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Had GAS for a new bass before christmas even though I knew my better half had bought me one for Christmas. I got the new bass which I thought would cure it but no. Went to london before new years and used all my will power to stay away from the gallery. Now its new year I put a new bridge on the new bass and love it, but I have been having very bad thoughts about a Sadowsky 5. Please someone make the GAS go away

Whats with all the Ashdown hate? I had an epifani and it was crap compared to my ABM head and cab, Ashdown has loads more balls and works so well when driven, they are only wooly if your a muppet and cant use EQ or you shove a P-bass through it ( I can say that I used to own one) Anyway my few: Rotosound: Always advertised by top bass players, everyone says they are the best string in the world and they are the only strings any of my local shops stock. Crap tone, crapper feel, and die far too quickly. Rickenbacker basses: Look awesome, sound useless and I have wanted to like them so very very much. P - Basses: Used to own one and didnt realise how utterly useless they were until I played a Stingray and Jazz Lakland Skyline (going to get strung up for this): I have tried nearly all of them and have to say I think they are overpriced and the necks feel a bit cheap. The necks on the 55-01 are big and clumsy, i didnt find the longer scale made that much of a difference to the B, and the DJ just looks like someone has slightly melted a Jazz. The best playing one was the Duck sig and that was unfortunately was short a string and only had a P pickup. If you have enough money to buy one new, save a bit more and get a Proper one from America secondhand, they are like completely different basses and are so much better IMHO!

About time I think, and for me the worst possible thread that could come along when I am a) GAS-ing like mad for a Sadowsky and b.) Poor Anyway I will really enjoy watching this thread progress has to be the best one so far with the possible exception of the Wal thread. I really really want a Sadowsky. Just before I leave, does anyone have both the Metro and NYC bass? I would really like to read an honest comparison/review/opinion of the two. I know everyone says they are the sadowsky if you just want the basic options but cant help wonder if the NYC made by Rogers crew are slightly better. All stunning basses though, love the red one.

Just bought this gentleman's Badass V bridge, paid on on the monday afternoon and it was here tuesday morning, fantastic and a pleasure to do business with.

Firstly thanks for all the kind words. Well christmas day has come and gone and I have my bass......woohooo! The bass is fantastic I am really really pleased with it. There are a few minor issues that I brought up before like the neck dive and the poor hardware. The bridge is pretty rubbish and the strings go through at a strange angle and I struggled to get the B string through and its only a 125. So I have decided that for now at least I am staying chrome and changing the bridge to a badass V. I looked at a few stealth basses and I was not convinced enough to spend a load of cash on revamping everything and later decide It was not for me. Apat from the bridge it plays like a dream and it needed very little setting up, just a new set of strings. The preamp is good for me but I think the bass could benefit from some better pickups so I am going to invest some money in pickups rather than aesthetics. I cannot reccomend these basses enough, everyone who has seen and played it cannot stop raving about the quality and my guitarist friend is getting one in the new year he liked it so much. The neck joint is great and the neck itself is really a joy to play and the fretwork is superb. As I said a great bass only hindered by the bridge really. As I said I am picky and want to fiddle/mod so I am looking at a set of dimarzios at the moment as they are apparently a direct drop in (both pickups are the same length) I did look at soapbars but I fancy keeping it single coil. I think Bartolini and Nordstrand make same length pickup sets but not sure what they are like and I have heard good things about the dimarzio's, any comments or suggestions welcomed! Anyway will be adding the badass soon hopefully and also contemplating a pickup cover at the bridge. Will update and let you know how I get on if anyone is interested. Thanks, Nathan

[quote name='Nick Brown' post='364073' date='Dec 27 2008, 10:18 AM']Funny how this thread comes up just as I take delivery of an LG5. I'll post up some pics and impressions in a little while. [/quote] Amazing you definately have to give us a detailed overview and lots of pictures. I have wanted one for ages and intend on saving for one.

My girlfriend bought me a bass! A Squier deluxe active jazz V in black. To add to it she also got the neck plate engraved bless her sweet heart. well pleased and its my new modding project which will hopefully pop up in build diary soon. I also got a 5 way stand, strings, schaller locks, rock and roll!

I looked into AC basses and they are a completely different beast from Sadowsky from what I have read and heard. I think the owner/builders name is Jimmy and the concept seems to be to create brand new high end basses that replicate 60s feeling Jazz basses. They use specific finishing and and types of Nitro Cellulose etc for the necks and bodies and are very fussy about how much laquer and paint goes on the instruments so they can breathe etc. They also use the very best and very expensive woods for fingerboards etc too. The EQ again from what I have read is designed to have a vintage Fender quality and not the super modern zingy sound found in many top line basses. Its basically as close to a 60's/70's jazz as they could get but with 5 string options and active EQ. As has been already said, they are made to order and there is only a very small team building them. From what I have read on Talkbass many people have ditched their high end Sadowsky's etc for Coppollo basses and they are just increasing in popularity. I want one more than anything on earth but doubt you will find one anywhere in the UK. To be honest If I was going to spend that much money on a bass I would spend an extra £300-ish for a last minute flight over to the states to buy/try it. defo check out talk bass, there is a mega thread with everything you would want to know and that would be the best place to find someone in the UK with one. Good luck and let us know if you buy one.

Probably mentioned this before but my local shop aroundabout sound are great. They have a bass room and are official Eden and EBS dealers. They always have a secondhand bass or two in, they will let you sit and play for ages no pressure and make you a cup of tea! they have fender, squier, Yamaha, esp/ltd, KSD jazz, and loads more. The owner Mark? also has a GB spitfire which I nearly came close to buying but lacked a string so couldnt really justify it. Great shop, great service and great prices and well worth a look if you are close (its in Cheltenham by the way). My friend came up by train from Cardiff to get his guitar amp from them, shows how good they are and how bad Cardiff is.

I am sure i may have mentioned this in another thread but I remeber back when I was 17 my friend and I went in Cranes in Cardiff to buy him a new guitar amp. He wanted a fender hotrod valve amp which was around £600 and he had cash on him. Cranes took no interest and when we enquired about fender amps the assistant just said "dont have any" and walked off, di dnot even try to suggest or reccomend anything. We then went to Gamlins down the street and they had an amp in stock and we played it and he was all set for buying it when the miserable old bag who owns/works there came over and told us to turn it off and put the guitar back because there were important customers which were a boy and his dad and were looking at a £100 starter pack. my friend was so annoyed he walked up to the one nice guy that worked there and told him he had £650 cash to buy an amp and because of the way the woman had treated him he would not be buying from them. We ordered online and got it next day delivery for £50 less than the shop. Just a note to anyone who goes to Cardiff, dont touch either shop with a barge pole, that was 8 years ago and th staff are still rude and ignorant in both shops. I went in to Gamlins a couple of weeks ago to ask about the Squier deluxe active Jazz V. They had one in stock and when I asked about getting a black or white one was told that Squier dont make one thats the only one, but its cool it looks vey Jaco.....great well done that man.

How tight are you lot? just buy new strings! JOKE!! (ducks for cover) No in all seriousness I have boiled strings for years and never heard of this, sounds like an idea worth trying, although I do use Ernieball Strings which are cheap as dirt and last me ages. right off to the shop for some Meths and may have a swig on the way back to the office.....well it is christmas.

MAC x Infinity... Bill gates can go rot in hell for the travesty that is Windows/Vista ( i have to use it at work) Macs are brilliant and the mac mini is superb and portable if you dont want to lay out for mac laptop. I used PC for ten years and when I got a mac I took a hammer to my desktop PC because it was just junk in comparrison. Garageband is so much more intuative than most programs, its the recording equivelant to a Tonka toy and when you have mastered it you can take it all over to Logic if you want to advance. Everything about them is better faster smoother and friendlier, and you can get office and all that rubbish on them as well for compatibility issues but saying that all my friends ditched their PC's and bought macs when they saw mine and saw the potential of garageband. Trust the Pro's my mate works for a very very prolific studio that work with the BBC radio 1 etc and they run two G5's in every recording room, even the receptionist uses a mac.

I had played 4 string for 8 years and had one brief fling with a 5 but we didnt get on. This year I decided to bite the bullet and give it one more shot before residing myself to playing 4 string. I bought a Warwick Streamer and instantly loved it. It was all I played for a month and packed my musicman away so I had to get used to it. I very quickly got used to dropping down instead of going up the neck and After 1-2 months I decided 5 was for me and flogged both the warwick and my musicman to get myself a better quality 5 string (with a bigger body as I am big and the warwick looked silly). I now own two five strings and oddly find it very difficult to play a four as I use the low B so much. A lot of it for me came down to the music i like playing. I play in a hard Rock band and the guitarist tune down a bit so its usefull to be able to go lower in the mix than them. I also really like a lot of new RnB and Pop and am hopefully going to be doing some work on a pop project with a friend so for that I find it really useful. I found I developed a kind of floating hand technique when playing so I was not anchoring on the low B or even on the pickup. Trying to anchor on the pickup on a 19mm spaced 5 and play the G is not good for you. To me it just gives me more range its the same instrument and even if you only use the B in 2 songs its worth having it there. As someone said, at the end of the day its still a four string. I say throw yourself in and just force yourself to use it. If after a month of constant use and practice you pick up a four string and love it more your descision is made.

[quote name='The Funk' post='341745' date='Dec 1 2008, 11:34 AM'] :wub: *smitten*[/quote] +1 I think more than a few gentlemen feel the same, surely a serious contender for best looking Basschatter in the other thread?