CamdenRob

I quite enjoyed the odd practice without the drummer in my last band... enables you to properly hear what everyone else is doing.

Loving the garden photoshoot... Great looking bass, I like those gold pickguards on the 50s style instruments.

Another beautiful British built bass

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433872957' post='2794770'] This forum makes me laugh. So if I'd gone ahead with the refin and the electrics mod you'd have all said the equivalent of the current mrs discreet's 'that's nice, dear' and just let me get on with it?? [/quote] it's got to be the best option to keep it as it is ..even if only for when GAS for something else strikes and you move it on...

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1433851873' post='2794518'] My tutor can't stand the sound of my Fender Jazz or P basses.. [/quote] That's a bit of an odd attitude from your tutor considering the vast majority of electric bass recorded and performed has been on a Fender P or J. What is it that he can't stand about the sound?

I would suspect the woodwork has been done by someone who knows what they are doing... the rest... maybe not so much so What you have though is a custom bass for a fraction of the price you would get from a UK / US / Eurpoean builder.

[list] [*]Have you tried Elixir strings before? [/list] Yes I have. I use them exclusively on guitar but didn't get on with them for bass when I tried a set about a year ago... felt like my strings were wrapped in a condom.[list] [*]What other brands are you familiar with? [/list] I use D'addario pro steels on my fretted basses and La Bella deep talkin flats on fretless.[list] [*]What bass(es) will you try the new strings on? [/list] Wal 6 string[list] [*]What sort of environment will you be playing them in (e.g studio, gigging, practicing) [/list] Rehearsing and gigging (depending on whether I have any gigs during the test period)[list] [*]Why do you think you'll be a good candidate to test the strings? [/list] Because I am an internationally renowned superstar of bass and thousands are influenced by my choice of strings.[list] [*]Links to any blogs/reviews you may have already posted (not essential but interesting) [/list] I've only reveiwed stuff on BC... A Warwick Thumb NT 6 was the last one I did I think. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/247690-nbd-warwick-thumb-nt-6/page__p__2586197__hl__nbd%20warwick%20thumb%20nt__fromsearch__1#entry2586197"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry2586197[/url]

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1433847548' post='2794461'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/263626-nasd/page__p__2792910#entry2792910"]http://basschat.co.u...10#entry2792910[/url] [/quote] Much obliged .

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1433008431' post='2787026'] Well As we speak they're sat in the delivery lorry at parcelforce's local depot so looks like they'll be delivered on Monday in time for my gig on Saturday. I'll get some pics at the gig and then put up a NAD thread. [/quote] Did you do an NAD thread? I'd be interested to see how this worked out.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1433840113' post='2794355'] It's not the best bass sound in the world, but it *does* sound like a bass and projects well enough when busking. I know what you meant 'though, a lot of practice bass amps sound all midrangey and "meh" with small cabs etc. The QR10PA simply works. It's not huge, but it can do bass pretty well. The tone shaping is very limited, so an external EQ pedal can be a good thing. I used to use a Zoom MS60B with it, for EQ and tuner and it was nice to be able to use one of the amp sims to give it a nicer sound... but the MS60B eats batteries like crazy, so you needed to bring extra batteries. I ended up ditching it and just taking my Korg tuner with me. In addition, the QR10PA has a lot of other features... most of them not very good, but it does give you an option to run mp3 directly from USB, which can be nice for those who go solo and use some backing tracks. But the extra microphone and other extra things are not good at all. [/quote] How long does it last after a full charge? I'm quite intrigued now...

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1433778780' post='2793885'] Have you tried them? The QR10PA definitely sounds like a bass... [/quote] I've tried the roland one but I've never even heard of the QR10PA so I can't speak for that Does it actually sound like a bass? not twangy and honky? * having just checked it out it looks like a pretty sizable piece of kit so I'm sure that'll be miles better than the small battery powered Roland.

The trouble with these mini battery amps is they really don't have enough power to be of any use.. They are loud enough but it won't sound like a bass guitar.

Always thought these look great, I like the double coils on a jazz look.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1433760123' post='2793629'] Rob, that's a problem I'd like at the moment.... Oh well, there's always DV247, Gak, Andertons or Gear4music..... [/quote] Yes there are a plethora of other places to spend your hard earned on bass stuff... ... I'm sure it's just a temporary thing, I can;t access the homepage at the minute either.

My main problem with the thomann website is that whenever I look at it I end up buying stuff...

That is an absolute beauty! Very envious... a few bits to pay off over these next few months then I'm definitely going to try and search one of these out.

I'm more than happy with a lightweight rig, I really don't miss the tone of valve gear for bass. My current setup gives me the sound I've been the most happy with since I started playing. I couldn't do without valves for guitar though, I tried recently and was most unimpressed with the available lightweight options.

I have a subscription now thanks to Mrs C Although before that my local corner shop stocked it.

I can only really speak for metal, as the whole nu-metal thing was the only breaking new musical movement I've experienced first hand at the right sort of age for it. I didn't really go in for it initially preferring Death Metal etc. at the time, but I think metal fans have a lot to thank the whole Korn, Bizkit era thing for as suddenly people outside of the black jeans and black band teeshirt brigade were actually coming to metal gigs... At some of our gigs in the late 90s / early 2000s there were even girls in the audience Bass took on a new roll in nu-metal, coming to the forefront with slap and carrying alot more melody than metal had traditionally allowed for bass... hell in most metal the bass was totally inaudible and considered an afterthought. Alex Katunich's (Dirk Lance) playing on Incubus's Science changed everything for those of us playing in metal bands at the time. The guy from Mudvayne (who's name escapes me) expanded on what Katunich started but when Science came out everyone wanted to play bass like that.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1433509937' post='2791706'] I didn't really look at the questions and got 8 by picking randomely. [/quote] That doesn't make me feel any better about my 9

I'm not sick.... and also too old...

I currently only have one bass so the decision of which to play is fairly straight forward...

When I had my one and only private bass lesson aged 13, the tutor (great guy, he just moved house the week after I had my lesson, hence only having one) had a brand new TRB sixer with a maple top, i'm not sure which model but it may have been one of the JP ones... this would have been 1995. ... I can still picture it now, I desired that bass more than anything at the time and that's saying something for a 13 year old considering some of the other things I desired at the time