Woodinblack

I just changed a 30" scale messinger from E-C to B-G and didn't adjust any truss rods. In fact, thinking about it, the only basses I ever had to adjust truss rods on after changing string gauge were fenders, so I wouldn't worry too much

Maybe to you. I enjoy gigging and I would rather play a cover of a decent song that everyone dances to than a poor original to an empty room. The thrill for me is playing something the audience like. Much happier being a jukebox

They look great, especially the darker necked one. They are going to look something else with some hardware

Apart from being the longest link I have seen, it doesn't seem to point to anything other than the bassfreaks facebook page, so the same as https://www.facebook.com/bassfreakssprl/ Which bass was it?

I think these people live anywhere - there are groups around that do synth stuff. There is a group near here that just do 80s covers, which is a lot of synth pop stuff, and this is nowhere.

Don't know about the classic, but it changes fine on the non classic.

Why? He is influential. So much so that he is one of the few keyboard players that people could name

No you are right from those figures, I was thinking of the burst power ratings (which are in actual playing all you would see), but litterally yes, it should be the last column.

You can patent thrust??

Human interaction is not generally too bad, but music shop dweller interaction can be a bit less comfortable!

No, the 450 is 235 and short term 450, the 750 is 400 and something http://cdn-downloads.tcelectronic.com/media/914735/tc_electronic_bass_amp_power_rating___active_power_management.pdf

I now feel slightly dissapointed that my TC-RH450 doesn't have a thrust control. There are many times I am sure I could have done with more thrust, and as we don't get invisible bears over here, that would have been perfect. I am sure there are times when there is just way too much thrust too. In fact I might have to make an effect pedal for some thrust control.

Were the finger positions to tell him where to play or indicating where he was playing? Is that not musical? Duran duran were basically just a synth group, so that is most of it. I just make all the thuds and clanks in my group

Used them for years without trouble, then got an ACG that had the dunlop ones which I preferred, so changed some basses for that, then the guitarist had a dunlop set fail, so now in the worst of world of having some shallers, some dunlops and some no strap locks and not sure where way to go. Prefer the dunlop shape in that you can still use a vanilla strap

Its always hard to fill in the keyboard player compared to a guitarist though

Doesn't seem that unusual in a group of 3, the drummer and the bass player gel well, and probably the drummer isn't that bothered about the guitarist but stays because he enjoys playing with that bass player. Frankly in groups that I have been with, a change in guitarist wouldn't have that much impact, a change in drummer is pretty major.

My last group was an advert from the drummer looking for a guitarist and bass player with vocals. That worked fine. If he already has bookings with the group it doesn't seem unreasonably I wouldn't have thought.

Well done and very well deserved!

The only two basses I have seen in shops in the last 6 months that I was interested in buying was one in the Bass Gallery, one in Wunjo and one in Vintage and Rare. London is 120miles, Bath is 50. There is little chance that something I was interested in would turn up in a shop near me.

Nothing worse than when your favourite place gets turned into something else. We had that with one of our locals, and now our main local (ie, the one that always called us first when someone else let them down) has been sold and no idea what the plans of the new owners are, but it is being done up at the moment and reopening in the autumn. Although as you said it was full of music lovers, maybe they will go somewhere else?

Nothing compelling in my local shop. I have bought some strings in there before, but thats about it. They do at least have something other than fenders - they have one PRS (but it is a 4 string). And a few fenders. There is another guitar shop around, but they aren't really open when I can go to them. I went in to vintage and rare in bath the other day, and it wasn't that bad an experience. And I went into the new shop in bath, they had NYXL 5 strings for £29.95 Thats cheaper than anywhere else, so I thought I would get some. They told me it was a mistaken label and they were actually 39.95. So I got no strings. I generally don't bother with music shops. I did go to london recently and actually got round to going into the bass gallery.

It lasts about.. oh.. not at all! I have had a few new basses, including an elwood. None of them involved settling in. Also adjusting a truss rod is only something I have done recently in 35 years of having guitars and basses, and certainly not much. Adrians not convinced that is a twist? Unless you paid extra for one of those fancy torzal twist designs, that is what my parents would have said is as bent as a 9 bob note. I would be cautioning him that there will be a consumer fitness for purpose action coming.