warwickhunt

[quote name='JPJ' timestamp='1410540281' post='2550600'] Oh no, is he 'crashing tonight? [/quote] I do believe he is!

Aha... I just sussed who the dep is with! You'll need a lie down after the first 3 songs mate and you're ear plugs better be industry strength! [size=4] [/size]

I may need to pop around for a cuppa some time soon... I'm getting itchy fingers! Oh and how very dare you dep with a rock band, that's my patch you are treading on; stick to your Knopfler et al gigs!

[quote name='nicko2711' timestamp='1409774367' post='2543297'] My '89 Streamer Stage 1 [/quote] My favourite (transition) era SSI... wenge neck but the 2 piece bridge.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1409266595' post='2538243'] sign you're getting old John! [/quote] I was old when this was new... still the same old sh*t! [size=4] [/size]

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1409264862' post='2538237'] Yeah, I have noticed an airier, hollower, and sometimes boomier tone when using very lightweight neo driven cabs. I thought it was just in my head. [/quote] BEWARE... the experts assure us there is no difference [size=4] [/size][size=4] but 'some of us' think there is a conspiracy! [/size]

Is your cab so precious/rare that it needs to be retired... if it is a cab you are used to and like the tone then why change? You will be able to find quite a few cheaper, lighter cabs but the tone 'will' be noticeably different to what you are used to; in particular the variation in tone if going to Neo loaded cabs!

Martin bought and paid for my Zoom 'handy-recorder' nice and promptly. No probs here!

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1409057325' post='2535855'] I've got Schaller or Schaller clones on all my basses and guitars. Never had a problem. They're all positioned so that the strap buttons sit in the cups, so the retaining button has no stress on it, it just keeps the button in the load-bearing cup. The only thing I have to do every now and again is a little nut tightening, though most of the clone straplocks have two nuts on each straplock, so the second one locks the first one. [/quote] Ditto. 25 years using them and the original strap fittings that I have on my strap at present have been transferred between two straps in that time (first one the leather wore through) and no failure as yet. As has been highlighted, I have the button on the bass resting in the cup... can't imagine why you'd do it any other way mind!

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1408650030' post='2532285'] I always wondered about the reason for the vertical stacking of speaker cabs you see at big gigs, now I know (I think)... [/quote] I'm sure Bill will have a pick of one the best (early) examples of this by 'The GD'!

I've fancied one of the CT basses for a long time. Would you say/know if the main tonal difference was the pup spacing or the centre block?

Fretting a fretless is perfectly straightforward and any 'luthier' will be able to do it (as opposed to local lads that can set-up basses but don't have the right tools to properly fret a neck). Bridges generally have enough adjustment (harder to get a bass down for fretless than up for fretted) and manufacturers will have one bridge for their models whether fretted or fretless. If it needs to be jiggled you can always find ways to do it (shims etc). Price as RATM said is about right with extra work adding to the cost. I'm North so know nobody in your neck of the woods.