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If you would like some constructive feedback on your website:- The one filter that I want to see is "Availability" - I don't want to wade through dozens of pictures on the off-chance that what I am interested in will be in stock. For example, I am interested in a 33", 32" or a short scale Fender, or maybe an Alembic - there are lots of pictures - all sold..... If I was interested in a 4-string fretless Fender (I am not) then I don't want to see the 10 you have sold - at least not in that section of the website. It would be better if you put them somewhere else., or allowed Sold items to be filtered out first.

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For those BCers that have never listened and voted in the Composition Challenge, please have a listen and take part. Voting finishes tonight. This month's tracks are all great pieces of music in their own right. Having entered previously, I know that a lot of effort goes into writing these pieces and for 7 people to write and perform music just for 9 people to cast votes is a little disheartening! Come on, support your fellow BCers.

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This was my last experience of the the Bass Gallery. Just after Boogie brought out the Subway series of cabs, I ordered two (15s) from the shop. The first one arrived and the second took a little longer (from the Boogie end). Once I had the pair, I ran them up and there was a clear rattle coming from one of them. I did everything I could to check things over (made sure all the screws were tight etc) to no avail. Eventually, I contacted Boogie (luckily, a good mate is an endorsee) and Boogie conceded that the speaker must be faulty. Through the Bass Gallery they agreed to send over a replacement speaker. As someone who has a 'real' job to keep a roof over the family's head, I couldn't easily get time off to head up to London but the guy who was going to do the swap (I apologise for not remembering the name) actually delayed leaving for his holiday (that day) to meet me at the shop. he didn't rush around but took his time to open up the box and remove the speaker ready to swap out the rattling one. After getting it out the trouble was evident. The guy stapling in the wadding had obviously reloaded his staple gun and a block of 4 staples had dropped in and stuck to the magnet, near the cone. With those gone, the speaker behaved as it should. Having opted to keep the original speaker, I was offered the replacement one free of charge - on the proviso that I would return it if Boogie wanted it back. They never did and so I have a spare speaker in case I ever need it. I doubt I will becaue my diesel 2x15 has lasted for 30 years without fault. Before then, I had only bought a wreck of a Precision from the shop so I was not any kind of regular. I was hugely impressed by the level of service and customer care shown. For that, they will always be my number 1 store.

I know there's been confusion over the buzzer system we have so let me explain that. All three of us work down in the basement so the upstairs part of the shop is often unmanned and due to being in a busy part of London with a high crime rate we have keep the door shut! However we'll ALWAYS answer the door if you ring the buzzer! Or if you can't find the buzzer just knock and we'll rise from the bass dungeon to let you in

Money shots - oi , stop dribbling at the back Some side action Some rear action , matron. Yes i stuck another badge on the rear. Had some perspex i didnt know what to do with Some front action And a close up ( sounding like a porn movie ? ) of the flash SS cups under the grill screws. Oh yes. Come to daddy

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I've also visited the website and seen those multitude of SOLD basses. It would be much more user friendly to have all SOLD basses in their own section

+1 The overall volume of a band is surely down to how loud the drummer is. My current band has a great drummer who can play very quietly and it's a blessed relief, to be honest. I don't care what happens, I'm sticking with this guy! A quiet-playing band also makes it much easier to rehearse, compose and get a good overall sound in general. Makes a huge difference when you're not pushing earplugs in, dealing with nosebleeds and gritting your teeth. A very loud band is just unnecessary, unprofessional and is also very tiring, both for players and listeners. *Awaits backlash from those who must be loud 'to get my sound' and so on... yawn.*

Ah, you mean very well...

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Excellent point and one we hear quite often. We do like to keep our sold stock on the website as it can give you an idea of the kind of stock we've had in the past (some people also just like the bass porn), however I do agree that it can clutter the website. Behind the scenes we're currently working on some tweaks to our website which will hopefully solve this problem!

I could downgrade it to a spank

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+1 about premium strings. I put a used set of D’Addario Chromes on my pb50 and it sounds really great. Lots of vintage, fat sounding goodness.

This is a great example of studio bass mixing with that big deep bottom likely high passed on the DI signal, then a low passed signal on the clacky top end signal with a drive (SansAmp?), maybe a Distressor or Fatso Jr. working it's magic too - you can hear loads of compression on it keeping it all tight and even and sitting just right in the mix. You can still hear the clank on top with the whole mix but it sits really well and just add that definition to the bass in the track. I think it's a good bass tone and it's certainly a good fit for this song but it's been crafted for that song to be fair. It's more pleasing than that last video of Cici but then it sounds like her signal is a direct D.I. signal rather than the amp. There's certainly no mic on the cab and I'd say it's a clean signal that the sound man is using for FOH mix. It's pretty terrible which is more a reflection on the sound man to be honest but yeah maybe that's what they wanted the bass to sound like.

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Because Trace Elliot watts are calculated exponentially. All is explained in this video.

I will buy no more! And incidentally, we have a new addition to the household - a lovely little dog! I think he's a Lickapoo.

My Bogarts also have a semi headstock, just thread strings through holes, clamp them and hey presto job’s a good’n.

"Valve Watts" tend to sound louder because when you start to work them, valves compress the signal in a musically pleasing way, which means that the bits in-between the peaks are louder. So even though the peaks are no louder than a SS or Class D amp the average signal level is higher in a valve amp meaning that it sounds louder.

I have had that same problem with the website, and websites like that (there are a couple) I don't care what you have sold in the past, or what you normally carry, I only care when looking at what you have available. It is very frustrating to find something interesting to see that it is sold. I am not sure why a customer would care what you did have, but certainly if someone actually wanted that it could be something that could be tucked somewhere for those people to see.

The difference is that the cellulose has been through a nitration process which makes nitrocellulose (incidentally nitrocellulose is one of the key elements of gun powder) I’m not entirely sure what difference that makes to the finish but I always use cellulose car paint as I seem to be able to get a better finish and it doesn’t seem to fade as much I’m not to sure if you would be able to do a trans finish with cellulose tho (but I’ve never tried??)

I'm far from an expert but I believe Fender started out using cellulose car paints, hence you find 60's Fords in Sea Foam Green...... Maybe call the auto paint people, they might have sold paint to luthiers before.

Plus you can skip with it!

Ah yes, the Basschat Jazz conundrum... know it well..! Actually 'Conundrum' is a great name for a jazz-fusion combo. And so is 'Prolapse'. Ahem. Well, I must get on...

RIght now, in Hampshire we have like 45 snowflakes in the sky. It's cold, but we are a long way from having a snow-storm. I have an inappropriate, rear-wheel drive car with summer tyres and planning to drive into London.

Ashdown have sent a reply to my question to them - - Q) Why was the combo ever shipped with a 250w 4ohm driver? I can't get full power from the combo as a standalone and I can't use an extension to get it. Please advise. Ashdowns reply from Guy Morel - A) You are still getting the full power out of the amp.. It only means you cannot use an extension cabinet with it.. Have Ashdown just fobbed me off or am I missing something? I've replied again saying its a 250w driver so how can I use it to its full potential etc but am awaiting reply. He also seems to imply that I can get 400w rms through a 250w driver without causing damage to it too? Whatever he is saying, it sounds to me like I'm being fobbed off!

I find Dunlop Gels are good for subduing that clicking noise

It's a bit like the Crossrail project this.

Makes sense I guess - I just don't like interrupting people

I don't know what BassBus's point was, but it does make the point that many highly respected fretless players choose to play lined models. i.e. that lined fretless basses are not purely for beginners. I'm sure that a similar list of unlined players could be put together. At the end of the day play what you want - After all, very few people in the outside world will give a toss.

Cheers Andy. I'm quite pleased with it - does the job and is quite tidy ( even though it won't be seen!). Yep, just self adhesive sheet. You can get this stuff off eBay and it comes in normal and thick sheets; I prefer the thicker stuff as I find it nicer to work with. Cheers

My wife doesn't let me come to shops like yours anymore. Smashing selection tho.

So what's the score if the singer wants to sing a number slowly, and it turns the song into a pig's ear..? Go with the singer's choice..? Surely not..?

Who'd want to carry a bass around with them across London unless they absolutely had to? Not for me ta!

I swapped necks on different HB basses: put a fretless Jazz neck onto the PB50 body, the fretted PB50's neck onto the Jazz body, then I got a lefty Jazz neck for the PB50, as mentioned above. I found the neck heels and pockets do fit, but the neck bolts are not aligned. You need to fill the holes in the neck heel drill new ones.

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Lined for me, with side dots exactly where they are on a fretted. I don't care about violins, and side dots in weird places confuse me. I also only have limited time to practice and can't be arsed to wait until I'm 74 before I'm good enough to play a fretless in front of other people, so the closer I can make it to a normal bass the better. I also spend a lot of time playing above the 9th fret, where things get real tricky without lines. But unlined necks do look nicer, and if I was 15 and had years to sit in a bedroom and practice, I would probably choose unlined. But I am not 15 and I can't face the extra workload.

So, just back from first rehearsal since deciding to give this a go - and not too bad. Only got stuck in once and caught myself doing it so backed straight off again. Drummer thought I may have been just a touch too loud, but said feel and sound was fine, guitarist thought that the sound had more clarity (only using rehearsal studio's H&K combo), and to his ears, a less compressed sound. Going to chalk this one up as a success, but the real test will be when adrenaline kicks in at a gig!

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