LukeFRC

see im attached to my status shark as it was my first bass, but i would choose my '57 RI P over it as i play it way more.... but then i dont feel as attatched to the P, its more like a tool to use. Like a good chisel.
So i would probably save many other things before any bass.






having said that i would probably just grab the p and run

so the conclusion.
all the crap ones get thrown off tall buildngs
and until recently all the good ones are bought by mr entwistle

right help me out for 50 years basses have been made as mass produced consumer items. (if not mass produced then relativly simple to make compared to a double bass before i get flamed by the folk who spent 2k on some hand made plank)

therefore each of the major companies make X many hundred basses every year.
basses tend not to break or wear out. the design has not changed much over the last 50 years. Therefore any bass made in the last 50 years should be a potential viable instrument now.

The market for basses and/or people playing bass isnt growing that much (i would guess, its not like 300 new folk start playing every day)

so why are we not snowed under with old basses. where do they go? what happens to them all?

lol.
but i can better it.
I went into a local music shop and asked if they had any rack mount bass heads in (they sometimes squirrel away secondhand stuff in their storeroom)
i was told that no one makes rackmount bass heads.
then he realised ampeg do so said they were the only company that did.
i walked out wondering why he had a job and i at the time didnt.

this is the same shop that showing them the fender microtilt on my squier strat's neckplate had never seen this before and had no idea what it was for........... ugghhh


hope you get your amp soon though!

i used to go to play bass at my church (in edinburgh)
I'm from essex
I used to use a bass made in essex,
through a head made in essex into two cabs made in essex
(the cables were probably from china but i wired them together myself in scotland)

now i use a 1950's american designed bass made in japan,
through a head made in germany
into either a cab made in germany or two made in essex.

internationalism sounds better.

im 23 on monday! thats old

in my experience valve is a 'fuller' tone that sounds louder.

try this experiment-
get a Ashdown evo head or some other head with both solid state and valve pre-amps.
turn it to the ss pre amp, start playing as you do blend in the valve pre amp. It seems to get louder and the sound seems to be fuller and more permeating but at the same time it doesn't feel like it is louder- just different.

aye wierd control plate. why/how is it like that?

MB1 wow! is this quotes in your posts working i can see??

the coffee shop i work on sells the grolsh, makes a nice sound as i open them. will start saving rgw rubber rings them i think

up too 2000, i guess for more expensive stuff like violins and so on you could loan 2000. I guess for something as reliviely cheap as a bass you wouldnt be able to loan as much.

i put a lovely gold annodised one on my p bass, looks lovely.... many not go with the gold as well as it does with the SB though!

oi oi andy. likewise

whoever owns the patent on the the half and half design must be laughing.

some crazy stuff is good, but only when it is used musically rather than showing off.
i grabbed a cheap weather report record and say teen town (jaco on the bass) sounds ace, its only when you start thinking how would you play that you realise its so technically good. its where you hear summit and go wow thats so well played but cant hear the music through the playing i get completely bored.

kinda but not...
kasabian- was working at their gig a year or so ago, a lot of their stuff was on a backing track, (you could tell cos otherwise the drummer would have to be getting out of time with himself... not easily done!)
the main bass line was coming in over the PA yet the bass player was playing something way up the neck that bared no relation to what i was hearing.
he also played half the gig with a capo on his bass which was a bit strange.

first played some peavey 6 sting of a friends, then another friend let me play his three grands worth of warwick which scared me, then i borrowed an old encore P copy which had been used as someones tec project. my first job was taking it to pieces and work out how i could make it play and have the action at under an inch.

then i went out and bought a new status shark that had been hiding in a music shop for a long time and accedently got a status hiscock hard case out of it too.
We agreed the price while some young guy was looking for a case and came back with the hard case rather than the soft it would have come with. It was the only status he had in and it fit perfectly so he couldn't not sell it to me.
ace

found a gibson 335 ri in cherry with bigsbuy for 300-400 in a pawn shop once. it had two to many strings for me to part with that much money

mani plays the simplist stuff but man with such a feel for rhythm. waterfall is so simple yet so perfect.

[quote name='chris_b' post='91411' date='Nov 20 2007, 12:42 PM']I don't understand GAS. My view is buy the best, get it right at the start and get on with the gigs.[/quote]
i agree. I was lucky to buy a status shark 2 as my first bass. After that I wasn't really going to buy a better built bass for under a grand. I have no reason to sell my shark cos its an ace bass and to be honest not sellable for as much as i feel it would be worse.
The gap in my sound i filled with my CIJ '57 reissuse. P. Again im not sure how exactly i would upgrade this. It is a P bass, it sounds and plays like a really really good P bass so unless someone wants to sell me an orignal '60s one whats the point? What I love about it is that it feels like a tool. Awsome but not so amazing you wont do daft things with it (like tour scotland on the megabus in a gigbag)
I have a tech 2x12 cab which matched with my H&K QT600 sounds ace. They are both reasonably small and light and do me fine.
Im happy, went for good quallity stuff and it will ast me years

+1 for hughes and kettner. my QT600 sounds ace- its not a well known bass brand but sounds ace.
and at 180 a good buy.

maplin do thoes wee amplifier kits maybe you could build your own? intresting wee project for someone.

i wonder if someone could invent speakers you could fold up.

hmm summit i do on PA to make things sound good.

persuming you are going to scoop (cut) the mids to a certain extent.
boost one of the parametrics to almost the top. as you play sweep across all the frequencies untill you find the nastiest most horrible sound you can find. then leave the frequency control and use the other control to cut the nasty frequency a bit viola!

Otherwise just fiddle with the amp with the graphic to try and find which specific frequencies you want to cut/boost and then go hunting for them on the parametric.

i saw one of these in my local Cash converters,
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£200 and weighed a ton.
I think i was franz ferdinand using summit that looked similar when i saw them a few years back

I post this for two reasons
1) what is it, could you use it on bass?
2) its on dalry road if anyone wants it!

it isnt really a robot guitar in the way that this is a robot sax [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VJMGy3P4w"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VJMGy3P4w[/url]
it just tunes itself.
woo