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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1503734316' post='3360568'] Where is Owen? [/quote] Sorry, I was on holiday. I had a 5 string neck put on my 4 string bass. I do realise that this does not provide an easy route into 5 string world. I totally get that neilp does not like them. I would not be without mine. I was playing 5 string bass guitars long before I hit 5 string DBs but was becoming increasingly fed up with missing the bottom 4th when moving from one instrument to the other. The world would be tedious if we were all the same
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Proper lush. If you have the right wood the whole aesthetic looks after itself. You have the right wood.
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I have HJ's woodworking skills, but I STILL want to try it.
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I cannot own all the basses. I bought this on Ebay ages ago. There was a period when Mazeti was a name being used by a factory in China. I bid on it in a late night ebay session (you know the ones). I unexpectedly won it. That came as quite a surprise. As is the way of these things, the instrument itself was really nice, but the pickups were ............ uninspiring. So I bought a custom pair of Villex P pickups and the magic happened. It is a 35" scale neck through monster. It weighs in at 8lbs13oz (4Kg) and is just very nice to play. It speaks consistently across the neck, has easy access to the dusty end of the fingerboard. If it does not sell then I will not be overly sad, just a bit at a loss as to what to do with more instruments than I actually need. I know that this is not the way to speak on BC but I am entering a post GAS phase of my life. It is all quite odd. I have taken some pics and realised that the knobs are not on the bass. This is not great advertising, but I will find them and put them on and do a pic for those as well. The controls are Vol/Vol/Tone/Villex mid tone thing. The mid tone thing is a passive mid cut which gives a sort of scooped EQ sound. I would be lying if I said that I thought that this was the very best thing to happen to bass since JS Bach - but there it is and it is not offensive. It will be shipped in a cardboard box and very well wrapped. No case. No gig bag (unless you want to pay more and I will chuck one in). -
There it is. This was pre setup. Obv the bridge is not at that angle now. All I need now is to work out which gig bag is actually going to fit a deep bodied Tele.
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[quote name='honza992' timestamp='1504212638' post='3363492'] [size=4][font=Arial]Now peeps, I need your advice. I want to do binding, cos I’m funny like that. [/font][/size] [/quote] Binding is ALWAYS lush. How about some Bird's Eye Maple binding? I have some on a Faith acoustic and it is subtle yet classy. You cannot really see the detail from the front, but then you see it from the side when you play and you get that warm feeling inside. Of course, I have no idea how much extra work this would be or any of that tedious detail stuff. If not I would go with the Ivory stuff. Black seems pretty hard. Obv YYMV!
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Ooh!
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[quote name='owen' timestamp='1496267212' post='3310152'] I have a korg desktop tuner and a cheap and cheerful 14 quid one. Both as good as each other. [/quote] I was wrong. The cheap one did not play nicely on my board last week on a theatre gig. It whined when on and when off. Not a huge whine but we were all on cans and it was commented on by the rest. My Korg one was fine. I stand corrected.
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My friend went to buy a DB from a guy in Bristol. I went with her. He mentioned that he was in a band. Again The Wurzles raise their heads in this thread. I bought an Eden 410XLT ex demo from The Gallery. Meshell N'degeocello had used it on a gig. Obviously it made me supremely funky. Edit - ohohoh! James Demeter quoted a post of mine on TB.
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The Low B is a lovely cab......... <sigh>.............. "To all the cabs I've loved before......... that've travelled in and out my door......."
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I just picked up a Chinese Tele/Gretsh thing for £230. I will post a pic when I can work out what to use instead of photobucket
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I feel your 6 string pain. It freaked me out as well! -
I not only do not gig it but I have not played it for years. I SHOULD sell it...... .
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Cafe Walter pre-amp! That takes me back!
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You only have to listen to the breadth of L42 material to realise that MK can do it all on bass. I just do not understamd why people love to have a pop at him. When I grow up I want to be touring on a regular basis playing whatever I want from my extensive back catalogue. Most of us would.
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I do not WANT to sound stupid, but is that software for the floor unit or the guitar? -
I biamped an SM400 through an early Turbosound PA cab. 2x15 on the bottom and 2x10+compression driver on top. I will never make a sound like that again. It was epic.
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I have one with a P pickup put in the MM spot. No single coil. I like it a lot.
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I played one 15 years ago. My head still hurts.
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Sonically no. There is no denying that the physical work surface of the qu16 is very convenient, but the convenience of a 4U box amd no multicore tip it for me.
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Same software. Same goodness. 4U rack amd that is it. Apart from missing the child like joy I always get from flying faders there is nothing not to love.
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The Low Achiever.
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Wilkes used to do slap plate at the end of a fretless fingerboard. I need to get out more.
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I had some work done on my DB last summer. The guy said it was the nicest piece of ebony he had ever worked on. It just peeled of uniformly under his plane. I am not convinced I got £800 of extra tone from the whole thing, but that is another story. It was more than just planing the fingerboard.
