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[quote name='fatback' post='941625' date='Sep 1 2010, 12:28 AM']4. An ebony board is a must. Not 'ebonised'; that's painted.[/quote] I would disagree with that actually. I played a lovely DB with a rosewood board (not 'ebonised' either, just left au naturel) at the weekend, it sounded excellent. The owner told me he'd once suggested to his luthier that he wanted an ebony board on it once and the luthier asked "Why?". [quote name='fatback' post='941625' date='Sep 1 2010, 12:28 AM']9. Factor in the £100 for a carbon bow. Everybody says you must learn to bow for the sake of intonation, and they seem to mean it. [/quote] You also might find you just bloody love the sound of the bow and want to use it loads.

Yeah it's not like you need heavy skills to play bass for 99% of bands anyway, so it would be a waste of effort/money for most people.

Enough dirt?

I don't go to guitar shops and I don't feel any desire to align myself with a brand.

They go a lot cheaper in private sales (4 strings usually around the 7-800GBP mark) on here and eBay, but they are massively undervalued IMO. I've never had any issues with neck dive on mine but it's an older one (1991) so maybe construction has changed since then. You can tell the year of manufacture by the serial number on the end of the headstock - two separate digits will denote the year.

[quote name='lanark' post='940296' date='Aug 30 2010, 08:08 PM']Awww thanks a lot, that means a lot (we're used to playing to salsa dancers, that was the first time we've played to a sit-down audience). We had a great time - (fighting against the wind, but at least not the rain, which came later!) - and personally I thought that the sound guys did a brilliant job, it was probably the clearest we've ever sounded. The head was great - didn't have time to check out all the array on the Peavey, but I loved the homemade cab.[/quote] Yeah the sound guys were really good for us too, really refreshing compared to the miserable old know-it-all pub rockers we usually get. I remember the wind was up a bit during your set but you should've seen it on Sunday morning - they had to take all the rain covers off the main stage to stop it blowing away it was crazy. But yeah your band was really different compared to every other act on there. They should've put you on Sunday instead when everybody's ears were suffering some acoustic guitar fatigue, you would've been a massive breath of fresh air. Incidentally your bass sounded massive out front. [quote name='lanark' post='940296' date='Aug 30 2010, 08:08 PM']Afraid that I didn't get chance to catch your set, because I had to get off at about 4pm sadly, but when I popped my head into the arts barge tent I saw you bowing your bass, with two other Dble Bassists. Hope it all went well and you had a great time.[/quote] Yeah my band wasn't on until the Sunday. I did do a quick thing on the DB later on Saturday which it sounds like you saw us having a quick practice for (I didn't think any other bassists would hear that!) but your brass guys were the main draw in that act. Anyway yeah, good weekend all told, three nights in a tent has taken its toll on me though, I think I'm off to bed...!

Good fun. We played two sets at a small local festival, one our usual electric set on an outdoor stage with a lot of skanking kids getting into it, then later we did an unplugged set with me on DB in a little 'big-top' style tent to a crowd of I think mostly parents with their kids. Both sets went down really well, punters were very enthusiastic, great audiences, good times.

When there are three or four guitars per guitarist, and they're all expensive ones, you know it's not a gig it's some middle-aged men taking their collections out for a viewing. And they will all be trying to sound like Dave Gilmour.

Just a bump to say I really enjoyed your set on Saturday, hope you had fun. And how mad was that Peavey bass head with the seperate fuzz channel? I want one!

[quote name='gafbass02' post='937365' date='Aug 26 2010, 05:50 PM']Really I think the Gaf signature jazz is way overdue and I reckon they'd shift a few!! Sonic blue with maple neck, stripes, aged hardware a gaffer pickup and of course relic'd! (although mines all real wear n tear but y'know!) Like that <-- ;-) heh heh[/quote] They could do a Me signature Squier Jazz really easily: They could take a normal Squier Jazz, keep meaning to change the pickups but never quite get around to it.

I've poked them about putting output volume controls on some of the synths (I noticed the other day one of the comps has a big volume boost too), and a sensitivity control for the envelope followers which is a glaring omission.

TBH I get that too. What strings are you using? I thought it might be my evahs because they are pretty thumpy anyway.

Weird. No idea tbh I'm no expert. Glad you got it sorted out anyway.

Weird. I'm using a Bespeco VM-19L with my M9, no such issues. So even using the knob you can't set a param at max? Or does it just drop below max when you touch the pedal / can't reach max with your toe down?

[quote name='mike f' post='937377' date='Aug 26 2010, 06:03 PM']Ah, good Cud; Rich and Strange. Great song, saw them in Leeds a long time ago.[/quote] Someone drove past me this afternoon listening to 'Slack Time', it was weird! So I put some on myself when I got home. [url="http://www.we7.com/#/song/Cud/Purple-Love-Balloon-Original-Version"]Shake your floppy fringe if you've still got one[/url].

Currently listening to Cud. The bass player (William Potter) had good hair and he drew comics, he was also shagging one of the lecturers at my college.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='936674' date='Aug 26 2010, 02:07 AM']Grunge and Indie[/quote] Thank god.

Lately I've seen some Japanese RI Jazz basses on eBay in a variety of colours with matching headstocks and blocked fingerboards, they look amazing. If I was shopping for a Jazz right now I wouldn't be able to resist them.

[quote name='Muzz' post='934154' date='Aug 23 2010, 08:45 PM']+about a zillion on their rock credentials, size, and weight - I even had the guitarist offering to carry mine from the van at the last gig...[/quote] The one time my guitarist picked up my 1212L he nearly smacked himself in the face with it. Everybody who picks it up puts it down again and then picks it up again, as if to make sure they weren't imagining it the first time.

Regarding going into tuner mode or setup mode or whatever though - I think that's something they need to fix with a setup option so it requires a long press. The whole unit is based around this concept that you've got three stomp boxes infront of you. When you step on two of them at once, it should turn two of them on/off at once, not mute your signal and show you a tuner.

The John Virgo sig looks like the easiest one to sand the edges off into a sensible-looking bass.

[quote name='simon1964' post='935946' date='Aug 25 2010, 01:45 PM']Not sure whether it counts as pop, but I heard Pump it Up by Elvis Costello for the first time in ages yesterday. What a cracking bass line that is - catchy, busy without being over complicated, and really works with the song.[/quote] Yeah that is a great bit of bass playing, both the verse and chorus parts are really good.

A guy in a band we gig with regularly has got one of these. He goes for that Stingray/pick/grind sound and it works really well for it.