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c'mon it also has its own number stamped in the arm head

I was just saying how good the standard HZs were in my Epi but I'd have put them in any bass that they fitted. Just pointing out that they are the same pickup in a different casing

The best part of the JVs for me were the necks with the rolled fingerboards

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1340883' date='Aug 15 2011, 05:09 PM']Funny how in some threads the Ray 5 is classed as boring because it's been around so long yet to many has become the industry standard 5 (not my words btw) yet no one has mentioned them yet unless I missed it? Full mass Market afaik production models start from 1987 [/quote] [quote]Posted Yesterday, 10:24 AM The Peavey Tim Landers TL-5 & 6 basses were about in the 80s and the Stingray 5 was released in 1987 as well[/quote] The very first copy of Guitarist I bought when I began playing in 1987 featured the very first UK review of the stingray 5 in a lovely transluscent dark red

They're Thunderbird shaped HZ pickups. Exactly the same as far as I am aware. I use HZs in my Epiphone Thunderbird and they are fantastic pickups

The Peavey Tim Landers TL-5 & 6 basses were about in the 80s and the Stingray 5 was released in 1987 as well

Try and relax as much as you can. I did a lot of octave runs across the strings when I was young to help improve my stretching ability

I can now confirm that Roto flats on an EB-3 do indeed sound the bollox

From memory the pickup one is almost but not actually touching the scratchplate and the bridge one is almost at the end of the body. Usually a bit of masking tape over the paintwork but if you use a small drill its not going to chip anything

[quote name='mcnach' post='1336916' date='Aug 11 2011, 07:54 PM'] yeah, and we play RHCP songs sitting in a chair wearing a tuxedo [/quote] Why would a chair wear a tuxedo? And that must be quite a big chair

I'm lost. I know that certain genres of Metal etc use really low tunings but in my 24 years of playing I've only ever downtuned an entire bass once and that was because I was depping with a band, had to learn 40 songs I did not know and then just before we started was told that they tune down a semitone for everything. Pass - learn to transpose the songs your doing?

The body is too skinny to fit a preamp in there. In fact, the 3 pots and jack barely fit in there so the only way would be to use pickups with a preamp built into the pickup and route a separate battery compartment. What size is the pickup route with the pickups removed? I thought they would've just used the same bodies as the standard one with the same routes. I thought that was what the pickup ring was for - to hide the gap round the sides of the smaller pickup. And its a Hipshot Supertone bridge. Makes a huge difference to the balance and sound of the bass and it was already on the bass when I bought it last year. They are pretty hefty in price - around the £70 mark

I have EMG 35 HZ pickups in my Goth Thunderbird and Roto flats and its clear and punchy as hell As you can see from the second picture, they fit perfectly width wise and only have a bit of a gap top and bottom

Been using Roto flats for the past 9 monts. They're the bollocks but I need to go back to rounds for an 80s project I'm working on

Just cos you've got the power don't mean you've got the [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHw0yzxHbQ"]right[/url] You need to do more than change two 100 speakers for two 200w ones. they need to match the cab that they are going into or they will sound really sh*te

The pickups on these are ballsy as hell - I reckon roto flats would sound the bollocks

Don't tell me they've stopped doing them. Easily the best rounds I;ve ever used. I only have one set left

That's where I got the one for my '57 single coil precision Warmoth bass in maple

Roto Flats are the roundiest sounding flats I've ever used. HAd them on my bass for about 10 months so far

Thr first one is what I use. For monitoring it faces up towards me. With no PA support it faces the audience

Before I discovered Talkbass, let alone Basschat I had a Gallien 800Rb and Trace 1153 About 10 years on I now have a Gallien 700RB II and Laney NX115. Put it this way, I now have more or less what I started with and I am very happy with it plus the cab is a good bit lighter

Got a Jazz copy from the US which actually cost me nothing as it was damaged, they sent a replacement which cost about £80 as that is what I had originally paid. I was waiting for Warmoth parts for my now fabled gold '54 precision (for sale by the current owner BTW) so had no choice but to gig with it. Fired on the only strings I had in the house which were a set of Power Slinkies and went off to the gig. Got there and took the bass out only it was no longer a bass, it was some kind of bow or perhaps wooden banana. I managed to tighten the truss rod enough to straighten out the neck in time to gig it. Did a few gigs with that bass. Funny thing is that you're never disappointed with cheap basses, only surprised when they do what you need them to. My theory is that if everyone bought cheap basses then more people would be happy as opposed to those who spend thousands only to find flaws My main bass for the past year has been an Epiphone Gothic Thunderbird that I've played in front of thousands of people. Its given me much more satisfaction, not to mention better sounding and playing than some £2000+ basses I've owned

[quote name='Kes' post='1330700' date='Aug 7 2011, 10:41 AM']Oh the neck on the ibanez is pretty much the reason I'm looking for a 5 in this range... absolutely lovely. Small hands etc. still spacing enough to slap (on the i think it was 505 and prestige or whichever ones PMT in Manchester had.[/quote] If you plan on buying without trying then don't get an SRX as they are the wide fingerboard models. The SRs are famous for their slim necks but the SRX is a bit of a beast in comparison

my advice is simple - just listen to, absorb and play everything you can. Learn where all the notes are, where they are an octave and two octaves above and your major and minor scales. Most importantly, have fun. If you come across something you can't play, listen to some other stuff then come back to it and try again until you can. If it becomes annoying and a chore then you're doing it wrong. You want to be enjoying yourself. While you're practicing, gear is irrelevant. I began at 11 and until I was 16 used a Marlin Slammer piece of sh*t precision copy with flaking chrome and never changed the strings through a Squier 15w guitar amp. You don't need anything fancy until you're about to start gigging

[quote name='Wooks79' post='1331139' date='Aug 7 2011, 06:03 PM']By treat, you mean horrendous? not my cup of tea.[/quote] They obviously make them stand out more than they do for the website to showcase how bright they are but I would have to tilt my bass forward for anyone but myself to see mine. On a black bass on a dark stage they are the bollocks and a fraction of the price for the SIMS jobbies.