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[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='847326' date='May 25 2010, 11:28 AM']In answer to your question, I've had nine graphite neck'd Status basses in my time & I've never had a deadspot problem on any of them. [/quote] But have they all been headless? I don't ask to stir things up, but because I'm in a similar position to the OP. Genuinely considering a status neck for the P-bass of my dreams.

I've been playing the same game for about 18 Months - P bass body - One piece swamp ash. Either white, black or clear. Tort pickguard. 1 P bass pickup, either Fralin, Lollar or the Wizard Trad (sometimes, but not often a J at the bridge too). Badass 3 routing (sometimes Schaller 3d). J bass neck - Either a nice birdseye maple with ebony board, stainless frets, bone nut, side dots only, satin finish, not sure about decals. Or the Status graphite (which works out cheaper). Traditional Schaller tuners (BMFL?) either way. Chrome hardware. Straplocks, but again, don't know which. Fun game ain't it?

Over the years I've tried - Quite a few compressors and limiters. My favourite effect, but I'm still looking for the right for me (a Maxon CP9Pro+ is on the GAS list) Chorus. One Boss and one EHX. Just always sounds a bit "80s" to my ears and I feel like I should be wearing leather jeans (or spandex ). Stupid prejudice I know. Flanger. Boss. See under "chorus" Reverb and delays. Love the sense of space it can bring to the bass tone, but just makes everything muddy in a band situation. Octaver. Boss OC2 and Ashdown's built in one. Not for me. Deep but artificial. Wah. Borrowed Boss V-wah. Great fun, and I would like one of my own, but can easily live without it. Also not sure I'd ever get the hang of doing something with my foot while also co-ordinating both hands. Overdrive. Tried the Bad Monkey (modded). Great pedal, but I prefer the overdrive from pushing my amp's input. I'd like to try the Sansamp VT Bass. So, I can easily live without effects but I'd like a quality and flexible comp/lim, an overdrive that sounds like proper amp overdrive and a wah pedal to play with.

Ground one of the saddles and use a brass nut to get the rest grounded?

That Warwick head is a VERY serious bit of kit. Bargain price for the whole rig.

Me last weekend Photgraphy credit to Waynepunkdude

[quote name='dood' post='831592' date='May 8 2010, 05:11 PM']Job to do: The gold ferulles for the tuning keys were far larger than the holes in the headstock - and it's not a job I fancied undertaking myself to make them fit - so I'll have that sorted out later. I bet if I didn't mention no one would have noticed in the pic?! )[/quote] And the jack-socket Seriously though, that is a nice job you've done there Dan

In a functions band, you're going to be playing an awfully long time every gig, so whichever bass you go for make sure it's not too heavy and has a neck that's comfortable to you. Don't get too hug up on the tone, the only people actively listening to you are yourself, one or two of your band-mates (if they know what they're doing) and the very few bassists in your audience.

A great gig yesterday at the Red Lion in Gravesend in aid of Herofest. Thirty something bands across four stages over 12 hours. We were on pretty early in the day, but still had a good gig. A few hours later we got to enjoy a very energetic set from The Plan (Waynepunkdude's band). Saw plenty of other bands too (some of which I really enjoyed). And the day raised nearly £4k for herofest!

7 basses (never more than two at a time) and three combos, one half stack, some compressors/limiters. The only thing that I've bought and sold as a result of Basschat was an overdrive pedal.

Just reread your OP and realised you're going from a passive bass straight to the Mac's audio in via your lead. Nothing wrong with trying it, but you might not get enough volume out of the bass to get a decent volume through the Mac. Have you got an amp with a line out? If so go bass -> amp -> mac (via your lead). Or even better would be if your amp had an aux in. If not, a cheap DI box is what you need unless you can find a very cheap USB audio i/o box.

Like a mixer but smaller. Mines a phonic 602 .... 6 inputs two outputs. So the stereo mini-jack fromthe mac uses two inputs and my bass uses another 1. Headphones take care of the two outs (stereo left and right)

For rehearsing tracks at home I use a mini-jack to my mini mixer from Garageband or iTunes. Works fine. Also works well enough the other way for demos for bad consumption only.

+1 on the Boss BR 900. The Boss BR series are quick and easy to use, solidly built and have a great range of effects built in.

Just bought a Precision bass bridge from Dan. Great communication all the way through, dropped the price of his own accord when there was a delay, it got posted when he said he'd post it and it arrived in great condition and even included the screws to fix it to the bass. Top deal!

SB2 I think

1981 - A tiny Sattelite P-bass shaped thing with two pickups, it fitted in a guitar gig bag with room to spare and a 15W Park Bass amp

You do realise you've missed the pedal that every fridge shelf pedal board needs.... The DOD [b]ICE[/b] box I'll get my coat

I've just acquired a Squier Affinity P-bass on loan from my guitarist until the bloke he borrowed it from wants it back. (Full story cut as it warrants its own thread somewhere else) Now it's been fixed up, cleaned and had a proper set-up it's great.

We usually soundcheck with whichever song we f*cked up the worst at the previous gig.

Swapped my set of P bass machine heads, one of which was poorly + £10 for a set of much shinier and in as new condition machine heads. Great communicatio throughout.