Chris2112

The top on that one looks like creased silk! Very different!

[quote name='dr Szelma' timestamp='1317496907' post='1391347'] spector IS NOT GOOD for metal music!!! and active emg pickups ARE NOT GOOD for other style than Victor Wooten double thumb, as a sound engineer I have to say it - they sound like sh*t when I have to put distorted bass in the mix... [/quote] Where are you getting this crap from? Spector basses have long been hugely popular in metal. If Alex Webster plays them and Modulus basses it must surely speak for the quality of Spector. I'd go for the Spector basses. The other two are good, but not in the same league as the Spector in every respect. The Euro basses are some of the best 'production' basses around.

I used to get that interference when I had my Trace Elliot amp. Since getting my Ashdown MK500 it's not happened since. And I've played live with my iphone in my pocket!

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1317469202' post='1390991'] I spent 3 years out there in the early 90s. No doubt its different now. [/quote] Yes, I'm sure it is a different world there now! This sounds like a fantastic opportunity. It should be fun, as long as you remember that you're going to a country with a culture and system of moral values far different from our own. And if you do get in trouble, for whatever reason, don't expect an easy ride there. Their courts have teeth, unlike ours. Go and see the world!

It just sounds like there is a lack of passion altogether. Would firing the guitarist or giving him one last chance work? Is he easily replaced? If you meet another obstacle three months down the line, will your heart be in it to overcome it and keep going with the band?

That white one is very cool.

East and Bartolini preamps are some of my absolute favourites...they will not fail to impress!

I don't think Fender would ever offer the Urge bass pickup combination on any 'mainstream' product of theirs. Okay, the Urge sounds nothing like a traditional P or J bass, but if they offered that pickup combo on a Mexican made bass they'd cut their sales in half! Thats one of the likely reasons the Urge Standard (MIM) only had two singlecoil pickups.

Michael Manring's tone is quite simply incredible. Which it needs to be, to match his superb playing.

That sounds like a great evening out!

Thats never an Epiphone! With that wildly slanted pickup! Far too much for conservative Gibson!

Yes, I used to have a Hohner Jack headless bass. Nothing special, but not dire either. The Spirit range of Steinbergers are piss poor though, I'd avoid those at all costs.

They have an amazing growling tone, when played right. Geddy Lee got a fantastic sound from his. There is nothing else quite like them. We are poorer for the fact they are no longer made.

To be fair, they do look pretty boring!