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I've got a U-Retro in my LaklanDingwallbird. Or should that be EastLaklanDingwallbird? Pics to follow, before anyone says owt...

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1382299023' post='2250416'] Very tricky. Something versatile probably. Maybe a BB2024x but then again I'd like a fender CS [/quote] Oooh, maybe a sunburst maple-boarded 2024X. That'd be nice, too.

It's the f**king self-satisfied nodding that I can't be doing with...

The Boschma stuff is great, definitely the best I've used: if I ever needed a rack again, that'd be what I'd get.

I'd be on the phone to Sheldon Dingwall for an ABII 4-string with a Birdseye maple board.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1382262764' post='2249733'] For a fretted bass, does it matter? So long as the wood holds the frets securely (and these days a lot of luthiers glue the frets in place) it should be fine. Unless you use very light strings with a "death grip" fretting technique the strings never touch the fingerboard. [/quote] You're surely not suggesting a rosewood board will sound the same as a maple board, are you? Round here? I'll start the car...

I've had an MPulse and a Walkabout, both very nice, good rock tones, too. Neither of them beat the Streamliner for me (IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc) but they get plenty of love around here, and rightly so. They'd be my second choice amp (and first choice'big amp'), tho I wouldn't pay new prices for either; they can occasionally be had around the £400-500 mark secondhand, and you'll always be able to shift one on if it isn't to your taste.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1381415103' post='2238749'] To answer the question... I'm as likely to repeatedly listen to the clip in the OP as I am to a Victor Wooten solo performance. [/quote]

Couldn't get past the smug nodding myself...

[quote name='Leon Transaxle' timestamp='1381016420' post='2233522'] My first bass - a Satellite short scale bass. Sunburst, and a slidey switch for each microphonic pick up. Much like this one in fact although I don't remember an ashtray. [/quote] Yep, that was my first bass, too. Good job I never had an amp to play it through, really... Went through a couple more Satellites and Hondos, then went for bust, saved up for a couple of years and bought a brand new Jetglo 4001. Dream bass, I was made up with it, and I was king of the world and Geddy Lee at the same time. It was only when I borrowed a Yamaha BB3000 I realised how poor it actually was.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1381218015' post='2235792'] Good way to view it. That sums up Schroeder cabs for me pretty well, on their own they sound middy and nasally, yet put them in the mix and they just have so much presence it`s amazing. [/quote] Yep, spot on: if I'd have tried my Schroeder in a shop I probably wouldn't have bought it. Superb cab in a band setting, though.

I run the bass boosted on mine (mids and treble flat), but that's into my Schroeder, and works nicely with the low-mid bump of the cab.

As you've only got one cab, and a smallish/light one at that, an even cheaper route is a couple of 18in x 18in pieces of acoustic foam (the zigzag stuff) put together, which will do everything a Gramma Pad will do, for a fraction of the cost. I've been using this method under my Schroeder for years now, works a treat. If you really want to, you could always lash the money out on a Gramma Pad later...

Yeah, I hadn't realised that, and I like the look of the Babicz. The Schaller 3D's a cracking bridge, too - no sharp edges under heel of hand with that one...

My Streamliner suits my Schroeder's low mid bump a treat. A case of opposites complimenting.

I play quite a lot in a couple of related wedding/function bands, and agree that 200 to start is a hell of a thing to burden everyone with. We work from a songbook of about 100, and clients can pick from that, but we inevitably end up playing a core of the same 20 or so, with a selection from another 30, and the last fifty are firmly in the 'we can if specifically requested' camp, which can take a bit of brushing up on (although we don't go as far as to actually rehearse ). Even given a 100 song list, virtually all clients are happy to go with the band's selection within an overall mood - after all, very few wedding DJs get given a full setlist already specified by the bride... I'm not convinced the 'we know more songs than the others so we must be better' approach actually works, either. In order to keep things positive, I'd suggest a band meet to discuss the 200 to 'prioritise' them - with luck, you'll find a lot will wither away due to lack of interest. If he wants all 200 ready to go right away...he's delusional...back away slowly, and keep smiling...

You're a bassist. Prepare yourself for the fact that it may not.

Yeah, I've seen it around before. Had a good look at the Warmoth T-Bird body a while ago (which they don't make any more), when I was starting out with the Fenderbirds, and the neck pocket sticks out from the body, which makes the nut a loooong way away. I'd be interested to know how it balances.

I loved the the first three albums, but I started watching Some Kind Of Monster a couple of years ago, and had to be convinced it wasn't a comedy...