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hamfist's positioning is similar to the Warwick $$ but with a P pickup instead of another MM.

I always use a set list for my bands, but that doesn't mean to say we don't depart from it if it seems the right thing to do. On the country circuit I will tailor the sets according to their preference for trad or modern country. If there are punters up dancing, I will frequently be playing the intro to the next song before the applause (ahem!) has died away from the last one. To the OP, if your guitarists can't agree to use a formal set list, at least have runs of 3 or 4 songs that go well together, and stick to those. This approach worked very well in a dance band that I played for - typically we might play four consecutive pop numbers from their huge pad, followed by a couple of waltzes, then the bandleader would call a couple more numbers, and so on.

The Sandberg California VM has a similar configuration, but the MM pickup is closer to the bridge. Still has a great range of sounds though.

[quote name='Noisyjon' timestamp='1385592481' post='2290197'] Hello All, I am hankering after a P-90 loaded guitar again There's an old LP style guitar kicking around and thought about putting some HB sized P-90s in it.... But, Anyone tried something like the Bareknuckle Pickup's Mississippi Queen? I've heard they aren't quite the same as the real thing sound wise... Cheers, Jon [/quote] I have Mississippi Queens in a Gibson CS336. They sound lovely, and completely different to the Seymour Duncan P90s in my PRS McCarty.

Not familiar with the piece, but what role is the chord playing? If it's acting as a dominant (i.e. resolving to a Gb or a Gbm), pretty much any note goes.

Depends on your budget. I've heard only good things about TC's Hall of Fame.

Congratulations Mr Toe. As I have remarked elsewhere, Cotswold Bass Guitars always have an interesting range in stock.

[quote name='cachao' timestamp='1388621277' post='2324237'] Scored an Aria STB p bass from Gumtree for £10. I made a few basic adjustments to the neck and bridge, and now have a very playable, and solid instrument. I am quite impressed by the quality of this bass, and it has served me well during a couple of blues gigs this week. Of course, I did have to put some new flats on. [/quote] Of course all basses sound exactly the same when strung with flats

In the interests of fairness I looked at all the pictures. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does one of the 'artworks' depict a lady with a bright light shining forth from her secret garden? SimS LED mod perhaps?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1388448818' post='2322223'] It isn't easy to get a good B out of a LOT of basses ...IMO... so not just at the cheaper end of the market. The last thing you want on a B st is a thump upto the 7th fret... it should sound balanced to the E and A... and that really isn't easy to achieve and plenty of name basses don't/can't.. If you can't slap on the B... it isn't clean enough a sound...and it doesn't matter if slapping isn't your thing, it is the ability of the B string to resonate cleanly... All strings go off in terms of fatigue, IME..... so I don't get the idea of any string on a bass for 5 yrs. Sound notwithstanding.... the string will be shot and feel terrible to me The main thing that retires a string is when the life goes out of it... You may be able to refresh that to a degree with cleaning, but a lot of strings will not clean many times now. I am not sure the metal quality is there anymore in many brands either. Understandably, string companies might not like the idea of cleaning strings. Just my 2p.. [/quote] I think your full stop key might be sticking

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1388437593' post='2322060'] No I totally get why people use flats, I've got one bass I keep strung with flats for when I want that sound, it's just it's a pretty primitive sort of sound isn't it, so you don't need an expensive bass to get it. [/quote] You could say the same for the clanky full-on Precision sound. EDIT: with rounds of course!

Flats offer a different range of sounds, rather than a limited range, and take you into a different kind of playability.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1388409616' post='2321640'] Id most likely tell the guy, sorry I cant take this on right now (after a gig in a crowd) and suggest getting together to have a session at someones house, if he follows up on this (which might be unlikely) then you may learn something in the correct setting to do so. [/quote] ...and you'd get to see him in his latex gimp suit

[quote name='Iheartreverb' timestamp='1388358105' post='2321268'] Oh stop splitting hairs! Might not be the best use of language but was trying to get across that is I had a thing of 50's, 60's, 70's spec I could still be served very well by the Squier catalogue yet they still can't but together a faithful recreation of a mustang. [/quote] Sorry mate, not marking you down for repetition, it's just that a lot of these models only 'sort of' hit the mark. On the plus side, their cheapness makes them ideal for a modificaton or refin; on the minus side, if the neck doesn't make the grade in the first place, no amount of teaking will fix this. To be fair, neither the Squier CV range nor the Fender Pawn Shop range are intended to be fathful recreations of vintage instruments, you generally have to pay quite a bit more for that privilege.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1388338496' post='2320951'] I did a similar though less rigorous analysis a few years ago which showed a similar middle-aged bulge.[/quote] Funny, I've got one of those just behind my bass...

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1388408091' post='2321605'] Just ask him: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" [/quote] ... and how come you ain't playing tonight! Alternatively: 'Please don't let let me keep you a moment longer from your urgent search for someone who gives a £$%^ what you think'.

Wow! I played this very bass at Guitar Village on my recent Mustang-shopping trip, and I can confirm it is a corker. If any bass was going to turn me back on to Jazzes, it would be this one. Congrats Linus!