talkbass hype. I want to get one and put flats on it so I can keep my grindy SS rounds on my main P!

Most London gig venues cram on 4-6 bands per night and don't pay them anything unless they bring with them over a certain number of people, eg after 20 people you get paid £1 per person turning up to see your band (and they ask everyone on the door who they're here to see). In fact, playing The Comedy, we had to PAY £5 each for the privilege of being able to use the backline amps! Makes me want to join a covers band so at least my costs get covered! Maybe that's why they're called cover bands...

[quote name='bozzbass' post='482847' date='May 8 2009, 12:10 PM']Sorry, do you mean 7th fret on a low string tuned to E or B? Either way it sounds pretty good as that area of the neck sounds the best for using an octaver to my ear. I also notice on the Sonus website there's a few folk asking about using it on bass to which Sonus replied 'Watch this space' so I guess they are planning a bass version. For 80 quid, I think I'll get one for my microKorg and VSTi synths in Ableton. Adam[/quote] For using with VSTi synths, there is a plugin that basically does what the G2M does (converts incoming audio to MIDI) but it's name escapes me. Whether it works any better or not, I do not know. Should be able to find it or something similar over at the KVR forums though!