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Maybe. Mine seems to be OK and I'm not using particularly expensive strings - D'Addarios and DR Sunbeams mostly, with a .125 B . Comparatively rare this one, most of the 5's I've seen have been J - J , with the odd P - J. Looks quite nice.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1499011643' post='3328560'] Alas another requirement for me would be either a precision/soapbar/humbucker pickup somewhere near the traditional P position. Twin J pickups cannot give me the sound(s) I am looking for. [/quote] You should try a bbne2. That preamp is so good, you can get pretty much any sound you want out of it.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1498987249' post='3328327'] Sterling 5 would do it. Has a narrow neck but 18mm spacing at the bridge. [/quote] I thought all EBMM 5ers were 17.5 mm. All the ones I've tried have just been that little bit too cramped for me. A BBNE2 would fit the requirements.

Had a gig last night in what I thought was going to be someone's front room - "just come round and play at my birthday party". I rock up with the bass, but no amp or preamps, to find a huge marquee with stage, 4KW, PA, sound engineer, 6 Bose monitors, lighting! I have a Shadow bridge pick up which normally sounds OK through the Phil Jones Bass, but is terribly middly on it's own. Sure enough, it sounded terrible. Sound engineer clipped a little AKG condenser mike onto the bridge, and for a cheap mic it sounded absolutely brilliant. I think it was an AKG C516: http://www.akg.com/pro/p/c516ml . I think I might have to acquire one of these and experiment further. Anyone else tried anything like this or have any other suggestions?

Usher's Island - Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Mike McGoldrick and John Doyle. I don't think it gets any better than this.

Think of the smooth hound as a cable. Having two isn't going to help you with this. LS-2 is the way to go.

Can't see anything recent, even using google as a search engine. Latest is from 2014, not exactly recent. Something is broke.

It looks like a genuine 310 to me. I've seen the made in Japan sticker and the extra screws in the control plate before, on earlier models.. The only thing slightly odd is the serial number. It's not a 100 series. All 3 of my bass collections have Gotoh on the bridges. Too expensive though. 200 quid absolute tops for a 310 fretless.

By the way, thanks to the OP for the heads up. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would never have known about it, so thank you for posting. I've just upgraded the firmware on my one, everything went smoothly with no issues.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1497295666' post='3317159'] We live and learn ! I didnt know there was a 2nd Egg from the Kent area. Yup, my Egg was Oxford based [/quote] They weren't really anything to do with Canterbury, although Dave Stewart joined Hatfield and the North some years later. Think they were all London boys.

[quote name='stu_g' timestamp='1497222480' post='3316681'] is that the cricket ground?i work out of the hospital just behind it. [/quote] Yes it is the cricket ground. I grew up in Canterbury and cycled past it every day on the way to school. Happy days.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' timestamp='1496445050' post='3311576'] What seagull do you have? [/quote] See post #12. This one. http://www.seagullguitars.com/en/products/52-s6-grand-sunburst-gt-qit

I recognise some of these 'new' effects from the B1on .

[quote name='MarshallBTB' timestamp='1496572012' post='3312327'] Thanks, I'll see what reply I get from the retailer today and look into contacting the distributer then. [/quote] You shouldn't need to contact the distributor - your contract is with the retailer, they should do this on your behalf.

Major Minors bootcamp articles on this very forum have a lot of great theory information.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' timestamp='1496247093' post='3309916'] [url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/acoustic_guitars_detail.asp?stock=170125306619001"]http://www.guitargui...170125306619001[/url] This has caught my eye... [/quote] That has the same electronics as my Seagull, which is also a Godin brand. The amplified sound will be excellent.

Of those, the MXR was the best choice for me because of the monitoring capability, plus you have conventional controls for attack, release, threshold, compression and make-up gain. If you wanted to spend a bit more the Keeley Pro is probably as close as you can get to a studio rack compressor in a pedal, but is a bit larger in terms of footprint. If you wanted a cheap way to experiment, the compressor models in the Zoom MS-60B and B1On are very good, there are clones of the EBS, DBX166 and a couple of others to play about with.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1495908407' post='3307518'] Jools/Squeeze were about as punk as Boyzone, but that's what I mean. [/quote] On the other hand, he did play on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34zX-JsOrI I'm struggling with the concept that adding a bit of prog would make the show look a bit less cliched :-)

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1495845724' post='3307085'] Aside from perhaps a sort of stuck-in-1979 sniffy contempt for the genre, I genuinely have no idea. [/quote] Jools is from the punk era. Sniffy contempt was the absolute minimum reaction to prog rock about that time. Interesting bass that Sheryl Crow was playing last night, some kind of short-scale Guild. Anybody know what it was?

I have a Seagull Grand Sunburst GT Q1T. It's a small bodied Parlour guitar with a 14 fret to body neck and built in pickup. It beat similar sized and priced takamine guild and tanglewoods hand down and held its own with a larrivee 3 times the price. Sound and build quality are excellent. When we plugged it into a Roland ac60 the amplified sound was also excellent and really brought out the bass range. We even had someone trying an electric in the next room come in and complain about the volume! Based on my experience I would definitely recommend Seagull. If you dont want to spend more than £200 look at the Vintage V300, they are unbelievable guitars in that price bracket.

Had my BB800 since 1980, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who can beat that!