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There's some good YouTube tutorials on the song to learn quickly if you need to.

I'll probably offload mine for the £29 I paid for it to a BC'er. I think the EHX Bass Clone was more up my street, unless anyone can tell me how you get the "wobble"/"shimmer" in the Eden

Nice bass! Would love a Rick but the cost has almost doubled in the past few years, can't justify it at all

I mention it quite often but my five string fretless Kramer from the musicyo days was a steal at £300 shipped and import tax paid in 2002. Second hand the right handers from the same range seem to go for £150 now which is a great deal. I gig mine every now and then and it's a great lightweight bass. The pickups are best fully on, i.e. not coil tapped to single coil, but it's a full and rich bass sound with a great feel to the neck, very lightweight and comfortable. Ok, it's a bit pointy and metal looking but that's ok

Graphic EQ just leads to drawing weird facial expressions. When I got a three knob amp that settled it for me, all flat then tweak as needed. I'm now on a five knob amp so I ignore two of them and tweak the other three. A decent amp and decent bass will sound good with flat eq I think.

While dressed as Lemmy for a gig in summer I was necking a bottle of JD on stage... Well, a jd bottle full of red bull (I was driving). I often have a beer on stage but our last gig was a function where my Japanese p bass went face first off its stand into a pint of cider and needed a damn good clean, also some drunken hoons fell on to the stage and spilled the singers pint and it nearly hit the power pack under my fx board. Our singer is a big lad and a pub landlord, these drunken idiots very quickly lost all colour from their faces as he picked them up off the floor by the scruff of their necks! We might rethink beers on stage for this reason alone.

Sorry to hijack, does anyone know the UK distributor for Spector? I'm keen for a try on a Euro model but can't find lefty ones anywhere.

So tough... Either NIB with Black Sabbath, or Good Times with chic.

Congratulations on beating the illness! You and your wife deserve as much treating yourself as you can muster and then some! All the best!

Didn't they also get really bad press from artists signed in to signature models basically saying that they don't care and do a really half-@rsed version of their instruments? There was saying huge article with a guitarist saying ESP actually asked what his tuning is, what type of strings etc. Whereas Gibson just wanted to stick his name on any other LP or whatever.

Strange, people say they never knew of their basses or don't want them. I noticed the new SG basses are available in lefty, as well as the new Thunderbirds. I am twitching for am SG Bass in walnut, even though it's got absolutely nothing I want or "need" in a new bass.

64 jazz bass. Said to be all original but I'm skeptical. And the photos on the ad are 6yrs old. Seems like the ad has been deleted.

Genuine? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F162907767151

I got one and sold my hartke chorus for it before it arrived. While it's a slightly better built pedal it's not giving me exactly what I was after, a nice shimmery chorus. However, I think my idea of what a chorus is has been tainted by using multi fx units in the past where I think theres a big dollop of reverb in there too. The Eden does a great job of doubling the sound and it can shimmer a bit, but I can see why they aren't asking £99 anymore, I'd be disappointed if I'd paid that much. It works very well with other pedals though, I have it almost last on my board so I can feed it on driven signal and flange and it works nicely. I need a reverb anyway so I guess adding that I will get exactly what I want from it eventually.

I usually play different stuff to see how the bass responds, so some double-stops up the dusty end and also seeing how comfortable the bass is to play. They never have straps on them, which I find annoying cos I rarely play sat down. Last time I tried a bass in a shop I played Pump it Up by Elvis Costello over and over and got some funny looks from the sales guy. I then found the same bass cheaper and with a hard case on eBay and bought it (I know, I'm going to hell just for that).

Have you tried different string types? Flats or tapes? I want my basses to each be as different as possible, personally so I know what my go-to bass is for whatever I'm trying to achieve. I love my precision dearly, but it has a place it rarely steps out of.

Got one off fleabay myself and used for the first time today! Struggling to get some of the "talkbox" style sounds at the mo but the flexibility with it is fantastic.

Exactly the dilemma I'm in! Suppose it depends what and how you play

Watching with interest! I bought some tapewounds on a whim (Fender) and can't decide whether they're going on my P or J...

I've tidied things up with some Harley Benton flat patch cables and incorporated the Eden bass chorus and Digitech envelope filter. Also, all this tidying on top of the board means that my amp footswitch now has a place. However, there is now no space to carry the Jim dunlop bass wah in the pedal bag!! Next up is tidying the underside. After playing with the endless combinations of envelope filter! I changed things around so I can get the drive out of the Hartke pedal at the front of the chain to drive any of the other effects. The amp overdrive is pretty good so I have that as "end of chain" drive. I'm not in to mega distortion but just thought having the option at each end of the chain was sensible. The only thing I want to add is some sort of reverb for when I'm playing my fretless, will experiment with that later. The pedals you can't see very well are a boss limiter enhancer and a korg pitch black. Any comments or suggestions very welcome, I am no effects expert but just dipping my toe in!

Yep!

Reminds me of my local music shop when I was growing up and first got my fretless. Me: do you have any flatwounds? Him: I can hit some round wounds with a hammer. Me: very funny, seriously I want them for my fretless bass Him: I'm not joking, hit the rounds with a hammer it will be fine Me: *slowly edging away from the door, leaving him to screw a "fender" neck on to a Tanglewood strat body*