Winny Pooh

Buy a bass with something else on the headstock.

I did watch Savage Garden for the sake of a friend. More meh than painful. I'd flat out decline a metal gig though.

How do these compare to Daddario flats?

It won't help.

An SM7 or RE20 works well too. On a budget the the Audix i5 is great.

I would have to be something I'd enjoy too like King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet

http://i.imgur.com/GCHCPUW.jpg Haha

That viola looks like fun. Dont forget to take the plastic out from under the bridge feet. You can also add a bit of beeswax under the feet for stick.

The fishman rare earth humbucker will do exactly what you are after.

Jamie only initially singled out my issue with the strings only so it's probably fair to post pics of the said finish wear. Full disclosure: It's Sterling Ray 35, I paid £500 direct via PPG and arranged the shipping at my cost. When I asked about any issues it was stated to be in "top condition" Here are pics of where the finish on the neck has been worn through and the wood discoloured http://i.imgur.com/xl5kmHC.jpg This goes the way along the treble side of the neck. http://i.imgur.com/HTZP09K.jpg http://i.imgur.com/35x8qGI.jpg

That's special, enjoy.

FWIW I am the buyer. And these are the strings. http://i.imgur.com/8K18FrD.jpg I have bought every single bass I have ever owned used and have never encountered a set as dead rubbery and useless. I'm a considerate ebayer and went so far as to buy from Jamie direct to save him ebay fees. So I was understandably a bit miffed to receive a bass with undisclosed finish wear and gross strings, simply because I would never sell a bass in such a manner without being fully honest about such things.

I've just started listening to her and am digging Peace beyond Passion. Why no more dates?!

[quote name='Ba55me15ter' timestamp='1476867862' post='3157848'] You can't beat the original Boss OC2 for me. Yes the tracking can be dodgy and it warbles now and then, but that's part of the charm. Just sounds so good! [/quote] Then there's the "superior" OC-2, the Foxrox Octron. Beautiful analog tones with octave fuzz on the high octave.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1483570438' post='3208440'] When I played fives, I tuned a tone below E-C (so DGCFBb). I found the low D useful but low B not helpful with what we were playing. [/quote] I was thinking about this exact thing last night. I used to play my ibanez musician 4 in D with groundwounds exclusively for about 2 years. I'm looking at buying a 5 now and similarly find anything below D of little use. I may try this out.

Silly person

Too perfect, damn. I was also surprised to find that the killer bass on Bonnie Raitt's spit of love was a Moog.

Is your wife intending (as native speaker) to be the primary breadwinner? And having said that does she want kids? Would you mind quitting your current band for a much smaller scene?

Alanah Miles' Black Velvet has some tasty playing on it FWIW

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1483389439' post='3206804'] Every time she moved it sounded like someone groping a load of balloons in a bag... Jules [i]had[/i] to play to cover it. [/quote] Lololol

If you have the sting slready then why bother? I used to have one but never got the tone I wanted from it, was always a bit clean. Best pickup in it was a GFS rails guitar pup. The SD replacement is good too.

I used to have their 55 P style bass. Decent quality but would buy a J & D first nowadays if shopping in that price range.

I dont have nostalgia for anything I've sold. It stopped working for me or I found something better sometimes in a radical way: telecaster to EBMM w trem or 51 P bass to stingray.There is so much gear out there to try that is not based on vintage gibson, rics or fenders.

Interesting topic. Take Sledgehammer, awesome song, huge hit, but if it were released now, would it make it onto radio?