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[quote name='Golchen' post='771549' date='Mar 11 2010, 01:10 PM']Are you 100% satisfied with your best bass?[/quote] My favourite bass is my CIJ Mustang I'm 100% happy with how it plays & sounds, but it would be 100% perfect in looks if it was exactly the same but Daphne blue and with 'lollypop' tuners (I might put on some lollypop hipshot ultralites). At the moment I'm 100% happy with my tanglewood 'rosewood reserve' acoustic bass though, but give me time to get more used to it & I'll probably find something to niggle about.

[quote name='Johnston' post='770900' date='Mar 10 2010, 08:40 PM']As an example as a driver delivering carparts I seen the same escort cossie in around 5 different showrooms across the Provence.[/quote] That would explain the ocassionally noticed rotating stock in the 5 Denmark Street musicground-owned shops

a bomb?

I have a Violetburst Daisyrock elite. Beautiful bass - 32" scale, two soapbars, active electronics. Massive punchy sound. Not sure I'm ready to part with it though. My daughter also has one just like it & also a 1971 fender musicmaster bass in lilac. She sold her 'princess purple' heartbreaker bass. My peavey fiver is a nice deep purple over quited maple veneer top - you should be able to pick one up for £200 - £250

Is the song called soggy biscuit?

[quote name='nick' post='765933' date='Mar 6 2010, 11:40 AM']would recommend the Behringer BLE 100, or possibly the GLX Bass Limiter which is in a more robust enclosure...[/quote] I'm a big fan of the BLE100 - in fact they're so cheap I managed to pick up a second one on ebay for about £6 to keep as a spare, however my original one is showing no signs of falling apart. It enables me to play with a lighter touch while staying audible. I have owned and tried many compressors, but never really been happy with them as I didn't like the squashed sound I'd typically get out of them.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='765958' date='Mar 6 2010, 12:11 PM']Music Ground and Regent Guitars are, of course, the same shop.[/quote] As are Bass Cellar, Hanks Acoustics and Rockers - Staff and stock seem to often rotate around all of these shops.

I have a pair of the jazz lipstick ones in my jazz, an alnico precision one in my fretless P - great pickups. I also have a couple of 70s musicmasters with Kent Armstrong dual blade humbucker strat pickups which sound much better than the stock pickups.

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='763372' date='Mar 3 2010, 09:16 PM']As far as I know, Andysguitarnet is run by what used to be Andys in Denmark St[/quote] According to the website it is indeed the same company. I wouldn't touch 'em with a sh1tty stick.

The last 30 secs of this track give an indication of how my Dean Pace sounded with TI Jazz flats and Behringer ADI-21 [attachment=43861:o5b_For_...ts_Worth.mp3]

[quote name='Doddy' post='759925' date='Feb 28 2010, 05:21 PM']In fact,the Pace has a shorter scale than most fretless basses.[/quote] Most fretless basses are longer than 35" scale? i did not know that.

Just a behringer BLE100 limiter. What a lot of people really need when they thing they need a compressor. If you believe some people, they're supposed to be really shoddy and fall apart as soon as you look at them so I bought a spare one via ebay for next to nothing. Both have been gigged a lot and neither show any signs of falling apart though.

How do you know my ex-gf's nickname for my....

A few people (who may or may not have seen or played one in the flesh) might chip in dismiss the Dean Pace as being nothing more than a vertical fretless bass guitar and therefore pointless, but in my opinion that is utter ignorant BS! i used to own one and absolutely loved it. The upright position influences a different playing style and consequently your note choices and rhythms are likely to be different to playing a fretless bas guitar. If I hadn't found a good deal on a Ned Steinberger 5 string CR5M a while ago I'm sure I'd still own & use mine. The other criticism is that it is no good for bowing, but it was not designed for that, so if you're not interested with bowing, for fingerstyle its great fun and looks cool. I played a lot of gigs with the pace. It had a punchy and growly sound which was very easy to hear in the noise of a two-guitar rock band. The materials and quality were good except for the case which looked good, but seemed to be made from expanded polysytrene covered in fabric. The stock strings were very rough & stiff flatties - hopefully they'd have been changed for something better on the S/H one you're looking at. The electronics in mine (an early one- don't know if they were ever revised for later models) consisted of a bridge with piezos and a preamp which only had a single volume knob & no eq knobs. Not a problem if you have a decent eq in the amp or on a pedal - although if you take the access plate off you can tweak bass & treble trimpots on the PCB. A few things which really transformed mine into a really classy sounding instrument for me were a setup including filing the slots in the rosewood nut to get the action low, a behringer ADI-21 acoustic DI/eq pedal - a bargain for £25ish which took away the piezo harshness to really sweeten the tone, & a set of Thomastic JF344 although JF345 would probably fit better. Regarding price - I sold mine for £380 a few years ago & chucked in the TI JF344s it was wearing along with my first ADI-21 (which I had to replace when I realised how much I used it on other things.) You can get a new Dean Pace for £440 delivered: [url="http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=DGB-PACE-CBK"]http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=DGB-PACE-CBK[/url] Mine had a natural maple finish which with its flamed facing looked a lot more classy than the solid colours.

I wonder what happened to my copy of True Spirit - I used to play it a lot. I'll have to find it & get it on my iPod.

I had the geetar version of the MP3 player, but sold it on as it wasn't getting much use as I tend to use my MacBook with guitar rig session I/O. I kept it in a camera case so it easy to keep in pristine condition and I never had any problems with it apart from a couple of times it crashed & froze and needed a paperclip stuck into the reset hole. I wasn't very keen on the clunky user interface - seems a bit prehistoric compared to an iPod, it was fussy about the MP3 format and being limited to 1GB was a pain, but it was a useful thing to have.

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[quote name='gti1396' post='757550' date='Feb 25 2010, 08:43 PM']the damage is where literally where your wrist is[/quote] My wrist was nowhere near it. Honest guv

[quote name='bubinga5' post='756710' date='Feb 25 2010, 07:53 AM']Depends on the piece of ash....and ash isnt really known as a particularly heavy wood... The key thing here is to try before you buy...[/quote] Most Ash used for guitars & basses these days is the lighter variety - like southern swamp ash. In the late 70s when CBS owned fender they cut costs by buying cheaper wood such as Northern 'baseball bat' ash. My '81 Ash Precision could have been used as an anchor on the QE2. Of course when I bought it new I had no idea it was heavier than it should have been as I was young and inexperienced.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='755871' date='Feb 24 2010, 10:16 AM']We'll be allowing Vocalists and Drummers to post here before you know it! [/quote] They'll have to learn to read & write first

The rule of thumb* with guitars is 500k for humbuckers, 250k for single coils (& I think its the same for basses) but whatever you get make sure you get CTS ones rather than generic cheapos - & if you're making the whole harness, get a switchcraft jack as well. Assuming it has a pair of humbuckers I would probably use the "SG or Hollow Arch Top Wiring Kit" from [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axeknobs.htm#Kits"]here[/url] [size=1]*yeah I know - anyone that uses rules of thumb should have their thumbs cut off[/size]

I just watched the video of the fire via the link on the talkbass thread. Shocking and very scary. I don't recall hearing of this at the time it happened, but I'm going to ensure I know where the fire exits are every time I arrive at a new venue in future and if a fire breaks out leave the gear where it is.

I like my epiphone - 'limited edition' alpine white t-bird.