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[quote name='mr_russ' post='298087' date='Oct 2 2008, 10:21 PM']I've never understood the 'sound of wood' motto when used to sell primarily active, and zingy, honky sounding instruments.[/quote] My (stock, '91) Thumb doesn't zing or honk, it purrs. I think that's the "trademark" sound that people think about when they hear the name Warwick. To be honest I haven't played a lot of their more recent models so maybe things have changed. The most recent one I had was a '94 Corvette 'Proline' 6, and I was surprised by how excellent it was, given that it was a bolt-on "budget" model. Although mine had Bart soapbars in it, not MEC kit.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtbD8wmIKU0"]For the attention of everybody but Bilbo[/url].

The Goats - Blind With Anger The Goats - Rumblefish Subhumans - No Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television Dead Milkmen - Taking Retards To The Zoo Anthrax - Got The Time Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield - Superfly The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon RATM - Bullet In The Head RHCP - Higher Ground Pixies - Debaser Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay A few.

People who take the E string off their basses to fit a C higher up should be given guitars. Especially when they start tapping. A slap and a guitar, that's what he needs.

I'm happy to let people talk Warwick prices down, given that I can only see myself buying them. Plus, the less people who are playing Warwicks, the more unique my tone's going to be, so please everybody, sell me your Warwicks at knock-down prices. I'll be happy to take them from you. A friend of mine plays a Stingray in a folk band (or "Your old man bass in your old man band" as I prefer to say) and he loves his Stingray and he's always banging on about his Stingray, but every time he sees my Thumb he picks it up, and after five minutes he always says the same thing: "It's a proper bass this, isn't it?" Strangely, he never goes for the fretless Stingray I've got standing next to it.

My board is such a mess I am embarrassed to show it, that's why I'm cable-shopping. I'm looking at George L's in particular because their right-angle plugs are so small (compared to normal plugs with the 1"+ of sleeve after the right-angle) and in places where I get a bunch of plugs in a tight space (Boss LS-2 is the biggest PITA in this regard) they would be a huge help. Whoops, just went and bought a Korg G5. I'll never learn.

I do have a few I need to sell actually but I never seem to get around to it. And the hard part is not buying more to replace them...

My pedalboard could really benefit from those compact right-angle plugs, but the cheapest price I've seen online is £3.59 per plug - I need (at last count) 16 patch cables, so that's over a hundred quid just on plugs. Anybody know where I can get them cheaper?

I need a couple of custom footswitches building, and I need to sort out my pedalboard wiring because it is laughably bad and it's been like this for months now. Oh and I need another switching mod doing on my main filter which probably doesn't have room for another switch. The sounds I'm making I'm almost 100% happy with, it's just changing between them doesn't always work that well.

I don't really use overdrive but I'd be surprised if there aren't half a dozen pedals that sound as good or better for less than half the price.

Funnily enough House of Fun was my favourite song when I was a kid, long before I started playing bass. Other favourites at the time were Bad Manners - Walking in the Sunshine, Specials' Too Much Too Young, and of course Hit Me. I fell into playing bass quite by accident but it turned out I'd always preferred songs with ace bass parts.

Now try House of Fun - one of the bonkersest pop basslines ever.

I'd like to see more small-bodied basses like my Thumb bass. I'm pretty scrawny, so if I strap on a Fender/Musicman/G&L-style "traditional" bass it's like wearing an XXL T-shirt. More small basses for us scrawny folk, please, manufacturers.

I've got two basses at the moment. The most I've ever had at one time is three - and that included an upright. I could see a use for a few more, but I couldn't get into double figures unless I bought a bass on every whim that struck me. Fair play to the people with big collections, but I couldn't keep anything that I wasn't using, or that didn't have some sort of niche purpose that came in useful from time to time.

I just look at them.

Make sure you do some good warm-up exercises before you try any disco octaves.

[quote name='Hit&Run' post='287643' date='Sep 19 2008, 08:34 PM']And the owner was?[/quote] Oh nobody, just some drunk bloke who came to my gig. I called the guy who'd given me the bass and he explained it'd been owned by pretty much everybody in town at some point, and he was happy for me to hand it off to this guy. It must've been his though - he was really ****ing annoyed to find some child gigging it in his local! He wasn't at all contented by the fact that I'd made it playable in the meantime.

I've snipped the parts of your posts which made it clear which side of the fence you were on - I'm sorry - I'm just responding to the hypothetical questions you posed because I liked them, I am aware of the point you were making even if I've obliterated it. [quote name='ironside1966' post='287695' date='Sep 19 2008, 09:43 PM']Just because bass player A is up on the theory side of things does not mean that he or she is automatically a better bass player then player B who knows nothing about theory.[/quote] True. But if both were equal on natural talent then the one with theory to back it up would piss all over the other one. [quote name='ironside1966' post='287695' date='Sep 19 2008, 09:43 PM']one of the best guitarist I have seen and had the pleasure to work had no understanding of theory at all.[/quote] This sort of example has occurred throughout this thread - the whole "I don't know any theory and I'm ace" mindset. But all that does for me is raise "what if" questions.

I remember hearing about Mark King's Status Matrix getting stolen back when it happened (and laughing about how anybody was ever going to shift it). I'd love to hear what the conclusion was plz.

[quote name='7string' post='286366' date='Sep 18 2008, 12:36 AM']I had a Fender Urge Mk1 and really loved it's 32" scale as well as it's awesome electronics.[/quote] A friend of mine had one of those and I couldn't get over the scale length, it felt like a toy bass. That's the only short scale bass I've played, apart from a weird perspex-bodied, Ampeg-necked fretless thing I was given by a friend, which I spent time lovingly restoring before discovering who the actual owner was on the first time I took it out to a gig.

If it's anything like my old 1995 USA Std. Jazz in lake placid blue, it's worth approximately nothing. Does it have the faulty bridge, noisy pickups and warping neck that mine had? Judging by my experience '95 wasn't a great vintage for Fender, but others might have other opinions.

You'd (and we'd) be better off contributing to the sound clips of the Effects section of the talkbass.com wiki, just because they've already got something like that going on.