silverfoxnik

Gorgeous in a way that induces dangerously high levels of GAS!!

Fantastic luthier; London based and a bit of a well-kept secret! I've seen a few of his basses over the years and they are very high quality instruments. Colin (lowering the tone) had a Finch version of a Wal 5 string IIRC and it was excellent! It'd be very worth a punt on this auction I feel..

[quote name='Soulfinger' post='538504' date='Jul 12 2009, 02:29 PM']I wouldn´t want to blame it exclusively on Morrissey & Co. (although the songs were sub-par for the most part IMO). The venue they played (Gasometer, haven´t been there before) has a reputation for horrible sound but just how horrible I had no idea. Muddier than the droppings of a swamp monster on diarrhea. Doll and the Kicks however managed to get a decent sound. Ok, they were just guitar, bass, drums and a singer but still... Well, lesson learned - I´ll never get anywhere near that venue again unless they manage to bring back John Martyn, Jeff Buckley and Miles Davis.[/quote] That'll be some gig!!!

Just bought a Sandberg five string set and fitted them to my Fender Jazz Deluxe V and was very, very disappointed in the quality of the strings.. First of all, very poor string tension which didn't flatter the B string at all and there was no real definition in the sound; I think the words 'flabby' and 'vague' spring to mind.. Worst of all was the fact that the intonation was suddenly all over the place?? Anyway, they were so bad I took them off and put the old EBS strings back on and, although they're pretty old, they sounded much, much better and everything was suddenly back in tune! Was this just a bad batch or has anyone else experienced this with a set of Sanbergs?

Very interesting and congratulations by the way! Been thinking about doing the same thing myself, so this is encouraging news..

[quote name='beerdragon' post='538193' date='Jul 11 2009, 11:00 PM']She has a decent enough voice to make it on her own. [/quote] +1 very unusual voice.. Would much rather see her play than Morrisey, who's the most over-rated artist of the last 40 years IMO!

[quote name='steve-soar' post='535018' date='Jul 7 2009, 06:54 PM']Got dry stone wall envy now, awww.[/quote] +1 Nice looking bass Peter! Are you going to put a string tree on it?

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='533249' date='Jul 5 2009, 07:48 PM']You don't really want the screwdriver to slip when you're installing a new volume knob on 3 grands worth of unobtanium oil finished Nicaraguan Mojo wood.[/quote] If we could produce them or find them somewhere, I think the stats would show that the percentage of players who use plectrums is about the same in terms of whether they play stock, off-the-shelf basses or custom build basses.. Though I do think that Rob may be onto something with his OP.. and maybe there's a secret bass society consisting of mainly jazzers & slappers who own at least 5 custom built coffee table basses each, that are stored in vacuum-sealed impregnable vaults inside houses built in specially designated 'plectrum free zones'..

[quote name='4000' post='535284' date='Jul 7 2009, 11:13 PM']Yup. Took me a while to say that didn't it?[/quote] Words of wisdom at last!

I have the NA650 as well and it's a very good sounding amp, with a lot of tonal flexibility and a good array of features.. Personally, I don't use the internal compression but i do use the 'edge' control to dirty up the very clean, almost hi-fi' tone of the amp. The enhance control is similar to the contour control on Gallien Krueger amps and is a bit like having a sweepable pre-shaping facility which is very cool. But having said that, it needs to be used with caution IMO because, although it makes the tone of your bass sound great in a solo context, if you over use it within a band setting, you will lose the presence of your bass in the mix because it effectively takes all the mids out of your sound. As already said, the DI out is great and personally, I've never had a problem with the gain/input stage; in fact, I find the 10db gain boost switch really useful when swapping between active and passive basses. Another very useful facility is the fact that the NA650 will work at 2 ohms, which allows me to run 2 x 4ohm cabs for bigger gigs and get the maximum output from the amp (though I'm not sure if other Nemesis heads do this). Well worth checking out I'd say, though do have a look around at some of the second-hand Eden gear currently on sale here because there's some good stuff around..

[quote name='Stingray5' post='532483' date='Jul 4 2009, 03:39 PM']Guess I was trying to make the point that, for me, Stevie Wonder is beyond just [i]mere[/i] genius... Cheers, Steve[/quote] +2 Possibly the most influential black artist of the past 40 years or so IMO, along with James Brown perhaps.. It was a superb show and the great songs just kept coming and coming! Agree with Josh re: Nathan Watts - he was a pleasure to listen to.. Funny that about him being the MD; I was watching Leonard Cohen on TV last week and Roscoe Beck was the bass playing MD as well...

Beedster's modified Sub 5 has been around a bit too; Chris, me, Walman, JoJo Bass, OBBM and a couple of others too IIRC..