Bigwan

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='813616' date='Apr 21 2010, 11:47 AM']Sounds like the TC Classic would be up your alley...[/quote] I had thought that, but £700 vs £450 for the Terror Bass? It would need to be some amp to justify that to me!

I'm interested in what people have to say on this one too. The RH450 is over-spec'd for what I would need (don't need memories, tuner or compressor). How would the Orange Terror bass fit? (my ideal amp is an Ashdown ABM, but they won't fit in my gig-bag - neither will the orange but coiuld go in a backpack easy enough!)

Great basses, even if you couldn't get any money off.

Could you play your bass on a stand? I remember reading something in 'bass player' about a chap who injured his back in some sort of garden accident and did this. Definately the cheaper option, although it may take a bit of getting used to! Like this: [url="http://www.mbracestand.com"]www.mbracestand.com[/url]

Neither are my cup of tea any more. Having said that, if someone pressed me I'd go for Flea since Mark King didn't record Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik...

I'll give up when someone folds me into my casket... I had a year and a bit break about 10 years ago and it ain't ever happening again! Having been in a gigging band for 10 years you must have made a few contacts? Get calling - good bass players are like hens teeth! You should have your pick! I'm currently bandless too (but strangely have just recorded my first full length album for the band I just left), but I'm going to take this time to learn all that stuff I've been putting off. I haven't sat down and learned a song for fun in about 10 years and have no practise routine other than random noodling so I'm going to try and sort that out. I've also never learned a scale or mode in my life! Now's the time. Also have hardware issues - some of my basses have a few setup/electronic issues - I'm going to work on those too.

All depends on stage volume. If you're using decent foldback monitors do you need an amp rig at all? (I say this having followed you recent amp rig exploits - I'm a git aren't I )

Ashdown will sell you a sleeve for this, no probs. Been done before. You'll need one as they're not a sealed unit once out of the combo (no side or top plates). Not easy to racmount either, not without fabricating your own rack shelf.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='798598' date='Apr 7 2010, 12:36 PM']I just did this one on the RNID site and it says my hearing is within normal range, but it doesn't check tinnitus, just overall hearing. [url="http://www.rnid.org.uk/howwehelp/hearing_check/take_online_hearing_check/?from=/check/"]http://www.rnid.org.uk/howwehelp/hearing_c...k/?from=/check/[/url][/quote] Me too - great!

Here's mine: [attachment=46671:hearing.JPG] Pretty chuffed with that actually. Maybe not 100% since I'm using Bose in-ears which block zero outside noise and there's a few conversations going on in the office within earshot. It's probably more accurate than the last few hearing tests I've had done - one was in an occupational health department situated next to A&E with the window open and ambulances driving past... hardly ideal!

Must give this a rattle - depending on who I was to believe my hearing is either perfect or I can't hear anything from 3kHz up...

[quote name='purpleblob' post='798164' date='Apr 6 2010, 10:46 PM']Wow - it was that bad ! google is your friend in tracking down this review - I won't spoil the surprise if people search for this review Support was particularily bad. EDIT: I love the Heath Robinson comparison - [/quote] Funny that was the first thing I thought of... and the result was what I expected too!

Well at least you didn't just call it rubbish!

There's also Siggery if you like the Sadowsky vibe, or McIntyre (ex-Gallery so had a hand in a few Sei basses too).

[quote name='Toasted' post='797596' date='Apr 6 2010, 02:37 PM']Just make sure you play as many different basses as you can to find out what you like and dont like before you order.[/quote] +1 to that. And when Jon tells you 6 months expect 9 at least! Worth the wait in the end!

Sei, [b]Shuker[/b], Overwater, GB, ACG, RIM, Simnett... take your pick. I will bow to no sponsor. Sniff...

Now you're asking. Compared to my own Warwick (a 93 Corvette Proline - bolt-on wenge neck, bubinga body) the ones I disliked felt cheap - mine was the very bottom of the range when it was released, the forerunner of the Corvette Standard. One in particular I remember was a Streamer Jazzman 4 I played in Sound Control in Glasgow. Looked stunning but just felt all wrong. Hard to describe. It felt raw and unfinished, like a set of strings that feel like a cheesegrater, know what I mean? Sharp fingerboard edges. Sharp fret ends. Badly set up. Bloody expensive. In comparison there was a RockBass Corvette 5 sitting right next to it and it blew my socks off it was so good. Trends seem to have a lot to do with Warwick popularity - they had a serious fall from grace a few years ago (they seemed to be seen as the bass for metal, almost like they couldn't do anything else!) and there were quite serious bargains to be had in the second hand market. Still a bit of that going on now. I wouldn't ever go as far as to say they're rubbish, but it's each to their own isn't it - I'm sure most people who've referred to them in such a way didn't mean they're only good for lighting the fire with. Throwaway terms like 'it's rubbish' usually mean 'I didn't like it, it wasn't my cup of tea, but I can't be bothered typing to tell you why'. One mans meat and all that. I wouldn't go as far as to say I'd never buy a new(ish) Warwick, but it'd have to impress me the way this last one did. I'm sure the basses I disliked would be perfect for somebody else. But Warwick's recent products, in my opinion (and that's all it is), aren't in the same league as their older basses, but I've always been open to having my opinion changed on that - and that Jazzman 5 went a long way towards doing just that. I judge a bass individually, not by what I think of the others of its type that I've played. But then I own a Bongo - so how good can my taste in basses actually be!

[quote name='budget bassist' post='797509' date='Apr 6 2010, 01:32 PM']A lot of people seem to be saying this, and I really don't understand it. I think it's mainly people who haven't played a Warwick in the last ten years because they threw all their toys out their pram when they started making the necks out of ovangkol and changed the dimensions.... my 0.02[/quote] Possibly. Not sure what it was. Must have played 5 or 6 made in the last 10 years and they just weren't in the same league as my bog standard '93 Corvette. Must just have had a run of bad ones through my hands because that Streamer Jazzman 5 was something very special. Beautiful bass - best setup I've ever seen. Not a rattle or buzz anywhere.

...as in lift it off the floor a bit so it's closer to your ear!

Opinions change with time and experience though... I used to hate... HATE... precisions with a passion. Then I had a lightbulb, 'road to Dimascus'-type realisation when I played a '66 P-bass - now I can't get enough! I love Ashdown ABMs. Have since I first played through one. I can't understand why people give them such a raw deal. The early amps (pre-EVO series) are stonkers. Having said that I wouldn't buy a new one! Wouldn't give their cabs house room either! I quite fancy one of these new fangled 'fit in your gig bag pocket' amps that everyone goes on about... but wouldn't buy an Ashdown one. I also love Bongos. Hated them to look at when they first came out, but 'the proof of the pudding...' as they say. Wouldn't be without mine now. It's a monster! Owned a Wal for a while. Didn't really see what the big deal was. Good enough instrument, but my Warwick Corvette (which could have been bought for sub-£300 at the time) was every bit as good. Sold it for a massive profit which made me happy. Used to think there wasn't a Warwick made in the last 10 years that was any good, but played a Streamer Jazzman 5 last week that changed my mind totally! Also used to think I couldn't get on with Musicman 5 strings because of the string spacing - having had both a 'ray 5 and a Bongo 5. After the encounter with the Warwick 5 last week I know it wasn't the string spacing I disliked as the Warwick's spacing was tighter again. Must have been something else I disliked - neck profile perhaps. Who knows. As I guy I went to school with always said - 'take it all in and mix it all round - it's all experience!' - but he was a nutter! Opinions are all very well as long as you're open for them to change and as long as you realise everyone else is entitled to theirs - a big problem for some people, especially on internet forums.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='797347' date='Apr 6 2010, 11:23 AM']The meths doesn't taste as good after soaking the stings though[/quote] You really would have to be beyond desperate to drink that stuff!