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Is it just me or is his timing all over the place? Not my cuppa anyway.

I have a chambered body guitar with a single PAF at the bridge, a tune-o-matic, locking tuners and a backwards headstock, but it's Strat shaped. Sounds a bit like a semi acoustic Gibson. To me it's a Strat [size=1]with some minor changes.[/size] Do we have to be this anal about guitars all the time? They're bits of wood. You say potato, I say Strat, lets all go play along to Maggot Brain.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1343127959' post='1745619'] If it was only down to body shapes then Sadowsky have been making fenders for a few years [/quote] We all think of Sadowsky as a manufacturor of high end Jazz and Precision basses though, right?

Depends what it looks like For all intents and purposes, the body shape is the primary factor for identifying an instrument for me at least. When I hear Les Paul, I think of the classic and well known instrument that happens to look quite unlike an SG. Things like pickups can be suffixed onto the end of that, if you're fussy That SG shaped Les Paul might well be a Les Paul, but for 99% of guitarists who havent read the truss rod cover it's an SG. And what does the name matter anyway, really? It's more about how it looks, feels, plays and sounds than how it's branded. As an aside, my favourite Les Pauls and SGs say Gordon Smith on the headstock.

Touche!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1343120913' post='1745403'] It's not. It's a Les Paul. [/quote] If it looks like an SG, plays like an SG, sounds like an SG, then...

Has to be a Strat for me. They're all great, but I feel most at home on a Strat, they're ergonomically a cut above the others IMO. Les Pauls do sound amazing, though, no denying that.

Not the best photo, but I have a Norman B18 which I'm very fond of. It was a bargain really, solid cedar top, nitro finish (which has picked up a bit of "character" in the last few years). Lovely warm tone - it only cost me £250 but I picked it over several £500+ instruments I tried in the shop on sound alone. The Braguesa on the left sounds lovely too, but intonation is a bit of a problem. Budget instrument though.

Put some headphones on, listen to the track in the dark and use whatever works best in your head.

Because he's popular.

The first three Jamiroquai albums Rage Against the Machine's first album Skunk Anansie's first two albums BSSM by RHCP Any Led Zep album

I use 11s on my Strat, never figured it was that out of the ordinary? Saying that, I also break a string at every rehearsal at the bridge...

I've no idea what the interval is, but my favourite is same fret, two strings up. So, 5th fret E, 5th fret D, for instance. What's that then?

Despite being backwards, probably one of the most tasteful headless basses I've seen

The one on the left is just stunning.

Maybe you need a cab with a tweeter/horn?

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1340731067' post='1708825'] [/quote]

On headphones it was all ascending, now on my laptop it's 2 down, 2 up. Odd.

They all sound like they're ascending to me.

Definately slightly deeper than a Jazz - I used to have a US J bass that made my hands cramp due to the skinnyness, but the SB14 I owned was fine, still slim and fast though.

I cant really help but I'd also be very interested to see one, facinating instruments.

Caught the re-run of this stuff last night. Excellent telly. Great to see so much live stuff from that era, Heroes on TOTP was a highlight for me. That voice, that look...

For the last few days its been Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill.

I actually think too much sustain leads to a certain lack of character in a bass sound. My home made P doesnt have a massive amount of it, and when the note tails off it undergoes a timberal change which I quite like. It's almost like the tail off from a double bass to my ears, and the attack and decay of each note is all part of the sound of that particular bass. When I owned a Spector, it had sustain for days, and notes were far more uniform tonally. I'm not sure that was a good thing.

Excellent post, you've hit the nail on the head IMO.