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  1. Woodinblack
    Sorry Although if you do want one, there is £60 off them if bought before 25th December, which is why i got my roli this week
  2. Woodinblack
    Can you not get a cheap one and hack it around to get round the nerve issue?
  3. Woodinblack
    It absolutely would work, yes, and maybe I would do something like that. I am just saying I don't recommend anyone else did. Except I would probably use crimps and maybe heatshrink
  4. Woodinblack
    I assumed they messed up the pickup cutout so did that to hide it?
  5. Woodinblack
    you would be surprised, the difference between 25 and 37 is more than it sounds. 25 is ok for short basslines, but the problem is you have basically 2 octaves if you are in c. with 37 you have 2 octaves in any key, so you don't get that bit where you run out of notes often. I would agree the launchkeys look good. I have a Axiom 61, and a mid-air 25, but I don't really use either of them, I tend to use what is already up, so the piano or the DS61 keyboard. Or my new Roli 49. I recommend that heartily as the best keyboard I have ever used. It almost fits the criteria of what you want, apart from the pads, the keys and the 'not breaking the bank' part
  6. Woodinblack
    Just strip a mains cable back, wrap the blue and brown wire round a pin each and slap some insulating tape over it, jobs a goodun' Note: I am not really recommending this!
  7. Woodinblack
    Half of mine are the wood ones anyway
  8. Woodinblack
    Makes them pretty secure but hard to get them off the wall when you want to play them!
  9. Woodinblack
    mine have always been hung on the wall and have never had any problems. Apart from once, when the hanger fell off as I used screws that were way too short!
  10. Woodinblack
    Whereas I like the nords almost better than almost any other pickup, the pickups on the Prestige 5005 is very impressive. When I bought it I also got a nord big blade as I thought I didn't like the barts, but these barts are very different from the normal. And very different from each other, so the stayed. They really go from deep growl to soft and smooth. Much better than the barts on the previous prestiges, and the main ranges. It would be hard to say now between the 5005 and 1605 which one I preferred the sound of, although it is nice the 1605 that it weighs half of the 5005!
  11. Woodinblack
    I wouldn't put that sort of restriction on myself
  12. Woodinblack
    I had an SRFFmultiscale too and couldn't get on with it as the tone was just dull and flat. I had a 505, that was better but not that much character (quite a solid bass in other ways) Really nothing to do with the body though, the 1605 and 5005 have the same bodies and they are nothing like it, I think the difference is just down to the pickups. I did almost put some nord singles into the SRFF, but they are £300 for a custom set for that size, so that didn't seem a good deal when I already have all the others.
  13. Woodinblack
    I have the same one. I am not a fan of P basses, and generally speaking, I probably shouldn't like it as its neck is too deep, the spacing is too wide, I don't like tobacco sunburst, but something about it just works, and on the list of basses I am going to get rid of next year, it doesn't feature
  14. Woodinblack
    I am selling my Roli Seaboard 25, as I have decided I run out of keys too much so I have a Seaboard 49 on order. As much as I would like to keep both I can't really justify that! So £310 and you pick it up at my house in Yeovil. Or somewhere in somerset / dorset area within 30/40 miles of Yeovil for a bit of petrol. Or if I happen to be going that way (I go to Bristol / Bath often, and Exeter occasionally). Or I can post for the cost of posting via an insured signed for service. The one with the rubber keys, or keywaves as they are known. Basically a continuous playing surface with the hint of keys, really hard to describe what it is like playing with one as there isn't much that is the same, although if you want to do synth basslines, you really can do it well with this. It is an MPE surface, which means instead of having one channel with note on / note off, pitch bend etc, each note uses a channel to itself so you can pitch bend each note independently etc. so you can slide between notes and up notes etc. This is the most expressive form of keyboard playing you are going to get, I would do a demo but you would be better off watching someone like Marco Paraisi on youtube demoing it, or that bloke from Dream Theatre. Or that bloke with St Vincent. Never was good with names. Yes, I know it isn't a bass but I thought I would advertise it here until eBay do another one of their £1 sale things. And if you get really good with it, you sound like this:
  15. Woodinblack
    Well, Yes, me too but I wouldn't pick a fender in the first place. however, if I was the type to pick a fender, I would assume they have a better second hand sale value.
  16. Woodinblack
    I just bought a Roli 49, but I guess that would be allowed anyway as it isn't bass! I won't be able to join in with your group - I am too weak, but hopefully I can end next year with less stuff than I start it with, that is the aim.
  17. Woodinblack
    What with our exchange rates tanking with brexit and all, I am guessing they will start to get a bit less common here! I saw that headless, it looked really nice, I am sure you are going to love it. I still have room in my collection for a headless frog, but I think combine with the comment above, its not something that is going to happen any time in the foreseeable future!
  18. Woodinblack
    Just had a spam from GAK - in their "special christmas deals" they have the stomp at £465. Was there a time when it was more than £465? Or do these shops assume that we have no memory. Honestly things like that make me not trust some shops
  19. Woodinblack
    Yeh, there is no issue then.
  20. Woodinblack
    Hopefully when you get it back you can learn to trust it. I must admit it wouldn't work for me, but it is a very beautiful bass and it would be a shame not to use it.
  21. Woodinblack
    I don't doubt it - these things don't stand still, the other manufacturers will be making new things soon. You are only as good as your last product
  22. Woodinblack
    haha - maybe. I think though that they develop these products and then hang on to them to wait to see what other people are going to be bringing out. The stomp came out the week before Headrush announced something very similar and sort of stole their thunder.
  23. Woodinblack
    I mean like the stomp, with a couple more buttons, and both full DSP channels. So twice the channels, twice the buttons and 4 times the blocks. The stomp is good for what it is, but it isn't anything like the LT. So really I want a full helix in a HX size box. I am happy to pay the LT price, but I don't have the LT space. They will make one eventually, might be a few years.
  24. Woodinblack
    I don't mind a few samples. In fact I use a couple of samples on a floor pedal when we are playing. We might be playing fairytale of new york at christmas. Today my wife asked me why I was going to take a keyboard to play it, if I was only doing the intro, rather than just play it on a recording. That hadn't even occured to me, and I don't intend to do it.
  25. Woodinblack
    The truss rod cover is any piece of wood you want or even not wood, it is wood on my premium, metal on the prestige and plastic on the normal ones - tbh, I didn't know that until I just looked. Tiny screws, but yes, just wood screws. Wouldn't recommend wenge as it is a nasty wood to work, but a small bit of rosewood is nothing on ebay and that would do nicely. Its very thin though. If the neck is wenge, it will have pits in the wood, that is the whole beauty of Wenge. It would be hard to say what you could use as wood grain filler as to me it would be like saying what emulsion would you recommend to give good coverage over the Sistine chapel! Strings obviously personal, mine all have d'addarios XL nickel round wound on (which is odd considering I am allergic to nickel), but the 5005 has NYXLs on, and they are rather nice. I think Ibanez put elixirs on them at the moment. Mine are always 130-45, but obviously you have the extra string, so I am guessing 130-30
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