Telebass

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1376139506' post='2170120'] That's one of the most sick-making headstocks I've ever seen, even worse than the Ibanez Roadstar .. [/quote] The thing that makes me sick about this picture is the idiotic stringing...whst a bloody mess.

Ok to put rounded neck on 51 body - done it. It leaves small gaps. Putting a 51 neck on a P or J body reqires woodwork... After market 51 necks and bodies tend to have radiused neck ends and pockets though.

I have 30 (Mustang), 32 (Alien) and 34 (Precisions and Kingman). Barely notice the change from one to the other now, although I used to screw up playing the Mustang at first due to overreaching!

[quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1375925670' post='2167582'] I have to both agree and disagree. I think it depends as to what you want to get out of your bass playing, the sound you're going for, and what gear the bass is going into. Yes it is subjective to your ears, but it depends what those ears want to hear. You may think you're getting a great sound with a £100 bass going into a fairly standard PA / AMP, and someone with different ears may be listening to you thinking "This sounds HORRIBLE!!" You just have to get comfortable with the sound you make. Personally I am completely in love with my Warwick (German made) as the clarity and preciseness of the sound and it's tone, blew away every other bass i'd played up until that point in my life. I have just got back from a massive 7 hour road trip, culminating in my collection of my first ever Lakland.... so excited to play it. Last weekend i spent 3 hours in my local music shop A/B testing Fender P and J basses. J beat P for me... and the winner was a £400 MIM Fender J bass (over £800 USA Standard and Deluxe J's) ...... Until the very helpful salesman pulled out a £1275 Fender J '62 Vintage Reissue, that completely stomped all over everything that went before it. (i don't class those fenders as high end). But then my friend who plays bass in the band that plays at the same gigs that my band plays in, has a £300 squire that he plugs into my gear and gets an amazing sound out of and i've played it and it's brilliant.... but the sound it has is not the sound i'm after.... but i love it. So you see why i said i agree and disagree!!! Very early in the morning ramble over.... time to go to sleep!!! [/quote] This is the point. In basic terms, more cash gets you a better bass. However, this will not necessarily translate into a better sound or playing experience. What works for you, works. Doesn't matter if it cost £50 or £5000.

I'm a confirmed "must have Fender on the headstock" kinda guy. Yet I'm rapidly leaning toward getting Squier basses, as, with a little fettling, they seem better! I bought a Squier Affinity PJ and modified it practically out of existence. I'm about to reverse a lot of that, most particularly the neck, which is fabulous!

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1375733963' post='2165011'] But the polystyrene slabs were better protection than the polythene bag the OPs Warwick came in, which was my point. You can package something all you want but you can't counteract the actions of an idiot courier. Telebass' new Bareface cab turned up with a hole right through the side of it from a forklift fork I seem to remember. Sometimes a reinforced steel case won't be enough. [/quote] Still shuddering remembering that!

I use the great big foot switch on my TU-2. Who needs switching cables?

Worth a shot. The disappearing line in annoyed me when the mp3 based trainers were introduced. I still have my original CD-BT 1 Mk2 and use it just because of this.

If someone - anyone - ripped my bass out of my hands, I'd rip their head off their shoulders...

My Warwick Alien came in a very nice gig bag and the standard triangular box, direct from Markneukirken. While it is a very good gig bag, and it arrived safe and sound, I also expected a hardcase for the top-of-the-line instrument. It did come with plenty of tools and documentation. Although a more difficult prospect for an acoustic instrument, at £1500 a hard case should surely be the norm.

The Fender p5 is USA, so used at that price. Nice to hear good things re the Squier P5. I'll be after one soon!

The house move demon has eaten it...

Not forgetting that Squier now have a P5 in the range!

4-5 gigs a week? I want your job! Welcome!

Welcome!

What a fine example of musicianly humanity. Not.

That amp desperately needs a Super 15. And it would be gigging loud!

I too love the sound of a 50W Silverface Bassman into the old 2x15. If it were loud enough and I could carry it, that's what I would use. It isn't, and I can't. So a LMIII and a BF Super 15 will just have to do. That's a much bigger sound than any vintage Bassman, for a quarter of the weight.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1375308749' post='2159718'] Merc E280 CDI estate (automatic) - swan around in comfort, can fit my whole bass rig in the boot and still close the load cover, or with the back seats down will carry guitar rig, (small) PA and drumkit, plus drummer in the passenger seat. Loaded up it gets 37mpg, or cruising along with just driver and 1 passenger on board, I have managed 44mpg. Great stereo too. But not cheap. Coming home on the motorway from a gig, set the cruise to 70mph and have a little nap. [/quote] Lovely, isn't it? And I manage similar consumption from an E320 CDI. As soon ss I read this, I thought, "I could have written that!"

Ok, improved it somewhat. Carefully removed the pickup element and laid it on a hard surface. Tapped along its length with a biro. Was much quieter at the end where the E string would be. As there was length beyond the G string position, I carefully eased it back so the quiet bit was in the bridge hole, then pressed the saddle slowly back into the slot. Restrung, and although not 100%, it's usable. Result!

Use brass. Doesn't oxidise quite as quickly.

I have a good cheap digital caliper and an old Moore & Wright imperial micrometer. Whilst the calipers have much more general utility, the mike, properly set for zero, is still what I prefer for string measurements.

Must go to this!

Have put aside some time this evening to have another look (in middle of house move). Will try a gentle rearrangement of the sensor and see if that helps.

Much sympathy from me! I spent 7 years playing in pain, and it does rather take the shine off it...