stingrayPete1977

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1377432243' post='2187381'] I'll throw in Musicman SR5, 34" scale length with narrow 17.5mm string spacing and you would get a second hand one for that money. [/quote] Yep and you probably won't lose a penny on it if you get one second hand either, it is still THE five string bass IMO. My cheapest bass is my black SR5, it has the wrong neck fitted as it was a factory fretless and is a very last of the ceramic pickup models which I had previously bypassed in favour of alnico ones to be more stingray, it's my favourite bass!

I trust this position is filled now, did the new player have some chops?

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1375213551' post='2158369'] There's no F-ing way! [/quote] Aha only just caught up with this thread!

Mine came really quick from yita, no problems at all I believe others here had no trouble either? Mine is really pretty, I sometimes just hold it and look at it!

Ah bugger, I have never used the other three so can't help sorry.

Thomann?

Ha I like that! Tbf most of the ones I have encountered did have guitars, no amps, leads, strap or braincells though.

[quote name='Mog' timestamp='1377354322' post='2186633'] Every time!!! [/quote] That's hook a duck "prize every time"!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1377346954' post='2186522'] Yes, it is. I agree that it depends who's asking. And if they're NOT asking, then NO. What really gets on my teats are social inadequates who turn up empty-handed and assume that they can use ALL your gear - rig, bass, leads, FX, the lot - without so much as a 'could I use your rig/bass/leads/FX/the lot, please?'. Grr! [/quote] Had this last year at a summer fete, drummer has nothing maybe not even sticks from memory, our drummer is a lefty and had only a cocktail kit which he said wasn't up to the task of what stuff they did, our drummer hadn't even been asked in advance to share a kit, they eventually decided to go on anyway, nirvana covers easily played on a 3 piece kit!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1377342400' post='2186445'] Doesn't bother me, to be frank. [/quote] I'm looking forward to the first gig where some baggy arsed trousered kid who has decided not to bring his bass to a gig so he can go straight into town on the pull after asks to use mine only to be confronted with a 3/4 half carved in front of all his adoring fans

I try not to get hooked up on things like this.

Just watched a few more lessons which has given me enough things to go and try, I'm doing most of the things not to do with the left hand although I'm using the right bit of the fingers and not collapsing, bunching up I'm sure I do and just the general hand shape and trying to relax. Already raised my endpin as no other clips told me to keep the bass an arms length away then let it fall back. I need to go and get in front of the mirror with the misery stick for a bit, cheers Geoff these are ace

You have three returns to use on the max too

A 2x10 and a 4x10 is not a 6x10. If someone with a 4x10 is told to add more of the same I'd take it as adding another 4x10. Getting the extra power from your amp won't help if you can only turn up until the smaller cab starts farting.

A few of the strippers I have seen had bits falling off and would look better behind a mesh cloth too

The only thing to remember though is that all the experts want to improve it's tone, take out the mid bump etc blah blah, with an open mind that's progress and might be a good thing, the guy who was happy before other than the weight now wants his mid bump back or the 'fixed' dispersion as it was for the last 30 years.

I have said this before but I will say it again, the problem we have at the moment is that all boffins want to build the best cab they can using all the facts and figures possible, what most players want is their normal sound with all it's faults (as boffins see them) but in a light weight package, as soon as the boffins iron out the faults with a 4x10 folks here don't like it! The first manufacturer that builds an 8x10 with all it's faults regarding the cab tuning but half the weight they will be millionaires!

Nothing particularly bespoke floats my boat right now but you need to take a step back and think of the monthly costs of a small builder, a workshop, a few peoples wages, the materials, a van, costs for advertising and stands at shows, the builders hourly rate based on the fact most of us here couldn't do it, investing in new machines and equipment, testing and time spent trying new techniques out of hours at their own cost. It's not long before you can see why a factory paying less than our minimum wage often with awful conditions (who here has a cort built bass?) that knocked off the whole design anyway can charge a fraction of that. I have been known to tease Alex bare faced but I appreciate what I said above goes for him and other bespoke builders of anything really. If all the cheap basses were built in a factory that met our minimum standards as a work place I'd imagine they would all go up at least £50. Looking just at someone like musicman the cost of living for the staff in California alone must account for a lot, if not I'd live there myself, already seen an area near San Jose I like

Thanks, I'm near Stafford and don't mind a little drive.

I have a hole from my endpin! Don't look at ubassmans picture, he has been tinkering

[quote name='FLoydElgar' timestamp='1377127302' post='2183866'] Bass lessons! [/quote] Struggling to find anyone local at all

You can say bastard but not sp**k, odd.

If its a five string I might sp**k my pants if you put a picture on here