Woodinblack

Nope

It works well, I didn't even know about the givaway as I had used it. I had to contact them for a code for the competition!

If only there was an unsubscribe button on the emails!

Take it to the repair shop as you know, it is old and tatty. I am sure they would be able to fix it right up.

I was playing that last night and I thought the same thing!

That's it though, I can't blot out conversation, but music just washes through me and more importantly, covers up conversation, which is why I need it at work as one of my coworkers makes it his life's ambition to make noise, he talks to himself and constantly eats, with all eating noises external. I can't actually deal with that at all

I think that is the difference I have with my wife. If there is music she can't concentrate on anything else. I cant concentrate on what I am doing unless there is music, I use music at work to blot out the people so I can get stuff done.

Yeh, and there are comments from the MD on the page appologising for the delays, so I think they messed up a bit with that and if there are that many delays, maybe holding off the heavy advertising until the were ready would have been a better idea? Still, early reviews seem pretty good. I figured that I can put the bass through my Bose S1 and play, which is just reverb, but there isn't much for the guitars, so if I had something small that could do both, it would be a win win.

In all honestly, win it, ebay it straight away (or sell it wherever). Get myself something nice and still have some money left over. A vintage fender isn't anything I am interested in, they all have 4 strings, the jazz isn't a nice colour and P necks aren't nice. But there is an alpher custom I would get if I had the money, so I guess that is where it would go.

carefully file down the headstock and put a new Squier waterslide on it. Then it will be just as good but noone will nick it Or trade it in for an Alleva Coppolo - I hear they are quite good!

I prefer flame, or birds eye, but quilt is good too!

Nope, for me it is essential. I do listen to less than I used to because my wife doesn't like things she doesn't like. I will listen to radio 6 or something, accepting that there is some songs on there I don't like, but there will be something later I do, that doesn't work for her, as soon as a track comes on she doesn't like it goes off and doesn't go on again. But when I am on my own I listen to music all the time.

I guess it depends how you see the numbers. I mean junction 1 is london side, and it goes all the way down to high numbers in southampton.

Indeed - each to their own, although it is hard to understand why you are critical of another manufacturers headstock with that as an example! To me, from an appearance point (and I have no idea what those are or how much they cost), the proportions are all wrong, it looks bulbous and the controls look like an afterthought. It looks kind of like if you made a fender of cheese and heated it a bit And I am not even going to start on the square of unfinished wood under the neck or the fact they couldn't be bothered to colour match the two halves. Obviously I have no idea what it sounds like (as I have no idea what it is). But clearly to you, it looks ok.

Which isn't the road to hell, but certainly is the road to Basingstoke, so maybe he had a point

Something to do with the Sovereign citizen movement, a bunch of US domestic terrorists. Probably as far as I want to go

Indeed - this much I knew. I was just puzzled why it was being burned into the back of a bass.

If we are being picky, a luthier is someone making lutes in France!

They have really nailed that 70s wallpaper vibe though.

I mean obviously its up to you how you do your board, but if you moved that small stone up to where that blue thing is, it would be a lot more symmetrical

Yeh, you take your bombay mix and get out of here. I am just going to stay around, I have enough kendal mint cake to stay up for hours

I do too, but there is no guarantee that it is the same tone. I didn't quote any names of bassists at all, so I think you are talking about someone else. I don't know who Mr Paul Jackson is, I just googled and he appears to be a consultant at sports and exersize medicine for a private health company. I am guessing he can probably afford a good bass then! And if a Squier can provide it to you at say $200, would that not be fantastic? I would get about 4000 different answers. Well, actually about 40 answers, then the thread would veer off into types of cheese, and whether one of the people on the forum was visiting their mother enough. Absolutely, you seem to believe your opinion on a sound or an instrument is something that can be described as a fact, rather than an opinion. In fact you still seem to believe there is such a thing as a fact about a sound or feeling. Round he we don't accept anything as a fact until you end the sentence with FACT. Its the rules.

I had an ACG, it went for not much less than I bough it for, so it doesn't always have to be like that. That involves knowing what you want doesn't it? Sometimes you don't know what you want until you get something that isn't it. See I got my new shuker the other day and its string spacing at the neck is much wider than I am used to but it turns out that I like it. Had I been asked for my custom requirements, I wouldn't have said that. I only know what string spacing I liked at the bridge (ie, like the ibanez), and then made the assumption that if I liked that I must like the other end too. But you know if you are buying custom you will take a massive hit if you sell it, so if you think you would ever sell it, get something else* Whilst being aware that sometimes life gets in the way of what you need to do

But not much good in the context of a looper that only plays wav files

The guy who invented the stuff that AC is somehow copying left the company 50 years ago, leaving that company to carry on copying it, while he went to MusicMan and then G&L. Yes, I think paying $3800 on a fender is completely crazy, however, if someone has that money and wants to, that is entirely down to them, just the same as if there is something they see in these AC instruments. And I am not talking from knowledge here, I haven't played an AC bass. I have played a fender custom shop. Granted they don't seem original, although neither do the fenders. But that is because that appears to be what a lot of bass players (and guitarists) want. As to what they are able to yeild, as you also said you hadn't played that, you have no more idea than I do of telling if that is true or not. It seems that people are paying for these instruments with their own money, so I am guessing that it is capable of providing what they want. But you have already got a scope of mind of a fanboy-ism, in that you believe that paying for a fender custom shop is worth $3600, yet unable to accept that something you have no experience of made by someone else can't be better because it looks the same - ie, is unoriginal, when lets face it, the custom shop fender looks the same as the $200 squier.