Woodinblack

Better that way round certainly. Shipping is never a fun thing.

The look of the top of the neck of a bass when you are playing. If there was only one decent bit of wood, that is where it needs to be!

Maybe not in the same year as getting the Shuker and Ibanez EHB. Anyway, can't buy any more until I have sold some, numbers too high

Same here. Unfinished instruments as my wife calls them. used to have a telecaster with that transparent yellow stuff on it, she wouldn't allow that in the living room collection. If you are not colouring it, it needs to have some pretty impressive wood.

Depends how hot it is...

I have asked what the price on a 5 string like that was already. Not going to get one.. not going to get one.. not going to get one...

If I was in that situation I would go back to a TC combo. One box, spectacomp, amp, cab, tuner, audio lead, power lead, jobs done. I quite often wonder why I don't go back to that.

I must admit I would always put the whole thing with the case in cardboard to protect the case from getting scratched or the clamps being ripped off. I would view it as too much of a challenge for a courier otherwise if they knew it was a hard case! DPD certainly insist on it being in cardboard.

I think the pink looks great, its a good choice on Ibanezes part, sort of goes with the green option really. Now I have my replaced EHB, I must say that it and the shuker are all I am playing these days. The shuker is better standing up and the EHB is better sitting down.

Yep, can't go wrong with a patio sound!

There is a mod you can do to the CP which enables the analogue piano mode. I am not using my dx much at the moment as I am not gigging, but it will be back in use when / if we eventually do!

Oh yes, forgot about that one. Good idea. I don't want to step up to more leads, I already do all the leads including spares for when the guitarists fender leads fail again, don't want more but the bag is a good plan. Having said that, I didn't have much more room until recently when I changed car, so probably a good time to look at what I carry now. Assuming we get back to gigs at some point.

I think it seems that to most schools, music was a lesson to punish bad teachers, like RE, the ones they would get given if they had spare hours that didn't matter much, which is a bit of a shame!

Funny, I would view it the other way round. I would expect an expensive bass to be lightweight and a cheap bass to be heavy. I don't know about stingrays though. My expensive basses are the swamp ash ones, my harley benton was the heaviest bass I had!

Here is my lead bag after a gig: Before a gig it is very neat and organised, but afterwards everything just gets rammed in so I can leave, and it is also the one time when other people touch the leads. Bit of a mess really and that bag is starting to break now, with all the extra leads I have, especially since getting all the 10M red leads. How do you get your leads to gigs?

Are they really that mad?

As an aside on that, the XAirs internal wifi, for years I heard the 'oh you shouldn't use the internal router it won't work' and thought it was daft because it always worked. Then one gig, it just didn't, it was an absolute nightmare as I would try and make changes and they would ping back, or just happen 20 seconds later, completely lost control of it. Just the number of people in the crowd with phones looking for wifi, nothing you can predict beforehand. I alway have a 5GHz minirouter with WPA (£10 from pc world, smaller than the psu) connected to the xair, and connect to it from that. No trouble since that. I also have an ethernet cable in my bag, because I like being able to cope with everything I can think about, although never needed it!

Turns out I was wrong on that, you can't make your own models like Amp, but you can select rigs like Jam Up. Which is a shame as amp is very impressive, I guess you have to get their proper amps for that. Overall, the amp is good. It is fantastic for guitar, it is not really got much low end for bass, so at volume it would certainly struggle. With headphones it is obviously fine - shame it doesn't have a line out, might modify mine at some point to make one. The software is fantastic. When I first had it it would have trouble connecting, but thet seems to have stopped, probably one of the updates I did. So you turn the iPad on, you get the spark amp which lets you pick the model you want, and the effects etc and store them in the amp (it has a load of knobs on the top which you can adjust stand alone). Then it has a play section where you can select pretty well any song, it analyses it and gives you the guitar chords automatically. It either knows them instantly or it takes 30 seconds or so to analyse them, and it does it really well. As a guitar teaching tool, its second to none. But it is still handy on the bass. There are several different amp types and a load of effects, they work fine. Then you can play along with whatever you are playing on the iPad. There are some other lesson things, there is a section for bass where it plays chords and you do a baseline which is pretty useful, 'bass in the style of' with what is supposed to be generic music in a style for you to bass with but is actually pretty well a song from that style with no bass. Clearly this is a guitar tool and as it is, it is pretty fantastic. As a bass tool it is less focused and not as good, but still well worth having. As a bass amp it isn't great, and it isn't necessarily about size as it isn't much different to the Bose S1 that I use as my normal practice amp (obviously the Bose is twice the price) which handles bass with no issue. If I could have one change it would be a line out that I could plug into an amp, or maybe even just a speaker out (now there is a mod I might do) that I could plug into a proper speaker, as I am sure it is more a speaker issue than an amp issue. However that gets away from its portability. Also a shame it doesn't run in batteries. All in all though, I am pretty happy with it and I use it quite a lot.

When i originally said that I didn't remember any, I do remember now (I have a useless memory, especially of childhood). I had two parallel paths as I had piano lessons from pre-10 to probably about 16 when I decided it was uncool, and then maybe 18-19 when I decided it was cool again. But this is about school. In my first year of school, so 5, there was a music lesson, I remember playing puff the magic dragon on an electric guitar that wasn't plugged in. Later on a few years teacher was playing music and asking us to write down what we thought the instruments playing it were. Turned out we were all wrong it was a sin-thee-size-er. whatever that was. Anyway, pretty fascinating for me. Then at bigger school, first lessons were ok, people would bring in records and the teacher would go through them and say what was going on. That worked well. Then nothing, then another lesson which took all the fun out of music entirely that I don't really remember.Then later proper music lessons - brass. I learned the cornet and ended up first cornet in the orchestra. Which was good, I liked performing, saturday mornings shopping my parents used to drop me off in the big department store in portsmouth and I would play upstairs in the Organ department and get a crowd of old ladies watching. The staff loved it as they didn't have to demo anything and they got an audience, and my parents could just dump me and wander off and shop like parents did in those days. All in all very mixed and disjointed but some of it was ok. I think not anywhere near as good as the separate piano lessons really

Yeh, who is Les Paul anyway?

I tried all communications. In the end my problem was resolved well (very well in my case), but the 3 months before that when they just weren't replying kind of made any further dealings unlikely. With them it is sort of like shipping uninsured. If nothing happens and it gets through, it is fine. If not, you are pretty screwed.

Relic'd basses described as mint condition!

I don't think they did, just 4 and 5 strings. The switching was good in that they had 5 way switches from humbucker, single, both, single, humbucker if I remember. They didn't go down well at the time because they were chinese, which is a shame really as when the CVs came out that were also chinese, they went down really well. I guess it was a step too far for a fender logo but ok for a squier.

It makes other things sound good!