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If you don't need to sell them, then don't, the VM5 may well be "the one" for the moment and the others may get neglected for a while, but at some point you will pick them up again and wonder why you ever put them down, as you say, you spent time and money on finding the right basses for you, they will still be the right basses in six months time when you fancy playing something different for a while. I am not sure why we seem to feel the need to identify "the one" bass, why can't we have a bunch of basses all of which fulfill our needs?.....That's what GAS is all about!

OCD or what, amazing bit of work! Even down to Lords of the New Church as a UK post punk band, tough call, I would have said more American than British but Wikipedia has then as American / British

Our covers band was told on a few occasions that we would need to have a PAT test certificate before we could play their venues, we decided to bite the bullet and get it done but of the places that demanded it none ever asked us to produce the certificate or even checked the gear on set up!

Most, if not all pro acts are using IEM's I don't see why it shouldn't filter down to pub bands, especially, as already mentioned, that the normal pub band PA is usually a compromise of cost, size and weight versus sound quality, the use of IEM's should make life easier for the PA, allow for a more controllable sound out front and it should give a consistent sound for the musicians at every venue. I wonder if in a few years time most gigging musicians will carry their own set which would be run through the venues system, I ask this as we are playing smaller venues in Leicester quite a bit at the moment, usually with a great out front PA and a compromised monitor system, if IEM's become the norm I wonder if musicians will carry their own systems for that consistency of sound at every venue?

I think many on here would be quite happy to have the exposure of an advert to get their songs heard, Caniston / Anisol give me a call I am sure we could do a deal

Sounds like a great set, feeder, Just a Day Blink 182 All the Small Things or What's my Age Again Sum 41, Fat Lip or In Too Deep Fountains of Wayne, Stacey's Mom Crazyhead's cover of Bang Bang (my baby shot me down) Lemonheads cover of Mrs Robinson (great bassline as well)

Hi Jonny, It should be an excellent bass, the only reason they are so cheap at the moment is because the pointy headstock look is rather out of fashion, I am sure you will find it an easy match for a Silver Series Squire or a Classic Vibe bass (although the classic vibe is from a different era completely) If you can live with the pointy headstock I am sure you will end up with a cracking bass and, if they ever come back into fashion you will have an original Jap bass which surely at that point will go up in value

Isn't a lot of this down to the title description? If the title is "1962 pre CBS Precision bass" then it is not going to be a sub £500 bass, a 5 string or an active bass, Same as "Ken Smith 5 string" is not going to be a pre CBS Precision bass, I have a look at the market place most days....ok I lie, it's everyday, I am really not into 5 string custom built basses so as long as the title description is decent then I won't click into an ad that doesn't appeal to me. I am not fussed if the bass for sale is overseas as if it is the "right" bass then the fact it is overseas only adds another hurdle to be overcome but it would still be the right bass

Nice bit of firewood

I have recounted this on here before, not really one that got away, more some one took advantage of my lack of knowledge at the time, Many years back I paid the going rate of about £300 for a very battered 1979 sunburst Precision which I gigged happily for about 3 years, anyway when the band packed up I wanted some studio gear so looked to sell the Precision, I spoke to a local guitar shop who said he would take a look at it and make an offer.....I was expecting about £350 back at the time as a sale through a dealer, he took it to bits, made a phone call and offered me £1300 for it there and then, which unsurprisingly, I took. I always regretted selling the bass as it was a really light stunning sounding bass and I always wondered why he had paid so far over the odds for it. The shop changed hands over the years, I went in one day and the guy who brought my bass was in the shop, so I asked him why he had offered far more than market value for it, he conceded that yes, the neck was 1979, the rest of the bass and the case was a pukka 62 Precision so was in fact worth far more than he paid me for it! The phone call he made was to the previous owner who had been looking to buy the bass back for a number of years. I knew noting about Nitro / Poly finishes, pot dates, different era cases or the multitude of other things that would have identified it as a pre CBS bass, just the S9 serial number on the headstock which confirmed it was a 79 neck Nowadays with the help of the tinterweb I guess I would have been more clued up, always wonder what happened to that one!

With pricing like that I would think twice about dealing with them at all

I guess it depends on what you are looking for, everytime I have posted in the wanted section I have received replies but then I haven't been looking for something especially unusual

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1456327768' post='2987914'] Well, we have a large (ish) gig on 12 March (about 500 if they sell out) and it's come to the point where our band has swapped places with our support band so we don't have too late a night Where's me slippers [/quote] A very wise move, one I would certainly advocate to our band as often as possible

Others refer to me as "that bloke what plays bass" personally I prefer bass god

[quote name='dave74200' timestamp='1454933257' post='2974253'] Or try a Tech 21 VT bass pedal mate. I'd highly recommend them. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_be9GSlt_eQ"]https://www.youtube....h?v=_be9GSlt_eQ[/url] [/quote] I would agree, the tech 21 gives a more Ampeg sound than my SVT Pro7 which just sounds like a generic class D amp, not that there's anything wrong with the Pro 7 it just doesn't sound very Ampeg to me

As long as it isn't a really complex rewire or new fretboard then if you're in Northampton I am happy to help

The best advice I was ever given was....practice, practice, practice, and when you know the song well enough to play it correctly, practice it again until you can't get it wrong

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1456053655' post='2984806'] These days even entry level Laptops will do fine as long as you are using an external audio interface and not running loads of background apps. My Toshiba Satellite is 5 years old and was at the lower end of the market when purchased, however, Its handled Cubase for years with no noticeable latency. One thing that may influence your decision is the amount of live audio that you want to record concurrently. If you want to record, say, 5 live audio tracks at once then you may need a more powerful machine. If, like me, you are going to use it as a tool to record one live audio track at a time then i wouldn't worry too much about the spec. As a rough guide anything over £400 should be fine. [/quote] Totally agree, we have been using Cubase on a 5 year old Asus laptop running Windows 7 to a Tascam 244 for all of our recordings, they have been good enough to get national airplay, if you get the best possible signal in then even an older budget laptop can deliver excellent results

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1456055892' post='2984849'] As above ,1200 grit paper will do it without ruining the neck. [/quote] I use this approach, there is science behind this, something like the lacquer on your neck is so smooth you get a build up of moisture between your hand and the neck, by roughing the neck up very slightly that moisture is dissipated into the tiny scratches you have created and hence the "stickiness is gone, you can always polish the neck back up in the future should you wish to make it sticky again

Amazingly fast across the fretboard, when she discovers the "less is more" approach I imagine she will be phenomenal, although it is not my style of music at all, I love this style of bass playing, I just wish I could play like that!

Looking at the above would OCD be justified?

I took up playing guitar / bass whilst my mates were out nicking cars, they have criminal records, I don't....justified! I also have a spare room and no children so as long as it fits in the room again it is justified. Finally to justify 26 guitars, various amps, many effects, most of a full PA system, a huge recording rack...and some synths to my good lady wife, one day I am going to have to open a music shop which will pay for our retirement...possibly!

I don't get it! So you brought a 60's Strat and found that underneath was an ultra rare Paisley finish but you thought...."now I can see that fine finish underneath a dodgy refinish, I won't bother getting the nasty refinish removed" not sure of the logic behind the guitar

I bet they are fakes, from memory you can tell by the written ring, the wording should be indented on the genuine article....but don't quote me on that....I don't think the image he has put up is good enough to tell

I think it's a great idea, as long as more experienced players are happy to contribute, we all started somewhere, knowing sweet fa about what we were doing, a forum where beginners feel they can ask what, to many of us, may seem like "dumb" questions is a really good idea and somewhere where even more experienced players may learn a thing or two