Ben Jamin

Yep! My bro met up with Hayden yesterday and had a chat about building a bass amp for me. Looking at trialling a new hybrid prototype with their valve pre-amp and this new digital poweramp they've recently come across that they're very impressed with! I'll be meeting up with him in a couple o' months when I've got enough money! But yeah, sounds good to me!

From the description and that photo - I bet it's a bass guitar?

I didn't know Matamp did bass amps until recently! My brother's got a custom Matamp guitar combo and it's the best thing I've ever heard (guitar-wise). I think I'm going to have to order one! Here's Hayden servicing my bro's amp - if guitar amps count?

Bought/A friend bought an Epiphone Dot from AJ, really helpful, quick replies, top bloke to deal with folks!

My old MIM Active Deluxe was fantastic. Pretty inexpensive too! I bought it new as my first 'real' bass, put a Badass II on it and it sounded ace. Check it out: [url="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender-deluxe-active-jazz-bass"]http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender...ctive-jazz-bass[/url]

I don't think the Fender cabs and heads look tooooo bad? Those Rumbles are definitely ugly things though. I wish Fender would just make something new - like the Fender TC-90 or Starcaster guitars... but for bass!

+1 to the D'addarios, I don't know of any other brand that does them. I've got a 5-string Pro Steel set and it's brass for E, red for A, black for D and green for G - don't know if that applies to the Pro Steel set alone or the whole D'addario range though! Best of luck

Kevin mailed me over some pick-ups from his Gretsch which he'd replaced - for FREE! Excellent packaging, pick-ups were immaculate, my brother will appreciate them very much! Thanks again

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These guys have some nice-looking stuff! A [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/bach-bpb-60-5-mmg_p1045"]5-string[/url] '51 P-style made of Mahogany for 190euros? GAS.

Well I rang to claim get my 241 cinema ticket today. Absolutely no help at all, didn't sound like they even knew what I was talking about!

Like the prices too! [url="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender-blacktop-precision-bass"]http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender...-precision-bass[/url]

Says it all in the title In search of some new music! Here's mine: I just love the originality and how tight they are as a band. Cool stuff Oh and that Precision's tasty!

I've got a s/h German Corvette $$! Two humbuckers which can be individually coil tapped for parallel/series/single-coil Bass/treble Pick-up pan Passive/Active Adjustable nut/all-round good, reliable hardware Nice chunks of wood Good-lookin' What's not to like?

Bought Lee's Monster cables off him! Great communication and really well packaged too! Appreciate the 'Ben Jammin' address Top bloke - deal with confidence!

[quote name='Darkstrike' post='1292853' date='Jul 4 2011, 10:40 PM']MM pickup. Preamp. Most importantly of all, [url="http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=140"]Hipshot Bass Tremolo[/url].[/quote] Oh dear. I'm going to have to look into those tremolo bridges now, and I bet they don't come cheap! In terms of an overdue update, I've fine sanded it all down, and I've got my hands on a Fender bridge/tuning machine set which will do for the moment... I figure I'm going to buy some CTS pots and wire just the SP2 up, fix it all together and see how it sounds. I've recently acquired an EBS Valve Drive which gives some nice vintage tube-ness and I kind of fancy a vintage P now, going through my 15 - sorry that's a bit dull! Hopefully I'll find the sound too limited and go for the tremolo and MM p'up! My Warwick $$ Corvette has a good tonal palette though so I might just skip the years of trying different basses and settle for a Precision with a tube like everyone else seems too! I do really like that tremolo though. Really like it. Then there's the colour. I really like the CAR suggestion, but I saw a butterscotch P the other day with a black p'guard... [b]Darn my indecisiveness![/b]

Those 12/other silly number of strings basses! Why? The fingerboards are as wide and playable as my desk and they sound horrible on the ridiculously low/high strings. If you want that kind of range play piano! Compensating for something?

Is that Grundig mic still around? Is it one of these?

50p on a Dunlop Tortex one in Denmark Street. Big thick triangular one x2 of the yellow/green variety. I felt bad because as soon as walked into the shop I got the slightly distasteful look from the bloke behind the till that he knew I was only there to play the nice basses and then leave with no intention or interest in purchasing anything. SLR camera kind of made it obvious I was a tourist. And the Muse shirt. And the fact that Muse were playing in Wembley that night.