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Zebrano top.Looks nice!! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fernandez-Alembic-bass-with-Jaydee-pick-ups_W0QQitemZ130304853484QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item130304853484&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fernandez-Alembic-ba...%3A1%7C294%3A50[/url]

Just put this up if of interest. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=48304"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=48304[/url] Is in lovely condition,no neck breaks or anything,sounds a lot sweeter than my previous laminate bass too. Pete

Bought a preamp from Mark a couple of months ago,good bloke amp as described ,no probs here ! Thanks Mark

Ed came over and bought a bass from me ,no messing about ,thanks Ed,highly recommend to deal with !!!!

Bought a bass from Barrie a while ago,great bass,top bloke ,great cuppa tea ,and a lovely collection of basses (which he had to almost wrestle back out of my hands)!!!Cheers Barrie

Sold a pre to Graeme ,nice bloke even made me a nice cuppa !!Can recommend!

Sold a case to Jay,quick payment good comms ,top man!! Thanks Jay

Sold a preamp to Galore ,no probs ,fast payment and good guy to deal with ,can recommend! Pete

I've sold 2 items to Joe both times paid quick no complications great guy to deal with Cheers Joe

Bought a case from Ray , posted to me superquick! arrived well packed. Top bloke! Thanks Ray Pete

Having just thought about it,360degrees piezo possibly means as in fixed bridge /strip type(like acoustic guitars have). 2 of my basses are this type .I actually think they're better than the "in saddle" type because they seem to respond better frequency wise to what your right hand's doing...ie;you dig in more you seem to get a bigger freq. range/different tone. But obviously from a playability aspect you lose the flexibility of the string if you will,that you get with the in saddle type. Also i've heard that the best in-saddle type are RMC. I discussed piezos a few times with percy jones and tbh he lost me with the technicalities (lattitude for placement an other stuff)He's been playing them in ibanez basses for about 10yrs now and iirc his last bass might have had just RMC piezos in it. Also Chris Larkin said he tried loads of piezos and rmc are the only one he likes/uses. Dunno if any of this helps Pete [quote name='owen' post='439629' date='Mar 19 2009, 07:46 PM']Having spent a lot of time (and money) getting to the state of being happy with my DB sound it's my suspicion that it was the various pre-amps which were having the main effect on the sound of the piezos.[/quote]

If the first two were rubbish doesn't it answer your own question, that they're all different?Or was it the pre-amps making them rubbish? I dont know much about the technicalities of piezo's but i saw,i think it was Shuker ,describing their's as "360 degree" piezos so there must be differences? [quote name='owen' post='439569' date='Mar 19 2009, 06:54 PM']I'm on my third, and the first two were RUBBISH. I had given up on the whole thing really, but my present one is LUSH. My DB has a piezo buffered by a Summit Audio TD 100 and it sounds fabulous. I suspect that a well seated piezo will work as long as it is well buffered. I just dont want to find that they can be different as magnetic pickups can after I lay my £ down[/quote]

I've got 4 basses with piezos in (an they're probably all gonna be up for sale soon too!)all have different piezos all sound/respond differently....i wouldn't say one is better than another they just seem to differ in the way or amount they respond to pressure from your right hand...they've all got different pre's too so that doesn't help much in making judgements either [quote name='owen' post='439526' date='Mar 19 2009, 06:22 PM']What I was hoping to ascertain was that there is actually no difference between one piezo and another - it is all down to the buffering involved.[/quote]

Bought a bass from JonnyB , Top bloke ! Top bass!! (An he's from Cheshire too!!!:-)