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    I like the Darkglass VMTD for that use. I have a very clean TecAmp Puma and they work very well together
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    Dingwalls

    fretmeister replied to CPBass's topic in Bass Guitars

    I'm wishing I hadn't sold my ABZ5 and had just put the DG Preamp in it instead.
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    Lots of punters never notice anything except out of tune singers and dodgy time keeping. I'm reaching the point of getting me some Dave Lee Roth leather chaps with the arse cut out of them just to get them to notice!
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    My kids play in a local educational trust music group (multiple ensembles) and parents are allowed to join in. So that's what I do. Every Saturday morning in term time I got and play for 3 hours. Sometimes I'm playing for all of that, sometimes for only an hour - depends what the kids' need as decided by the ensemble leaders (all pro teachers). There is also a "Grown Up Band" for the adults. I play rock, jazz, orchestral, film scores, beatles, Sinatra, Sheeran, Adele, Buckley, even Fiddler on the Roof etc. There's 1 gig per term too. Some of the "Grown Up Band" kids left years ago but the adults keep coming - to practice and have a laugh. I'm in my 40s, I've had some health issues, so this is perfect for me. It's really improving my reading skills (which were a fat ZERO when I started there), it is a sociable hours, and I get to play a massive variety of stuff.
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    I play a bit of guitar as well so it was always good value for me, but with the new Bass related update it has really become a far better bass product. I think this will continue - the main product chief is a bassist himself. As usual though, if you try one in a shop it won't have the latest firmware on it! No doubt any new ones that ship from now on will have it, but existing stock won't. I've been playing with the Pearce BC1 jumped on one pathway, and a B7KU into a Mesa 400+ on the other. Each side blending cleanas well as their own drive flavours. It sounds huge. The Pearce is particularly good. I've got an Ampeg SVP-BSP which sounds the same, but the L6 model of it has far less hiss when dimed. It really is better than the real thing. I'm very happy!
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    I'm an Equity member so I have it anyway. But MU membership is often the cheapest, and you get other support too like if you have non paying landlords!
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    I've had a quick blast with the B7KU model. It's bordering on perfect. Thick, grindy, had all the switches. Lovely. The Pearce BC1 models are equally awesome. There are 3. Clean, dirty, jumped. And Line6 actually borrowed Billy Sheehan's favourite BC1 to model. Very happy! Time to make loads more presets!
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    It's always been able to plug into a power amp. That's how I use it
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    Update is live. I'm doing it now.
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    [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1490883906' post='3268797'] Or one of these... [/quote] I;ve got one of them. Lovely thing it is. Very sensibe switching system too. Just the Js - with a pan pot Just the P The whole lot - pan pot still working on the Js. Well worth trying out.
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    G&L Kiloton

    fretmeister replied to Sean's topic in Bass Guitars

    I like that!
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    Streamline 5 has 18mm spacing at the bridge as standard, or 16.5mm Custom. The OP has said he doesn't want 18mm, but I don't know if 16.5 would be too tight for him. It is for me! The nut width on a Streamline 5 is 48.2mm as well. That's 4mm wider than a Ray 5. That's why I don't own a 5 string Status. I'd have a Streamline 5 in a heartbeat if they did a Ray5 shape for it
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    [quote name='crompers' timestamp='1490777190' post='3267800'] Can you get a good mids growl with the QPs? considering changing pickups myself [/quote] Not really. I've had them and I like them, but they are not a classic P bass sound. I've not tried the Steve Harris model - apparently that is like a proper one but with a bit more welly.
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    [quote name='funkle' timestamp='1490775434' post='3267783'] Slick. Expensive bass to mod, but slick. [/quote] The MM5 and the tuners were new. The rest I got used or in trades. If you weren't so far away you could pop round to try it.
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    There you go. I also replaced the large plate tuners with Hipshot Ultralights and saved half a pound in weight. If you did the pickup mods with a 5HH already, then you wouldn't have anything you couldn't put back to stock. Mine was a single pickup version so the router had to come out.
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    [quote name='funkle' timestamp='1490738804' post='3267625'] Possible. I considered it. But it costs a fair chunk to do that...getting the bass and the pickups/etc....out of interest, though, what pickups did you put in instead? The point of this thread is to find things I'm not aware of that are stock and meet my requirements. There may not be many things out there, but hopefully someone will know if there's stuff I haven't looked at. [/quote] I went with an EMG MM5 at the bridge and a 40DC at the neck, but I've just swapped that to a 40J. The MM5 is very different to the stock ray pickup. Far less clanky and more rounded. Tons of output but can still do subtle. The 40DC was good but a bit too fat for me, but the swap to the 40J was perfect. I've just got Vol, Vol, Tone in it. I had planned on putting the BQS system in when I had more money but I don't think I need it now. I'll find a pic in a mo.
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    The ibby 5 string SR are 16.5mm spacing and 24 frets. Spacing is not adjustable.
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    Do what I did then. Get a good Ray and replace the pickups and preamp.
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    I have seen on in Bass Player a few years ago. Can't remember the make though. For some reason I'm remembering Phil Lesh on the cover.
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    If someone buys my Status I'll be wanting this.
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    This bass has a long Basschat history. I originally bought it as a fretted 4 from the much missed "Machinehead" shop roughly 14 years ago. I had it modified with the extra pickup (to allow Billy Sheehan type 2 amp use) and played it loads and I then bought a back up as well. This one needed a refret but as I had not owned a good fretless before I had Rob Green of Status make a brand new fretless neck for it. He did all the fitting work. Some time in (I think) 2013 I decided to sell it as I seem to have very little talent for fretless. I did miss it though, and in 2015 Ryan contacted me to offer me first disbs as he was moving it on. So I bought it back. It was still in fantastic condition for it's age. There are a few dings on the body as expected for what I think was originally a 1993 bass. I've been playing it in the house since 2015, but despite my best efforts I am not confident enough to take it out to gig, and anyway I usually gig with a 5 string. So, much like going back to an old girlfriend, it has been fun but there was a reason why I sold it in the first place, and it was perhaps wishful thinking that I would become comfortable enough on a fretless. The J pickups are the stock status ones, with a Volume, Balance, Tone pot. It's their treble system so it has a battery. The P is a SD Quarter Pounder and has it's own Volume and Tone control going to a separate output. The separate outputs are very useful if you like to muck about with using 2 amps at once or 2 FX chains. It currently has some nearly new Prosteels on it, but I've got a nicely settled set of flats to go in with the deal as well. Selling at £450 ono. Collection preferred from Northants, but could meet up somewhere too. Trades are certainly possible - [s]I'm looking for a nice light Precision. 8.5lb ish. Ideally a nice grindy sounding one. More Billy Sheehan than Jamerson![/s] Not looking for bass trades anymore. I need a Yamaha DXR10 powered wedge. ta
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    [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1490627014' post='3266588'] Aaah! Damn antocorrect. Meant Pino, not Pink. Imagine Pink in The Who? [/quote] When she's not doing chart pop she has an amazing voice. I'd pay to see that.
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    Under Pressure?
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    He's a great bloke. A few years ago I emailed him a bunch of questions about compression use and didn't really expect him to answer - but he did, in great detail. Was very useful. Met him at a PMT shop when he was doing a Yamaha thing with Wes Borland. Nice chap.
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    The G was added later. Here is Rinat Ibragimov playing one http://youtu.be/QgZ_-f7pVk4
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