Ross

Boost low mids instead of lows. Have an experiment with the low cut function and then boosting lows on the EQ as well, I don't know why but that seems to work sometimes.

Mark it out, use a sharp chisel and go slow is my advice. Unless you're dead set on using a router.

We're not all made of money, changing to a fretless is not always an option. Fretted basses are easier to find, as are necks (for builds). Second hand as well.

Say you'll arrange shipping for significantly less if he gives you a pickup time and location.

Bought a sack truck from machinemart for about £35. Since then I've had a mate fit some larger wheels (and change their location) to make moving through mud easier plus sprayed it camoflauge for festival beer carrying reasons. It can carry several hundred cans of carling, or 2 heavy cabs at a time (or any combination of the two) no problems

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1260969' date='Jun 8 2011, 11:28 AM']How loud do you need to get when practicing at home? For me, as long as I can hear it, that's loud enough.[/quote] At uni - Housemates in - reasonable / housemates out - loud At home - Quiet as possible due to elderly neighbours

Thanks for the info/ offer man but I've decided to stay fretted for now

Put my amp on top of the house bass amp once "Don't want that redundant old sh*t" worked quite well.

Bass pod pro > Housemates fancy denon 2.1 system For a while, it wasn't too bad to be fair, when you started to crank it, then it hated you. Getting my amp down there this year though, thank god.

I watch bass players intently when I see a new one because some have a tendancy to overplay and some to completely underplay. But I don't get bitchy like drummers seem to, I just think "I'd have played that differently"

Right, bit of an update. Unfortunately I'm still waiting on screws and pickups are a long way off seeing as I've run out of money and work are messing me about. It's important the government doesn't hear my tunes though so I did get round to lining the cavities today:

Seconding the learn how to do it yourself, it's really quite simple. Plus you'll be able to sort mates instruments out resulting in free beer/ cigs.

Sorry but a soundcard on a cable for £34? Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

[quote name='thebeat' post='353501' date='Dec 13 2008, 01:39 PM']the bass playing equivalent of wearing my girlfriends pants.[/quote] I love wearing your girlfriends pants. And for the record, don't put on a girls leggings while she's out of the room and pose, she'll get really angry while you laugh like a schoolgirl. Love ric's, nowhere near my budget and I'd have to get the real mccoy, one day though.

[quote name='EskimoBassist' post='1257389' date='Jun 5 2011, 03:21 PM']Bit of a lad, at least he's honest and hard working - two fantastic qualities.[/quote] Two fantastic qualities which have lost all meaning because everyone puts that kind of stuff down.

[quote name='skej21' post='1250750' date='May 30 2011, 08:38 PM']Nah, it's actually a clever marketing ploy so that all the slappers and fretw***ers have more room to show off in. Apparently, when someone chooses to "demonstrate their skills", a gang of screeching girls appears from nowhere and flocks around the potential customer. This helps to support the customer's delusion that their "skills" attract ladies, in turn increasing the chance of a sale by nearly 150%. True story.[/quote] I'm sure bass cellar is full of screaming girls who need a change of underwear after hearing some slap... It's more than likely the few who walk past the hot drummer shop and go in the bass cellar will be thinking "Whats the awful racket, oh it's that pale nerdly looking kid with the big guitar, I'm gonna go have a sweaty backdoor lovemaking session with this rich salesman"

I'm in the process of doing it (check my sig for the build thread). And while i'm on that, check out the build diarys section. I'm seriously glad I didn't get a kit, for the amount of bass I've gotten for what I've spent it's quite remarkable, hunting down parts seperately, making them all fit. It's all part of the fun. Have a hunt about for a body and neck then go from there

I had one it was okish low down with a bit of EQ twiddling, but past the 12th fret it was awful, the neckdive was killer especially for such a thick neck, and it gave everyone the impression I played a lot of metal (seeing as I had long hair at the time). I kind of miss it in a way because it was my first semi decent bass and the deal I sold it in ended up me being out of pocket by about £50 (never give finance to friends). But I wouldn't buy another.

I don't know about some of that, if I had someone show up in their tescos uniform to play a gig, sorry but no.

I think you definitely should have played it before handing over any money. Not quite sure how he can justify charging you £85 for that job either, did you not ask him why? If someone quotes me one figure then charges over double I'm gonna refuse to pay that. You should definitely be doing more.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1254617' date='Jun 2 2011, 09:08 PM']Is that the ones with the blue silks?[/quote] Black silks. In all fairness I emailed stringbusters, 20 minutes later they emailed back to say they're sending a replacement today so I'm not too fussed. But when you pay £32 for a set of strings it's a bit strange to have one break so easily.

Cheers for the offer bud, a mate of mine from the pub had a rummage and found me one now though.

Finally got into doing some proper playing today on my newly strung up project, the strings have been on a whole day and the E string snapped while I was resting my thumb lightly on it. Have la bella been having some quality control issues or something? Anyone else had problems with them lately?

Real progress finally. Finished the finish now, I'm debating whether I should polish it. I quite like it as is, bit of tcut and wax would no doubt make it uber shiny. Assembled and set it up today, plays really nice, the neck is actually a little thinner than my other jazz which is ideal for my stumpy sausage fingers. All that is really left to do is sheilding, buying some pickguard screws (guitar parts worldwide are still out of them), buying the pickups and dropping it all into place.