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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399740011' post='2447220'] How about these? [url="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/628541376-Davies-1510-Clone-push-fit-pedal.html?s=p"]http://uk.alibaba.co...-pedal.html?s=p[/url] Of course it depends on the size of your shaft. Edit: Just noted that the minimum order is 100. Not that useful, then. Unless you can find 50 people with the same problem. [/quote] Yes, these would be the ones. Now someone must be buying these in bulk, surely. But where are they? It seems nobody sells those by the unit. Hmm, it does say free sample available...

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1399719769' post='2446947'] wayhey! [/quote] To be fair I was baiting for that one

I have an Ashdown EB 15-180 combo, and all the knobs on it are the same size. The thing is that on all the sales product pictures the Lo-Mid and Hi-Mid knobs are smaller, like so: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:162383] And indeed as I took out one of these knobs I realised that their larger size was hiding some of the markings on the front panel (the 0 and full dot markers). So it seems that they were always intended to have smaller knobs, to me it makes a lot of sense and it also looks nice! So, does anyone know where I can find smaller knobs to replace mine? I looked at pages and pages of knobs, large ones, small ones, soft ones, dull ones and shiny ones but I haven't found the perfect knob. I am not really sure what they are called but I could find some that are very similar (davies 1510 19mm I think) but they have a screw to hold them in place. I'd rather have push-on types like the originals. Oh, I did ask Ashdown and the ones they sell are the larger ones, they don't supply the smaller type.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1399535959' post='2445046'] ... Finale is another one but that seems to be just as expensive as the Sibelius options (£240). It never used to be able to play stuff back to you but I think it can now (which is probably why it is more expensive than it used to be). ... [/quote] There is a free version of Finale for notation, Finale Notepad: http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale-notepad/ and it does playback and tabs for bass and guitar. Mac and Windoze versions. I am not a good judge of this, because I am rubbish at music, but it seems very good for notation. It's free, worth a try?

I mis-understood ahpook's post a bit. I thought he was saying that some semis had a contoured body. Anyway, I have just had a go on the Stylist and I do hold it differently. The body, as well as being deeper is also much bigger than a solid body, so instead of my forearm resting on the body it's really the crook of my elbow. I also tend to pluck closer to the neck.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1396820695' post='2417762'] thanks for the info folks - i'm after another semi acoustic, but find the lack of forearm contour a strain on some. [/quote] I am not sure what you mean by forearm contour on a semi. Have you got an example? The Stylist is an archtop, does that count?

Ahpook, I play mine mostly sitting down, at home. As Bolo said it is not as deep as an (electro) acoustic bass or guitar for instance, so it was fine for me on the few occasions I played it standing up. That said I am a rubbish player so it may be an issue for faster/better players used to solid bodies. I must say Bolo, thrash metal on a semi-acoustic huh?

There are a couple of the new cabbies for sale on eBay in the US, for instance http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=271431263946 The back is clearly yellow! Looks like Dean are not really sure what they are selling :-D One distinctive feature is that they have a serial number.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1395956189' post='2408455'] I thought that the body on mine wasn't maple. Thought it was made of plywood or something similar. [/quote] Ah yes, I see what you mean. The old one is definitely a laminated construction (sounds better than plywood, right?), I am not sure which wood sandwich. But given there was a natural finish version it must have been decent! I am not sure what they mean by maple body and side, it could still be laminated, no? I remember reading somewhere that laminated was actually a good thing for full hollow bodies like the Stylist. Any body knows better? Oh, actually, re-reading the specs of the bass from the Dean site, the new Stylist cabbie is a semi-hollow construction! That would be how it's different from the original run.

The Dean Stylist is a medium scale bass (arch top hollow body). Dean are re-issuing the cabbie style one, see [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/233236-dean-stylist-cabbie-bass-is-being-re-issued/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/233236-dean-stylist-cabbie-bass-is-being-re-issued/[/url]

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1395949710' post='2408363'] You've just reinstated my GAS for one of these. I'm not sure of that's a good thing. [/quote] Oops, sorry. The old ones never come up for sale, in any colour. If you're lucky the new ones won't be for sale in the UK! So you can have as much GAS as you like but can't act on it.

Ray, have you got a cabbie one? I was never sure if those were different from the standard colour ones - they came out later. Most people change the pickups, I don't mind the sound but I think they should have been chrome. What do you mean by better body?

Dean have silently (?) added a new Stylist Cabbie bass to their 2014 catalogue: http://www.deanguitars.com/stylist_cabbie_bass.php I don't how (if at all) they differ from the original run from 2004. Maybe the pickups are different, the 2014 model boasts some DMT Design pickups. I have a black one from that time, but it looks like they only re-issued the cabbie.

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1395574210' post='2403769'] side note, whats the bass in your avatar floFC? [/quote] It's a Dean Stylist bass, it's the only photo of one of my basses I had at hand!

Thanks guys. Sheffield is a bit far, but if nowhere else stocks them I could make a day trip there - they have both the Squier and the Fender. I forgot about Fuzz, I haven't been there since they moved to West Bridgford, I'll find out if they have them in (it's not listed on their website). The proper website for them is http://fuzzguitars.co.uk btw, the link up there is somewhere in Korea (I think).

Thanks Len_Derby, i'll check them out.

Anyone knows of a shop that stocks a Squier Bass VI, or Fender VI near Nottingham? I went to the Music Inn and the Guitar and Drum Centre but neither had one. I'd really like to try one.

Silly question maybe, but is gold hardware actually gold plated?

I have no preconception. I works on my Hohner B-Bass which has a dark wood body and neck - a bit like in dannybuoy's picture above. Although it doesn't have gold knobs - that's pushing it a bit

I have got the urge to watch the Cure In Orange video. Yeah, the actual video tape...

Oh. I am a 17 Seconds kind of guy (?). I'd love to play A Forest in a gig.

Yay, The Cure. My favourite band when I grew up. Still do stupid things to go and see them when I can. I am very much like Maude up there. I never really thought about it at the time, but all the music I was listening to in my formative years had very prominent bass lines. The bass was in my blood, but I didn't know it then.

So, I did as you guys suggested, and the hum goes away when I connect the ground wire from the bridge to the ground on the jack (as per the Ibanez diagram). yay! And there seems to be the remnants of a wire soldered to the switch PCB, where the other 2 grounds from the pickup are connected (black+shield). So I'll solder the mysterious back wire to that. All sorted, thanks a lot ahpook and AngelLaHash

Thanks guys. I can't have a go tonight but I'll try those tomorrow.