silverfoxnik

Is this the one mentioned in BGM last month with Stanley Clarke involved?? Word definitely seems to be that it sounds amazing; it'd be good to hear some sound clips if there's any around? Congrats on fitting it yourself....

Great story and photos - thanks for sharing that with us lesser mortals!! That modified Jazz looks so cool!

'Love Foolosophy' by Jamiroquoi... Awful, awful piece of music, albeit a great bassline! I've never liked JK, the song or any of his other stuff and partly because I'm not good enough and partly because I dislike the song so much, I have never played it well or properly in the 2 years I've been in the band (terrible attitude I know). Fortunately, using a slow and subtle brain-washing tactic on all of the members of the band has meant that we've slowly begun to drop it from our set.. I'm much, much happier now

Very, very nice indeed - well done! And there we were thinking you'd gone mad selling all your other basses... Now we can see why.

[quote name='Merton' post='262216' date='Aug 14 2008, 10:16 AM']Hmm, I think I lied [/quote] Now you're just teasing stingrayfan.... It's cruel, but fair !

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='262194' date='Aug 14 2008, 09:32 AM']+1 The 5 Stinger that is, not the brunette from Abba. Jeez Nik, what's wrong with you? Agnetha every day of the week. See?........[/quote] I bow to your superior knowledge and experience in these matters..!!

[quote name='cetera' post='261704' date='Aug 13 2008, 04:40 PM']Lovely bass..... classic looks![/quote] +1 I really like the control layout...

[quote name='Sibob' post='262054' date='Aug 13 2008, 11:22 PM']I love the white 'Blossom' one! Si[/quote] +1 very distictive looking basses but must admit, I've never heard of them before...

[quote name='chris_b' post='261257' date='Aug 12 2008, 11:22 PM']Why don't you come along to the SE Bass Bash in Guildford, it's not too far from Reading. You can see a lot of amps and cabs up close and talk to their owners. That's if you can wait that long. Details below: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22439&hl=bash"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22439&hl=bash[/url][/quote] Excellent idea! And much better than going to any shop because there'll be more variety and better 'customer service'..

[quote name='wombatboter' post='261025' date='Aug 12 2008, 05:18 PM']I've been playing bass for the last 26 years and I have owned around 85 basses... Last year I had around 29 basses and I realised it was just too much...I started selling and now I have 19 basses...Two years I was an ebay-addict and bought a new bass every month (Sadowsky, 7 Wal basses in one year, Status, etc...). I finally realised that a lot of basses were not used enough and that they deserved to be played.. Now I think I could do with my Fender Marcus Miller, Wal MK I, Lefay Fretless and my Rickenbacker 4001..the others I have are great but I hardly use them (I have a Wal MKII 5 string which I haven't played for more than an hour during the past year, I think that is a shame though)[/quote] In that case, I think it's time I set up the first registered charity for deprived and neglected bass guitars that suffer from a degrading form of the worst kind of social exclusion imaginable... inflicted upon them by greedy and wasteful bass guitar collectors!!! We'll be round in the morning to start 'freeing' up these long-suffering instruments and will work tirelessly to help rehabilitate them back into the community.

Lovely looking bass and I imagine it sounds pretty good too!

[quote name='MB1' post='261028' date='Aug 12 2008, 05:20 PM']MB1. My First proper Bass,possibly 28 years old....older than some Basschatters! [/quote] Very nice bass MB1!! I have an almost identical one (fretless model) sitting right here next to my PC that I bought from pete.young a few months ago and it's a great bass! It came with the original receipt from when Pete first bought it back in 1986 I think... I'm sure Pete won't mind me sharing these photos with you: [attachment=11986:Aria_fretless_1.jpg] [attachment=11987:Aria_fretless_2.jpg] [attachment=11988:Aria_fretless_3.jpg] TBH, it's a much nicer bass than I expected and it's certainly too good for a ham-fisted fretless player like me.. The output from the pick up is really strong and it sounds great, especially for a passive bass!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='261077' date='Aug 12 2008, 06:48 PM']Nik - any chance of getting someone in who could do set-ups for £s on the day? I've got at least two basses that could do with a good set-up and it would be nice to get them done on-site, while I'm sipping a lager and playing someone else's bass badly. [/quote] Hi Matt Good idea - I'll get back to you on it with some news later this week.. And I'll join you in the 'playing other people's basses badly' antics!

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='260538' date='Aug 12 2008, 01:20 AM']Allo Does anyone else have over 50 basses? I'm currently at critical mass (seriously) with 57 basses and around 13 guitars. I must stress that this is not in any way shape or form meant to prove anything (other than that I am completely nuts and am about to lose everything {including my mind!} in my quest for furtherage of bass fulfillment!) but I'm intrigued as there are some really great collections out there in Basschat Land. My collection has grown rapidly and having gotten involved here, I've met some really great people with some really amazing basses. Am I mad? Cheers. Nick[/quote] Eleven basses is the most I've ever owned at one time and right now, I have five. If I had the time, money and resources (including enough space and an understanding wife!), then I'd definitely have more basses as it's so much fun collecting and using different basses... In fact, there's definitely a few on my 'wish-list' at the moment! But in answer to the OP, you're definitely not mad; I mean, how many of us have sold or traded basses we really wish we'd kept? You've had the good sense and (maybe) good fortune to keep most of your basses and from my point of view, that's an amazing achievement! So, if anything, congratulations are in order I think...

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='259918' date='Aug 11 2008, 01:18 PM']Forget EBS Nik - get a Trace. [/quote] Does it have a pre-set that eradicates operator error

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='259887' date='Aug 11 2008, 12:55 PM']And of course he was mixing cabs with "unpredictable" results I bet 2 2x12's would have sounded better.[/quote] +1

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='259641' date='Aug 10 2008, 11:36 PM']The EBS gear can cover all grounds and particularly excels at the hifi, zingy, pop and slap thing... but as ferret says, by adjusting the brightness and the treble on the amp and tweeter settings on the cab and you can get a completely different sound. If the guy who owned the rig was using a GB, chances are he had the EBS set pretty flat (with the brightness at 12 o'clock) and was controlling it off the bass. The GB preamp is a lot more tweakable than most and with the amount of boost available on each of the eq bands, the likelihood was that there was a lot of boosted bass and mids going to the amp. Plug in another bass, passive particularly and you are going to end up with a thinner, toppier sound as you describe. My guess is that you needed to tweak the eq on the amp to boost the bass and mid frequencies to get the most out of your passive Fender. In terms of cabs, I find the proline warmer than the neos. I am not the greatest fan of the neo sound - they sound more sterile to my ears... but that's just me. If you were going through neo cabs, with a flat eq set on the amp, it doesn't surprise me that you found the tone not to your taste.[/quote] That's it in a nutshell! He said the same to me about keeping the amp pretty much flat and then using his bass e.q. as required.. if I'd have had more time, I would have probably arrived at the scenario that you and bass_ferret described so I didn't get much time to explore.. That's why I'd like an opportunity to hear it again in a different setting.. And yes, they were the neo cabs..