Kev

Overwater strings??

okay i bought the istrobosoft cable, and i'm less than impressed. Half the time it doesn't correctly recognise ANY of the open strings (regularly shows the B as F# and the E as B!), and struggles anywhere on the B and E. On top of that, when i 'tune' it up to istrobosoft it appears out of tune on the other tuner i have on there, so i now have no idea which is right. This thing gets good reviews, iv tried it loud and quite, thumb stroked and plucked, direct from bass and from mixer, all as warbley and inaccurate as the other.

Il go to bed a wiser bassman cheers for the info buddy.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='854159' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:26 PM']No. They're listed as using the "Novax fanned fret system"- Novax do/did (not sure if its still valid) have a patent on a method of laying out the frets IIRC but fanned fret instruments have been around for quite a long time.[/quote] Dingwall have been around for quite a long time Nah i was just curious as i hadn't seen another fanned fret bass, i just gathered Novax was Dingwall's brand.

Briefly played one at Bass Direct a couple of weeks ago, its quite amazing how i could pick up the bass and play without looking with those frets. Pretty nice bass, does anyone know if Dingwall have a patent on that fret system?

Its like all vintage instruments really. Are they worth the money in terms of playability/sound? Majority of the time of course not, they are stupidly inflated prices and chances are you could get a far superior bass for the same money (speaking about vintage in general, never touched a JV before). But if your the kind of guy that likes to pay extra for older instruments for their vibe, looks and classic old school sound then go for it, you'll get your money back! And im fairly certain they will continue to rise in value.

Don't know if Mark mentioned it to you, but shortly after you bought it he had someone else on the phone trying to take it off his hands! Didn't play it but it looked lovely mate.

Don't really fancy taking steel wool to my bass, i think i will use the lemon oil but id like some recommendations as apparantly alot of lemon oils out there are far from pure and have all kinds of rubbish in them. What is the dunlop 65 stuff like?

If I uses the ones I linked to I would just use the phono out on my mixer and plug into the phone?

like this one? [url="http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1m-Labo-Video-and-Audio-Cable-35mm-Jack-(3-part-TRRS)-to-3-Phono-(Video-and-R-L-Stereo)-RCA-Cable"]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1m-Labo-Vid...ereo)-RCA-Cable[/url]

forgetting the price of this one (sure i can find one cheaper) but is this the sort of cable that would work? [url="http://www.presentsandgiftideas.com/Recommend1/?p=101637128&m=1402"]http://www.presentsandgiftideas.com/Recomm...7128&m=1402[/url]

Okay, i might give some lemon oil a go, any particular brand to go for?

Is there no other cable in existance that would do the same thing? Really don't want to be paying 10 plus international shipping for something which may be found in maplins for loose change.

Just read this, RIP

Any recommendations for fretboard/neck waxing? I know the obvious is the warwick beeswax [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_beewax.htm?sid=9cf272ed86d93039bd825bbe2a238874"]here[/url] I remember seeing a stunning wenge board on here that someone had polished up but cannot remember what they said they used.

Now that i have joined the world of Warwick, thought id better show my face in here

do you have a cable?

[quote name='Platypus' post='845339' date='May 22 2010, 08:53 PM']Or just try finding SoundControl [/quote] Good call

Was in there this afternoon, bought a second hand Warwick Corvette Proline 6, great experience and Mark even offered me a ride home, try finding that at soundcontrol.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but i have just bit the bullet and downloaded this for my iphone, and frankly iv found it to be rubbish! Cant really detect open E, no chance on open B, and its wobbly everywere else? Is there something you need to do with this thing before it works right? i also have the Guitar toolkit, which works just fine, ironically i bought this for the extra accuracy! Any recommendations?

Well after a longer than wanted hiatus due to financial reasons, me and bass are together again, and she is a beast Il get my own pics up later, but here is a few Mark took at Bass Direct [attachment=50314:CovetteBodyTWIN.jpg] [attachment=50313:Corvette6TWIN.jpg] Sounded fantastic through the Mark Bass head and berg cabs, yet to get a proper amp sorted yet, all in good time