wateroftyne

Yeah.. IMO while some of them [i]sound[/i] good, they don't [i]feel[/i] great. Again, emphasis on the IMO, etc.

Don't get on with 'em. Mesa Walkabout for me...

[Mod note: I've merged a couple of threads on the same subject. Carry on!]

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1377875010' post='2193131'] Rather strange. If you read the description on GG web site, it says that the bridge pickup is in the mid 70`s position, closer to the bridge. Not only is it expensive but the pup is in the wrong place for a 72. [/quote] Closer to the bridge would be correct for a '72.

He reminds me of Glenn Bulb out of Nighty Night. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvuuJU_P8I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvuuJU_P8I[/url]

I had a GBE750 once. Beautiful. Unfortunately, it hummed like an angry bee whenever I went within five feet of it. Both Genz and the UK distributor spent a lot of time trying to resolve it, but without success. I had to send it back. Gutted, as I REALLY wanted to use it in the long term. Anyway, you can't beat an amp with a transformer in it. Class D? Meh.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1377974176' post='2194322'] People who can't spell or punctate properly annoy me. Don't ask why they just do ! [/quote] *bites tongue*

[quote name='mxm' timestamp='1377963380' post='2194169'] More shipwreck than relic. [/quote] Shipwrelic.

C'mon, folks... We can all disagree on stuff but let's keep it civil. Anyway... The vid was great IMO. Copeland has always been sloppy, so no change there. And I don't think they reformed because *Sting* was running out of money. I don't think that's possible.

Yip. Unless the tuners have been knocked.

My P stays in tune for months. I check it before every gig, but sometimes I wonder why I bother.

Have you PM'd him recently?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1377800364' post='2192116'] If you can do woodwork like that, why can't you build a cab that doesn't look like it was knocked up by a blind man in a garden shed...!! [/quote] Way wrong.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1377791764' post='2191927'] I shake my head in disbelief. Some blokes have some fun together with the instrument that we all love, and that gives reason for a thread with this content? [/quote] If only they'd kept it behind closed doors.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1377775016' post='2191573'] For someone with such strong opinions on this you're remarkably good at getting the facts wrong! Some points to consider: 1. Panel stiffness is proportional to the square of the thickness, not the cube. 2. The resonant frequency of a panel is proportional to its stiffness divided by its mass - halve the mass and you double the resonant frequency 3. A braced panel has numerous different resonant modes - if you vary the bracing distance and methods all these frequencies can be made non-coincident 4. By having lots of different resonant modes you can easily lower the Q of all these resonances 5. Surface coatings and internal damping can significantly attenuate such low Q higher frequency resonances 6. Plywood varies hugely - for instance, baltic birch is stiff for its thickness but has poor self-damping Here's an example of how we do bracing: [/quote] KA-POW!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1377767348' post='2191441'] Visual I can understand. But did you mean to add aural too? [/quote] I should bliddy well hope not.

I've just watched this again to check it's real, and noticed that the people in the audience don't have guns held to their heads. I can only assume that someone has smeared high-strength glue on all the chairs before the doors opened.

Jesus - I'm glad I'm already married. If that video goes viral, any bass players who are still single will die alone.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1377685332' post='2190253'] Thing is, exactly [i]which[/i] Rush would you like them to be? 80's synth rock? Excessive 70's Prog? They've changed so much over their career, and I think that's a good thing. How many people on here are writing the same style of stuff that they used to 30, 10 or even 2 years ago? People change, evolve and develop and their creative output reflects that. [/quote] It's not the style I have an issue with. It's the shoddy songwriting.

IIRC Antigua was never supposed to look like that. The paint went wrong.

.....however, we did get:

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1377676294' post='2190087'] would that be around the time this monstrous paint job escaped from the factory? [/quote] No.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1377675366' post='2190077'] True, and the American Vintage series were fine instruments. But you don't turn round a culture of almost two decades of cost cutting overnight, and Fender were putting out some rather bizarre instruments around that period. I think it would be wise to try any Fender from this period before buying, but then again that's true of most basses. [/quote] Bill Schultz had a damn good go at turning it around overnight - that's why production was pretty much halted for a spell, and then slashed. Weight aside, the QC was a night-and-day change. Obviously I'm not saying everything was great, but...