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Tascam MP-BT1 user here for silent practice. When I want to hear it I still have my first bass amp - a Laney 30W thing which is plenty loud enough to hear and has line in for the Tascam or my phone when I'm using ChordBot.

The time limit was inevitable, I knew the early adopters Free club couldn't last forever. Fine, bust us down to Open level but I can't get on with this 5 play limit, it's such a brainless limitation. I will have to stop using Spotify as a recreational background music thing. As far as using it as a means to learn songs I'm sorry to say that once these restrictions kick in, I will be using Audacity to record the Stereo Mix while I use one of my five plays then keep the resultant audio file to play as many times as it takes me to learn the song. You can bet that on average it takes me more than five plays to get most songs down

Looks like the current MIM logo to me: [url="http://www.fender.com/en-GB/products/search.php?partno=0146100302"]http://www.fender.com/en-GB/products/searc...rtno=0146100302[/url]

I don't have my birth year, but my Gibson Victory Artist is the same birth year as my wife - a good year!

In my experience these cheapy ones are effin awful - poorly put together, dodgy intonation (which with a fixed bridge you can do very little about) - the one I had the unfortunate encounter with had a dodgy piezo where the A string was way quieter than the others when plugged in. You can't expect miracles for £50 but that watered down excuse of an instrument made me cry. I freecycled it in the end - I couldn't ask for money for it and keep a clear conscience. If your budget is £150 then you could pick up something way better like a second hand Ibanez AEB.

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There's nothing in my local shops worth trying or buying. I've only ever tried one bass in a shop before I bought it and that was my first. Waste of time that was as well, as I didn't have a clue what I was doing! Unless I've done the deal in person (a rare occurrence due to location), I've bought purely on looks/specifications at a distance and hoped for the best. I can't see myself going down the commissioning custom basses route, I'll just continue to buy second hand stuff and hope I like it. Scattershot approach perhaps, but variety is the spice of life

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1199204' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:19 AM']Totally. Oh how the tide has turned since then. [/quote] I know, I was so enthusiastic back then. What happened? I guess I just lost interest when I realised that it's not my forté.

Man, that's a blast from the past - I think I still have the template somewhere

Say that you'll cease and desist when they learn to spell.

Someone gets bad service, they tell ten friends, who in turn tell ten of their friends etc. This is just a speeded up version. I had months of rotten service from Orange broadband and you bet your backside I've been telling anyone who'll listen how godawfully inept they are. Oh look, I've just done it on an internet forum. Now I've gone and done it.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1196364' date='Apr 11 2011, 11:09 PM']Who is this masked "luthier" going around "professionally" relicing basses for these eBay fools?[/quote] Fixed

What's with all the headless conversions of late? I assure you that the Epiphone EB-3 has a truss rod. Have a look behind the plastic cover on the headstock. With enough ingenuity any bass can be made headless.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1194221' date='Apr 10 2011, 01:14 AM']Blandness? [i]Characterless??[/i] Actually - apart from the freakshow stuff, I do agree, about modern ones particularly. Very competent, consistently well-made, the budget ranges are excellent for the money - but they do lack something. Absolutely love my SBV, though. Jon.[/quote] Huh, nothing but a bunch of copies, facsimiles if you will.

It's a(nother) misstep for me from Gibson. Basically it now looks like a short scale enlarged in all directions. I like the menace of the long Gibson necks, it's most definitely a bass and it's most definitely long scale. Also 20 frets? Come on Gibson - Leo realised that 21 was the way to go from the Stingray onwards. You put 22 on my Epiphone Les Paul bass. What are you thinking? At least they've retained the selector switch, which seems to have come and gone over the years. The only good thing is the bridge - it looks like they've finally found the one they should have used all along for all Les Paul type basses

[quote name='Batfastard' post='1189452' date='Apr 5 2011, 06:40 PM']I want one of these. Any progress from your last post?[/quote] Mitre box arrived yesterday, I'm getting rid of a table out of my shed tomorrow night so I can put my Workmate somewhere and get back to work.

[quote name='TheGreek' post='1188056' date='Apr 4 2011, 06:05 PM']The only positive experience I've had from selling/trying to sell on this site is that Pantherairsoft bought my Ashbory. (nice one!!)[/quote] The [i]only [/i]positive experience? What displeased you about our transaction?

If that doesn't come up trumps, I definitely have a bag full of those little tuner screws.

I use my Tribute L-2000 with no effects. Just a tuner pedal. It's a damn fine sounding bass as it is (as you have recently (re)found out).

I am terrible about values. The market's so flat just now. I wouldn't be surprised if it still realises a four figure sum, but beyond that I couldn't tell you.

At the risk of boring people (as I may have mentioned this before), I have a 1978 Gibson G-3. Three single coil pickups. Volume, tone and 3 way selector which does neck/middle, all three and middle/bridge respectively. Like: the basic tone (particularly low down), the looks, the chunky neck, the fact that it's not a Fender. Dislike: only 20 frets, pearl dots on a maple board are very hard to see, neck dive if you don't use a grippy strap (fine with), limited variation considering there's three pickups on offer. Also had a Danelectro Hodad. Three single coil lipstick pickups. Full seven way switching and concentric vol/tone. Like: the flexibility of tones (although I have to say that the individual pickups are a bit weak on their own - I usually used one of the double combinations or all three), light (semi hollow), nice neck, the fact that it's not a Fender. Dislike: only 20 frets, neck dive impossible to avoid because of light body, all or nothing tone pot. When it comes to three pickups having an impact upon sustain, you have to balance out that these are single coil pickups, so probably less magnetism going around per unit. I haven't thought about it much though, because note sustain isn't something that concerns me a great deal. As long as the notes aren't decaying like a 70s Alfa then I'm happy

[quote name='fryer' post='1178835' date='Mar 27 2011, 09:42 PM']How are you going to get access to the tuners ?[/quote] I'm going to recess, but I'm not going to outright cut out the wood in order to preserve the T-bird shape as much as possible.

I don't see any reason why not.

Just to clear this up - the high mass version is the 201, the more vintage styled one is the 203:

[quote name='Count Bassie' post='1177150' date='Mar 26 2011, 12:45 PM']Then it looks like a plan to me. Pretty cool- although I've historically eschewed headless basses, I think this one looks pretty cool. I'm staying tuned in... You have some good jig-resources for that headstock fillet cut', I guess? Pretty precise cut.[/quote] I intend to use a mitre box to make the vertical cut and then use a flush cutting saw to cut parallel to the headstock face.