Woodinblack

I find this quite interesting. Im guessing that a PF50 wouldn't really cut it for a loud group? I normally run a TC450 at half volume into 2 12" tc cabs.

They do look the same, same shape, the epi has the gibson pickups. But yes, the have a serial on the back of the headstock and as it is pickup only you can check it then,

I do that, in fact I do all the high harmonies. I also sing somethings, Surfin' USA and Brick in the wall. I am not a good singer, but sometimes it doesn't appear to matter.

Yeh, mine is one of the SR1000EWNs

I have had quite a few things like that, cash on collection that then tries into a drama. But to be fair, there have been a few times I have asked because there is something I really wanted but couldn't get to, so I never hold it against someone for asking, but once things start to get really complicated then I leave it.

My preferred finish. My 1605 is still my favourite although I will say that is way busier than mine!

Yep, got some NYXLs too! Seem to be a pattern here

The guitarist in my band does that. So much so that now I turn my TC RH450 so that he can see it as it has the full time tuner!

I play almost exclusively 5 strings for everything, but I do have an ibanez prestige SR1000 because it is the one I bought first, a P bass because it was a present and a thunderbird, because, well, thunderbirds look so cool. Oh and an iceman which I am thinking of converting to a 5 string, or selling. Yesterday I took the thunderbird out, because, it just looks really cool, and there doesn't seem to be a decent 5 string thunderbird without something expensive and custom. It has to be said though, after feeling smug because I didn't mess up Poker Face, Baker street and Black Magic woman, where I remembered I relied on the B string, I completely forgot about moondance and cocked up the first few choruses, until I remembered how to do it on a 4 string for the last ones! Oh yes, one of the others I messed up by playing a string up. It has to be said though, if I want to play RHCP higher ground, it is easiest on the SR1000, without the B string to hit.

That is very true, I do tend to skip ahead a lot of the videos.

Not specifically that one but have done others, and always found that it wasn't really possible to get enough of a variety on one pickup to make it worth it. On 2 pickups spaced apart it is a useful thing to have, I certainly wouldn't want to gig a jazz bass without one and on my twin MM pickuped bass it works really well (and on my G&L), but on a single pickup, you would be hard pushed to know which way round it was.

Oh what is he playing now?? Did we just miss a verse?

They sound ok but they haven't got the bite of the nord big singles, or somehow the depth of the neck pickup of the bart 5005. I have a P at the front and a twin jazz type at the back and there isn't much variation really. As I say, they are ok, but if I was to come across some nords that fitted I would certainly put them in there without a second thought, but they are not so bad that I have gone out and got some (the nords I have spare are soapbars that would fit the ibanez, so they wouldn't go in the Maruszczyk).

I am not sure I am following you on how punk and that real big fish track are related (and yes I do remember proper punk), but I am not familiar with X-Factor, so maybe it is something I don't get!

I find the barts are a lot cleaner, in most things (and obviously the vary), but the barts in the prestiges have more growl, like the Nords in the premiums. I have Hausells in my Maruszczyk and have not really been overly impressed with them. They are ok, but a little characterless.

Yep, the premiums were excellent, so when I got the prestige I did by some nord pickups for it, but I still have them

We tend to do ska versions of several things, even though we are not really a ska band, so we do Which is prefer to the original, and this which is so much better (as I really don't like the original)

Oh I hate that with such a passion - all those vapid breathy girl singers that do slow boring versions of songs that end up on adverts for banking.

My first ibby was actually a presitge SR1000, which has barts, and I didn't feel much either way about them, they did the job, but the bass I had before was pretty rubbish and it was around the time I started playing again after my 30-40s gap. Then I got all the others. I had a 505 which I liked buy the pickups were ok, but a bit nondescript. The prestige pickups were excellent, the nord singles, so when I got the 5005 I was initially a little disappointed with both them being barts, which looked like the others and they were so vastly different from each other. However, having played them live I realised they were not like your grandmothers barts, these had real bite to them and the difference gave you a huge tonal range. So I don't know what they are but they are very different from the normal range. They say 'custom' on the web page. The other day we were playing and it was the first time we were going to do Higher Ground so I thought maybe it would be easier on a 4 string (which I rarely play), just because of the slapping. Turns out the barts in the sr1000 which sound very polite and non descript at home actually really cut through live very well.

I would do a picture of mine like that but I genuinely don’t have a floor area big enough for all the ibbys. Although if I restricted it to srs now I have sold the src6 and GVB36 I might be able to! but

Mine we also the 80s, but I enjoyed the music, but I didn't listen to any chart music back then. Hated most of it. Turns out now I don't hate most of it and I can be nostalgic about some of that music, but just because music is special to you because it reminds you of a time shouldn't mean you don't want to hear new stuff, but I am always surprised to find people who don't listen to anything other than what they listened to in their teens and 20s (unless of course, they are in their teens or 20s, and then I guess it is acceptable). At least the group I am in play some things from this century, although not much.

I am the old one in my band, early 50s, the others are late 20-30s. The guitarist, the youngest said something about me and old music. I pointed out he was the one wanting to play old blues songs all the time and I was the only one in the group that had gone to see several gigs by groups that had produced an album this year!

Only you know if it would be any use to you. I have a lifetime membership of signing up when it first open and I don't often go there. When I do I learn valuable things, but I just don't get round to it often!

I agree - where would be on basschat if we ever did a topic here more than once? 😂