Joeyfivebags

Guitarist friend of mine is looking to get a 5 string to do some work on his solo project. Looking at under £200 second hand and wants to know any suggestions/what sort of things to keep an eye out for. Style is progressive metal in style of TesseracT, Periphery and Modern Day Babylon, so really wants something with a good low ended/strong B (buckers?) probably to be tuned to drop Ab. Not too familiar with 5's in this price range so any advice would be gratefully received.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-japan-jazz-bass/1064396314#photo-content Seems very cheap to me.

6505+ are great amps but probably seriously overpowered if he is thinking of DarkTerror. The H&K Tubemeister36 has a huge sound for something so small, plus they do have a power soak option. Best bet for metal sound is look for something with either EL84s or 34s rather than 6L6s. Few guitarists i know have tried the Laney Ironheart and really disliked the sound although they get rave reviews from some areas.

The main differences between them are the neck shape (V vs D vs C) i think and the pickups, although none of them are true reissues as up until about '65 all strats came with three way switches, i believe.

Reserves on eBay really does annoy me, why not just put it as the starting bid? Even more confusing is i think there is a 3.5% insertion fee for having a reserve, assuming his reserve is best part of a grand (as suggested by his hundreds saving on a new custom one) that is £35 just for insertion. Fee for having a starting bid greater than £100 is £1.30. Seems a bit of a no brainier to me. Unless i've completely misunderstood their fees policy. Anyway rant over, it is a nice looking beast.

If you can find them the Lollar lollartron's sound very good in something like a 335. They are based on the old gretsch filtertrons, but fit to a standard humbucker rout, but have a warmth to them that the Filtertrons never really had.

[quote name='thodrik' timestamp='1394999299' post='2397636'] Yes, I haven't seen anything on the 5 string Balanced Tension sets either. I use a 145 and even that isn't close to being 'balanced', though it works well enough. [/quote] I'm assuming your using the d'addario .145, if so did you get tapered or non? Did you have any issues with fit at nut or bridge? Been contemplating going that heavy for a while but not if i'm going to have to get nut work done.

Anyone got any recommendations of the best place to get leads to connect power supplies to pedals, varying lengths would probably be useful also.

I get really frustrated at people who put stupidly long auctions on. Potential for bit of a bargain for someone, does look like someones chewed on the neck though. These are 35" scale if i remember rightly. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-BTB-205-5-String-Active-Bass-Guitar-with-New-Strings-99p-Start-Price-/191117546618?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c7f7e547a

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1393804732' post='2384610'] [/quote] Just curious about why only neck pickup on the 6?

I play 12-54 d'addario on electric and 13-56 martin on acoustic, standard tuning's on both as first i could only play for about 15 minutes at a time with the 13s but my fingers eventually got used to it. I know that Rick Parfitt uses 14-56 with a wound G but he does absolutely hammer the strings.

Had a scan through and couldn't see it mentioned so here goes Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein uses Ampeg think they are SVT Classics. All dependent on your opinion of misfits sound i suppose but people do do it.

Isn't zebrawood usually a lot paler than that? i.e. pale main colour with dark stripes?

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1388866057' post='2327179'] Is it good for Metal? [/quote] Does it djent?

I'll have a go saw them live last month.

I also got the fender Haynes manual and it's got far more info/handy tips than I thought it would.

No idea what knobes are billy but apparently they are "stacked" so they must have been going to the gym.