Graham

Not that it helps you much, but isn't that what Tim Commofford used to play?

I was in GAK in Brighton last weekend and from memory they had: TC Electric Orange Ampeg Fender Mark Bass Might have had Gallien Kruger too, there was something else in the 3rd room I can't quite remember and it may well have been GK

Rick's Fine '52's fine 52 Precision needs to be on this list

Shockwave's green Pedula, though I'm not sure if he has it anymore

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1376639758' post='2177080'] I will have to give it a try then, as I was put off by a pretty damn poor appearance on Jools (IMHO). [/quote] I don't watch Jools that often, but I do get the impression their sound techs don't know how to mix heavy music for broadcast - rarely sounds good

I agree, whilst not really an in your face bass tone, just a really good example of a rock bass sound - deep but not muddy, punchy without being thin and nice and smooth, good playing too.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1376567814' post='2176122'] I love passive basses, Precisions in particular. They are just perfect by design in my opinion... I do irrationally like the idea of a John East P-Retro preamp though! [/quote] I'm exactly the same I don't like "odd" shapes, yet the Gibson RD keeps calling my name

If you did it as a Paypal purchase then I can't see why it wouldn't just be normal purchase. You might have to pay the seller a little more to cover the Paypal fees in that instance. That all said, I don't have a credit card so I'm probably not the best person to ask, worth checking with your bank if you've got your eye on something.

You can Pay on credit card here if you do it by Paypal, most people are happy to accept Paypal if you do it as a gift payment or cover the fees.

Cheees for that Dingus, strikes me as slightly odd as I always thought ash was more expensive than alder? I'm probably wrong though. I did forget to say, the chap running the bass section in GAK on Saturday was an absolute gent, I didn't get his name, but he was one of the most accomodating sales reps I've come across, despite it being a busy Saturday afternoon (and Brighton was rammed because of the weather, so probably a fair few walk in custom too) he bent over backwards to accomodate me. I've always thought of GAK as a shop that sells brown boxes that happen to contain guitars and amps, but would be more than happy to buy from them now.

Not a lefty are you? As I understand there's an Alleva-Copollo going cheap at the moment........

Jesus, I wouldn't expect to see finish like that on a no-name Chinese Precision copy let-alone a $5k+ instrument that was supposeldy for a trade show! The callousness of Jimmy Coppollo seems staggering, not only was he willing to sell it to this guy, but then would try and dump it on to a distributor or another customer when all the issues had been pointed out (if he wasn't already aware) is just awful. I don't get his attitude - he knocked $700 (what? £400?) off the value, so 12%, to have a very, very expensive instrument look like it was finished by a student, the fret-board looks awful. And, this discount is only for the cosmetic issues, doesn't cover cover the fact that it's essentially unplayable. Now, the odds of me ever owning an Alleva-Coppollo were pretty low anyway, and I've only read the first post in this thread so far, but unless things resolve well for the buyer, Jimmy Coppollo can join John Hall on my "never buy from" list.

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1376201105' post='2170684'] The laklands have a slightly different circuit than the fenders. I think the main difference is a different rating on the tone pot. [/quote] Now that's interesting, thanks for all the replies, at the moment I can't get the white/maple board one I played out of my head, particularly if I swapped the pickup and tone circuit over for a Lindy Fralin and equivalent tone control.... I didn't realise the Duck Dunn was an ash body, I always asaumed it was alder as it had a rosewood board and a solid finish

I've just got back from GAK where I tried out a couple of 2012 model Fender Precisions one with a rosewood board and one with a maple. They were both very good, I particularly liked the weight (couldn't get over how light they were) and the neck - found it very comfortable. I wasn't blown away by the tone though, there was an awful lot of low end and I had to have the tone on max to get a sound I really liked, it was a sound I liked, but I didn't feel it was as good as my Fralin equiped Lakland Duck Dunn which whilst still unmistakably a P, sounds a lot tighter than the Fenders I played today So it got me wondering about the 8 models as they changed the pups for the 2012 model, did they change anything else? Does anyone have experience of both and can let me know how the pickups in both compare and do the '08 models have the same neck profiles and weight? Cheers

Looks like a Fodera to me, don't know enough about the range to say which one, but it looks like their buttons on it and could be a butterfly on the headstock. Edit: Not so sure now, headstock looks wrong.

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1376058106' post='2169150'] I had a shuttle 9.0 and thought it a bit thin sounding, is the streamliner really such a different animal? Has anyone in/around Sheffield got one I could try / compare to my LMII please? [/quote] Thin is certainly not the word I'd use to describe a Streamliner - buckets of bottom end (first time I've had an amp where I normally have the bass control turned down) but still punchy and defined. From what I've seen of the Shuttle it's a lot more hi-fi sounding and to my ears (admittedly via YouTube) a bit thin and sterile.

I tried both of these amongstsome others when I was in the market for a new amp a few years ago, I ended up buying the Fafner, came close to getting the DB750 though. At the time I needed the clearer tone of the EBS, but would still choose it over an Aguilar again. The DB750 was a very good amp, but a little too much of a one-trick pony - very clean, tubey sound (reminscent of a Mesa 400+) that doesn't really break up. It's a very good sound, but it doesn't quite suit me, whereas with the EBS filters, the Fafner gives you a lot of tone-shaping potential so sounds great in a lot of different situations.

Once had a rattle on a Hartke cab I used to have, took it to the studio to record my band's album but found when playing the low B loudly there was a rattle. Spent half a day tightening every screw we could find and eventually stripping the cab and re-tightening the screws on each driver and the tweeter to no avail; in the end had to drive into London to hire an Ampeg 4x10, which sadly didn't sound quite as good. Later found out when I took it down to a guitar shop in Southampton that there was a bloody great staple on the tweeter magnet which was ratteling when the cab was a pushed hard, somehow missed it in the studio. Once we got it working I part-exed it for an EBS. So I guess what I'm saying is, look for staples, screws etc on the driver magnets.

Doesn't help that it costs a fortune to send anything Royal Mail, and now on top of the postage and packaging costs you've got to pay Ebay a percentage on top. I'm selling a pedal there at the moment and have put the carriage on at £8.50 as that's what it cost me to ship a microphone a couple of months ago, so should be the genuine cost of shipping it (not including packaging, which in fairness I'll nick from work and the petrol/parking costs of going to the post office), but later in the year Ebay will make margin on my costs? seems a bit wrong to me.

similarly, I can't help but think it mental a couple of grands worth of Dingwal only comes with a gigbag, for that money surley they could throw in a hardcase?

That's a great story BassTractor, love it. For me there's 3 that jump to mind, firstly in my old metal band Echovirus we played to a packed out stage at the Download Festival in 2009, okay so it was a tent they put up in the campsite/village area on the Thursday before the festival proper started with a couple of other unsigned bands, so we were only competing with the fairground and the bars for peoples attention but it was awesome and the tent was so full people couldn't get in, got a lot of very complimentary feedback too which was great. Second is the album we did with that band, so what if it cost us thousands and I've got boxes of un-sold copies sat at my parents house, the songs are good, it's a pro-produced album that was available through Amazon, Itunes and Spotify; it was supposed to be available through HMV too but the label never sorted that out. A quick look on Amazon shows you can still get it there too. Never saw any money from the label, but some great stories. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003B2B5T4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1375621174&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY190 Thirdly I played with a local covers act, who I now do a fair bit of work for when they played at a nearby racecourse at one of their music and race days; it was supporting a lad off the X-Factor - Jamie 'Afro' Archer and we blew him off the stage, couple of thousand people there, was a great night. Download festival with Echovirus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amqkjl6dxE& Lingfield Racecourse with Naked Bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90aVX1oPb4s&

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1375100468' post='2156638'] That'll be somewhat like this one then: [/quote] very similar It would be mine, but the incompetent fools at the Euromillions keep picking the wrong numbers.

One of my favourite basslines to play that, not sure on an effect, off the top of my head I'd have said it was clean but you may well be right. Very fun to play, I never get the timing bang on with the record though in the intro though - never quite where I think it should be.