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I love showy things, I love the colour and flip flop paint, but that surface on the warwick is horrible. There is a honda civic down our road that someone pained themselves with household emulsion that looks just like that. Hope it looked better in person!

If you sell a bass in this way then presumably you have: 1. Decided that it's a desirable thing to do (presumably because you feel it improves your chances of selling your bass in some way); 2. Decided to take advantage of the reputation and/or facilities your chosen agency offers; 3. Decided to accept their terms and conditions of sale; and, 4. Decided that the net price you will get from the sale is at least as much as you would get from selling it yourself (and without the inconvenience of having to advertise it, field dumb queries from the great unwashed or arrange delivery/courier/collection yourself). If you're unhappy with any of the above, then without wishing to be rude why are you doing it this way in the first place? Why not just sell it yourself and be done with it?

MiniMert and I quite enjoyed the Little Stubby. The overdriven tones are sublime and it goes quite loud, I’d say louder than the CTM30 but I’m basing this on fuzzy memory only. The feedback control is very cool, it literally feeds the signal back through the preamp valve (pre EQ) to thicken up the tone and add more “girth”. It also adds more volume too. The drive control seemed quite sensitive, below around 10 o’clock there seemed very little if any signal passing through, then it suddenly burst into life with warm thick valvey goodness. After about 12 o’clock you start dialling in more and more grit and overdrive - this thing is a monster for a hellish dirty tone. It’s not something I use a lot of but I can see myself trying it more, hehehe. Anyhoo, the pic is of MiniMert, sensibly defending his ears from the slapathon, giving my the all clear to buy it 🤓

So... For the impatient amongst you I have a little video! It's just what i've been working on composing today, so not incredibly real-world for most players and just on an iPhone. However, plug in some headphones and you get an idea of some of the warmth and the cleans it produces. I will do some proper/more in depth but talk-free demos, as per the rest of my channel, later this week! T

You bought this from them at the LBGS? It looks like a nice tidy wee unit. The inevitable sound clips request has officially been lodged. side note LBGS just makes me think Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Slappers (bass or otherwise) I have an hilarious image of the LGBT community showing up at the London bass guitar show being massively disappointed and confused!

Damn! Not Tina then ...

Undoubtedly to everyone's utmost surprise, I've got a pic of the whole bass. Edit: click on it to see it in full resolution.

Isn't the B1on just the best value for money thing any bassist could ever buy? After my Vox amplug suffered a prolapsed input due to me standing on my cable I recalled folk here saying the Zoom can do the same job and more. At £45 I thought why not take a punt. I'm stunned. It is a superb piece of kit. Perfect headphone amp, with aux input. Now with Audacity on my pc and this beauty connected to the sound card song learning has never been so easy. Oh and it has an excellent tuner too. Oh and the effects are really nice and easily customisable. And did I mention it only cost me 45 quid? Brand new? In the future people will describe any wonderful and innovative novelty as "The best thing since Zoom B1on" trust me.

Not a quest I've ever been on! If it ain't saturated, I ain't infatuated.

Roasted swamp ash body, stained flamed maple top, roasted flamed maple neck and fingerboard. All passive Nordstrand MM + J blades. I want them as lightweight as possible!

Angry Birds?

Yes - Spitfire.

I was planning to go on Saturday only but there were so many good masterclasses that I went back yesterday as well. Joe Hubbard and Yolanda Charles were both completely inspirational. Scotts performance/session in the SBL room yesterday was fantastic. I really enjoyed Chris Childs masterclass as well - a great insight into his role as a gigging & session musician. Overall, a really great show (although I found it a completely humbling experience because it highlights to me how little I know and how basic my own skills are!!)

So the biggest unanswered question.... were those the Warwick special discounted show prices...?

Probably the packaged weight. I bet those aren't the bass's actual dimensions either. I mean, I could be wrong but 5.5 inches deep?

Yep, just got home after having attended both days. Arrived quite late yesterday and missed all the workshops/seminars but got in a couple of hours worth of gear-drooling. Spent some time with Alan Cringean of ACG who was an absolute gent and had some glorious basses on display. I had the pleasure of playing a lovely red P-Retro 5 string which I fell a little bit in love with. Just before closing time I got chatting to Scott Devine who asked if I was coming to the pub afterwards. The answer, obviously, was yes. So off we all went (many of the show’s exhibitors, SBL faculty as well as ordinary folk like myself) to The Albion. On arrival it transpired that the pub were hosting a LBGS jam night, kicked off by Dave Marks who had to promptly leave for a gig after playing the opening number. Before long one of the guys I’d gotten chatting to earlier in the day started spreading a rumour that I wanted to sing. I soon had a small rabble of folk peer-pressuring me to get on stage! To be fair there was a distinct shortage of vocalists so after putting it off a bit I obliged. Got to close the evening with a bit of Never Too Much followed by a blagged rendition of Superstition. It was great fun and I got to meet some great musicians! When the pub kicked us out many of us trawled to the Hilton for another bevvy. Got chatting to Thomas Eich who was happy to talk shop, clearing up a few questions I had re: the Tecamp/Eich split. I didn’t stay long though as I wanted to get to the show a bit earlier today so as to sit in on a couple of workshops. So today I saw the Scott Devine workshop followed by Rich Brown who was incredible. Wanted to stay for Henrik Linder but got caught up in a wild goose chase looking for John East! In the end I never did find him, much to my dismay. Spent some time at the Aguilar stand, wincing at the prices of their pedals. Also, wincing at their ludicrous signal path: Filter Twin > Chorusaurus > Octamizer > Agro > TLC Compressor > Grape Phaser. I was gagging to tear their board apart and reorder the whole lot . To be honest I was mainly there to try the new Grape Phaser but it was borderline impossible to tell if it was any good or not because there was too much ambient noise and I felt like the TH500/SL112x2 setup wasn’t able to cut through it with any real clarity. It may have been wise for Aguilar to do what many of the other exhibitors were doing and provide a couple of Phil Jones headphone amps. Towards the end of today I had a chat with Nick Smith (haven’t seen him in about 10 years) with whom I lamented the absence of several British companies. The likes of Barefaced and Alpher Instruments, amongst others. Bit of a shame not to see them at LBGS to be honest. All in all though, a great weekend was had. I met some lovely people and saw some great playing. I was a first-timer and it wasn’t the mad slap fest I had anticipated, though of course there were moments of it. I’d happily go again next year.

If you want that dull thumpy flats thing just buy normal Roto rounds and play one gig, job done

Thank you fellow Lefties. Times are tight and as work is in jeopardy, I am going to go for the PB 50. ‘’The Dusty Hill looks a bit too relic’ed for me as well! your advice is greatly appreciated.

I don't know if this is what you are asking, but this one is the right size for my GP7 head, other than being much too long. http://cpc.farnell.com/pulse/rksl-2u/rack-sleeve-2u/dp/DP32669?CMP=TREML007-005 But its a perfect fit otherwise. I'm going to peel the felt stuff back a few inches and cut it down so its not quite as deep. But its easier than starting from scratch and its only £17 shipped.

Hiho Foundations are excellent. I have 2 ,an 84 sunburnt and ab 83 bodied one with a 92 neck in black.Absolutely fantastic to play very well built and the sound .Well us in the know know

Yeah - nuts colours!

I went through that thing of thinking I had to spend big bucks to get a good P bass so I bought a sunburst 71 but it wasn't great, it looked good, had the vibe and tons of goodly mojo but it was heavyish and sounded dull. I now play a 180 quid VM Squier P and it trounces the 71 in pretty well every department. Sure the 71 had a tad more 'heft' to the tone (love those thick necks) but in a band setting its the mid range and playability on the VM that puts a smile on my face every time.

Haha too late now brother! It's mine all mine! Just used a damp microfibre cloth on it..

Keyboard amps are generally flatter response than most so will certainly get you in the ballpark.

Wow - where do we start with this one? I suppose for us Gillett guys the highlights came at the beginning and the end of the show: first that we managed to defy the weather beast and get there at all - albeit with a makeshift shell stand (our posh one spent the weekend in our van Somerset); and last but definitely not least the 40-minute jam session that Yolanda did on our stand from around 4:30! She turned up with a couple of her friends (another bassist and a keyboard player) and treated us and a growing crowd of remaining visitors to a musical feast. She and the other bass-player alternated on 4- and 5-string Contour basses backed by the aforementioned keyboard buddy, who eventually handed the keys back to their rightful owner when our resident stand player Paul came back from a quick look round the show. Our techie Simon grabbed some video on his camera and I'm waiting to see how that turned out. If we'd known what was coming, we'd have hired a professional film crew More to say but I have to stop cos my single remaining brain cell is getting tired. Scrumpymike

Haha - I hope not. My wife is working from home today and I was hoping to sneak this one past her!

The SBL room was in the corner next to Darkglass/Bass Direct. To be fair, if it hadn’t been for my reliance on the event leaflet with its schedule and map, I may not have found it either. I met Etta on Saturday, along with Vicky O’Neon who was a legend and a bit of a beast on drums! Hadn’t heard of Etta before the weekend but to be fair I’m not really the kind of person to keep up with the latest names in the industry...

Yeah but 500 Miles at 150 bpm is not exactly marching pace... Heeheehee

Well... I went for a Chowny Pitchcraft and a shedload of inspiration, and I came away with both. 😊 Top marks to Chowny... with a failing battery on the contactless machine I though I might be going home disappointed, but no. 'You're on the forum aren't you?... Take it and I'll invoice you!' That's above and beyond in terms of customer service... I'll be back! It was just a blur of performance, coffee, masterclass... repeat until the Argentinian Steakhouse across the road opens! Snow Owl was brilliant, Mo Foster's band were great, Vega was soooo funky, and bloody lovely to boot. Guy Pratt was proper funny, I'd have loved him to play a little more though. The big take away for me was from Yolanda Charles. Her subdivisions thing from her masterclass will keep me frustrated for a month. I didn't touch a bass all weekend, the one I would have left with was £6,800😨... but I couldn't stop playing last night!

Saw this stunner towards the end of the day...£6k! Worth it though - the paint flips from lilac to gold on a sandblasted walnut top!! Should’ve got more pics really but the Wenge neck was a dream too. Preamp chargeable via USB with a 500 hour run time (no 9v battery option). Never seen anything like it.

I find Jim Dunlop jazz III the best picks, I've used them on bass, guitar, and mandolin. I get a good degree of control from them compared to bigger or thinner picks.

Wouldn't touch with a barge poll Skip fodder at best I reckon. Seller knows it and hopes some fool will pay to take his trash away

Cheers MrTcat, really kind of you to say..

https://ibb.co/dArMk7 https://ibb.co/ivagk7 My 675.

Hi , what I do in this situation is to take the screws out, get some tooth picks and some superglue . Remove the machinehead . Put a small ammount of superglue into the holes , put a piece of toothpick into the holes , and leave to dry . After about 10 mins , carefully trim the excess toothpick material back level to the face , Put machinehead back , re screw the screw back in . Fixed . Pete

OK - this is one of those times when I say 'why haven't I ALWAYS done it this way round????' I have to say, I found inserting the frets, trimming the fret ends, filing the fret ends and the bevels SO much easier done before gluing the fretboard onto the neck. I had a prejudice against doing it that way round, but I think I've just done a flip! I worked on this off and on over the day. Still not glued onto the neck but looking pretty good, even close up, in terms of straightness of sides and seating of the frets:

Value+ reliability = Squier

It is all about the bottom end after all!

Not really a fail, but I've stopped going into my most local music shop even if I happen to be walking past the door because it's boring. Unless you happen to have an unusual fetish for Eiphone Tobies or bottom of the range Ibanez's, the bass section is boring. Unless you want to pay over the odds for a MIM Fender, the guitar section is boring. They must sell a lot of keyboards, brass instruments and kazoos to stay afloat.

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Slut red in fishnets

I have heard a pair of these, and I'd say that the screws are the least of their worries!

Tell 'em it's angled to aid dispersion etc and they'll snap 'em up, lol