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Four-string or five-string fretless with the ceilidh band, five-string fretless with the originals band. five-string fretted with one covers band, six-string fretted with the other covers band, and occasional excursions for the 7-string fretted. I started on 4s and started flirting with 5s after I'd been playing about 15 years, but it took me a long time to find one which I felt anything like as comfortable playing as my 4s. I'd say I am a default 5-string player these days, the 6 is so I can familiarise myself with it as I may move on to 6-strings on a more widespread basis.

I like natural, not at all keen on painted finishes.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1037203' date='Nov 26 2010, 12:29 AM']Might worth checking of the amp actually outputs at 4ohm. I've had guitar amps that have output 2x8ohm lol the ashdown superfly head.[/quote] Not quite sure what you're saying here - do you think that each channel of the Superfly doesn't run into a load lower than 8 ohms? The Superfly puts out 250W per channel into a 4 ohm load, and about 175Wpc into an 8 ohm load (double those wattages for the Superduperfly). Each channel has a minimum of 4 ohm load.

It's a tenner an hour for the place I use in Birmingham (Robanna's), gear tends to be Ashdown heads or Ampeg SVT350s (the Ashdowns are reliable, the Ampegs aren't) and assorted 8x10s (the last few practices, I've had Edens which might have been 2 4x10s, unbadged and unidentifiable, and Ashdown - the Ashdown 8x10 was the best of the lot). There's no consistent backline but it's generally reasonable to good.

[quote]Worro all. I'm a bass player of a bit over 30 years experience, currently based in Birmingham until my divorce is finished and I can get my house in Tamworth back. Currently playing in a covers band, a barn dance band, and (playing guitar) in an acoustic duo with the once and future love of my life. No, not the guitar, the girlfriend. Oh, and the bassist for the house band at an open mic night too. Started playing at university in the 70s, briefly stopped, started again in the early 80s, had a bit of a pause in the 90s, and I've been back in full flight again for the last four years or so. Have played mainly 4-string fretted (and the Warwick JD is my favourite bass, which I've had for nearly 20 years) but am playing quite a bit of 5-string and fretless these days, plus electric upright. The bands, incidentally, are Breakaway, New Corona Band, and Second Time Round. As an aside, does anyone in the Midlands area know any good agencies? The various bands could do with a few more and better-paying gigs, social clubs these days aren't exactly thriving...[/quote] And since then, I've left Breakaway and joined The Lightning, Different Glory, and Spiral Six, done the divorce and married Mrs Zero. And the last post on that introduction thread was from Si Cox, with a list of potential agencies...

Read the [url="http://upce.toffee.net/"]upce FAQ[/url].

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1027864' date='Nov 18 2010, 12:57 PM']That would be good for an active 6 string guitar to get its power from something connected to the tremolo arm.[/quote] Something connected to the tremolo arm? That would be the guitarist, wouldn't it?

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1034258' date='Nov 23 2010, 07:21 PM']I've always thought the cascading dot pattern on my NS-Design CR5M is innovative[/quote] I find it confusing. Nice to look at, not so much fun to play with. Pretty much everything I could think of has already been mentioned - I will, however, throw stacked pots into the ring. When you've got something with a tiny body like a Thumb, the controls are kept compact but not too close together, so you can have either more things you can control or less knobs.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1033016' date='Nov 22 2010, 06:27 PM']A bid removes the BIN, no idea why some idiots bid on BIN auctions.[/quote] I can give you a reason - if you're not sure that you want to buy it but don't want someone else to have it while you're making your mind up/sorting out finance/getting agreement from whoever wields the rolling pin in your household.

I rather like it, and you can see the logic of putting a fat arse on an acoustic bass to try and give it a bit more volume. Looking at his other instruments (not the family snapshot), they tend to be rather more conventional looking.

Up to £102, so someone fancies a bit of DIY...

With or without you Summer days (I see "You're the one that I want" has already been suggested) Honky Tonk Women (verse) - at least as recognisable as the bass line in the verse of "All Right Now" Some of the songs already suggested aren't so much recognisable from the bass line as from the riff - for example Enter Sandman, where the bass doesn't kick in for about three minutes. I suspect that the first of my suggestions might not be recognised by a high proportion of over-60s, while the second would be recognised by a similarly lower proportion of under-40s.

Bugger, really wanted to come, started up the M42 and the bonnet catch on the car started playing up. Having had a bonnet become liberated and flap up in front of me before, I gave up on the trip and went back home.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1029403' date='Nov 19 2010, 02:40 PM']"Look children, it's Widow Tw***y!" Well, that's completely f***ed my plans for a Panto thread.[/quote] That's a shame, Tim was looking forward to being in that.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1029291' date='Nov 19 2010, 01:28 PM']Personally i find it hard not to buy stuff when i come on here.[/quote] I find it very easy not to buy stuff when I come on here. If I had some money, it would be a different matter...

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1029109' date='Nov 19 2010, 11:57 AM']A bit of light exercise in sight-reading: [url="http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/tag/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/"]www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/tag/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/ [/url][/quote] A waltz? But it's in common time!

Better to have one string too many than one string too few...

He's a lovely chap, very patriotic.

It's a Bruce Wei (who seems to have stopped doing basses now). I rather fancy one to go with my Antoniotsais but I'm a bit short of funds ATM.

I remember the old days of dialling TIM and getting the Speaking Cock:

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1026350' date='Nov 16 2010, 08:45 PM']Got given a P bass yesterday but I don't what colour I should do it in, any ideas?[/quote] What's wrong with it as it is? People would pay a fortune for relicing like that.

I've got a Grind BXP 6-string. Excellent playability, sounds reasonable to me though I'd like active rather than passive. I compared the necks of various 5-strings at PMT a while ago, and the Peaveys came out top with the Grind being nicer than the Cirrus BXP which was nicer than the USA Cirrus, so when a new condition Grind 6 came up twice on That Ebay at half street price and had no love, I had to go for it.