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Its all those dodgy old basses of yours - I'll take them off your hands

Whens the next one

Dont forget early jazz basses had 2 dual concentric pots - vol/tone for each pick up.

Playing one finger per fret is an excercise to improve fretting - not one of the 10 commandments. Cant think of a single song where the bass plays a chromatic fourth. It might be useful for building solo's but these are not usually played where it hurts.

I know what you mean - I have the luxury of living 20 mins away from Bernie so we can chew the fat as it were. Try one of the Scottish builders.

+1 for good amps and yes the op is 500 watts. The seller is obviously one of the missing knobs but it is a good price.

Why - it sounds sh*t!

Ask Bernie? I expect Bernie's pickups are made by Kent or Aaron Armstrong and if you want some wound different I bet it can be done.

Not being funny - but the lass has studied bass at a world renowned music college so she jolly well should be good. When I were a lad, you could only have lessons in "proper" instruments at school and I can remember the fuss when I did the practical for my Music CSE on a banjo It then followed that you could only study "proper" instruments at music college but now we have ACM and BIMM and being able to study bass guitar at Berklee. I'm not sure this is right - sure the lass has got all the chops and can sight read and everything but I keep getting this one thought - Elvis never went to singing school. Had Elvis gone to singing school, he would no longer have been Elvis.

500 watts is plenty. Dont forget you are gonna need a pre-amp and frankly, at £99 a pop these amps are probably gonna suck - big time.

Its half a six string bass. Some of you may remember back on bassworld I said why bother with ERB's when you put a scrunchie round the 12th fret to damp the strings - just cut half the neck off. The bloke that made this was obviously reading

I used Dean Markley for about 10 years but stopped when the supply to the UK dried up. With the interweb I was hoping to re-aquaint myself but never found any of the ground wound I liked apart from in NZ and they would not ship to UK.

Think you will find thats the Ox rig. The B-2 on the bay went for 1020 which aint a bad price but the bidding looked a bit dodgy.

Not bad for a bird and not bad for a 21 year old so that makes it pretty good for a 21year old bird but at the end of the day its just more shredding. By the time Andy Fraser was 21 Free had been and gone!

Nice bit of wood - still dont get singlecuts though.

Welcome - the English is better than some of our UK members can manage

Oh and very nice too.

Well in the UK the custom bass builders range from screwing stock parts to a luthier made body and neck to using own pups, actives, bridges etc. I dont think any make their own tuners but some like GB replace the keys with wood. In all fairness a lot of the pups are actually Aaron Armstrong and the actives John East but they are made to the builders spec and not generally available.

£399 new or used? Its a very good price for a new one and OK for a used one. Think they retail at £800. I would. I would also look at the Peavey Tour cabs as they have finally seen the light and made cabs that wont break your back

[quote name='lwtait' post='50696' date='Aug 25 2007, 09:17 PM']I's say the Hoppus, the Mike Dirnt, or a MIJ 70's reissue P Bass. For the 70's reissue try looking here: [url="http://www.guitaremporium.co.uk/index.php?f=data_fender_japan_new_guitars&a=3"]Guitar Emporium[/url][/quote] Good link - but which part of "i'm in New York" did you not understand?

Not being funny - but wait until you get your Shuker before you start pup-foolery. Your Shuker might chnage your view of the sound you want.

When I fitted castors myself I put them on the side so I could get good contact with the stage. Tilting the cab back is fine as long as your amp does not fall off.

You get what you pay for.