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Arrived today (Tuesday). Very pleased with it. Cool layout & well researched. Thumbs up from me

Bear in mind you've been listening to professional players with a bigger budget than you, it's still easily done though. I played rock in a band years ago with a Peavey combo & a Fender. The Sansamp Bass Driver would be good & heavier strings do thicken up the low end. It's also a question of listening to what other players do - it doesn't have to just be 16ths & you can create light and dark by not playing [quote name='Lozz196' post='913458' date='Aug 3 2010, 07:47 AM']put Rotosound roundwound heavies (50 - 100) on it[/quote] Is this a typo? That's a standard gauge at the heavy end... I'm playing alt.folk based stuff with 55-110!

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[quote name='Fat Rich' post='912739' date='Aug 2 2010, 01:12 PM']Class! According to wikipedia: "Shearer provides voices for Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Principal Skinner, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, Dr. Marvin Monroe and many others"[/quote] Beat me to it Rich! I was struggling to remember the name A Mighty Wind whilst you posted so didn't see you chip in there

He's Mr. Burns not Homer btw. I'm no expert but he appears more confident with it than he did in the Folk film A Mighty Wind

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Hey Terry - Welcome to Basschat. I use the same cabs, although rarely together

I've had keyboard parts clash on a couple of occasions but I get them to move - I was here first!

very vintage... I like

I don't mind the occasional bass solo. Being a big fan of The Byrds, here's Skip Battin in action

We played Bristol on Thursday where we gave a passionate performance but I'd had too much Guinness - my night was made by 2 of the singer's friends calling me "the cool one in the band". I haven't had that for a few years so a nice ego stroke. Last night was Maidenhead where we gave a solid (but hungover) performance. A great 48hrs!

It would have been an original but I couldn't tell you what it was!

I assume you've had it set up properly for this? The tension on the truss rod will be a lot different which could be part of the problem

I'm with musicguard who came recommended. Nothing has gone wrong yet (touch wood) so I don't know if they are any good

I've come on leaps & bounds as a player in the last few years so I'm a lot more comfortable being described as a musician. However I really don't mind

Cool, thanks And guess what is suddenly in stock on Amazon? Yep... [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Basses-Detlef-Schmidt/dp/1574242547/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IZW5LWOAL4MXL&colid=8JLMPZ0Z4E4A"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fender-Precision-B...id=8JLMPZ0Z4E4A[/url]

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It doesn't take much to make a big difference, does it? I love Hercules stands & it's great to hear they have good customer service. Other companies take note!

[quote name='Clarky' post='908734' date='Jul 28 2010, 11:01 PM']Not sure that I have ever owned a genuinely bad bass.[/quote] Same here. I try to give them a pretty heavy roadtest prior to purchase. It can be dangerous buying online as you are going in blind. I was a bit dissapointed with an Epiphone Flying V which I bought online. Lesson learned.

Cool news, nice one