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Went for just over five hundred. More than I could justify but hopefully a real bargain for someone

Don't know about good condition, yes the body looks nice but don't these have a habit of the pup dying and they're incredibly hard to replace?

[quote name='squire5' timestamp='1503492138' post='3358662'] Ever do a song and get 1 person clap and then stop very quickly when he realises hes the only one? Our response to that is "Thank you for the clap!" [/quote] I have once said: Don't clap on your own, someone will throw fish for you! Premeditated jokes... Not sure I always like them

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1503339345' post='3357402'] While I wait for mine to get through Customs here in UK here is another one. https://reverb.com/item/5812929-steinberger-xl2-ll-1988-newburgh-left-handed-5999 [/quote] Hefty price tag!! Worth it for sound quality, or just rareness?

That's completely nuts! Would love to see/ hear in action

Gallien Krueger backlines are excellent little amps, older hartke kickbacks, vox are nice too but dated and silly prices. I'd just trawl gumtree or the ads here to find something cheap and local

Superb! Thanks

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1502446859' post='3351477'] I think it's the Sub [/quote] Are you sure? I hope it's the sub but the sub has no "on/off" button on the front of the head which makes me sceptical. It's something that's nice to have for some passages but not permanently on. Just don't want to buy a new footswitch if it's for mute or pre shape..

If you don't like it as is then why not have a go? As long as you don't butcher it then re fretting could be your next project! I imagine a fretless Beatle bass would sound quite good. It's not like you're devaluing a classic original 60's hofner, I say do it.

I've got an ashdown RM 500 head which is great for what I need. I notice it can take an FS-02 footswitch. I have a single button footswitch, not a double, so a single footswitch controls the drive only... Does anyone know what a second button on a footswitch would control? Mute? Pre-shape? Sub? Praying it's sub but suspect it's the pre shape that I never ever use! Would like to know before making a purchase that could be useless! Thank you

Yes! Had a kickback with fifteen inch speaker, excellent amp and they're great value on the second hand market! Not sure about their new stuff though.

We play nutbush city limits because we can stretch out the intro to chat with the audience a bit, it's dead easy to play as a warm up and we can soundcheck during the song if needed, and the intro is layered in terms of who comes in when and how intensely we want to play. Once when the support band let us down we stretched out the intro and I chatted to the audience and introduced the singer who appeared on stage to start the song. We tried everything to stretch out and fill up time

Our drummer this weekend said he was at a middle aged party and the playlist was basically our set list. It's no bad thing, middle aged people can pay bands for their fiftieth, cricket club dinner, etc. Young people stream music for free and face in to the highest cost of living and worst job markets in modern times. I know which market I want to appeal to!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1502143016' post='3349634'] You bury your kids..? [/quote] hahahahahaha

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1502149763' post='3349656'] It's all about attitude. Every gig I play I make sure I have a blast. It's about having fun and not taking yourself or your band to seriously. We're not that important. Blue [/quote] Couldn't agree more!! All we are is dust in the wind, after all.

I had a Brice Six string years back and didn't get on with it. They're very cheap and you can get some interesting designs but I found them lacking in almost every respect. The body was far too thick and heavy, the neck was not easy to get around and the overall quality of components was not up to standard. The issues with the body meant it wasn't a candidate for upgrades. I would personally avoid these, though in the years that have passed (ten maybe?) I would hope they have improved somewhat. It hasn't put me off six strings but I would definitely want a good trial with one before buying, considering I am not used to six strings.

Amazing what people try to get away with. Years back I used to book the band's for a pub I worked in. Booked a threepiece one night but I wasn't on shift. Two of the guys couldn't play but the main man was a very highly regarded solo act so he took on the gig solo and did fantastic, brought his following too. Bharat manager for the night cut the fee from a hundred quid to thirty because "a hundred for three people, just one guy is thirty". I didn't enjoy handling the phone calls on that one!! Last month played a party for a guy who tried to knock fifty quid off the agreed fee because we were getting "exposure". Exposure for a long established band by playing a private party in an area where 80% of our bookings are... A private party where half the guests were from another country... Unbelievable. Some written log of what was agreed is essential, whether a formal contract or not.

Steve Harris signature pickups. Im not a maiden fan and don't play that kind of music with my band but this pickup, especially with flatwounds (and the signature flatwounds) gives a huge full sound with loads of clarity and presence. It's not old school thump but it is punchy, it's not bright and zingy but it gets your treble out, it's an all-rounder but the main characteristics for me are the sheer power, presence and clarity through this pickup.

Have often thought of it, the wife has even suggested it, but I wouldn't know where to start! Fretted or fretless, or fretless with a brass slap plate... Can't even get past that never mind four or five strings

20-30 for me though (actual age in human years 33) I know my hearing has had a battering, but good to do this in front of the wife to deny there is an issue at all.

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1501780831' post='3347342'] I thought that was Cher back in 1998? [/quote] Or Buble since he started being forced through the radio making me want to rip off my own ears?

Interesting test case... How do you prove that chain of causation without access to medical records? Can you prove it? He definitely has some need a psychiatric help, comes across as having some serious inferiority issues IMO.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1501619755' post='3346030'] ([i]Cos I bought most of it is not an acceptable answer BTW[/i]) [/quote] But that is exactly why I don't have trace gear!! Only sold cos of weight, I have a bad back from sporting abuse years ago. Given a choice of an ideal it would be trace sound all day long but I can't deal with the weight. A lot of our gigs are parties and festivals where parking is not remotely near the stage so carrying lightweight cabs makes life easier and less stressful. I also find it easier to change out amps than basses in the search for perfect sound. Partly cos my basses are all lefty so harder to buy and sell, but I have no emotional attachment to amps and pedals the way I do a bass. I may acquire a trace head to go with my ashdown lightweight cabs in future but I do worry about reliability, putting a twenty plus years old amp head in to my set up seems like introducing the most likely point of failure. While I love trace sound I found my small gk backline combo excellent and loved my old but cumbersome Hartke kickback, at the moment ashdown RM series seems to be giving what I need, it's up to me to introduce compression etc to get close to that trace punch. There's a lot of good quality choice about with amps now and the second hand market offers great value.

[quote name='CliveT' timestamp='1501576101' post='3345553'] Thanks. So you're not using any compression, just adding a bit of the enhance for top end. I can see the sense in that if you don't want to compress at all [/quote] Yes, I use the amps built in compressor for my fretted basses but would switch this off and engage the "enhance" when playing fretless. As well as eq tinkering.

[quote name='CliveT' timestamp='1501513641' post='3345172'] Out of interest, if you still have the Boss limiter enhancer what settings do you use for fretless? I use this pedal foe exactly the same purpose. [/quote] Quite boringly I use the "enhance" recommended settings in the manual! Does the job so I don't mess with it from there. And I still don't use this pedal for my fretted basses. Since my earlier post I have added a Hartke bass chorus pedal which is great for the fretless and am now using an ashdown amp head and it's octave setting works nicely too, would be better still if I get the octave effect footswitched. Incidentally I also spent about a month without gigs rehearsing with only my fretless and a very old zoom 506 multi effect. In the mix leaving this on the factory A1 effect, which is some kind of quite subtle flanger, it worked with everything! I have an 80s boss flanger on my main board so will experiment with this and the fretless on Thursday night...