Woodinblack

Loved doing the quayside festival. We were invited to do the NYE one but sadly our singer is not doing NYE this year, otherwise we would, it was one of the favourites of this year. Mind you, we played it on a warm day in the summer

I have loads of tattoos, but no longer have long hair, and I don't have a spector. I have had two but I don't have any at the moment or any plans to change that. Just for a data point

Is that the whole retrovibe collection there?

They have the 1820 at £799 as well as some of the other 1xxx series premiums. Bear in mind that the difference in any of the 1xxx series is purely down to finish, they work out good deals. The 2xxx series are supposed to be better things, although the sale price of the 260x is more than the 2605 that I got last year, so that is just the normal price, and note that the price they have crossed out on the 2600 is more than the non crossed out price of the 2605 (at no point would the 4 string have been more expensive than the 5 string). Obviously finishes are personal, but there is nothing quite as stunning as the 260x, so it is down to what you want. As always, try them and see what works.

Well, if andertons are selling without the case, it isn't a discount because you aren't getting the case, it is close to the same price as I paid last year (slightly more)

Oh well worth checking then - I just assumed they would all come with them. Maybe they separate them and sell them on their own. Mine was in a sale last year but came with the case, so I have two of them. I don't use them, but would feel cheated if they weren't on top of my wardrobe! The premiums come with a hard case, those are in the loft.

I thought all the premiums came with the semi hard case? Always worth checking.

Yes, as I found out (as the first was a present), you can actually take them to any fender lead dealer and they will just swap it for a new one. Which is great as a policy but would be good if you didn't need it. I have a whirlwind lead I found in a shared house that had been left when a previous occupant moved in 1991. I don't even know if the company is still going, but the lead is fine.

I always do that (not that it helped the fender cable). Or you can take to extreme like Rick Parfits guitar, with a hole drilled through the body.

Ah, I wondered if that is what you meant. I hadn't seen a sandberg like that. Although I could imagine the conversation as they are totally different ends of the pricing spectrum and there are people (and I am not suggesting this is true for everyone, or even most) who really have to believe if they paid £2k for something that it is substantially better than something that cost £200. And it obviously is in certain ways, but not ways that matter to an audience

I weighed mine today because of another post. 2 at 8.2lb, 1 at 8.8lb and one at 10.4lb Didn't weigh the others, but they have to be in the same range I would think. The 10.4lb is not great to do a 3 hour gig with, but I have done it (and felt if afterwards).

So on that subject, why did the world stop using curly leads? In the 70s everything was curly leads and then they all disappeared.

Yes, that is how I understood set, I was guessing 2, so 1.5hr-2hr gig. As I said, not done one that short in a while!

The HB is based on a sandberg? See that is what I thought you were interpreting it as, which is nothing at all what I meant. OK, I can't say the shape of your bridge really appeals to me, but that is just aesthetics and one persons blah blah blah. I agree totally, if it stays where it is supposed to be and does what it is supposed to do then it is a great bridge, the problem I have with your bridge is that it looks like the ones on the chickenbackers (and obviously I don't know it is, but that is what it looks like). The problem i have with the chickenbacker bridges are that to make it look like a rickenbacker bridge they have actually compromised the function of a bridge, and lets face it, there isn't much a bridge has to do, other than enable you to set the intonation and height of the strings well, and not allow side to side movement. If it does that fine, it just looked like the ones that don't. To be honest, I liked my chickenbacker (apart from I don't really play 4 strings much), and I think that all of its problems were due to the idea that it was supposed to look like a ric, and the main thing with that was that damn bridge that didn't work properly and got in the way, and the pickup cover (I don't like those on any bass). Its pickups weren't great but they weren't terrible. I certainly don't buy the cheap bass has to be cheap like in some posts here - when it comes down to it prices are magnified in production and sale, so if you put a £10 bridge on a bass, rather than a £5 one, at sale price that will be £30 difference. As much as people with expensive production basses like to think, there is no way a pickup costs a manufacturer more than a fiver to make, it is still a coil of wire and a magnet. The costs are just down to the labour costs and the markup required to recoup the investment, which obviously depends on the volume you are selling, like everything else.

Oh yes, I liked the MTD 534

45-60 minute set? not done one that short for a long while! I love it too, its a great bass, just that is a litte irritating as it is possible to fix it with a bit more thought. If they used the luminays with the border, it would have been visible even uncharged.

Yeh, I met him at the bass show year before last, he seemed to have time and enthusiasm for everyone

Well, you can tell him, he is a member on here. i have plenty of time for him. I am a better bass player than I was because of him

I would also say, and I am not one to talk down an ibby, but there is one really stupid thing on the 260x. The luminays. I have luminays on the Maruszczyk and they are excellent, a light blue glow when glowing and a white dot when not, on an ebony board, you can see them a mile off both lit and not. The 2605s luminays are light green against a light brown and when not lit or not freshly charged at gig lighting are almost totally invisible. Absolute killer for alright now

I thought the ray was pretty nothingy it has to be said. None of them apart from the hofner were terrible. I liked the xotic.

Played the same christmas eve pub as the last two years, and had the same outcome. Absolutely heaving, great crowd, one rather annoying drunk guy who insisted on dancing by my amp and pedal board with his drink in the air spilling a lot, but one of the women in the crowd saw this was an issue and managed to get between him and my stuff and slowly push him out of the way. We also had a few guests, one woman who often sings whole lotta love with us did that. I couldn't sing 'feel it still' because I still have a bad throat from a recent cold, but there was a woman from a local group who does that song in her band so we dragged her up to sing it with us. Great night and hard to stop after the 3 encores.

Tapewounds would not go well with the nords I wouldn't think. I put tape wounds on my Maruszczyk that had a Nord P on it and it totally neutered it. They worked fine on a G&L - although I haven't played it much since then, so they probably won't last next time I play it. I would qualify this by saying I like an agressive growl on a bass, which is what the nords excel at. Obviously this is the opposite of you want if you use tapewounds. If you like the sound of tapewounds, maybe the nords is not what you want?

That looks great in that colour!

They look great, although the fact they are fender leads would put me off. I love the look of the newer fender leads (the black and white stitched ones) but I haven't and don't know anyone I have played with who hasn't had them fail when playing. Lucky they have a replace when fail policy, the guitarist is on their third. I am on my second but won't gig it any more.

I was impressed to just how good the Aria sounded.