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And if you and not ready to walk yet, throwing in some Root-Octave or Root-5th works well enough. Treat the bass as the drums. Play on the kick drum and snare with R & octave

I have a kitchen scale that goes up to 10kg so I use that. FWIW I have never ever ever had a shop be anywhere near accurate on a quoted weight.

These days Izzy Hale does a better impression of Seb Bach than Seb does [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CX3XxfXgLs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=_CX3XxfXgLs[/url]

Allianz. I've used their other policies and they've paid out when I need them.

Enjoy the space. And learn to walk. And rip off Jack Bruce for a start

Actually this thread is making me doubt selling it. I have a rehearsal tomorrow - I might take the Urge instead and see what happens.

[quote name='GCYPbass' timestamp='1401398838' post='2463363'] I saw yours on sale. GLWTS. Can you get real P bass sound? [/quote] I'm only selling because I'm playing 5 strings now. If Fender did a 5 string Urge I'd be all over it! The P bass tone (with the EQ flat) is a little more trebly than on a regular P - but actually quite like a regular P with a Seymour Quarter Pounder in it. I'm guessing that is because the pickup is a bit closer to the bridge on the Urge2. But the tone is all there, just drop the treble off a bit and you are back where you should be. It's quite light too. I have no idea why Fender don't put super light tuners on everything these days.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1401442903' post='2463597'] Again - not sure what they add. Yes Bono is a good investor but that's not the same as steering company direction [/quote] More likely that Bono has access to a very expensive and competent financial analyst and listens to him about where to put his money.

I have one and I love it. Very versatile bass indeed.

All fitted and over 1/2 lb weight loss on the bass! Lovely!

No Allen key provided I do have a shitload of them so I'll have go through my collection. Thank you!

Just had a set of Ultra Lites delivered to go on my Sandberg. I have to reverse one of them but there are no instructions. Before I just disassemble the entire thing, can anyone give me any pointers? Ta!

It's lovely! I do have a set of Hipshot Ultralight tuners coming for it though as it's a tiny bit heavy. I took a tuner off to weigh it and then compared with Hipshot and it will save me just over 1/2 lb in total. That's a hell of a lot to save - especially when it's on the end of the neck! They should be here tomorrow. I'll need to dirty them up a bit!

I love it! How are you powering it?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1400918931' post='2458108'] Edit: Also have a mini headstock tuner which means I don't need a tuner pedal! [/quote] What headstock tuner you using? I've had 2 Snarks and they worked well but broke easy!

More to come

I found some D'Addario NIckels hiding in the back of a drawer. I've always found D'addarios to be especially good on the B string. And cor blimey it is sounding epic!! This afternoon I'll have a chance to take the bass into the garden for some natural light photos, so you'll have to wait until then!

I'm a compression junkie. I love it! But I have to say that to beat the Marshall ED-1 you have to spend a lot of money. It's cheap and cheerful and sounds brilliant on bass. IMHO it's only at Keeley 4-knob money (£220 ish) that you start to get close to it. The MXR Bass Compressor doesn't get anywhere near it. That being said I really want to try a Jo Meek FloorQ!

ha ha!! I'll take some later on!

In real life it's not as bright and the differences in the blue / green are not as obvious. I liked the photos, but I love it even more in real life. My wife is laughing her arse off at the entire concept of relics. She thinks it's just been in a shed for years. And she's offered me a cup of artificially aged coffee. And would I like a fresh lunch or aged.

http://thequietus.com/articles/15274-coldplay-ghost-stories-review ha ha ha!!!

Only had 5 mins with it so far, and only with Amplitude and not a real amp, but it's easy to play and sounds great. The stock strings suck arse though. D'addario's ordered!

Massively agree. When I got my Marleaux Consat it sounded great through my little Roland but sucked with my Genz rig. The bass had a spare set of strings with it, so I used them - still sucked. I was very close to gutting the pickups and preamp but then put on a set of my favourite D'addarios Pro-Steels. All of a sudden - there it was. The sound I expected. Couldn't be happier with it.

Sandberg Ken Taylor