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looking at the website, I think they may be using the same neck for the 4 and 8 string models and possibly using a scarf joint to add whatever headstock is required which would explain the extra width

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1166333' date='Mar 17 2011, 09:50 PM']Of course, everyone has the right to try new stuff and switch brands, but IMO putting out a signature bass should mean "this is my go-to bass, it's a major part of my sound and has helped make me the player I am today" rather than "[b]I quite like this one at the moment[/b]"[/quote] Doesn't that sound like a lot of us? I know I've had about 70 basses so why should a pro be any different, especially because most, if not all of them are getting them for free.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1166919' date='Mar 18 2011, 11:55 AM']At least you found out the day before. It's not uncommon to turn up at the gig,have a quick chat about what tunes you'll do,then start.[/quote] indeed. I did a gig with a band I'd never played with before on boxing night and didn't find out until about 10 minuts to go that they tune down a semitone. even learned Big Fat Mama by Status Quo (proper Quo song) which is a bugger and ended up not doing it.

My gold Warmoth had an ebony board cos it looked cool

when I first began mucking about with pickups etc I firstly began by taking some pictures of the wiring in situ. that way, if I made a balls up, I could bring them up on screen on the computer and see exactly what they looked like when they worked. Of course, you could just view the relevant diagram on somewhere like the Seymour duncan website but I didn't stumble across that until much later. one thing to remember, if they're normal passive pickups, remember to connect the ground wire from the bridge one other important thing to note is make sure the pickups will fit into the bass you're transferring to precision pickups are much of a muchness but some Jazzes use 2 neck pickups and other a narrower neck one.

the true answer is whatever people are selling at the time as you can see from the answers above. I would add another + for Gallien Krueger. Been round the doors with a lot of stuff and ended up back with a 700RB II again Try it all if you can, preferrably in a gigging environment

big one and compact one but there was a shallower one around at some point.

Is the B tuner really close to the nut? I had a similar problem when using Elites with my Thumb 5 where the full thickness of the string would end up going round the tuning post ending up in a snapped string. the solution was to buy a single tapered Elites B which tapers very quickly after it passes through the nut.

I've been using the Rotosounds for a few months and they're still quite bright for flats. Tension is between TIs and Chromes and they have red silk.

I use a Roksak for my goth thunderbird which interestingly begins life as the same bass as the Blackbird but gets different pickups and wiring You can get them [url="http://www.hwaudio.co.uk/product/gator_25504.aspx"]here[/url] very well padded with the headstock velcro roundy thing to hold it in with padding round it. A large pocket with velcro to hold your cables and a smaller one for sundries. Been using mine since I got my thunderbird and its still looking like new.

The gold sparkly 54 p that I had had which is for sale by its current owner has a wenge neck and ebony fretboard for no other reason that it looks nice and if the neck gets a bit sticky you can just take some steel wool down it and its smoothe and quick again. I couldn't tell you if it growls more than a standard maple / mape & rosewood neck but its warmoth so the neck ain't moving anywhere regardless of the conditions I had it in.

Tartan paint, what will they think of next?

That's interesting because it marks just by looking at it the wrong way. I know what you mean about the upper fret access being not very good. I very rarely go up that far and when I do its only to tap something with my right hand.

I'd recommend trying out a Laney Nexus NX115. I'm an old school rock geezer but always like to keep the sound punchy and the Laney is perfect. I play an Epiphone Gothic Thunderbird with EMG HZ pickups and Rotosound Flatwound strings into a GK 700RB II and the sound is incredible. Part of the reason I'm not on here quite as much as I used to be.

If its been looked after and everything works then that's a bargain. I sold my 1110 (the 4x10" version in the brochure) for £340 a couple of years ago. they didn't come with an output for an extension cab but some were modified. My one had an external speaker out and a power amp in if I remember rightly to enable you to use just the preamp section with an external power amp.

Been kind of busy the last few weeks but finally got to gig the cab on its own tonight with no PA support. The short answer is that this cab goes very loud. Tonight I wasn't even remotely pushing it. It could've gone a lot louder. Hooray, I don't need to buy another one.

Just found out tonight that i have a gig this weekend so I'm going to see if using just one cab on its own without PA support is going to be loud enough I had intended buying a second one but let's see how I get on with it on its own against the Jim Carey of the drumming world (I am the Jim Carey of the bass world ) and a phenomenal guitarist who plays a Les paul through a Peavey 5150 2x12" combo

The only relatively lightweight valve amp that I have come across is the Peavey VB-3. When I first heard about them I was very interested but at £2000 I changed my mind.

After extensive searching, the bridge with the closest string spacing is the Kahler 7460 which does 14mm which would mean that you'd have from centre B to centre C 70mm total width. A standard 4 string with a 19mm string spacing would be 57mm wide from centre G to cente E. That leaves you with 13mm or 1/2" extra width which would invariably mean that the outermost strings would be off the edge of the neck. I've used the 7450 to make a 4 to 5 conversion so that's possible so you'd realistically need to be looking at a 5 to 6 conversion as has been mentioned

I've been using one for years but I would say that using it gives an increase in volume. I run mine with the dry signal up full and the -1 octave at about 11 o'clock with the -2 octave off. Quite a bit louder on than off

I remember them and thought they looked cool - wasn't that Fender's first unofficial 6 string bass or did they just do a 5? There was a review in Guitarist that must've been about 1988. i think I still have it. I kept a small selection of the first ones I bought in a Guitarist binder

Keep out of the black and in the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed

When you click on the 'more than 10 sold' link you can see that everyone paid £23.99. Not sure why they would change it unless they have run out temporarily and are trying to deter people from buying them cos they can't fulfill any orders.

I sent in the dimensions for my Laney NX115 cab on Sunday, got a reply on Monday saying that they had taken the measurements and it was on their website to order, ordered it on Monday late afternoon and it arrived on Friday morning. Perfect as usual - this is the third time I've ordered from them and the third time that they did not have my cab dimensions on their system so had to submit them myself but they were quick to get them up and quick to process the order.