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One might question whether this was the right place to begin with?!

I’m especially pleased to be working with The Gallery - when I first started to play the bass I’d often take the trip to Camden to play a few basses then head off to Denmark Street. The shop will always hold a special place in my heart and I’d love them to get some more exposure. I know they are well known among enthusiasts but I’m sure lots of new players aren’t aware of the shop. So if you haven’t been, do!

Reckon between your legs it'll be fine. They probably envisage items being that big to be things like bikes or something.

Plenty of people do, if they want to try a certain amp or something. The environment is far from the best place for auditioning an amp though but if you want to bring it, go for it. There should be someone on the Basschat stand all weekend so you can leave it with us if you want.

Welcome! My best friend is from SA... he's taught me the lingo... hope you have a lekker time on BC! ped

That sounds like a cover story if you ask me. Great story! Thanks for sharing. I’ve had many car park encounters over the years on Basschat and only two have turned into shootouts.

I'd better update the profanity filter before someone is offended See you there Steve

Well put - I think there's an element of this in all of us.

I'm just surprised you're not ON the Brits FOR DJ-ing!

Let me guess. Stormzy, rag and bloody bone man and dua lipa. They seem to be the only musicians the public are aware of at the moment.

Yeah we’d like to have a better more baked in system but the software is pretty much an off the shelf item. We wrote our own marketplace software by adapting what the software provides so tying in something like this whilst possible would take quite a lot of work to make sure it is stable and to ensure nothing ended up getting lost due to general software updates. It it is however in our list of things to develop in our test environment along with other plans such as a location field for sellers and a better format for the reviews section. For now, best thing to do it to make yourself feedback thread and ask people to leave comments there. Cheers ped

With a name like Bubby you just know he’s got chops

Welcome Dennis! Enjoy the forum.

To be honest I can’t really member now. Perhaps someone tried replacing some faulty electronics and gave up! Roland system is amazing, I use it on my mini Bass too in my avatar. There’s no tracking issues because it acts just like a magnetic pickup, just processing each string separately. Most people incorrectly classify it as a MIDI system. I mean you can drive MIDI with it but then there’s tracking and latency issues. I use mine with a Roland VB99 which I think everyone’s here is sick of hearing about

Check this out http://www.garywillis.com/pages/bass/bassmanual/setupmanual.html In short, the truss rod adjusts the relief which is how much bow is in the neck. Action is the height if the strings set at the bridge. Both do different things and can produce different results. A rattle on a single note however may be because a fret needs levelling. One way to check if frets are level is to use a credit card to see if it rocks on a high fret. Edit to add - if it plays perfectly everywhere else, and by last fret you mean up near the body, I’d leave it.

Think I'll stick to my pleasure board - but it look interesting. I presume it's powered by some kind of adapter which would be a bit of a pain, I hate having wires attached to me.

The bass was actually found without any electronics in it, so it was just a bare 'chassis' of body/neck, so although I rate the Vigier pickups very highly, the setup in this one is different as I couldn't;t find any pickups on their own. So - it has Basstec humbuckers (as opposed to single coils as standard) and a Marleaux 3 band pre-amp, where the stacked bass/treb has been separated into two controls. Ages ago when I started Bassworld (the site before Basschat) a bloke in Australia made the pickup surround for me. Finally, I installed a Roland GK system and pickup.

Thanks, this is the one I've had the longest (about 12 years now?), and probably the bass most people will recognise as mine. Lots of mods but a superb, even sound.

Hmm. I can see one of those in my future soon. I don't think I've seen a purple one, so look forward to pics of that... Inspired by your picture, I just opened a bottle of '65 and gave mine a polish!!

Excellent - I'm tempted to bring one of my old Arpege basses to the show after I missed the chance of showing it to Patrice himself a few years ago. I showed him a picture of it and he said 'Thank you for looking after it' which I thought was pretty legendary.

Why bother with bedding when you can be playing that sweet bass!! I'll definitely come and have a go. Looks great. I agree that the necks on these feel amazing. My friend bought a Vigier Excalibur guitar based on the neck of one of these, and the neck on the guitar is so nice even I can play it.

I only play mine in an anti gravity vacuum (which has the added bonus of nobody being able to hear me)