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My favourite for feel at the moment are a set of Fender .058-.110 nylon tapewounds I put on my fretless P. Soundwise they are somewhere between flats and rounds and although they have texture like a roundwound they feel very smooth to play. Not smooth as in flat but your fingers just glide over them, very nice.

[quote name='still-young' timestamp='1387368968' post='2311112'] Where abouts did you order it from? That's a tempting idea. [/quote] I ordered mine when I was in GAK in Brighton at the weekend, I found them really helpful, just give them a ring and they'll sort you out. The deposit isn't refundable but is transferable until the bass comes in, so if you do change your mind or find a second hand one then you could just use your deposit for a strap or a couple of cables or something. The white and sunburst ones will be end of Feb at the earliest but I'm sure he said the black ones could be available earlier as they're not as popular.

Doesn't Stefan from Placebo use his bass vi for lead lines and play the bass lines with foot pedals? I ordered my bass vi at the weekend and have no money anyway, just paid a £23 deposit and will sort the £250 balance when it comes in, it won't be until the end of Feb at the earliest, now I must sell some others

The stool turned up at work today at 10:00am, less than 24hrs after the little mishap being sorted by GAK. My arse is now firmly parked on it as I type.

Nothing too major to say but you only seem to hear about bad service these days so I thought I'd let you all know of my good service. The wife and I went up to Brighton for a long weekend this weekend for a well earned break away from the kids and a spot of Christmas shopping. I had rung GAK and put a deposit on a Digitech Bass Synth Wah as they are doing them for £35, rather than post it I could pick it up. We went in on Saturday and picked up the pedal, had a little play with it to make sure all was well and they let me use whatever bass and amp I wanted to test it. I also put a deposit down on a Squier Bass VI while I was there. As we were leaving my wife mentioned how nice the stools were that were dotted around and, if they sold them, would I like one for Christmas? We enquired and ended up ordering one of our choice, I won't go into detail but nothing seemed too much trouble. The stool should be in store with the morning delivery on Monday, perfect as we were leaving for home around lunchtime on Monday, we'll pick it up and be on our merry way. Turned up to collect the stool and the wrong one had been sent, no big deal as they would send the correct one and it will be with me the next day, no postage charge. They also gave me a 20' Venom cable free as an apology for ordering the wrong stool. I left a very happy chap! I'm not associated with GAK in any way but thought I'd share that there are still some good places out there, thanks GAK .

I put a deposit down on one in GAK at the weekend, end of February at the earliest, still I'm on the list now at least .

If you are thinking about a Digitech BSW then GAK have them for £35 new, suckers are still paying more than that for second hand ones on ebay.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1387112524' post='2308253'] Get a used behringer BDI21 and a lomenzo hyperdrive. If you're lucky you can get them with a combined cost of around £70. You will have a lot of versatility and an incredible sound! [/quote] This exactly! I was going to say either one for your cost, preferably the hyperdrive, but both would be awesome.

Cheapest solution, get a pair of rechargeable batteries. One for 'normal' use and the other to go on charge overnight before a gig.

There's something special about a bass you've made yourself, for yourself. Even if it's only fitting a collection of pre bought parts together it will always be nicer than a complete second hand one you've bought because it will be exactly what you want from a bass rather than someone else's ideas.

You certainly can. I put some whackers on my HB and and a clicky and it sounds good, really good. I've bypassed the original onboard pre amp and wired the pickup straight to the output jack and it's loads better, lots more bottom end thump, which coupled with a clicky works nicely. Swap the tone control for another volume pot and run the clicky through it and you have one volume for the clicky and one for the main pickup. As has been said it will sound very similar to your bass. My HB has slightly less definition than my acoustic bass (Gedo hybrid with Rockabillys) but that's probably just down to the whackers on it, which too be honest are too floppy for my liking but really sound good with the rigidness of a EUB, my theory is that the very low tension strings offset the rigidity of the EUB and make it sound more DB-esque than having high tension steel strings.

[quote name='redbandit599' timestamp='1379080454' post='2208474'] I had a Unibass for a while, it worked as described and tracked well etc. Just sounded a bit synthetic, better when I ran it through the PA and and outboard amp sim pedal, but still not great. [/quote] I used to use Unibass for this too, I didn't bother with the distortion setting on the pedal as I didn't like it but used a guitar amp to get my drive instead. Embarrassing rig confession time, I ran the dry bass through a bi-amped rig with the highs going through a 4x12 and the lows through a 2x15, and the octave up plus 5th above setting on the Unibass through a Line 6 head running a 4x12. Absolute overkill but for Sabbathesque power chords it was fantastic. My back now hurts me nearly as much as my ears .

I used the Titebond liquid hide glue to glue the fingerboard back on my bass, really easy to use straight from the bottle and was only about a tenner for 2 16oz bottles on Amazon.

All this nit picking is a bit petty really, so some folks get it wrong, I could care less! You f**king what? I could care less! I COULD CARE LESS!!!! Arrrghhh!!! I couldn't care less, think about it, WTF does 'I could care less' mean? The exact opposite of what you are trying to say you dumb sh*t! This one annoys me somewhat

Suggest he learns 'These boots are made for walking' in readiness for the next rehearsal.

I'm just surprised that you found a shop in Cornwall that stocked five basses worthy of trying

Before I ditched individual pedals for my X3 Live I used to use two BDI21s, one always on for 'my sound' and the other to kick in more dirt, they're brilliant. Unfortunately one will only run on batteries now and the other has packed up completely, but they did get used a lot.

I used to use the Akai Unibass, it does octave up with two outputs, one for dry and one for wet, or you can mix them out of one output, you can also add a fifth etc and distortion for faux power chords on the octave up, it tracked quite well but got a little confused up the dusty end. With the dry into my bass rig and the wet into a guitar amp it was awesome for massive Sabbath-esque riffs.

Can I have a P please Bob. I never used to like them because, as stupid as it may seem now, when I started as a youngster all the cheap packages you used to get with bass, amp, strap and a set of pitch pipes, you know the deal, were always a P bass copy, usually black or red with a nasty white pickguard. I just associated P basses with cheapness. There were so many other types of bass around that I didn't go near a P for years, and then I got an urge, and now I love 'em ................ still no white plates though please .

Sounds like a cool pickup. Does the choice of one, two or three coils make a lot of difference compared to placement (ie bridge or neck) or does it just get more aggresive, if you know what I mean?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1383510708' post='2265348'] Interesting tuner configuration. [/quote] Yeah, there's definitely some 'interesting' mods on it. I still can't believe someone would stick an oversized fretboard on a neck, that overhang must be horrible to play with. Although it does imply a guitarist did the mods so maybe not so strange after all

I was just watching this on ebay as it's only just down the road from me, it was at £19 with less than a minute to go and I thought it might be a fun project. The price jumped up at the last minute and I didn't really want to spend that much (although it may well be worth it) so left it. But as I have little to no knowledge of these Aria 'law suit' basses I was wondering if any of you could enlighten me as to what it is, was or should be? The name suggests a Precision copy but it's a jazz, albeit with a strangely fitted P sized fretboard. Is it just that or do you think it's just the neck and neck plate which are original? If I could have got it for £50 I wouldn't have worried anyway but I'm just curious. I think it would've looked awesome with a maple fretboard fitted, a black pickguard and just cleaned up enough not to be a health hazard . Here it is [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Pro-Bass-/281196519164?autorefresh=true&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=DUbpb%252Bvta2iK0Qcx5moLBDWqTxU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Pro-Bass-/281196519164?autorefresh=true&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=DUbpb%252Bvta2iK0Qcx5moLBDWqTxU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc[/url] BTW, was it anyone on here that got it?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1383496684' post='2265038'] I buy CDs, immediately rip them to my PC then put the CD in a box in the attic. I figure that if I sell them or give them away then I no longer have any right to listen to them because that would be effectively the same as just copying them for free. Since my hard drive can easily store all my music and my attic can easily store all my CDs then there's little point wasting my time by sorting through my collection to throw out stuff I rarely listen to, so I don't. [/quote] I'm currently in the middle of ripping all my CDs to my hard drive and will be putting all the discs in the loft, I wouldn't want to sell in case my hard drive went pear shaped and I couldn't retrieve them all. It's great fun finding all those CDs I haven't seen for years

I was trying to decide if that bridge looked warped as well. Not sure if it's the angle and light or it's warped forwards, hopefully an optical illusion.

Personally I have no advice to offer but I'd like to say good luck with this, I'd love to be able to do similar .