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  1. Paul S
    To the top for this cheap as chips entry level EUB 5 string!
  2. Paul S
    Nor me. Beaten Google, too. I will continue to browse the market place - I expect my JV Precision and Mesa Boogie prodigy Four:88 head will still be for sale through most of 2019 so I will have to keep bumping the threads
  3. Paul S
    Just read this. I'm in! I'll probably get some strings. I have one of them thar new Boss WL-50 wireless gizmobobs arriving in Jan but as l've paid on pre-order that doesn't count.
  4. Paul S
    I just dialed the compressor up a bit more
  5. Paul S
    I've seen the Matt Schofield trio a couple of times, a British Blues band. Keyboard player definitely thinks like a bass player. I was astonished at how he could play some complex and syncopated bass lines whilst soloing on the keys.
  6. Paul S
    I have never depped. I usually like to be surrounded by familiarity - know the set inside out, know exactly what everyone else in the band is going to do next. I hate winging it, going to a jam night is my worst nightmare. Got an email last Saturday from a drummer I last played with 7 years ago (but we got on very well) - their bassist is going into hospital Friday (so today) and the gig is Saturday (tomorrow). Can I help? Rock and pop covers, she said. I thought I was bound to know most of the stuff so agreed to do it, albeit slightly apprehensive. Got the set list later Saturday and I have only played 5 of the songs historically, one of which I was glad to see the back of. Half the set I have never heard before Oh dear. I've put my life on hold this week! To make matters worse my little mp3 player packed up just after I loaded all the new songs into it!
  7. Paul S
    I have a Supercompact. Me gusto mucho. If I need more oomph I have a second Supercompact.
  8. Paul S
    My old Fender Precision Lyte had a screw in the neck plate that pushed against a plate within the neck pocket and acted like a shim as a neck tilt mechanism. I believe other basses have similar arrangements. Clearly it isn't a problem.
  9. Paul S
    To the top - an early christmas pressie?
  10. Paul S
    I had a Precision Lyte and the fingerboard did indeed hang over the edge of the neck. But the body of a P Lyte isn't the same size as a P bass, it is Strat sized with the bridge right on the edge of the body, so some jiggery pokery will be needed, i think.
  11. Paul S
    A medley of her greatest hit.
  12. Paul S
    This is SUCH a bargain!!!!
  13. Paul S
    This sounds familiar... I was in a very short-lived 80s band. We had male/female singers - both of whom where rather good looking as well as being good singers. After a few rehearsals it became clear there was something going on, after a few months they left their respective other halves and moved in together- all sorts of domestic chaos ensued as both had young families. As far as the band were concerned it soon became 'Them and Us' and the whole thing imploded after just 3 gigs. Shame, really, as the band was pretty good. We had spent a lot of money getting some good quality recordings done as we all believed the project had legs. The daft thing is that their relationship fell apart soon afterwards - so giving in to their glands affected so many lives! .
  14. Paul S
    Thanks chaps. I think as soon as someone opens the case it will be love at first sight!
  15. Paul S
    That cartoon is fantastic. Did you commission it or did someone just draw it?
  16. Paul S
    Have you tried a short scale bass? Sounds like a Mustang might fit the bill. Looks like a Fender, sounds like a Fender
  17. Paul S
    I believe Norman Watt Roy used the same Jazz most of his career?
  18. Paul S
    I had a black one 4 or so years ago - fabulous thing it was, too. Unbelievable quality for the price. It was the lack of scratchplate I found appealing initially - I quite like that naked look. Looks the biz with the stealth hardware, too.
  19. Paul S
    Must be worth watching. The listing doesn't big it up at all although it is one of those 'loft basses' https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peavy-Foundation-bass-guitar/163395757002?hash=item260b2563ca:g:zhsAAOSwWz5b-p5C:rk:8:pf:0
  20. Paul S
    Why is this still here?!
  21. Paul S
    Bought this on here to try, lived with it for a while and decided it is not for me. This is not really trying to be a double bass - it is essentially an unlined fretless bass with no body mounted on a stand so that it can be played upright. It is 34" scale length, so takes regular long scale bass strings. Neck is just 45mm wide at the nut, string spacing at the bridge 17mm. Piezo pickups are mounted in the saddles of the bridge, one volume knob - treble and bass can be adjusted via trim pots on the back. 18V preamp takes 2 x pp9s. The neck is fairly flat, becoming slightly more curved at the bottom, and this is another way in which it differs from the more double bass-like EUBs. Currently strung with Roto Trubass which needed a bit of fettling to get to work - wrapping the copper tape around the contact point with the saddles sorted the issue although I actually have no idea quite why. The stand is extremely sturdy and the ingenious adjustable ball-joint means it can be positioned any way you care to. It comes off the stand, which itself breaks down into 2 sections, and all fits into a neat carry case. When packed it weighs around 9.5kg and the case is 120cm long. Much easier to move around then, say, a Stagg EUB. The Dean Pace - not that common in 5 string - is a lot of fun, very much its own thing. It is not trying to give any kind of realistic double bass experience although strung with the Trubass strings it does sound quite double bass-y. The unlined fretboard, side dots give help with intonation, is lovely and there is mwahh a plenty to be had. If you change to metal strings this increases almost exponentially! It is eye-catching and, because of the normal scale length, perhaps a cheap 'half-way house' introduction to playing EUB. I'd say the condition is pretty good - a few scuffs and scrapes here and there but not abused. Looking for £250 collected from southeast Essex. I'd like people to 'try before you buy' if at all possible as this is such an unusual thing. Failing that I could meet half way to hand over or deliver with 50 miles for fuel. If all else fails I could courier it, mainland UK only, for around £25.
  22. Paul S
    A few pics, just to prove i do in fact own this. I keep it in a Stanley FatMax toolbox that does a decent job of protecting it from bumps with room either side to store the kettle lead and speaker lead. I can stand on it and not fear for the amps safety. This will be included in the sale. Fully loaded this weighs in at around 17kg, which is just too heavy for me.
  23. Paul S
    I had a Silver Series P bass and it is the one bass I have sold that I regret not holding on to. It was lightweight, slim neck, played fantastically well and sounded even better. Stupidly I kept on seeking my 'perfect P', not realising I had pretty much let one slip through my hands. A few years and many £hundreds later I do indeed have perfect Ps but it would have saved a lot of time angst and money had I simply held on to that Silver Series. Nice job, btw!
  24. Paul S
    Mrs S and I had a bit of a rethink for 2018 and we went to just 12 gigs. 2017 we went to 25, same in 2016 and beyond. The historical difference was travelling long distances to smaller venues 'taking a punt' to see what bands were like and invariably leaving early or walking out feeling disappointed. A big shame for us was the Brooklyn Bowl at the O2 Greenwich closing as that was an easy travel and we got to see lots of interesting bands there. If they weren't so good, well we had a nice dinner and it was only an hour door to door. Age and young bands - I am 61, I guess the 'youngest' band I have seen and enjoyed this year was the Brothers Osbourne. For me age/genre are immaterial - there is music I like and music I don't like.
  25. Paul S
    Thanks for this. By way of an update, I managed to acquire a Dean Pace 5 and spent some time with this before using it for an acoustic gig. Now I realise that a Dean Pace is not remotely double bass-like but more akin to a fretless bass mounted upright on a stick - it isn't my intention to have a 'double bass experience' as such, more about the sound, so this was not important. And I have discovered that, played like this, I find the string spacing too narrow and the neck too flat for my rather agricultural piz/fretting technique. Also having the extra 5 string I found muting more of an issue but this was most likely also connected to the narrow string spacing. Why playing at a 90 degree angle from usual should make such a difference I am not sure. I find playing the 4 string Stagg a much easier and more pleasant proposition and found that I can get around the lack of low B string quite easily so, for now, I'll stick with the Stagg. To take this forward I think I will try to have a go on both 4 string and 5 string NS Designs and see if they are worth the upgrade. That is pretty much the position I was in at the start before I got the Dean, which proved to be no more than an interesting but, in the end, pointless diversion Dean Pace 5 anyone? It will be in the classifieds soon.
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