Matt P

I never really thought about getting a p-bass and then i was offered a go on a 77 that a friend of a friend had just bought, i was hooked. i spent a while shopping around and eventually pursuaded the owner (now a friend and my bass tutor and a member here) to sell me the 77. can you get yourself to the north east bass bash this sunday? there should be a fair few excellent p-basses there and if dodge_bass (the aforementioned gentleman) makes an appearance there is a good chance that there will be a 5 string p-bass or 2 there as well. my 77 will make an appearance if i can get it back from dodge_bass who has it on loan at the moment. the analogy of a p-bass being like a child is spot on! Matt

i'm afraid that i'm not going to be able to meet up on the saturday evening, i've been reminded that it's a friends birthday and we're going out for a curry with him. If people are meeting up then the Cumberland Arms in Byker/Ouseburn Valley would be a good idea as they are having a beer festival! Matt

i was friends with my band mates before we were a band, i met the drummer at uni and he was best man at my wedding, the guitarist/singer is a guy i met while doing PA for a band that a bassist friend was playing in, he was playing drums in that band and we hit it off very quickly, we have very similar hobbies and interests. our band only really happened because after years of saying that we should really have a go at being a band another friend asked us to play at their wedding, we had 6 months to become a competent covers band. we're in it for the sheer fun of it all, if it stopped being fun then i think we'd find something else to do. Matt

i just hand it to the Bass Doc and ask him to set it as low as he feels sensible, they always come back perfect.

[indent=1]whoa! that's a beast, not sure about some of the features though, eye bolts as strap buttons? and the tuners look like guitar ones to me. and don't get me started on the bridge (no intonation adjustment and 15 strings anchored into 9 single string anchors?)[/indent] [indent=1]Matt[/indent]

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1413215435' post='2575931'] Should be able to make this now. If there is anything in the sale section on my website that anyone particularly wants to try please let me know since I will not be bringing every thing I have avilable. [/quote] The Graft basses look very tempting, G013, G036 and [size=4]G033Ü not that i'm in a position to buy at the moment, but it might prompt me to save up for one (although i think a 5 string standard recurve SC with a single humbucker would be more likely)[/size] [size=4]Matt[/size]

I should be up for a beer/curry the night before. there are plenty of great places for both. i'd also be up for seeing a band as well! (i'm not playing that evevning but someone must be!) Matt

i generally carry a spare bass so would probaly lend them that, i usually gig the letts 5 string which i am not that protective of, it would all depend on who was asking, if i know them then i'll lend my gear, if not then it would be a gut feeling that would decide it. i actually have my 77 p-bass out on loan to a friend at the moment, he asked very politely and i'm 100% confident that he will treat it as if it were his own (it actually was his until he gave into my constant pestering to sell it to me!) Matt

ive got a set of the er20's and some of the alpine pro (with the 3 interchangable filters) i've been looking at the cheap mould your own ones and was thinking that they would cut out too much sound, what about drilling them and fitting the filters from my Alpines? would that work? Matt

how about a Hohner b2? or a steinberger, they should have a far more authentic sound and the pickups are a standard size so you can modify it to fine tune the sound to your liking (although from what i've read of the Hohner they actually sound very nice as standard). Matt

They all sounded great to me, unmistakably precision basses, the 77 edged out in front for me too, and with that I'm off to take my 77 p-bass out of its case! Matt

I had one of the non-neo 4x8 cabs that had been retrofitted with the neo speakers, it was a great sounding cab and not too weighty at 20kg, but for the price of the new cabs you have a huge range of even lighter cabs,I went over to barefaced cabs, a pair of midgets that together weigh less than the one ashdown and one midget will easily out perform my old ashdown. For 700 quid there is a huge range of very light cabs available. Matt

that's a really nice tutorial there, i think i must be one of the few people who was taught this at school, more tutorials like this would be very welcome, maybe a little sub-forum for skills tutorials would be an idea? Matt

shouldn't the back be sunburst as well? looks solid black to me, and i'm fairly sure that the body wood isn't good enough that fender would stick a translucent finish over it, the grain is all obver the place. Matt

have you considered swapping to the traditional BBOT bridge and then fitting a bridge cover? that might cover up the damaged finish pretty well (and i think it looks ace! as can be seen by my profile pic.) Matt

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1411032367' post='2555699'] One of these years I will make this event. Down in London at a bass related event this year what were the chances of that. Bugger. [/quote] i'm dissapointed, but i think my bank manager has breathed a sigh of relief! M

I've already replied on the facebook post but i'll repeat it here, I'm coming along, will be bringing most of the kit in my signature below, If anyone has an Aguilar TH500 thant they could bring along then i'd be very interested to try it with the midgets. Don't forget that there is a lack of local shops to get food at so if you're coming for the whole thing you might want to pack some sandwiches, i'll bake something to share round though (cookies/muffins/brownies depending on my mood) Matt

while i don't actually own a TE head i do get to use one occasionally, my church has a gp11 ah250 as the house bass amp, i have always liked the tone and luckily it doesn't need moving very often as it lives on stage, i had one of the superfly amps and the tone from the preamp was very close, i really liked it but it got struck by the dreaded power stage whine/whistle so it had to go.) if they were to make an amp that combined the gp11 pre with a class d power section then i'd be first in the queue for one! (it would have to glow green though!) Matt

thanks for the links, are the far east ones slightly different to the usa ones? it seems that they want you to specify what arrangement you want with the far east ones where as the usa ones it says they are easily converted. has anyone tried swapping far east one from one side to the other? Matt

i'm patiently waiting for that link too, i've got ultralites on my Letts 5 String, no idea if they're the USA ones or the Chinese but they work perfectly, i had a 2+3 headstock arrangement so the b-string has a bit more length before it gets to the tuner, means that it's still on the taper when in tune, works perfectly,

if i didn't make my own i'd be Buying Obbm, in fact all of my speaker cables are Obbm ones as i couldn't get the same grade of cable in small enough quantities. Matt

ahh, well from what you've described maybe the pedalsnake is actually the answer! personally i wouldn't run the power along it ( never liked the idea of power and signal lines running together) so i'd go for a seperate psu on the board (i've gone for a harley benton junior and a palmer one as they both have isolated outputs which allows for 18v and higher current connections) but if you are happy running the power with the signal chain then a pedalsnake would appear to be the perfect solution. Matt