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My Bongo and fretless Sterling react exactly the same way to changes in temp. If the room has been colder, they will both have sharpened pretty much exactly the same amount, according to my tuner. This consistency gave me a bit of comfort. My advice would be to adjust/check whilst your room has been at its average temperature, adjust only an eighth of a turn and leave for a day or more. Then check. Leave yourself just a little bit more relief/action than you need and that way there will be a little give and take for temperature adjustments and you will find you aren't constantly adjusting the neck to and fro around the same point. You'll still be able to monitor those little temperature variations as your bass will be a little more sharp when it's cold and vice versa. But you won't be suffering from fretbuzz and can spend time playimng rather than adjusting. This compromise has worked perfectly for me. CB PS: An alternative option would be to buy a Steinberger. :-)

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1371891323' post='2119140'] There seems to be a lot of Pre EB's about at the moment and some nice ones too. To complicate things more I may think of moving on my Classic 5! [/quote] Best place (apart from Andy Baxter) to find these nice Pre-EB SRs? More info on your Classic 5? CB

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1371888904' post='2119113'] Actually you can see me mime with it here to the singer playing a Tony Levin OLP Ray (this was the demo track) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rONtsRRlq9U[/media] You can hear it here though as I played the bassline on the finished track, listen to the place in your memory (the featuring Majika one is best IMO but either version is me playing), check out around 2 mins 20 for some Alnico parallel Ray goodness [url="https://soundcloud.com/#davebarronband"]https://soundcloud.com/#davebarronband[/url] [/quote] Loved the song - nice bass tone - however, if I was buying a SR5, I'd be looking for a rosewood board. That's just me. CB

Your blue SR5 - can you PM me some pics? Ta. CB

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1371559161' post='2115465'] I am an advocate of the fee. I [i]like[/i] the fact the for sale forum is now no longer a gushing torrent where your bass would be on page three by the time you hit 'refresh' to check your listing. I understand the decision to ban rics for sale. That doesn't stop me being miffed that the fee I paid I understood to mean I could sell anything, and now I'm left with a Ric I'm trying to sell, and I'm having to expose myself to the risk of Gumtree or evilbay in order to do so. [/quote] Drop me a PM - if it's a blue one, I might just be able to help you out. CB

... and synthchat.co.uk too I see. Where will it end? :-) CB

This topic has gone off in a direction I didn't really envisage. Here are my thoughts on the Basschat marketplace: - I paid the £20. I have no problem with the fee. I can see where some folk are coming from regarding the single sale fee and how it perhaps inhibits trading of lower value items. Perhaps it would be a good idea to retain the £20 per annum fee, but to change the single item fee to be a percentage of sale/trade value. - During the recession, many folk may be more hesitant to part with actual cash. It would be great for their GAS if they were still able to frequently trade instruments amongst each other and the rest of us in a vibrant trading marketplace. That could keep a lot of folks interested in Basschat and away from eBay, Gumtree or Facebook. Perhaps the fee structure could be reviewed in some way to stimulate this sort of trading on the site. - I'd like us to be able to buy and sell Rickenbackers again. To enable this, I'd like the moderators to moderate the marketplace and to immediately remove any content which slips through the net if John Hall asks them to (basically to be JH's occasional b*tches). I know this opinion has lost me some friends, but it's my opinion nonetheless and I'm sticking to it. - I think* I'd prefer the money generated within the Basschat marketplace to be used for maintenance of Basschat rather than development of Guitarchat. *only heard about the new site last night, so haven't had the chance to give it much thought. CB

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1371401169' post='2113393'] Me too. I`d have thought more just a sign of the times, where most seem a bit strapped for cash. [/quote] You'd think that. However, the recession has gripped us for years now, and there were still loads of ads until relatively recently. I've had a couple of cash offers of £1750 for one of my Steinbergers (which I've declined) so there must be cash around. CB

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1371393030' post='2113259'] Clearly we're suffering from the lack of Rickenbacker content. Oh well. [/quote] I don't think the Rickenbacker aspect comes into it Kiwi. I can't remember there being too many Ricks for sale/trade at the best of times. It's a more general comment that the number of new adverts appearing daily just seems to have fallen off a cliff. CB

The Basschat marketplace used to be really vibrant. Some really interesting stuff came up pretty much every day, giving the site a real constant "draw". It seems now that this consistent trading has pretty much died off. Has anyone noticed this? Is it just me? Are there any other sites (apart from Talkbass) that still have an interesting marketplace? CB

Seems simply that the board software doesn't have the granularity to allow you to select "for sale", "for trade" or "for either sale or trade" when you're creating your ad. So it presents a generalised trade/sale price field, which can be a little confusing - so it's best if the seller then adds some free-form text saying "for sale only" etc. Additionally, the board software doesn't appear to be multi-currency aware so expects you to be talking in £ sterling. In this case the advertiser would have been better entering £1975 into this field and adding his €2500 figure in the following text. CB

[color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3] As is typical of votes - you need another option: "I have had sale offers when I have said trade-only and its a bit irritating" :-)[/size][/font][/color] I've had a few folks wanting to buy my XL-2A when I'm really just interested in certain trades. Now that I made it clear in the description, that seems to have helped. Hope I'm not speaking too soon. CB

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1371075655' post='2109651'] They are good functional studio basses but they look way too '80s for gigging. [/quote] I don't agree with this comment. But my advice to anyone who DOES think their SR5 is too 80s for gigging: screw on a clear scratchplate with a photo of a Steinberger underneath. CB

As of fairly recently... Main bass = 1988 Steinberger XL2 Backup bass = 1988 Steinberger XL2A Guess I'm boring. CB

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1370991724' post='2108511'] Ferret Ears! Once someone had pointed that out to me, I couldn't unhear it... [/quote] Huh? You've lost me... EDIT: oh - I get it. Ferret Ears = There It Is. But where does the bass tone come from? CB

Best tone I ever heard - Shalamar - There It Is. Do any of you know anything about how it was achieved? CB [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3_EdxODcY[/media]

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1370982427' post='2108355'] always seems to be a teal Ray on eBay, last I looked there was 2. [/quote] Re the Teal Rays - I noticed that too, recently! You beat me to it. Re basses coming back, I had a Fender Musicmaster that came back. And I was convinced it had gotten shorter. CB