Dingus

[quote name='garuf' timestamp='1379196383' post='2209824'] Yeah you would be right in assuming that. If I am honest I am probably just going to try and sell them, maybe keep the ZZb as it has the most sentimental value. [/quote] In that case , the Basschat For Sale section is probably as good a place as any to sell them . There will be a few ageing rockers out there somewhere who would love to relive their youth with one of these . Good luck with the sale .

I really liked that , and he is indeed a subtly tasty player . I've never heard of this band before now , but have just been looking at some of their YT videos . Despite the fact that they probably have a cross-over appeal to the same audience as the Dave Mathews Band , I like 'em!

Would we be right in assuming that your Dad was into metal back in the day ? These are very decent basses that might benefit from a bit of t.l.c from a local guitar tech if you want to start playing them yourself after all these years in storage . These are well worth investing in to restore them to former glories .

Fabulous . I would be really interested to hear how the set- neck affects the sound , if indeed it does .

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1379084111' post='2208516'] Oi! Dingus! NO!!! [/quote] It's true , I tell ya' ! Nowadays , with the help of You Tube , anybody can be Clutterbucking in no time at all .

Well , I wouldn't worry too much about the two- handed tapping ! To me it usually sounds rubbish on a bass even when it's done well , and has limited practical application , at best , unless you are thinking about doing some kind of a novelty act [i] . [/i]Billy Sheehan is just about the only person I have heard do it convincingly. Victor Wooten and Stu Hamm do nothing for me , personally . When you say slap , do you mean slap on an upright or slap on electric ? I dont know too much about slap on an upright , but learning to slap on electric is relatively easy to learn and develop as a style . Maybe because you play fretless that is why you haven't worked on it much . It's a lot harder to slap on a fretless , to say the least .

These are beautiful basses . I want one .

I have heard some people ( well , one person , to be precise, and other folks seemed to agree with him ) claim to be able hear the difference between a wood shim and a card shim under a bass neck . Needless to say , I am sceptical about that claim . Lots of basses have shims , including some very expensive ones . If the bass plays well , sounds great and has no reliability issues as a result of being shimmed , why worry ? Yes in an ideal wiorld , all basses would play perfectly without them , but expect to pay substantially more for the same bass without a shim in that ideal world . Precision manufacturing costs money , and the reality is that bass makers at nearly all price points need to keep costs down to avoid pricing themselves out of the market .

Just a tuner , and maybe a decent -sounding compressor . For the vast majority of bass playing situations , what people want to hear is a good , solid clean sound . Effects are usually superfluous to that .

I remember seeing him use the Rick , the Jazz and the Steinberger on the U.S leg of the Signals tour . He wore a blue jumpsuit , if I remember correctly , and had got a new hairstyle . It was a bit wierd and slightly awkward to witness , a bit like watching a teacher dancing to Status Quo at a school disco . That's what the 1980's was [i]really[/i] like .

It would be even better if it was Rush covered by Gary Neville , or even Phil Neville .

I am much more likely to deliberately count out rests , especially if there is no cue from the drummer . "Substitute" by The Who is a song that immidiately comes to mind where I would do that .

If you want to give them to Oxfam then that is admirable and I wouldn't want to dissuade you, but be aware that big collections of records from what I suspect is your era can be worth a lot of money nowadays . I had two Led Zeppelin E.P's that I got on import from HMV in about 1979 for a couple of quid each that I only bought because I didn't have enough pocket money to buy the L.Ps that ended up being worth several hundred quid each when I ditched all my vinyl . My pre- injunction first pressing of Permanent Waves with the " Dewey Defeats Trueman " headline intact was worth a load of money , too . You could be sitting on a goldmine .

I recently saw a bass player with a maple -necked Precision-style bass that was Lake Placid Blue with a tortoise shell pickguard , and it looked very, very wrong .

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1378577704' post='2202103'] Tell her she's lucky not to be married to someone in an orchestra. [/quote] Tell her she's lucky to be married.

[quote name='yepmop' timestamp='1378585409' post='2202228'] try the old "well it's better than me going down the pub every night" [/quote] ...and then go down the pub everynight .

I think the Nordys actually sound a little softer and a little deeper all round than the Wizards . The Wizards have a more pronounced upper mid / low treble peak . Both sound perfectly good to me , though . I would be happy with either .

In the long term , it will be quite difficult to keep any young person that enthusiastic about playing the recorder . As an instrument , it has been on the wane in popular music for about the last 500 years , and I expect you will find it increasingly hard to keep your daughter committed to learning an instrument with such limited teen-appeal . That's not such a bad thing , though ; if you think about it , seeing as teenagers who are into playing the recorder are probably destined to end up in adult life like the kind of moth-eaten wrecks that present Time Team , lacking in social skills and lecturing at a former polytechnic . That said , I can see how a bit of recorder would work well in a Depeche Mode song , or a Dexy's Mdinight Runners number , during one of your family jam sessions .

Sorry to hear about your Kilo . They are meant to be terriffic amps ( when they work properly) . I just wanted to add to this discussion that I too have spent much of this week being pissed about by Parcelforce . They are a shambles!

Tell the wife that your new girlfriend bought you the bass as a gift . That way , you have introduced an element of competition and then your wife will probably buy you an even better bass to try and win you back . To be honest with you , sometimes I think I should be working for Relate , such is the quality of my advice about these kind of things . By the way , just as a precaution , make sure you have got somewhere else to live lined up in case things don't go quite according to plan .

If it was my bass I would try asking for a bit more than that to begin with and see what happened , but, looking at what other Warwicks seem to be going for on Basschat , £1500 seems like a realistic price to me . A new Thumb NT 5 string fretless would cost crazy money nowadays , so your bass could be a very good alternative for someone looking for one of these. Try and hold out for a decent price .

Whilst we are on the subject of uber -Precision Basses , have you seen this brand new offering from the Fender Custom Shop ? : http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2013/08/28/fender-custom-shop-introduces-sean-hurley-signature-1961-precision-bass/ Expensive (predictably) , and I think the string mute looks ugly , but I prefer the colours on offer to the Pino's faded Fiesta Red/tort combination . .

Touching on what folks like Molan had to say earlier , I personally have always gravitated towards the highest quality basses , even when I was a kid looking at pictures in magazines ( that's all we had for bass porn in the days before the internet ) with no means to buy them . However , now that I have a bit more money, I have realised that most of those basses are completely superfluous to my real - world practical needs . I honestly think that you get most bang for your buck at around the just-over-a -thousand-pounds mark . An American Standard Fender Jazz will do everything that a U.S - made Lakland Joe Osborn or passive Celinder Jazz will , and it's not so expensive or difficult to replace that you need to worry unduly about looking after it . The way to get the most out of any bass is to play it and use it , and there is an inertia for most people that makes them handle expensive custom basses with kid gloves compared to more generic instruments . I am no fan of his playing , but it's great to see Victor Wooten playing his Foderas with scant regard for wear and tear , and Stanley Clarke spanks his Alembics with an equally gay abandon . That's the way to do it , in my opinion . That is what [i]really [/i]constitutes a good investment in a bass - to play it and love it . Overall , once you actually get your hands on them and play them . there is far less difference than you might think in the final results between a very good mass- production instrument ( i.e U.S.A Fender , EBMM, Lakland Skyline , ect ) and most very expensive boutique basses . There are , of course, plenty of notable exceptions , but I can't help but notice that many ( maybe even most ) great players in various eras who we all admire were capable of getting amazing results on fairly standard equipment .

Adopt a masterful approach . Be unapologetic . Assert yourself . She will thank you in the long run . ( I am not responsible for any consequences of this course of action ) .

I would wholeheartedly endorse just about all the recommendations so far , and add my own two pence worth by adding to them the Hanson / Lakland Neo Punch . I can't say enough good things about this pickup . This is my own current favourite , largely due to its' big , raucous and growly sound . It's a bit of a hooligan , and if you want an aggressive P Bass tone I would thoroughly recommend it . It's a fairly unique ( fairly unique ? I think that's what they call a tautology , but anyway...) design in so much as it uses a neodynium magnet , but I'm sure that must contribute to the the incredibly punchy and responsive tone . The output is pretty hefty , too . Geezer Butler has them in his basses , and he knows a thing or two about getting a great rock sound from a Precision Bass .