Cameronj279

I use the Mono Vertigo and travel with it on public transport with it about 3/4 days a week and have no complaints. I'm not the strongest of chaps and have a pretty naff back but find it to be a great weight, even when carrying quite a substantial weighted bass.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1422389997' post='2672145'] I joke about the colours though because it appears she is oblivious to colour and shape [/quote] What I get is "that looks the same as your last one" since I'm now on my 4th Warwick

I don't try and deceive at all but the conversation of new gear almost always goes like this. me - "I've just bought a thing" her - "how much?" me - "£xxx" her - "You fanny, enjoy"

Bass looks great! Sounds fantastic too, especially the bridge pickup! Good call on getting it in a MM sweetspot and thanks for the sound samples

It was mixed. Stage was tiny (to the point the crash cymbal kept hitting off my tricep area causing extreme pain), sound was pretty crappy (through no fault of the sound guy, just the equipment was fairly shoddy, backline provided type gig) and about a minute before we went on our singer said to me "I think I'm gonna be sick". I had a stomach bug type thing on Wednesday and may have given it to him. But there was a good turnout and saw people I hadn't saw in a while so I had fun.

[quote name='merello' timestamp='1422093995' post='2668564'] Go to the bass bash and meet the guy. [/quote] This. I don't currently own one but I did briefly own one for a week or so and when I had to send it back I put down an order for a custom recurve. So good review in my book.

I think one piece of feedback I received a while back describes my packaging as "unorthodox but effective!". I basically buy a big roll of bubble wrap and wrap it a good 10-15 times. Even if it's a cheap pedal. I do the same for basses as well. If someone is paying for delivery (which I generally factor into my price) then why the hell should I skimp on packaging!? Glad to say that I can't think of anything I've received from members on here that wasn't excellently packaged.

[quote name='Jakester' timestamp='1421867487' post='2666039'] I think around £475ish. [/quote] not worth anyway near that in my opinion. I picked one up for a fellow members on here not too long ago and it was less than £200 to buy it and post it. Wait and get a proper German corvette I'd say. Saw them go (and I have bought/sold) for much less than that!

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1421781163' post='2664984'] This makes BassChat amazing. Very kind offer there Bilbo! [/quote] +1. Kindness like this makes this place feel more like a community than a website. To the wall hangers. Hercules ones are what I use and they haven't failed on me. I should mention that one of these basses was just over 6kg so not a lightweight beast! Well worth the relatively small sum of money...even if one of them is being used as a hook for my jacket.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1421689862' post='2664005'] Surely you could just leave the action where you like it and lower the pickup a bit? [/quote] The action was too low for notes to ring out fully so this wouldn't have worked. Still plays great, just a little bit more effort needed to play. Still a low action compared to a lot of other basses I've played.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1421666672' post='2663683'] Buy this: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/252232-fs-tc-electronic-flashback-mini-delay-pedal-l75-inc/"]http://basschat.co.u...-pedal-l75-inc/[/url] Winning Delay pedal in a small package for the little space you have left Si [/quote] Tempted by the normal Flashback pedal at the mo once my Compressor sells. Space isn't too much of an issue at the moment as the Power brick fits on the underside of the pedaltrain if needed freeing up some space

I've got the M87 and felt it was a fantastic pedal when using it with certain basses but when using it with my current bass I haven't been able to find a setting in which it seemed to work nomatter how many hours I put into setting the bloody thing up. Real shame as I've loved how it was to use in the past!

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1421674698' post='2663787'] [size=5][sub]I don't really give a monkey's how a bass sounds solo. What would be more interesting is to play diferent basses in a band context for comparison.[/sub][/size] [/quote] This.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1421672774' post='2663763'] That's really nice. Is the bass new as I can't see it on Alan's website? [/quote] I think it's one he has had in stock for a while. If it's the one I think it is (the one with Colin Cunningham demo'ing it on YouTube), Alan had it in May when I went to spec my Recurve. Had a quick go on it, great bass!

Sorry to re-open this thread but I just saw them tonight and he was using 2 basses. Both of which were Status basses (I can't say the models as I know bugger all about Status basses) but one was headless with Green LEDs (which were bright as a bright thing) and the other was a headed model with just the one pickup. They sounded really nice when I could actually hear them!

I've noticed this too. I've also noticed Warwick have endless sound demos of their basses -all of which have a distinctive character- but they all tend to sound similar because they are generally all played by Andy Irvine. saying that. The thumb bass sounds a hell of a lot better in his hands than in mine!

I raised the action very very slightly on my bass a few weeks back and found it sounded a hell of a lot better. Note clarity, low end and dynamics were all so much better. although annoying it did mean higher action which I'm not a fan of.

There is indeed but I fear my bank wouldn't allow it!

Lot of distortion going on there Kev! Here's mine. Looking to add a delay, octave and (if space is available) a chorus pedal.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1421529450' post='2662428'] Why every luthier doesn't use this acrylic impregnated technique I'll never know, some of the woods you can use as fingerboards is crazy cool. I guess he could do one with buckeye burl, now that would be something... [/quote] I'm not too sure, it's maybe hard to get hold of? Buckeye Burl would definitely be interesting! Although I find Buckeye Burl to be very hit or miss for my liking!

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1421527634' post='2662392'] That fretboard is superb, is that really maple?! [/quote] Yup! Acrylic impregnated Spalted Maple. Soon as I saw it I knew what fretboard I was going for

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1421435206' post='2661283'] Explains it all perfectly Chris - it`s amazing how that track sounds so good in the mix, yet isolated is very uninspiring. I wonder how, if it were clean/technically perfect, it would have sounded in the actual song. Rotten probably, and JD would have possibly got his name down as a poor bassist. [/quote] Perhaps this means that Adam Clayton is actually just a very clean and technically perfect bassist?

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