Woodinblack

My most long lived bass (ie, the one before I came here) had 15mm it it was perfect. i built one with 15mm, I just need to update the neck on that.

Oh I hated it until I took the locking connector out, then it worked fine and I really like it

Mine isn't!

Me too, from the first time I saw it on the adverts I thought it looked great. It is nice to have something that is not just a copy of a 70 year old design.

Wow, that is one hell of a wide neck!

Looks actually quite different to mine, mine has less burly bits and more wavey bits!

Bit of a jog for us last night, we don't normally leave our town, so going all the way down to the coast was some journey (esp as half the roads were closed). Set up in a tight corner, once we found somewhere to park. Not huge audience numbers but ok. Also a really short set for us, 9-11:15, so plenty of song options. Half way through it sounded like my speaker had blown or something, so between songs, I tried it with the top one plugged in, nope, then the bottom one plugged in, no. Then maybe it is the pedal board, I had just updated the firmware on the helix HX, so bypassed that, nope, still nothing. Battery in the bass? nope. So I was concerned my ABM600 was broken, changed some settings, turned down the preamp and up the amp, still nothing. Then a though, I am not using the smoothhound as it started buzzing so using my cheap chinese 5GHz wireless. Quickly through my lead in there, buzz gone. Next song connected it all back, lead from backbeat to pedalboard, pedalboard to amp, sounded great. Then half way through the song, stepped backwards and trod on the lead which pulled it out! arggghhh! Still, after that it was all good.

I assume you are also removing the tone, so connect the black wire to the existing green wire, and connect the red wire to where the white wire on the tone connects (or indeed, to the white wire)

Fantastic playing but I would hesitate to say it was putting the instrument to good use as he only used one of the bottom 4 strings once, so there wasn't really anything there that couldn't have been done on 6 strings, or at most 7.

What I was coming here to suggest that. Also the elwood chambered bass, that doesn't weigh much at all, but not in the same scale as the EHB1505

Obviously there is the SRFF, whcih I used to have, which is a beautiful unlined neck, but its also neck through, so there would be a bit more work involved!

And beetles and stones would be great grandad rock

You could get one of the basses and get a replacement SR375EF neck, that should fit (I think that is the only normal SR fretless neck)

I would say if you take the back panel off and run a file, or a sharp knife pointing the backwards round the edge of the panel, it will make that panel look better, it has the edges from where it was pressed out of something and not smoothed. Obviously you shouldn't have to, and it is annoying that they dont do those last little tasks that make the difference, but they don't. Personally I always think it is a bit of a con on a bass that costs more than £500 that it doesn't have a colour matched panel on it! Enjoy anyway, they are great basses, so light and comfortable to play. Mine sits to my right in my home office on the wall, so that when we are on a long boring, largely irrelevant to me teams meeting I have something to play!

That is very odd, mine are exactly the same volume, ie, the only way you can tell which is active or passive is by changing one of the knobs that dont work in passive (e, bass or mid). Maybe there is some load on your amp? There is no internal trim pot, they are set to be unity gain with the knobs centred. I would consider that a fault. There is a 6dB gain thing that you can use, but I like mine the same. I notice now I look that my back panel is lower than the wood around it but I guess I have never noticed as I have a 1505, which is dark blue so it doesn't show, obviously in the much brighter 1005 it shows a lot more. As for the knobs, well, I am one of the people with the John East knobs so they show just fine!

My last group was killed by a gig like that. Community centre, barbeque outside, shiney floored room inside, bar further back. Did a set to a load of kids sliding across the floor, and one woman who kept asking for ZZ Top as it was her wedding song. When we decided to ask her what so we could busk ZZ Top, she couldn't remember what the song was, so we did sharp dressed man and she wandered off. Did a few more gigs but the guitarist was thinking about doing his own stuff, and that tipped him over the edge

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I own many many guitars, that I did buy. Virtually never play any of them though

Our problem isn't pubs not knowing we can pull people in, our problem is the number of pubs shutting. I live in a small town, two of our regular (ie, places we were playing once a month) pubs have now shut down, one permentantly, and another 2 every 3/4 month places have shut. So we are travelling further out. On the plus side, another pub that closed ages ago has just opened again, bucking the trend and we have a gig there soon.

Well, I haven't had any issues with mine falling apart, but I know a few people have upgraded theirs. One here, very different tuners https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/436705-nbd-ibanez-talman-tmb105-£200-5er/?do=findComment&comment=4255124 Another here, black tuners https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/423427-the-ibby-talman-short-scale-appreciation-society/?do=findComment&comment=4607124

Me and the drummer play that when we are warming up. Its a great little riff. I am currently learning Nirvana Lounge act, for no reason I can establish, its not on the list of songs I should be learning but it was on the other day so I decided to!

Dream on the idea of going to a band and not doing the PA or anything!

I changed the tuners on my SR1605 as it has one of the lightest face woods of any of the ibanez premiers, which made it slightly head heavy. I replaced the original very good tuners with some ultralights which was enough to stop any neck dive.

I have done both and enjoy both. Unfortunately the only gigging originals group I have done was not very original and also had written there stuff, so it was basically like being in a not very good covers group, in that you had to do all the already written music that someone else had written, rather than just the good stuff that other people had written. You also get a lot more flexibility with covers than with other peoples originals. Actually, I also spent some time in a punk 'originals' group, but to call that original would be pushing the line of 'original' a bit far.

I have the white 5GHz ones and some black 2.4GHz (probably donnar), and they were fine too. I got the 5GHz ones as I couldn't find the black ones, they ended up being in a not commonly used gig bag!