pete.young

[quote name='Sean' post='1160481' date='Mar 13 2011, 02:10 PM']And, if that P was reversed it wouldn't do an authentic P sound thereby alienating many.[/quote] My BB800 has a reversed pickup and it does a very authentic P sound. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and a fender in a blind test. I'm also very happy with my TRB5P - the build quality is superb and it has a lovely through-neck. You've got to hand it to Yamaha, I've had many of their instruments over the years, not just basses, and I don't think I've ever seen a duff anything with Yamaha written on it.

Not crap - a Bass Collection SGC Nanyo lined fretless - this looks to be a factory fretless rather than a defret, since the dots on the side of the neck are lined up with the fret markers. I have one of these , unlined, and it's brilliant. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Bass-Collection-SGC-Nanyo-SB320-/180637153372?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a0ed0385c"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Ba...=item2a0ed0385c[/url]

I seem to be experiencing serious delays using the site tonight (11th March, 10.30 - 10.45) . Time-outs trying to load roughly every other page. No other sites seem to be suffering. Is it just me?

If it is for sale, you need to state a price according to forum rules. If it isn't for sale, you should get the mods to move it somewhere else.

I'm a no - gigging on Saturday and no trains between Ipswich and London on Sunday :-(

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='1148771' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:18 PM']Could this SGC be considered japcrap? Or just crap?[/quote] Agh! That would have been a nice bass once.

[quote name='icastle' post='1149089' date='Mar 3 2011, 11:39 PM']+1 Only one thing worse than a bodhran and that's a bodhran with someone smacking it![/quote] + another one. The only thing to play on a bodhran is a flamethrower. I got fired from a Country and Western band once for playing the reggae version of 'Help me make it through the night'. It was well worth it.

Blimey, are they still alive? I haven't seen these guys for a while, but I did see varous line-ups with Sandy Denny, Swarb, Richard Thompson and Jerry Donahue in the '70s. Happy days. Maybe it's time to check them out again. I didn't go to the Newark school of violinmaking, but I had a friend who did (and he smuggled me in to the woodwind tutor Louie's lecture where he made drills out of piano wire, something which has stayed with me ever since). An extraordinary place and you guys are privileged to have studied there, you must really know your stuff.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1148269' date='Mar 3 2011, 12:34 PM'][b]Compression 101[/b] (ish) - or "The pestering has paid off".... Simples![/quote] Awesome. Thank you.

The stacked knobs are only slightly larger than the original - a couple of mm in diameter and they stand a bit prouder. There's a picture of my bass with the pickup fitted in the 'Show us your DR Neons' thread in the General forum. Can't comment on the 2-band, never used one.

[quote name='Paul S' post='1144273' date='Feb 28 2011, 11:12 AM']Daft question time - is it a straight fit? Presumably it is the model with the stacked knobs?[/quote] There are no daft questions ... I had to open out two of the holes with a round file (the ones for the stacked pots). Other than that it was a straight drop-in. If you wire it up as per the instructions, the blend pot works backwards (clockwise cuts the neck pickup and increases the bridge, anticlockwise cuts the bridge and increases the neck). I found that was a little strange at first but I'm used to it now.

[quote name='Paul S' post='1140990' date='Feb 25 2011, 11:21 AM']Just out of curiosity what did you do to upgrade the electrics? Mine is (I think) the B-310, so not the high end of the spectrum.[/quote] I put an Artec 3-band pre-amp into my SB465, mostly because the blend pot on the old setup wasn't working properly. It's a big improvement on the standard electronics, probably the best budget fix you can do without upgrading the pickups and probably worth doing even if you did a pickup change.

When you get it, bring it round and we can A/B it against my EBS Neo 2x12 .

[quote name='icastle' post='1132433' date='Feb 18 2011, 04:44 PM']Yep - I've never heard anyone doing a Police cover either, which is odd as they were a big part of 80s/90s music.[/quote] Bed's too big without you, by Sheila Hylton, with more than a little help from Sly and Robbie. Totally transforms the song.

Vintage strings always looks interesting when I drive past. Unfortunately it also looks closed!

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='1126981' date='Feb 14 2011, 01:12 PM']Im glad you mentioned 'Aint nobody' ive tried to it learn on a 4 and it just aint working!! Hence the search for a decent 5 string for the new function band! A lot of the songs ive been asked to learn go lower than a 4, if i want the job i need the right tools, can anyone recommend good 5's below £1000??? [/quote] Oddly enough it was Aint Nobody which finally convinced me that I needed to go to 5 strings. It really depends on what kind of string spacing you're looking for. I had a G&L2500 tribute, which was a brilliant sounding bass but I didn't like the narrow string spacing. I'm much happier with a wide spacing and the corresponding flat fingerboard: if that's what you like, try to find a Yamaha TRB5P