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synthaside

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  1. Yup , I have done this with two drummers , who who was just amazing but sadly was promoted up at Harrods and now has no time to do much else . But how it thundered out from behind me ... and it left me oddles of space to just have the bass ring out , our other drummer other took quite some time to learn it and i do feel it dosent quite have the same Gravitas.
  2. We also do a mean version of this , the trick is to have a drummer who is confident enough to get the fills right 😉
  3. I was looking at that .... telebass on the trade sites but my thoughts ... hrmmm its not Maple , i'd not really get on with it. I seem to be the odd man out here ... I love me a maple board ... not one of those horrible satin things ....a good honest to goodness Nitro Lacquer . Its a tone thing for me ... i have two excellent jazzes and its always the maple i go for its brighter and more adaptable as i can turn the town down to find my mud but not get the bite back when im playing somthing that needs it.
  4. I'm a in a band that aims to do this , called Guilty Pleasure , female fronted 90's rock Wheatus , Avril Lavinge , sixpence none the richer , Savage garden alongside the more rockier and acceptable , greenday , and covers staples The bands aim is to hit that 90's and early 2000's stilton factor 😉 im currently in talks to try to avoid doing "busted" mainly because i don't want to have to jump up and down in time on " thats what i go to school for" , which willeend up with 6'4 of me hitting my head on ceilinings and getting concussion Instead pushing pushing for Stacie's mom .... that songs go it going on 😉 This was a result of realising it was always the more cringey oddball numbers we did that got better reception ...along with the audiance age being more 20- 40 somthings who are likely to be down the dog n duck on a thursday night.
  5. The bridge definitely is ... perhaps bigger than the humber 😉
  6. Have you tried putting the magnum III in there you might be surprised how well it fits ...... 😉 Mine is in a Mag 2 case I'm actually the current custodian of Flat Eric's Grey-burst Magnum III ... for anyone who has never played one of these they don't sound anything like you think you might think there all mud ... but they really growl and bark when you need them too , interesting ... did you add the thumb rest along the top to mimic a magnum II's mine doesnt have one and it would definatly improve playability. Synth / lyle
  7. " uses internet magic " here https://web.archive.org/web/20180102111515/http://www.sabreguitars.co.uk/about/ cool isnt it ... this is why nothing ever really goes away online ... Think before you post folks
  8. I have never wanted anything so much that i cant have .... that is fantastic ... i had been looking at something similar on a stand website and they go for close to if not over £200 ... https://www.stand-made.co.uk/product-category/multi-guitar-stand-racks/retro-style-multi-guitar-stands/ I reckon if you dad ever needs a sideline he'd have a queue going out the door.
  9. hrmmmmmmmm Don't suppose you fancy a trade on this for my 70's Classic Jazz from the same series ?
  10. I have the Hotone thunder bass , somewhere .... >.< moving is a bi*** but i remember it actually sounding very reasonable a little SVT , if a little hissy into my old trace elliot 15 inch cab could have easily been bad connections or power ... for the hiss , for headphone practice pretty perfect ... but wouldnt you just be better off using a laptop , some IR responses and a cheap interface.
  11. That's what's special about the old smoothie Ray;s its an original design prototype that was rejected by an admittedly going deaf leo fender . The blurb : "Old Smoothie" StingRay, a faithful reproduction of StingRay prototype #26, designed for Sterling Ball during his time spent testing and developing the original prototypes back in the 70's. Named for its smooth even tone that is reminiscent of the highly sought after vintage Music Man StingRay sound, "Old Smoothie" has been precisely reproduced including the one-of-a-kind custom made 10 pole piece pickup design, body headstock and pickguard shape, 34-inch scale maple neck and fingerboard, low profile narrow frets, hardware, and active electronics.
  12. As a proud owner of one of these ( in my moderate stable of basses , I literally don't pick up any other bass) they are phenomenal , I didn't ever think anything would ever move me away from a jazz width neck , I even ceased looking at the classifieds on here , for months on end ... I have a chocolate burst with the white scratchplate .... and yes you will struggle to find a replacement ..... I tried to find a black replacement but couldn't .. The pickup in these is a 5 string width allowing the strings to rest between the poles to tame a lot of the bark ..... ( unless you dial it in on the classic 2 band eq ) I've just paid a substantial deposit on a house otherwise i'd consider this as a backup and sell every other bass I own.
  13. The chap who started ovation did it as an side to his other company making / designing helicopters for the US army , https://www.kaman.com/ if you look at the neck stamp it says Ovation a kaman company , ( as does my Magnum IV ) he had been a life long guitarist but was an engineer first businessman second and guitarist third., shame he's not more well known https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kaman Experimenting with ABS , inventing the roundback accoustic guitar hell the bridge system on our basses puts the golden gate to shame and its got more mass than it ;-)
  14. I’ve recently bought a bass of Flat Eric, I had contacted him regarding advice on Vintage Ovations and one thing lead to another. Wonderful chap would deal again and you should deal in absolute confidence. He was very accommodating and even drove down to London to ensure the bass arrived safely. We both agreed that couriers shouldn't be trusted with Vintage things that ultimately can’t be replaced for the actual monetary value we have to place on them. I am now the proud new owner of My unicorn bass … a Grey burst Ovation Magnum III … I think it’s 83 which makes it 2 years older than me …
  15. Short of the odd strip of electrical tape connecting the two halves of the pickup cover ... and the fact that the pickups don't align correctly, they are sort of scootched in i don't see a huge amount different . One of the more veteran old smoothie owners may be along shortly... there is definitely something about the neck though I play a jazz normally and stuggled with big P necks ...this is smooth as they come.
  16. I bet the body is probably butcherblock larch scrap with copious amounts of Glue which is whats giving it its stone esq weight . Nothing is wasted in the USSR 😉 except the people .... * ducks large object thrown by other half*
  17. Well back from rehearsal ... woah nelly that's big tone ... definitely cutting through very happy camper right now .
  18. I have called in my Russian better half to read the details from the manual, The model of the bass is " Belarus" , most of the manual is the usual details you'd expect, like length, number of octaves achievable etc and like the amount of certain metals and stuff. She says what specfically did you need reading from it it's a lot of technical language, I'm not gonna translate it without significant effort
  19. In hindsight, I should have probably given her a wipe down after the 2 hour getting to know each other session, i spy mucky fingerprints already ..... I could have sworn the one I played had detents in the Eq .... this doesnt ???
  20. They were too busy playing with a status over by the counter ... I just got a ... You gonna buy it then ... They Seemed a bit annoyed when I asked for a printed reciept too .. but I passed an older chap on the owner on the way out who seemed interested in what I bought and if I was happy .
  21. No I didn't , if I'm honest the 2 young guys really didn't seem too interested ... Some jaw dropping stuff on there , I asked about the 79 refin... Sold
  22. Well bass direct no longer have a chocolate burst old smoothie in stock ........ Because it's in the back of my car 🙂 .... Condition brand new with all case tags and keys .... Used twice by a musician who decided to stick with p basses .
  23. Mine Actually wont let me sell my status .. she has grown attached to looking at it on the wall.
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