booboo

Not sure how the £ is doing against the yen at present, but looking at those figures you could get something the same from ishibashi in Japan for a bit less. I got a 2nd hand P from there (Japan built but to US AVRI alder/maple & neck spec) a few years ago and I rate it as better built than the US AVRI62 I used to own. Hardware not as nice and i swapped out the electrics for a kiogon loom and a standard Fender 'Original' 62 PU. All in all probably cost me £700 for something that is as good as any other p bass I've played.

Google nordy bass mute- buy a strawberry mivi, some pva glue and a small strip of foam.

I didn't say he was cheap or any good for that matter- just that it seems he can make what you are after.

No! Looks good from the web page though and looks like there are enough customisation options to sort you out. I think you can make your own template and send it too.

http://www.jacksinstrumentservices.com/

Not linking because I'm not sure of the rules on that, but found at least one uk seller doing the grossman ones for £23, and to be fair they also do the nordy ones for £30 as well as a couple of other good options.

Just make sure you let your insurers know - that's another forty quids worth of kit you've got in the gig bag there ;-) Seriously though, what a shame nordstrand didn't pitch the price a little better. It's actually a cracking idea, because a lot of the other ways of doing this (including the Bassmute which I use and love) push against the strings and do cause tuning issues. This as far as I can tell doesn't, is easy to get on and off, and I'm assuming is adjustable in terms of muting depending on how far/hard you push it on?If nordy had these made in china by the thousands for 10p a throw and sold them for £5-10 not many of us would be arsed buying the foam, glue and lollipops to make them ourselves. They would become an essential part of our standard kit and they would have regular repeat business through disorganised and short sighted folk like me losing one every few months.

Brilliant job. Love the relicing - looks genuine and realistic -steers away from the all too common 'had a fight with a belt sander' look.

Was tempted until I clicked on the link and read the sales pitch. Bullsh#t is the kindest way I can describe it. If it was half the price and they just said 'stick this on and it will mute your strings without messing up your tuning' I'd probably have bought one. As it is I'm going to cut four slots in a strip of high density foam and glue it to a lollypop stick. If anyone's interested I'll do you one posted for £30 😉

Just to throw another option in. I had a great experience buying direct from Japan (ishibashi I think). Got their top of the range 62ri (alder,maple,rosewood) put a KI0gon loom and us 62ri pickups in there and its the best p I've ever played. Set up out the box was fine. Lower £ might make this a less attractive option now though as this was about two years ago.

J with ti flats, p with zingy dr rw's for me. Can't think of much I can't cover between them.

I'd go with a decent padded cover unless as said above your gear is on the road a lot. I had a flight case for a markbass combo, and frankly it may as well have been an ampeg once it was boxed up. Totally defeats the purpose of lightweight rigs IMHO.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443973867' post='2879108'] I'm both unwilling and unable to play solos. On the rare occasions when one is tossed my way, I just play the normal bass line but maybe with a few embellishments. The audience is happy and after a while people stop inviting you to solo. [/quote] Damn, I thought it was just me pulling this sh#t!

Great thread. I'd just like to spoil it by suggesting mustang sally, endless slap riffs in 'e', and that Fleetwood Mac F1 thing. I'll get my coat and await an email from forum admin confirming the length of my ban.

Nice - I just bought an allparts one for a tenner less but it looks w***.I can't think of a nicer one than yours unless you spend (much) more and go for a spitfire or wd.

Got rid of my tech21 bddi earlier this year and bought a DHA VT1 Bass Drive EQ DI. Couldn't be happier. Much more organic sounding than the sansamp and does everything from flat through to nice and gritty/fuzzy, Almost too many options with all the colour and boost switches but nice to have. The sweepable mids and 3 band EQ are (for me) a great improvement on the sansamp. I do indeed tend to sit mine in front of a markbass rig to warm things up and send to desk /pa if needed and give my passive P & J a bit more presence. One thing I'm still getting used to is that a real tube takes time to warm up, and your sound will get a little more gritty as the night goes on because of this - pretty cool tbh and easy enough to dial back.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1435566866' post='2809976'] Another one whose house of bass hasn't been built properly here Good luck with this, a couple of years ago I asked a similar question: how would learning scales improve my playing as opposed to just learning box patterns which is how I currently tend to think. I never did get an answer which convinced me enough to go out and learn all the scales. Time is short and I've usually got half a dozen songs I'm learning. I know the people who know scales learn much more quickly than I do but by and large they all also have formal music education and have been playing a lot longer so I've never been able to distinguish cause and effect. I'm not averse to learning music theory but I kind of need someone to be able to say this is how your bass playing is practically going to benefit from the hours spent learning scales over all the octaves, in all the modes. [/quote] I'd like the answer to the 'box pattern' thing also. All I can think of is the box can be a bit limiting if you get stuck in one octave of it, and the wheels can come off when you run out of frets at the nut!

First 2015 Glasto set I enjoyed tbh. I thought Pino was good and if he was more prominent in the mix with a bit/lot more grit would have been great. I'm not a fan of his stage presence /nodding chicken head movements, but there again apart from his fingers the Ox didn't really move more than necessary iirc. Daltrey at 71 gives me hope for life post middle age! The drummer was great, but let's face it - no one will ever replace the manic loony energy of Kieth Moon in full flow.

'Mark Bike' - WTF! Realy? It sounds like Marco has a mate who needed to offload a van full of bmx's. I like the 1x12 cab too, but the green ninja badge would be coming off that grill as soon as I took the bubble wrap off.

I think some sig basses have a point. The Marcus miller for example does the Maple/Ash 70's p plus pre-amp thing very well, and strung with some DR Rounds anyone can pretty much thumb their way to MM's sound(sort of). The Jaco bass with the epoxy fretless neck and correctly voiced PU's does it's thing too, as does the Duck Dunn P with some nice heavy flats. The problem with an Adam Clayton Sig bass is he has no real signature sound or a specific bass accociated with him. He's just spent the best part of 4 decades going dum,dum,dum on 8th notes with an innofensive rather than distinctive sound sat conventionally in the mix. I'm not knocking this - he does it very well, it's what is needed in his band, and he's probably earned more than pretty much any other bassist doing it. I'm just saying that if there is nothing particularly unusual or outstanding about either a player or his gear, it's difficult to understand what his 'signature' on a bass stands for?

For sale, or just a rant?