Jean-Luc Pickguard

I tried one just like that in Wunjo. I think it was £300ish. I wanted to like it. I really did. Still, it looks cool though.

But surely the dirt keeps the funk in the bass.

Sorry I can't be arsed

Another Schroeder user here. I use an LMII with a Schroeder 1212L. I'm very pleased with my rig. The cab is very light & compact but sounds absolutely massive.

Nor my cup of tea either, but this caught my eye: Its called the nomad, but I wonder if they really wanted to call it the gonad.

I have a finger rest (like a thumb rest, but on the treble side of the strings) on five of my vintage style fenders just for the 60s vibe, but never use them to play thumb-plucky style. I do use chrome pickup covers over the strings on my precisions and jazz which I like to rest my hand on jamerson-style (the word [i]style [/i]used in its loosest sense) to play.

The J-Retro I have is very quiet. Maybe yours was one of the older ones, I think John improved the noise levels on later ones and can modify an older one to bring it up to date.

The orange onedoes look lovely Possibly a bit of a neck-divey shape though I guess a hollow body might help though.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='214197' date='Jun 7 2008, 09:06 AM']I've just had my Warmoth P routed to fit in a Darkstar pickup. Not that there was anything wrong with the Wizard Thumper that came out but I'm curious to see what all the Darkstar fuss is about This is a one way trip so I have a really nice Wizard Thumper doing nothing here if anyone wants to make an offer. Peter[/quote] PMed

Map on the gigs page of the web site: [url="http://www.o5b.co.uk"]o5b.co.uk[/url] We're on at 9pm Anyone that comes up & says hello will get a free CD if I remember to bring any

Damn! Saw the thread too late [quote name='chris_b' post='212893' date='Jun 5 2008, 12:54 AM']Hope they edit out my cockup!!![/quote] I'm doubt they'd show it before the watershed

I'd use Thomastic JF 324

I'll be going - I just got an email that I have won a pair of tickets from the Arts Council

[quote name='spinynorman' post='212665' date='Jun 4 2008, 06:41 PM']There's a guy on eBay in the US sells these as NOS parts. Loaded bodies and separate necks. They're quite expensive for non-Fender parts. I bought one of the bodies - it looked good and was generally ok, except the pickguard was not cut exactly around the neck pocket, the screw holes in the neck pocket were drilled off-centre, and the neck pocket itself was too deep for the standard Allparts neck I had. But I managed to work round that and the result was a decent bass. The pickups were really rather good, compared to a Mexican Fender, say. The doubt I have is about the Signature story itself. All the Harmony Central reviews are of parts you can trace back to the same guy. I can't find any reference anywhere else to a Signature guitar co in Cranston, although there was one in Canada that didn't make basses. I even contacted the chamber of commerce in Cranston and they hadn't heard of it. The only part of the story that checks out is that the date stamp in the neck pocket was 1989. So, maybe it's all true and this company disappeared without trace, and maybe the people who presumably bought complete instruments between 1988 and 1992 never trade them on the web anywhere, but it seems suspicious to me. That doesn't mean they're bad basses, just I wouldn't now pay more than an SX for one.[/quote] The logo on the signature guitar line that was associated with Alex Lifeson is complely different to the logo on the ebay ones. [url="http://www.geocities.com/signatureguitar/"]http://www.geocities.com/signatureguitar/[/url]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='211853' date='Jun 3 2008, 03:28 PM']Someone on Basschat does/did t shirts. cant remenber who now. maybe do a search.[/quote] Scroll up - he's posted in this thread with a heads up

Last time I got some It was from a computer fair. These days I use a canon inkjet to print directly onto (printable) CDs or use lightscribe. If you want to buy online, how about these? [url="http://www.medea.co.uk/buy/pressit-kits-labels-c-30_50.html"]http://www.medea.co.uk/buy/pressit-kits-labels-c-30_50.html[/url] 100 labels for £12.80

Reminds me of: [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/product932.html"]SX Bass[/url] I wonder if they're related...

I get a very satisfying sound out of my Beyer DT150s. I'm using a Tascam MP-GT1 for silent practice

Would soapbars help with getting an extra clean sound?

That's crying out for a "shreds" style overdub.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='210632' date='Jun 1 2008, 05:45 PM']I gig regularly with my Akai Deep Impact. Patch 1 gets used for Chaka Khans 'Ain't Nobody' and the chorus/breakdown in Outkast's "Hey Ya" uses Patch 9, the Moog squelch.[/quote] I don't know what I was thinking when I sold my Deep Impact

Never heard of it

[quote name='s0fa' post='210522' date='Jun 1 2008, 02:21 PM']Could you post some pics? I kind of get what you mean but I don't want to be screwing things into my bass without being 100% certain![/quote] Here you are Sophie. Pics of my daughter's slightly mojoed (chipped & dented) Purple heartbreaker bass with matching suede-backed leather strap. The modification with the extra strap button puts it into a perfectly balanced playing position. [attachment=9235:daisyrock_heart1.JPG] [attachment=9236:daisyrock_heart2.JPG] I hope this helps. I can't really post any pics of the bass in action as its not really the done thing to post pics of my kids and I'm not sure I'd want a pic of myself playing such a girly bass in the public domain (unless I borrow it for my upcoming gig in Brighton )

I was quite excited to see the Behringer BSY600 in the window of a shop recently. Normally if I see a new Behringer pedal I fancy trying I'd just spend the £20 & put it through its paces at home, but as this was £30 and I had the missus with me I thought I'd better try it first. Unfortunately I couldn't get a usable sound out of it. I really wanted to like it - I love my Behringer Bass Limiter pedal, sansamp clone preamp & the acoustic version, plus a stereo pair of mics and a mini mixer, but I couldn't get a single sound out of the bass synth pedal that was in any way usable. I think the chap in the shop was a bit miffed that I didn't buy it, but probably not as miffed as I'd have been had I bought it.

My Daughter has a Daisyrock heartbreaker - Its a great bass I love the sound & feel of it - the duncan designed pickup is so punchy, but the neck dive was a problem. I had previously fixed the neck dive on my thunderbird by relocating the strap button to behind the neck heel as in the link in the post above. i found this wasn't appropriate for the heartbreaker, but after a bit of trial & error I fixed it by putting an additional strap button below the neck in a positition symetrical to the original one (as if fitting for a left handed version). This may sound like it would look a bit odd, but looks OK bhen stapped on and works like a charm - it balances perfectly and is very comfy to play. If you like I can posts some pics.