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Cheers Darbs!! Welcome any time ;0) Sam the Fender guitar had the stuff built in and hidden from view (actually you can still see the Roland pickup but the guitar one is smaller and they used a white one to blend in). You can also drive the Vbass unit using Piezo elements in the bridge, like on Kiwi's MIDI bass. EDIT: here's the Strat:

Ah OK thanks. The Vbass is a great piece of kit - I use it as my pre-amp and as a monitoring system for IEM. I will be doing a little demo at the Bass Bash in October apparently!! Basically the Roland pickup (thin one at the bridge) knows the height of each string and it's length from the saddle to the nut. It then processes each string individually so you can play polyphonic synths, strings, effects and so on - and do amazingly accurate impressions of 'essential' basses like a Jazz or a Stingray. You can do this by essentially moving virtual pickups around the bass. 90% of the time I am playing clean with the magnetic pickups but when you feel like a bit of Marcus Miller, it's there, on a bass I enjoy playing more than anything else I have had. Sorry, went on a bit there - but it is really hard to sum up such a comprehensive bit of kit otherwise! Since having it installed I have been completely blown away by it and have found that they actually have an impressive list of users such as Richard Bona and Leyland Sklar. Quite an undiscovered gem IMO! Cheers ped

Yeah it should be quite dark but the bass itself should be fairly clear? All that bumf is the Roland Vbass pickup. I might get it installed internally one day but quite like it how it is... it's been like this for some time so why change it now! ped

Really like the contrasting top and sides on the Overwater - kind of makes it look like a caramel slice or millionaire's shortbread as some folk call them! Either way, good enough to eat!

Just playing with my new camera... got a quick snap here, it's a bit blurry actually but will get some better ones tomorrow. Just wanted to ask though, on my monitor the picture is very clear and sharp, but having posted a black and white pic on here before some said it was very dark on their monitors. Over at Flickr I have looked at the pics in the black&white section and they all seem about the same levels as mine.. so how does it look to you? Cheers ped

[quote name='SteveO' post='567247' date='Aug 12 2009, 08:02 PM']Any advance on this, folks ? Well It's cheating a bit isn't it. I mean it's not as if there was a pub full of people crowding round a set of sennheisers trying to hear the bass solo. I think the op was referring to inaudible monitoring rather than low power monitoring, in which case my entry's probably null and void too. [/quote] IT COUNTS!! [sub]It counts :'([/sub]

No amp at all (in ear monitors!)

Oh yes Mark at Bass Direct could teach most shops a thing or two about customer service. Darren at The Bass Merchant, too. Let's hear it for the few remaining good guys out there!

The edges of the body are slightly less contoured and the top horn on the Marleaux is slightly teardropped as you can see here. [url="http://doctorbass.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/marleaux-consat-custom-cuerpo-3.jpg"]http://doctorbass.net/blog/wp-content/uplo...om-cuerpo-3.jpg[/url]

Ah yes I have seen these - a direct copy of the Marleaux Consat body shape. Looks nice for £350

Brilliant, thanks for sharing it. I think it should be made into a book! I will have fun looking through all the companies I have never heard of! ped

Hi Musky, Yeah, for some reason I was thinking of the bridge cover, not the pickup cover. I only realised when I called Crowman last night. Cheers ped

As used by Mike Porcaro in the 'Rosanna' Video IIRC