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I fancy the Inca Silver DD. [b]Lakland Skyline News! Lakland Skyline 2010 New Models and Limited Edition Colors![/b] [b]Limited Edition Colors[/b] Teal Green Signature – Run of 100 each Inca Silver Signature – Run of 100 each Amber 44-02 Deluxe & 55-02 Deluxe – Run of 200 each Inca Silver Hollowbody – Run of 50 [b]List Pricing[/b] Glaub $1,499 Osborn 4 $1,599 Osborn 4 BB(Blocks and Binding) $1,699 Osborn 5 $1,750 Duck Dunn $1,599 44-02 Deluxe $1,999 55-02 Deluxe $2,099 Hollowbody $1,999 [b]New Models[/b] Osborn 4 BB (Blocks and Binding) 4-string Three Tone Sunburst - Maple or Rosewood. Pearl Blocks and White Binding List Price $1,650 Osborn 5 BB (Blocks and Binding) 5-string Three Tone Sunburst - Maple or Rosewood. Pearl Blocks and White Binding List Price $1,750 Glaub 5-string Three Tone Sunburst - Maple or Rosewood. Standard Dot Inlay List Price $1,550

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='669134' date='Nov 29 2009, 02:40 PM']and a light violet for a B string. Does the colour actually change according to the gauge or with the nominal note?[/quote] It's definitely the note.

[quote name='thinman' post='713057' date='Jan 14 2010, 09:06 PM']Thanks for your efforts - I'll take a punt on some D'Addarios since I need some new ones for the Jazz. I've gone off Rotosound strings - they lose their zing too quickly. Shame as I almost live next door to their factory![/quote] Well, let us know what you think if you get some D'Addarios.

[quote name='thinman' post='713014' date='Jan 14 2010, 08:32 PM']Hmm. On mine there's no silk wraps - ball ends are yellow, red, blue and green E to G respectively.[/quote] Well, who knows, but my bet is still that they are D'Addarios. There's several threads on Talk Bass that mention VM Squiers not having the strings that the Squier website says - specifically not having Fender Super Bass 7250ML. It's would seem odd if they are D'Addario but I can't myself see what else they are. Maybe what you are calling yellow is what I am calling brass, and maybe that black is a dark blue. The colours as I named them is what D'Addario calls them and they are exactly the same as other D'Addario strings I have used. I really don't think they are Fender Super Bass 7250ML. But who knows?

Well, I just dug out the strings that came on my CV Jazz and I'd say they have typical D'Addario colour coded ball ends: green - G, black - D, red - A, and brass - E, and no silk wraps. If you look at the enlarged picture on the Squier website for both the CV Jazz and the CV precision, you see the same colour coded ball ends and no silk wraps.

To the OP: Fender Super Bass 7250ML, the supposedly stock string, has black silk wraps.

So ... do Fender Super Bass 7250ML have colour coded ball ends? Anybody know? Do any Fender strings have colour coded ball ends?

[quote name='Buzz' post='711982' date='Jan 13 2010, 10:04 PM']Thing is, we can go either way as 'factory' really means the shop it was bought from in 99.9% of cases, and inspection and setup varies from shop to shop. Some leave the strings, some change them. Tit for tat really.[/quote] I'd be surprised if many shops were going to the expense of changing strings - especially on a £250 bass!! I'd be even more surprised if all the shops were changing them for the same colour coded ball end strings - whatever make they are.

A bit of research suggests that other companies which sometimes colour code ball ends are: Giannini; Hartke; DR; and ... anyone else?

[quote name='Buzz' post='711904' date='Jan 13 2010, 08:51 PM']Really ET? Despite the Squier website saying the factory fitted ones are "Fender Super Bass 7250ML, NPS, Gauges: (.045, .065, .080, .100), " Unless you mean D'Addario make them for Fender.[/quote] Well, I don't know what they are for sure. My Classic Vibe Jazz (and others too I believe) also came with the colour coded ball ends. I don't honestly know what they are but I took them to be D'Addarios because of the colour coded ball ends. It was discussed before here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=68650&hl"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=68650&hl[/url] Do Fender Super Bass 7250ML have colour coded ball ends? I was unaware that they did but if they do then I expect that's what they are.

[quote name='thinman' post='711702' date='Jan 13 2010, 06:28 PM']Does anyone have an idea of the make of strings fitted to a Squier CV P as standard? I quite like them and would like to know what make they are. The only clue I can give is that the "balls/bullets" (?) at the bridge-end are colour-coded.[/quote] D'Addario

From the Lakland website: [quote]We at Lakland are very excited to have this technology in our process. Fret filing the manual way is miserable. Think about it - sanding metal! All of my employees are musicians. 4 or 5 fret files a day - everyday will take a physical toll. We have done it manually because it has been the only way to get the basses to play their best. The latest Plek technology relieves my techs from the physical damage. They can now use their heads and not their hands. [b]The Plek is only as good as its operator, meaning a thorough knowledge of fretting is necessary. Our Plek will be operated by the luthiers that have fret expertise. [/b]We are just getting started. The end products have been wonderful - just like our hand work.[/quote]

[quote name='gabson' post='710798' date='Jan 13 2010, 12:24 AM']Recently learned about these Plek machines. As primarily a guitar repairer does this mean i am beginning to be replaced by a machine?! Does anyone have more info on them? [url="http://www.plek.com/en_US/home/"]http://www.plek.com/en_US/home/[/url] anyone experienced a finished product? Slightly scared, Jack![/quote] My Lakland Decade, like all new Laklands now, was PLEKed. It's very smooth and even up and down and across the fretboard. But I believe the machine still needs a skilled operator - it's not robots taking over - and anyway at Lakland it's $200 for a PLEKing. And a PLEK machine is about $10,000. So I think there'll still be work for you.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='708594' date='Jan 11 2010, 10:11 AM']Is it only me that thinks that eternal sustain (or even sustain increased above and beyond BBOT sustain) is never, ever used when actually playing?[/quote] Agreed. The problem is not too little sustain, the problem is appropriate muting of easily enough sustain.

I'm feeling like I should buy some even though I don't use them.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='707720' date='Jan 10 2010, 02:44 PM']Production began on Rickenbackers back in 1957. Gibson had 2 EB basses by the end of the fifties and a lot of choices come the early 60s, as with several other makers too. So bearing in mind most of those bassists classic recordings were done in the 1960s I don't think it's quite so straight forward. I think there is more choice and better quality across the boards these days if that is what you mean but to say that Fender Precision was the only choice doesn't quite seem right.[/quote] Yes, Danelectro, Guild, and Gretsch too ... and of course Hofner ... and of course the Fender Jazz

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='707764' date='Jan 10 2010, 03:27 PM']Rap continues and extends the 'attitude' side of things.[/quote] Rap seems to me to be a kind of altered (but not totally altered) 'talking blues'.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='706843' date='Jan 9 2010, 06:09 PM']Plenty cheap power amps and desks available. I'd suggest getting an amp that would appear to be a lot larger (powerful) than your present needs suggest. Some of the Yamaha desks with built in effects and one knob compression are pretty damn good. We've recently gone the route of powered speakers which aren't cheap (and you'd need to budget for a desk as well) but it has been worth it in terms of sound quality... assuming we are excluding the sub that we recently picked up. [/quote] I did have a look at the Yamaha desks.

[quote name='Rich44' post='706860' date='Jan 9 2010, 06:29 PM']I'm mixed handed (not ambidextrous but do different things predominately with certain hands), but its often struck me how odd how "right handed" playing requires the most dexterity and precision (arguably that is) from the left hand? One would assume due its increased usage the right hand would be more suitable for fretboard playing? And if playing guitar (a dual handed activity) does improve the coordination/dexterity and muscle memory in both hands, could any right handed person learn left-handed, or vice versa? Would you gain anything from practicing both ways?[/quote] I wouldn't underestimate the dexterity needed in the right-hand (of a right-handed player). However, anyone can learn either way around. After all, classically trained violinists all play right-handed instruments - and it's not only the violinists. But if people want or feel the need to play left-handed that's fine with me.

[quote name='Tinman' post='706825' date='Jan 9 2010, 05:56 PM']There's nothing much wrong with the Behringer PA kit, used it for ages, until our singer decided to connect it up wrong and fry a power amp. It would be perfect for what you're after and reasonably priced too.[/quote] OK, thanks. I will look at them.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='706796' date='Jan 9 2010, 05:39 PM']How many channels do you actually need, Dave? Your list of uses seems to suggest that an 8-channel desk (plus a power amp) will do you, but is that right? What about bells'n'whistles? Do you need or use multiple FX and/or compression, etc.?[/quote] On FX/compression we've been using reverb but not anything else, I think. (I feel this is not my field really but the others are even less competent than me.) However I guess a mixer/amp with some multi FX/compression would be useful. Eight channels ought to suffice even if (as we hope to) we add another instrument but I always like to see some headroom in these things if possible. We are not a loud band so the PA is not going to be miking/DIing the backline at all.

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='706771' date='Jan 9 2010, 05:21 PM']If you want to continue using your existing speakers and monitors, you could go for an amp and a small desk - probably cost you less than £400, especially if you went down the Behringer route. You could spend the lot on a pair of Mackie powered speakers and something like a little Peavey PV10 desk, but you woud need an amp to run your monitors (unless they are powered).[/quote] Thanks John. This is the kind of possibilites I want to hear. The monitors are unpowered. Perhaps wrongly, I'm slightly dubious about the Behringer route. Let's hear some more please.

[quote]...The fretboard has detached itself ...[/quote] [quote name='Ou7shined' post='706765' date='Jan 9 2010, 05:17 PM']In at least 4 pieces? Is this one of those cases of spontaneous bass self-annihilation you here about?[/quote] Well, it's what we in the business call auto-defretting. It's rare but one sometimes comes across it, especially on a loft bass as rare as this one. Although I'd agree that in excess of four pieces is uncommon.

[quote name='funkygreega' post='706747' date='Jan 9 2010, 05:01 PM']Best - Bass Gallery Worst (and by a clear mile) - GAK[/quote] You see I would have put GAK as best because that's my experience. So I'm not sure what we are really going to learn from this thread except that most places (if not all) can mess up at least sometimes so that someone is going to put them as worst because that was the experience they had.

The singer's PA mixer amp has given up the ghost so we're looking for a replacement for pubs and other small venues. Line up has been drums (small kit, often brushes, not usually miked), bass through backline, acoustic guitar/mandolin/ukulele through backline, acoustic guitar through PA, four vocal mikes (one of those doubling for harmonica). We have two Peavey 300 watt 8 ohms main speakers and two Carlsboro 100 watt 8 ohms monitors and maximum of £700 to spend - although ideally we have other plans for £250 of that. What can anyone suggest as a sensible way forward?