rmshaw37

hey there, i'm looking at turning my 4 string affinity precision, into a 5 stringer i want to keep the same neck (around 45mm at nut), just have a narrow string spacing, similar to a schecter! is it as simple as swapping the pup, bridge and nut? its just a tester really, and will make my own body if it works! any thoughts are appreciated! (thinking about putting a mm pup at bridge position too - can't remember who's bass it is but looks ace! thanks for the idea!)

its nice to be able to meet up with folks too - i've not been active on here for very long but already met 2 of you! its a big community, and so far everyone is lovely! be respectful and you'll be respected - great to hear others opinions though!

to the op - do you with with pre preg or dib dob? dib dob is essentially firbeglassing with carbon fibre - cheaper but messier and takes longer! not as good a part either, but the moulds would be significantly cheaper i thought about this myself, but the set up costs would be huge and not necessarily any better - the old addage of if it aint broke don't fix it. saying that, i would be very interested to see if it works! and yes it would be MASSIVELY lighter than a wooden cab as we work with full floors for f1 cars and they are an easy 1 man lift! shouldn't exceed more than a few kilos! currently trying to drum up funds for carbon acoustic guitars - i've seen how others make theirs, and we would get the sack if we produced something so wishy washy! lol

i can pretty much agree with all the above comments, and to beef up your sound, this is the exact thing! i use a sansamp rpm through a power section, slightly more versatile than the vt bass but i've hear great things about the pedal - just watch out on the vt cause it has the speaker emulation perminantly on! the rpm is the single biggest improvement in my sound i've ever had! note - my setting is pretty much the svt setting anyway, so probably sounds just like the vt bass, i just like it being all neat and in a rack!

much the same - i own the svt 15, but not tried the other! very happy with the svt though. only criticism is that its a 15, and you'll have the sound guy moaning at you to turn it down because you can't hear it within 15 ft!

my first decent amp was a peavey tnt - i can still remember how impressed i was with it! - thats 12 years on! plus cheap as chips! it has the old fashioned way of looking at things, not hi fi, just does the job very convincingly! - much like the thunderbird!

never heard about that one before!! (told you i was clueless) i'll do that and get back to you - could well be that as i had to replace the speaker on the 15 about 6 months ago!

hi there! i have built myself 2 2*10 sealed cabs, sounds great! up untill i was lazy and took my ampeg 115 to practice today - real low end thud from a ringing the e on a p bass and a 15 - its just got a kinda sexual thing going on!! i have also sat one 2*10 on top of the 15, both ways round and the sum is just not as good as the individual parts! frequencies become unboostable! sounds nice and round, but just not as good as the 2 2*10s or the 15 by itself. now, is it possible to put a crossover built into the speaker, as so when they are daisy chained, the lows go to the 15 and the highs go to the 2*10?? 2 amps and a crossover is just not financially viable. or can i port the 2*10's so they sound as low as the 15, or port one 2*10 so it sits on top of the 15 and get the almost bi amped sound?? or get 10" guitar speakers, designed not to do the low end?? i'm very new to all this refining stuff, so take it easy on me please! in summary - i want the 2*10 punch with the 15 real low end

good call on the bump - i'd be very interested! i don't know nottingham very well, but depending on numbers i know a local one about 8 miles from nottingham that would be up for hosting, hold 100 fairly comfortably! big car par right next to it too for loading gear in. i can enquire if its not too far out for folk!

just found this thread researching strings, i usually use ghs boomers but want a brand i can just walk into a shop and pick up. i actually live in the same town as newtone strings, and a couple of years ago was offered an endorsement. figured they didnt feel as good as the ghs so turned them down. after going ghs, elites, slinkys (the only set of strings i've taken off within 5 minutes), rotosound and then newtone, i can say the newtone sound ace! problem being - the E string snapped at sound check at the last gig, probably about the 15th time i'd played them! only on for about 6 weeks and the e breaks! WTF! saying that, they were favourite up to that point, so if you can afford to replace often, go for it!

finishes today!

we have had a slow revelation like that - the singer has just learnt how to sing! this sound sarcastic, but we've always known he's had it in him, just everyone else didn't - he was having classical singing lessons, so his technique was spot on, but not a rock voice, he was actually better before the lessons. years down the line of people knocking his confidence and telling him he was letting the band down, he's found someone to teach rock vocals and he's back to his best! only stronger, more experienced lyricist and melodist(???) tuneful, and just plain refreshing! it's nice to see promoters and management agencies eat their words! just goes to show you when a band knows its right, its right!

the carbon that they are using for decoration i HOONINGLY expensive - thats why they make it pretty, you pay the cost (btw if its the same stuff that we get at work, its about £500 per metre)

alternately, spend the cash on a mag 210 extension cab - do the VAST majority of gigs with that set up!

oh no! why?????

just thought i'd share my experiences with the shuttle 6 after a few months of owning it! i have tried the unit with a few different cabs and usually use it with a pre amp and use the shuttle as a power amp. i heard that it has a low end cut built in, and i believe this to be true because when pushing it a bit (volume half way up) with my RPM as the pre it clips the limiter quite a bit! using just the shuttle the loss of low end is not noticable on 10" speaker systems because on the whole 10s dont go particularly low! it is however noticable with a p bass and 15's just an observation - aparently the shuttle 9 and 12 do not have this low cut, something to consider depending on the cab set up you have. on the whole though and for most people/ general use, the shuttle is an awesome little lightweight head!

wouldnt mind £250, had a look and that seems to be the going BIN price, whether they go for that or not i dont know!

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and where did they learn spelling and grammar??!??!??

having a seriously hard time looking for the nut width on the schecter! anyone know?? thanks for the replies so far!

i went to nottingham today in search of a cheap 5 stringer one shop has the schecter omen extreme - sounds crap but plays and with the strap on its SO comfortable! next shop - epiphone thunderbird pro 5 - sounds like a million pounds, bit harder to play, slightly wobbly B string, and forget about standing up with it! is there a bass out there that sounds like the t bird pro but plays like the schecter? choice aint an abundance round here! remember - preferably sub £500 GO! lol

try and find a video of rob trujillo from metallicas studio tone - ampeg for bass, mesa for treble - basically fat strings, emg pups and distorted highs! everyones a winner! lol highly recommend sansamp stuff too, plus my ampeg 115 is awesome - avoid most big name stuff, it just sounds bland (ashdown, trace etc) just thought about it, i've backed up everything thats been said already and ust added another name, sorry!