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  1. LukeFRC
    Looks beautiful
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    I think there is a certain utilitarian feature to the design - I actually like that about them. Either that or homages to Yamaha musician models? One of my favourite things about classic Warwick are that there’s no fancy wood tops for cosmetic reasons. Problem is most people going to a custom builder seem to want fancy wood bling
  3. LukeFRC
    Go really different - get a trumpet or other brass instrument.
  4. LukeFRC
    I think if you can get the seal right that they should have a bit more bass than with the silicon.
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    What’s left on your GAS list? I found it quite it quite good to write out a list of all the basses I wanted to try/own - I think I’ve had all but two models on the list...
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    Just wondering which ones the "regular rubber tips" are? I've been using UE900s for a while now, church set up, no backline and everything IEM with our own little mixer things... With the Silicon tips they are more or less useless for me. I can't get a good enough seal to get much low end. The comply foam tips give me the seal I need to hear the bass - I often end up cutting the bottom end on the eq on the mixer for my send- and need to massively turn the kick drum down in order for my mix to not be overly bassey. In the lower end before any customs i think there is a balance... I think there is an interesting balance here between audiophile sound like I would want sat at home listening to some music, and what I want for a live mix - they arn't nesserally the same are them? The UE900s are way better than standard headphones - and let me hear the bass for bass duties I think a massive bottom end to the sound would possibly be a hindrance to having the clarity the top end for timing....
  7. LukeFRC
    Ssssh keep it down or everyone will want them!
  8. LukeFRC
    we are presuming warwick don't have a sense of humour...
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    1959 Jazz Bass

    LukeFRC replied to GuyR's topic in Bass Guitars

    I wonder if you have to pay extra to get them to fill out the CITEs paperwork so that customs let it leave/enter the US and UK... be an expensive mistake if you didn't pay that!
  10. LukeFRC
    @Paul S - ask me to remove that if you think it hinders rather than helps your sale !
  11. LukeFRC
    I bought it with a SD SPB1 pickup in it (which sounded good). At Rick's suggestion I found someone on here who had fitted his JV squier pickup in I think his Kramner bass. Me asking if I could buy the pickup came to nout so two years or so later I ended up buying the whole bass off him, switching the pickups and selling on the Kramer. If you can forgive my playing, and the fact this was recorded in the worst possible manner known to recording history (straight in the mic input of a iMac into GarageBand I think!)
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    and I played it lots for years until @Rick's Fine '52 convinced me it was a bit too nice an instrument to be carrying in a softcase on the back of a push bike and I should look after it, and I sorted the pups on my streamer and I was able to pick up one of those holy grail basses for me (at the time) if I sold it... This is though an absolutely amazing instrument, that I was lucky to have owned for the time I did. The thing that I think is impressive about this instrument, I've played dozens of precision basses, and similar versions of precision basses. And they all sound like variations on that vague theme that is "Precision bass" in your head. This though is special, you plug it in and it doesn't sound like the vague idea of a precision bass.... it sounds like those records you've got with precision basses on them. The way it sits in the mix is amazing, classic Precision - but if you dig in you can get this almost bright grindy attack off the maple neck. Whoever picks this instrument up won't be disappointed.
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    would answering that be a comment on the price and get removed by the mods? In which case I'll just say.... <sp> way
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    I agree up to a point - when you've got a bass that's just in specific colour with a signature on the end of the headstock I don't get that... but when there is a custom bass where someone has customised it to the point of it being quite different to anything else then that's cool with me. The Fender Roscoe Beck being a good example - I'ld love one of them.
  15. LukeFRC
    +1 this is a really nice bit of kit EDIT: though the new Zoom software I think does everything that TineLib does too now? How you finding your B15 model?
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    Any bodger can download some cab software and have a semi-literate guess at a cab design* - but seeing the software I've seen either lets you spec square or round ports I would just be sceptical that someone would have measured the area of the shape of handle shape the ports accurately.... *and hopefully realise quite quickly that there's more to it that bodging it...
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    there was a green 5 string one that got sold on here a few times, @warwickhunt was one of the last to sell it... I always wanted that bass. Though probanbly I would have remembered I don't get on with jazz basses. I would buy it if it came up again at a sensible price!
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    And you realistically probably wouldn't spend 4 times the amount if these KZ are that good...
  19. LukeFRC
    Heft? (Runs)
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    Your amp is I think converting the signal to a digital one and back again, doing all sorts of clever power management and compression and simulating a certain sound - the RH450 is a pretty awesome bit of kit ... but very different from an all analogue setup - where the more stuff you put in the signal path the more possible distortion, phase issues and anomalies you will get from them. If you look at the guts of a lot of valve amps they will look quite simple in terms of number of parts. There is a difference I think in terms of the sound. Live, by the time it's gone through a pa the RH450 will work well and it's feature set will help... but I doubt you would ever mic one up in the recording studio...
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    Two for me: Trace Elliot/Status T-bass - my first bass had been a Status Shark so the T bass was the top of the range GAS machine I had wanted for years. Finally got myself to the Gallery in Camden as they had two secondhand ones in stock - both of which sounded dull and lifeless of all the basses I could have tried out in that shop... Fender American vintage reissue series '74ri jazz bass and that era- I had tried a fair few of the previous vintage reissue series basses and they had been seriously nice instruments - I wish I had had the money to buy at least 3 of them. The old '75ri Jazz is a bass I wish I had owned but never have... so when Fender updated the series and brought out the newer 74ri jazz I went to try one.... cheap wood covered in thick cheap finish with a dull sound and just cheap feel and finish and a worse sound plugged in... so tried another one the same. A-B comparing to a Squier and the Squier was a better instrument!
  22. LukeFRC
    Drop Alan a line and see what's possible in your budget...
  23. LukeFRC
    If I have used up all the foam tips on my UE900s would you recommend spinfits over comply foam tips?
  24. LukeFRC
    I can't find output VP as an effect to add - am I missing something?
  25. LukeFRC
    @Pete B, @Daz39 we all must live within 10 miles or so of each other (I'm in Farsley)
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