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[quote name='BassAgent' timestamp='1422661656' post='2675509'] [/quote] I have uncontrollable GAS for exactly this machine in exactly this livery. Oof!

[quote name='howdenspur' timestamp='1424031032' post='2691815'] Tho I can feel my discs twinging just thinking about it! [/quote] Ow. I can feel my scrotum bursting. It's a sad day when you realise you'll never use an all-valve amp - if you want to keep your balls. Ironic really.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1424030881' post='2691809'] I thought that was what forums were for ;-) a distraction from playing lol [/quote] No way! I play while I'm reading posts and practice my pull-offs (fnarr) while typing replies with the other hand.

Very nice indeed! Order your truss now.

Looks like yet another device designed to make bass players obsolete!

I don't play bass unless I'm learning or rehearsing songs for a set. I don't play it solo, it seems a bit pointless. Bass is not a solo instrument in my view and those who make it so do it very deliberately and are generally good at it. I'm not such an animal - I'm a team player me, and I don't think a bass fulfills its proper potential unless it's heard in the mix, as has been said in another thread. I'm not a fantastic technical player - I do what I need to get sounds I think are good - but the most important thing for me is to play to support the song and do as much as possible to enable everyone else in the band to come across as best they can. This is a totally different skill from practicing scales and so forth. Practice scales if you want to be good at playing scales and play in a band if you want to be good at playing in a band. Though they're not mutually exclusive of course. All IMHO.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1423989944' post='2691116'] Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, So wrong it actually pains me [/quote] You're on the list for a an early-morning visit too, mate! Tort is only acceptable with white, sunburst, natural and fiesta red. Anything else is an offence against good taste and common decency!!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1423753355' post='2688642'] Perhaps naively, I hadn't even realised that the term 'experimental FX guru' actually HAD been invented. I must try to find ways to drop that into my conversation ... [/quote] You just did.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1423980137' post='2691080'] .I've never seen that model with anything other than dot markers 'til I came across this pic on talkbass (the one on the left). I suspect they've been retro-fitted (like the naff gold tuners). Any ideas? [/quote] See the diamond at the 21st fret? These are third-party aftermarket stick-on jobs. I bought some a wile back, but couldn't bring myself to apply them. I sold my Legends and bought a Euro instead, which luckily has proper MOP crown inlays... I quite like the gold tuners... or would do if they were matched with a gold bridge...

Good luck with it, well done. It's a shame you live so far away really or I would come and kick you up the arse, too. Black and tort??

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1423954889' post='2690958'] ...black and maple [/quote] No. Black basses are as an abomination unto the LORD. [quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1423977188' post='2691078'] ...black body tort plate maple board mmmmm [/quote] What did I just say, ye HEATHEN?? Also black and tort is actually [i]illegal[/i]. Expect a visit from the authorities.

Didn't a Hoppus recently come out top in a P Bass comparison at a bass bash?

Ha! GAS won out again! Very Good.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1423957658' post='2691000'] Rickenbackers have no low end. Ashdowns are ill-defined and muddy. Gibson have never made a decent bass. [/quote] All true, and I would add that as well as sounding muddy, Ashdowns will also spontaneously burst into flames - so be careful.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1423952286' post='2690923'] Precisions don't sound good soloed, the magic is in the mix [/quote] Absolutely. That's why Victor Wooten doesn't play one. [quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1423952587' post='2690926'] ...unless you plan on having a music career playing through a headphone amp Into your headphones, I'd suggest you don't have a problem. [/quote] A P bass needs to be played through an amp with a band. Air needs to be moved. Trousers need to be flapped. Wombs need to be vibrated. And quite possibly in that order. Playing solo bass through headphones is like having a hand shandy on a bus. No-one does it unless they [i]really [/i]have to.

[quote name='steviedee' timestamp='1423946972' post='2690822'] Cheers lads I need to spend a bit more time messing around with the amp. But my gear is in the studio and time is precious so you end up going with the imperfect solution! I'll defintely turn the gain on tho! [/quote] Yes, do that! I have my rig next to my computer and my bass in my lap at all times when I'm on BC. In fact I have been known to go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea still wearing it, but that's probably going too far...

[quote name='John Schoen' timestamp='1423850986' post='2689769'] I am close to Amsterdam and have a G&L Tribute L-2000 that I hardly use; you could borrow that one for a while. [/quote] [quote name='merello' timestamp='1423944420' post='2690773'] Deserves a wee round of applause. Well played Sir! [/quote] [quote name='silky13' timestamp='1423946719' post='2690812'] An absolute gent! I've taken him up on the offer! Looking forward to going even more now! :-) [/quote] Mad props to Mr Schoen! Isn't BC a great place, really? My faith in human beans is restored!!

Trial and error, really. Just do what is best for you, as long as it works and you're happy that's the bottom line. I like the sound from the Streamliner too - it's got major heft and slam - considering the solid-state power section.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1423941915' post='2690728'] ...get the muff up out of the way early then relax and enjoy. [/quote] There's no time for that - he wants to get out and get gigging.

[quote name='bassmayhem' timestamp='1423940543' post='2690702'] I use to do like this: I set the gain and the preamp volume at around 2 o'clock, depending on what bass I use. Then I control the overdrive with my fingers and playing style. When I "hold back" the amp is nice and clean, but when I dig in I am rewarded with a nice grind, without changing settings. Try your own settings to find your own "sweet spot"... [/quote] This is a good simple way to do it, but depending on how a gig's going I find that sometimes I just don't have the dynamic control necessary! If I'm getting excited I tend to play harder and my carefully-selected sweet spot goes out the window! Thus proving once again that it's all in the fingers.

Good lord, if I lived in Tamworth I could well be tempted! Possibly more so if it were white, but even so...

Interesting historically, but musically I can take it or leave it.

Depends what genre you're into, really... not my thing.