Woodinblack

Yeh, when I have mentioned it on here I have heard tell of people who actually have had one that didn't break. Still putting it down to an urban legend though - I wouldn't take one as my only lead if I was going to my spare room to practice!

Surely Master of puppets > justice for all?

I love the look of the fender leads but would never gig one. Everyone I know personally who has gigged one has had it fail. They have a lifetime warrantee, the guitarist in my band is on his 3rd. I am only on my second as it doesn't leave the house. i am generally wireless but I use no name leads made with nuetrik zero switch plugs and van damm leads, in a variety of colours that I get off eBay. i do also have a whirlwind cable I knocked in 1994!

No, but if you wanted flat pink, you would know where to go!

Hmm.. not a colour I would be expecting if someone described something as burgundy mist!

Agreed on the pics, although first things to do, connect the pickup direct to a jack lead and see if anything is coming out at all, as if it isn't, no amount of wiring is going to help

Kind of wish I had done an upgrade on mine, loved the bass, hated the sound. The nords (which I like) were too expensive for the bass. In hindsight, I should have also done the upgrade on the combustion.

I guess thats why they give you the choice. It makes me glad that I held out for the nord version, I wouldn't have been that happy with the barts, it would have gone the way of all my other non prestige bart'd ibanezes.

They do sound very deep

Oh look.. there is something I can't justify getting just at the moment

Not sure there are sides. You asked for advice, you got some, noone on here really cares what you use (none of the grown-ups anyway!), the only person it matters to is you. Frankly the more interesting question is what DAW you are going to use, and if you are going to use software instruments. Not sure what platform you are going for but if you end up with a mac, its well worth getting MainStage, its great value.

I develop windows software. I have both. Windows for developing software, Mac for everything else. Well, normally, this post is being written on a PC, as my mac is playing a version of 'I can't go for that' in Logic Pro X on the mac mini, that I am going to send to my group to give them a template for what we are working on.

Mine was 2000, and it was hard to find as they are dying out (or were even then)

I don't find it any tackier than any other logo. On the plus side the EHBs don't have any logo on their headstocks!

Well, that is a bit judgemental about the decor of his house

I have pretty well always have had both, in fact, bought a new(er) windows laptop this week - don't let anyone tell you they are cheap if you want something decent. I have done music on both and TBH, life is too short for me to do music on windows. I know, a lot of people use it and swear by it, and if you really love windows you probably won't get on with the mac that much so you are probably better off with windows. Don't rule out either a refurbed mac (available on the store, a few hundred quid off), or a second hand of a few years old,, my macbook is 2013 and I don't really have a pressing need to update it yet.

Wow, holy thread revival!

If they are fans, they are almost certainly going to be watching his website as much as any pink floyd website. In fact, if they feel the same way as post RW pink floyd as you do, maybe more. So I don't see an issue.

Love GAKs description " The bolt-on neck promises comfortable playability with its 30"" short scale, perfect for beginners and even electric guitar players" (my bolding there!)

I had a 5 string 30" bass for a while and found it almost impossible to find 5 string 30" scale strings B-G. Thats when I started using newtones, and they were good. Obviously no use if you want to use d'adarios thought. At a brief look it seems they don't do them, maybe the 130 is not a d'adario and is something else?

Generally at a drivethrough you listen to the sound on your radio

Thats what I meant about the way of getting stuff done. I don't feel it is a parent thing, I think it is a bullying thing, "Those people wont do what I want, all you people hassle them until I do". Part of the twitter thing. I am sure if he thought he had a genuine chance of it happening he is capable of getting Dave Gillmours telephone number

Thread-leak from elsewhere!

As long as it makes someone happy, I guess that is all that music is about, I might go and hunt on youtube to see if there are any good versions. True, but maybe they could have started with that

I don't like it because it is a great song sang by someone who could sing it very well a few decades ago. But now can't. Not knocking any of the musicians, who are excelent, as would be expected. For the same reason I can't listen to rush live performances of the last decade or jethro tull performances, I understand that they are these peoples songs, who have the right to do whatever the hell they want with it, but from my point of view, their performance takes away from the work they have done, rather than adds to it. I have heard several great covers of that song, that are many times better than that. I am sure there are covers on youtube that are many times better than that, but they are not Roger Waters. If you played that song and a cover to someone who didn't know the song or the people involved, and asked them to pick the best one, I would bet it wouldn't be that. So yes, I don't like it, because it is a great song.