Steve Browning

They had their first outing on Saturday night and I was just blown away by them. The closest I can get is to say it was almost as though I been playing with the handbrake on up until now. The pickups are amazing, loads of clarity and punch right across the frequencies, thunderous lows and wonderfully articulate highs. These things are just awesome basses.

How about a small mixer and feed both basses out of that into the single amp. At bedroom volume you only want to recognise the notes I would imagine. Negates the need for the expense of the second amp at all.

I suspect they will. Having to wait for Saturday to play them in anger but the first impressions are very good indeed.

Probably whichever I pick up first. One is a gnat's heavier than the other but neither weight very much. Very much on a par with the '66 on which they're based. In theory I wanted them to be identical. Goes all the way back to seeing Queen on their early tours and John Deacon with his pair of sunburst Precisions (as they were then).

Thank you. They really are fantastic basses. I'm thrilled with them in every way.

Thanks. Slightly lighter than true 70's mocha but I actually prefer this colour. Simon did some very slight ageing rather than any kind of full on relicing. I wouldn't want a relic personally.

Thanks all. Simon concentrates on guitars and has only made a small handful of basses but you can see the quality of his work on the website. He would certainly make a bass if requested. He specifically asked if he could build me a bass and my daft spare obsession required two of them. Had to unload 6 basses to cover the cost but well worth it.

Ok, to many these will be just another two copy basses. To me (having played them) they are just so much better. SVL Guitars are the work of Simon Law, guitar tech for Matt Schofield, Robben Ford and Pete Townsend. In fact he is with the Who recording at the moment (and, with these, I got a set of Pino |Palladino's strings). Hugely resonant and nice and light. They feature 5% overwound Lindy Fralin Vintage pickups, lightweight reverse tuners and Gotoh bridges. Absolutely awesomer work and they will be my constant companions from now on.

Lovely basses. I have the fretless version of it. Quite a few have a buffer fitted to the piezo circuit (I did mine myself) to bring the pickup outputs into line. You can get a wonderfully wide range of tomes and the fretless can do a very passable upright bass impersonation. I may well be looking out for this when it resurfaces.

If it's original I would leave it. If it's a refin I would be tempted to just have it stripped.

Not a great fan of the genre but did like Firestarter.

Sizeist!! 🙂

And so will the apostrophe police!! 🙂

Very much in jest. Good luck!!

Kent Armstrong Vintage P - wonderful pickups. Great depth and clarity.

I'm looking at that rig and wondering (not that I know) if there is an output level on the wireless? Could that be reduced?

I did a stint in an Abba tribute band and had a glorious time playing these lines. One of my favourites (and good exercise!!) was Lay All Your Love On Me.

You get sick of them after a while. Of course I may just be saying that to give an impression ...............

That was my thought. Split the risk 3 ways too.

A lot of Dire Straits stuff is quite complex. Quite a few have subtle changes to chords in verses etc.

I remember noodling (badly) on a Frenandes Strat back in the 80s and it was a wonderful guitar and probably the nicest guitar I have ever played (AFAIR). There is a sunburst Fernandes bass on sale here that looks to be a brilliant instrument. I have to actively remind myself I mustn't buy it every time I see it. Luckily, for me, it's just the other side of being an impulse buy!!

Ok, let me kick things off. Very good Blues band playing all over. Guitarist (well it was always likely to be , wasn't it?) a very fine player but far more jovial than necessary and convinced he was the world's funniest man. He was also a congenital liar and claimed to have an amazing guitar collection that was with a variety of friends in oredr to keep them from falling into the wrong hands (his, perchance). He would swear blind he had called me and I had not replied (my mobile never recorded these missed calls). HE was an ar$e of the highest order. He got the chance to do some touring with an American female Blues singer, which he did. He was let go because they deemed him too annoyingly cheery. His confidence took a knock at this but he compensated by being even more cheery. Eventually he left the band to pursue a change of direction (or avoid me maybe) and we got in a guy who's as close to playing with Jeff Beck as you can without actually playing with Jeff Beck. We do that very English thing (or maybe Spinal Tap) of being overtly nice to each other when face to face but I can barely even the mention of his name. Suffice to say our musical paths will never cross.