Muzz

I love my Dingwall, lots and lots of elements of it work very very well. Oh, and you can play chords on them... I'm looking forward to seeing the Dingbird* which is very very imminent, too... * Got to be the preferred option to Thunderwall, which has way too much of the Gallagher brothers about it...

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1457308661' post='2997321'] Buying good gear and looking after it is the best insurance. There will always be single points of failure. Sometimes you need a backup brain. Last week our guitarist left his leads and pedals at home. The week before the drummer forgot his stool. [/quote] Yup, we had a gig last year where the dep drummer forgot their kick pedal. Had to mic up a box for them to kick...and I put a right shift in covering the gaps... Still haven't got my own DI pedal (we have two or three spares in the PA kit, tho), otherwise I have two of everything. Except brains: I've barely got one of them most of the time...

Surely Fodera would do a relic, like all those road worn ones you see? Shouldn't cost too much more?

Man, so would I...and I agree with the OP completely. Having said that, I've played a Mike Lull T-Bird, and it was sooooo good...and it looked the part, too...

I can see that working in Slipknot. Not my thing, but I've seen far, far worse designs.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1457084435' post='2995073'] An Overwater Progress III Deluxe. It was a refined Rolls Royce when I actually wanted a raucous Ferrari. [/quote] Oh yeah, just remembered that: had a (proper) Overwater Perception - beautiful thing, but waaaay too polite for me. Sold it, regretted it, got it back...and sold it again.

Never played a Rick, Jazz or Stingray I could live with, and I've owned several of each. Jazzes I just don't like the look of, Stingrays I like everything about apart from the amplified sound (and the weight of a particularly heavy one), and Ricks...well, they look nice...

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1456991605' post='2994206'] That's one of my favourite bits - the bit where you're either asked to play something you already do in a different key or play something you've never heard before. In the beginning it used to frighten me but I think with experience and confidence I enjoy it a lot more now. [/quote] Yep, I like this, too - nothing like being out of your comfort zone now and again! Oh, and the You Can Call Me Al - I fretted about that solo/fill for ages, until I YouTubed lots of people making a total arse of it (including a couple of Paul Simon's live bassists), at which point I relaxed a bit On a non-musical front, it's just nice to have a working environment filled with happy, excited people. Oh, there are exceptions, but the vast majority of the time even the Bridezillas have relaxed by the time we come on...

Wow. Fantastic, loved it. Thanks for that...

Yep, I do it all the time - I enjoy it: some great venues: castles, under Concorde, there are very few country house hotels I haven't seen (well, it feels that way), always an enthusiastic audience - compared to some pubs and their arms-folded clientèle, wedding guests have dressed up and come out for a great time, so they're a pleasure to play for...oh, and the money's pretty good, too. With imagination, you can play some great songs, I also enjoy the spread of music I get to play, to take me out of my comfort zone (Daft Punk to Paul Simon to Irish stuff to GnR to Bruno Mars to Luther Vandross to Toto to, well, a lot - haven't played Moondance or Mustang Sally so far...). I play with a few deps, too, and it's nice to play at a challenging level, as some of the guys we have are very very good indeed.

I've had a couple or three Mighty mite necks - two were very good, one needed a fret dress (but nothing drastic): I'd say they were very good for the money.

I've got an East U-Retro in my ABZ - it's a tightish fit, but it all goes in And yeah, it works a treat in a Dingwall...

Yep, I've listened to covers we do on the radio, and something's jumped out at me from the bass line and I've thought "Ooooo, I don't do it like that..." Nothing iconic or easily identifiable, just the odd fill (that I've either missed or I put one in because I've been bored ) that no-one's ever mentioned. Pretty much every time, though, I've stayed with mine.

Oh gawd...cabs have heft now, too? Blimey... Yep, that's as close to an AB as you can do without making cabs from scratch - my point was that you could AB two differently designed neo cabs and get differences which might sound similar. Eh? You know what I mean... Actually, I know that's true: I've had Barefaced cabs which produce tons more bottom and other things (possibly perceived as heft, I dunno), than the AEs with the same amp settings...and they're all Neos. So are the Schroeders I've had, and they're very specifically voiced. Neo isn't necessarily the factor. I'm sure folk will disagree (in fact I can think of a couple who will), but ears are ears, and we all hear things differently...

The Berg cab (and I have the AEs) designs aren't the same - there's completely different porting, for starters: you'd need identical cabs with different speakers in to do a real A-B test.. the cab makers will design their cabs around the speakers, but the same speaker in different cabs will sound different, too. There's too many variables to call one particular factor as the single one...but they'll all have different characters: perhaps the neo designs lend themselves to a differently voiced cab... Bill's point about distortion would indicate this, but I'm no expert. In anything...

There is that - it's one way to stratify your product, I suppose...

On every luthier's site I've perused, neck-thru basses are more expensive than bolt-on, so I'd say that pointed to it being more difficult.

Oh my word...I thought my P-Bass GAS was a thing of the past (still got a bitsa kicking around), but that sunburst is...blimey...

I'm with Discreet: how hard could it have been to make the bloody things the same width?...rrrrrrgggggghhhhh....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1456221646' post='2986682'] I agree, but an MB200 on an 8x10 is just hilarious. [/quote] Ahhh, the old 'paperback on a wardrobe' look....worth it just for that. I briefly had 2 x GK 410s a short while ago, and I can confirm now that no, it's isn't just numbers of speakers...it's the quality. They were nowhere near as full as my 2 x 112 Bergs... They did look good, though...but by the time I'd shifted them round the house a couple of times, I was completely bored with them...

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1456166154' post='2986176'] I agree and how much of that 10% gets to the audience via the PA if the gig is big enough to require a big amp? This "perfect tone" is mainly only enjoyed by the player as their on stage monitoring. [/quote] And how often do you get to really hear that 'perfect tone', even on stage? It's very venue dependent for positioning, then there's the guitard and those cymbals to contend with...the clearest I've ever heard my bass tone onstage is with a nice me-centric mix in my in-ears (and I use them with modelling software), and then...oh...I don't need the big rig...

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1456142710' post='2985756'] Better than the first but to me and although she can play and is talented clearly, I still didn't think much of it, just sounded like some cool noodling. The guy on that other (Indian?) thing was cool though and had soul I didn't get that from her. No disrespect at all I would love to be able to play like that but I wouldn't. I have not looked into Amy other vids I'm sure she does other things but the two vids I've seen meh. Opposite end of the spectrum are very simple but cool riffs bass or guitar, that can make your hairs stand on end, anyone can play them but not anyone can make one. Not that I'm saying she can't on that either. It's all a matter of perspective I think I'm trying to say. Bit like slap bass or say Mark King vs Adam Clayton. [/quote] Yep, this. Nothing memorable for me.

Normally relicing brings me out in neck lumps, but I've played a couple of the Roadworns, and they were indeed very very fine 'worn in' feeling Precisions: lovely to play. Being me, though, I'd probably get it refinished...

Yup, I've had the 'man sized' rigs in past, including big Peavey gear and the iconic SVT/810, and I simply can't be arsed with the hassle of moving the thing around these days for the very small difference in tone - you can get very very close (and even louder) these days with stuff you can carry easily in one hand. Heft my arse...