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Crikey, quite a bridge!! Just adjust it again but make sure that once you have set the desired height and intonation etc that you lift the string out of the bridge, put it back in and make sure everything is tight and that both grub screws that maintain the height of the saddle are touching the base of the bridge plate. ped

Rjb sounds right, but I presumed it was OK when you left it last night?

There is a chance that the bridge needs to be 'locked down' once adjusted - some have a separate grub screw to tighten once everything is in place. Perhaps you left this one slack and therefore the saddles shifted over night? I would recommend setting it up again and just double checking everything is tightened up. Cheers ped

[quote name='umph' post='270212' date='Aug 26 2008, 01:15 PM']would you even be able to hear the IEM with the matamps cranked?[/quote] ...Or would you be able to hear the backline with the IEMs set up? I decided it wasn't worth using both because the sound from the IEMs was far superior to a cranked full blown tube rig. I did like to 'feel' the rig though, but now I get that with monitors.

Vigs seem to be getting a bit of attention recently! Not so long ago telling a basschatter you played Vigier was met with a blank virtual stare! Here are my two babies which I am sure you have all seen before countless times. I can say with some certainty that I won't ever have to buy a bass again... The fretted as a series 2 from 1988, carbon weave neck thru with Marleaux electronics and a Roland Vbass pickup. I love the Marleaux pre, it has an especially sweet top end, centred around 8khz whih really suits the clear and fat sound of the bass. It sounds like a Kodiak bear on meths. It is very worn in and feels like home. The fretless is a series 3, the same type of neck as the two above (10/90 design) and is standard apart from the U-Retro Deluxe pre (Mr. East lives just down the road luckily). This one is now very flexible and can do a warm woody tone to a bright cutting and clear fretless mwah. I have been endorsed by Vigier for a while now and I am thinking about speccing a series 4 6 string in white with red anodised body/headstock logo and a built in V system along with the Delano electronics and seperate pre for each pickup but I won't be doing that for a while! Sorry for the dodgy pics, I might get some better ones this afternoon and update them! I think there is another Vigier thread somewhere with lots of piccies on it! ped Oh and as Luke has decided to go all the way and bring the promo shots to bear, here is a cheezy pic from my artist page:

I suppose really us brits should shout VIDJIERR really loudly whilst miming bas splaying and nodding, as per Brits on holiday everywhere!! Just been recording with mine again. Such a nice feeling not having to think one bit about the bass you play and the recording method/setup - just get on with playing the music because it sounds so fantastic! Cheers ped

Yeah it really did weigh a lot. In fact I remember playing it sitting down and my leg felt a bid dead!

Yes that rings a bell. Ben (or Alemboid to you and me) may well be able to confirm that. Superb bass but I didn't get on with it very well live, it was great in the studio though. I think another Q filter would have worked wonders, the single one was a bit limiting. merci et parlez bientôt ped

T'was from Ben in Abingdon... ring a bell? A superb chap and great player. We went to the Fox on Boars Hill with Kiwi once for a Tuna Steak Au Revoir ped

Whatever you do, do it badly. they won't ask again.

I love that bass. It looks like a real 'players' instrument, and a bit of a 'sleeper'. ped

Here is an Elan 6 I used to own, very nice it was too! Do you want a sound clip? ped

Welcome! Peterborough does have some soul then!! Gigging with a 10 piece sounds a bit of a nightmare but I bet the band sound fantastic together. Slipknot manage just about with 9, though they sound like a bowl of hate ped

Good to hear they are nice to everyone! I went in there to ask how to do some basic functions using Ableton Live (I had seen the keyboard bloke playing with it) and he was more than happy to sit me down and talk me through it, even though I wasn't there to buy. When I do want the full version, guess where I will buy it from? The difference in price (sometimes nothing, £10-£20, sometimes more) is nothing compared to good customer service. That is priceless.

Hi mert, I know the feeling. It is quite exciting because it means that you have probably found 'the one' and might also have some money to spend on other things for a change. Go with it. I recently sold everything and cut back to what I realised were the important parts of my setup. I have never been happier and whenever I gas for something now I can easily shrug it off, because I can think I have been there, done that. No amount of money can find you 'the one', because 'the one' may take any form or any price bracket. It is a matter of time and patience. When you feel like you do now, you can probably say that you have landed! Oh, but you want a Streamline 5. Bugger

I am just glad you understood what the hell I was on about! Cheers ped

OK I am really impressed with this thread and I have to admit I have only just caught up with it. I am really pleased the shop have come here despite what must seem a barrage of abuse to have their say, and this alone I think is a nice gesture. I hope they come back to discuss this further because I am sure their point of view contains some things we haven't considered and I bet just the fact they are open to discuss this will do no end of good in our eyes. I imagine running a bass shop in London must be a fantastic opportunity and also a difficult one. Imagine trying to sell all these basses when many people are day trippers simply checking out an unusual road full of music shops. Picking things up, getting in the way (not much room to move in there etc) and perhaps making a racket whilst you are selling something or on the hone to a customer. I can't help thinking however that many of these problems would instantly be solved with a bit of 'face time' with the person running the shop. When I was younger and walking wide eyed into such shops I would want to touch and try everything. All it takes is for a member of staff to come over and say hi, ask about what sort of things you like and if you like, play something. I found that when this happens something inside you blooms into a respect for the shop, the staff and also the gear hanging up, because you feel 'part' of it. You feel welcomed as a fellow bass player and with that comes the feeling of pride and by extension pride in the nice instruments in the shop. Now put yourself in the shoes of a new young bassist looking around and being looked at with ambivalence by the staff - now you feel disconnected and a little put off, almost to the extent that you wonder if bass is for you! You leave feeling disenchanted and feeling like you won't tread in there again. I liken the feeling to being at a vintage car show, or a motor show. Lots of amazing cars on display, and when the owner is next to his car and comes to chat to you and takes an interest, you feel obliged to admire the car even more, and you walk away feeling like you want one (happens all to often). Sometimes there is a car on display with a real arrogant bloke polishing it who doesn't acknowledge you. I straight away associate that car with that kind of person and subconsciously dislike them! I am totally rambling now but I just wanted to say when I was first starting, the people at PMT Oxford were really nice to me. I played all sorts even though I had no idea how to play, and they asked me about my fave music (they were a bit surprised when I said Toto) and I was really looking forward to buying my next bass from them, even though it was a little more expensive and handed to me in a carrier bag. To this day I still call PMT for all sorts of things, even though I know it will probably take a while longer to arrive and maybe cost a little more. It isn't even that easy to park. But I feel at home in there because of those crucial first time impressions. ped

Do'h I didn't see that, thanks for the link and the extra info. I would love to see him back in action. I wonder how the graphite worked out cheaper, I presume he had all his own equipment for making them which would cost a lot in the first place but cheaper thereafter? No doubt I will find out more in that link. Cheers ped

Something as simple as this [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_sr2012_studiorack.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_sr2012_studiorack.htm[/url] would suffice, but it will be too narrow - the Vbass would overhang the top and wouldn't slide inside even if I remove a section of the racking strips. At least I don't THINK it will based on my measurements. I think I need to take the Vbass to a shop and see if it would fit into a case if I butcher it a bit, but then I think I might as well just get a case made if I am going to get one anyway.... Decisions!! ped

Hi mate, Definitely. That is what I was hoping to do. The ONLY problem is that the Vbass is slightly wider than the widest part of a rack unit (1cm each side wider than the rack sleeve), so having a 6u rack and putting the vbass on top isn't easy unless the top section is wider, and I can't tell if it is on many of these mixer rack types. I am SURE there must be something that would fit...

Brilliant song, one that puts paid to the common misconception that MK is a tasteless slap machine. ped

Hey I didn't know that one had a graphite neck, lovely. I played Nick (dr of the bass)' s graphite Pangborn at the bash and it was right up my street. Do you have anything recorded with yours? What is its history, did they make it for you? Are they still in business? Ashley isn't it? ped

Looking forward to that I am, feel free to PM me the goss! If Flea does get a signature model Fender, what will that mean exactly? They put his name on a jazz bass and add a several hundred pound surcharge for the pleasure? Maybe it will have a nick in the scratchplate JUST LIKE FLEAS! Or maybe it will have a screw missing JUST LIKE FLEAS! I think most Fender signature models are a total waste of time... ped

I sold my fretless Vigier because I badly needed an amplifier but it was with the understanding that I would buy it back when I was able - a year or so later I bought her back, it was a classic reunion.