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[quote name='RhysP' post='1106211' date='Jan 28 2011, 02:54 PM']No mention of Zon? I'm stunned! [/quote] Did you read the bit at the top which said 'Work In Progress'? Include Zon if you like.

Steinberger necks are resin based and a completely different design to the monocoque Status/Modulus/GUS construction. BTW, graphite neck wiki entry for anyone who is interested: [url="http://wiki.basschat.co.uk/info:tech:use_of_composites_graphite_necks_in_bass_guitar_design"]http://wiki.basschat.co.uk/info:tech:use_o...s_guitar_design[/url]

That'll be one of the Series 1 Stealth models using an MDF core A little heavy compared to the Series II design which used epoxy foam in the core.

Unless the recipe of the phenolic fingerboard resin was wrong and it didn't give the necks enough stiffness. Rob Greens approach to neck construction been trialled and tested over 20 years to help tune the necks and make them sound better. Graphite necks need VERY selective dampening to sound good.

[quote name='dub_junkie' post='1104663' date='Jan 27 2011, 02:40 AM']Spector NSCR5FM (i owned this for a while and it was a gorgeous 5 string. Crazykiwi now has this and he's improved it by all accounts. CK got it via john kemo who I did a deal with for the bongo 4HH below as I was getting pangs for one of those again [/quote] Guilty as charged! I played it when Homerplaysbass brought it to a bass bash and even then it made me think 'ooh'. I then missed out on it when Dubster sold it but I got my hands on it eventually. It sounds fantastic and after the modifications is extremely versatile too...absolutely without any question a keeper and a once-in-a-lifetime instrument. It replaced my Smiths and its gone up against other instruments (Overwaters, Status, Wals, Fenders, a Fodera MG and all the other instruments I own) and NOTHING I've played beats it for the sweet, warm, growly and tight low end tone....not even the other Czech Spector 5 I have is as warm. Its the PERFECT sounding house/funk/RnB bass.

[quote name='Vibrating G String' post='1104652' date='Jan 27 2011, 02:13 AM']Or whatever non committal description is being used today.[/quote] "a cheeky little maple with a softly spoken, coquettish charm that flirts with the ear before one realises ones head has been firmly grasped and is being dragged, screaming, into the savage, quaking, thunderous depths of B string territory..."

Be aware that it's not a straight forward process. You might have a few failures before hitting the right balance between rigidity and sound. It took Status YEARS.

[quote name='GeeCee' post='1103764' date='Jan 26 2011, 03:54 PM']Their customer service is or was pretty bad too.[/quote] Yeah I remember something similar at the time I ordered the jazz neck. It took three months to arrive after three separate claims they'd loaded it onto a container to the UK with other stuff. The UK distributor was really apologetic and didn't know what on earth they were playing at. I got a free t-shirt by way of recognition I'd been dicked around which was kind of him. Moses eventually claimed they'd been moving facilities at the time but that didn't really explain why it took three months. [quote name='GeeCee' post='1103764' date='Jan 26 2011, 03:54 PM']As CK has indicated, their standard jazz necks do shift with changes in ambient temperature, which to me rather defeats the point of a graphite neck in the first place. Oh and the one I had was fabricated with the truss rod access at the body end so you had to take the neck off every time you needed to adjust the truss rod as well.[/quote] I encountered the same truss rod access issue too because it was hidden under a fingerboard extension...you'd imagine their design QC would have picked that up before the neck went into production...

Series is having the coils in a line so they share a path. Parallel is where the coils each have their own path. Series has higher resistance so sounds a little warmer and less clean. Parallel is a little brighter and punchier sounding but lacks weight. There is also a volume difference. Series is a louder setting because of changes in voltage that happen. Depending on whether you're running a passive or active bass, or whether there's a buffer preamp between the pickups and the amp in an active bass, other impedance related changes to the sound can happen too. This means you may not get the same results using the bass with different amps or same amp but different pedals. All of the above can be compensated for with a decent onboard eq, but it does involve more knob twiddling on your part. I don't bother with switching into series because of the volume changes. I just switch between parallel and single coil settings.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1103092' date='Jan 26 2011, 02:09 AM']Well, I quite like Moses necks, but back in the day they had a reputation for being poor quality and a lot of US customers were less than impressed. By all accounts, I think they've gotten better these days.[/quote] Moses just designed their necks differently to other manufacturers. I didn't like the one I had on my custom jaydee jazz bass because it lacked rigidity and moved around with temperature extremes. But moses never designed those necks to be like other graphite necks, they were designed to more like wood. Their steinberger necks are pretty damn good - very rigid, warm and not brittle sounding in the slightest.

Heheh, I know what it is and you're right about it being a long time.

Talk to Simon Farmer at GUS Guitars, a very helpful chap but I'd be surprised if you got much change out of 600 quid. He will also prefer to lay the layers on top of a wooden (typically cedar) form rather than make a mold. Its a cheaper approach for one offs. He can do a mold for you if you want a monocoque (hollow) neck but its extremely expensive for one neck. [url="http://www.gusguitars.com/news.php?news_id=29"]http://www.gusguitars.com/news.php?news_id=29[/url]

[quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='1012009' date='Nov 4 2010, 01:23 PM']dude you have some serious gear!!!!!!!![/quote] Toys at the moment, still looking for another band. [quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='1012009' date='Nov 4 2010, 01:23 PM']love it all[/quote] Cheers [quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='1012009' date='Nov 4 2010, 01:23 PM']i recently got a euro 4 and now ihave a usa 5 !!!!!! spector body shape fits my belly sooooo welll!!!! and the sound is awesome, does the u retro make that much difference?[/quote] The bass control has more of an effect than the stock Spector and the variable mid control helps target the growly mid-frequencies for boost. It's a sweet sounding pre too, not too hi-fi but still sounds clean. It'll be fitted to the Pentabuzz soon because I could use the extra control. I don't like the EMG pickups though in the spectors, they're very aggressive sounding to my ears.

[quote name='funkypenguin' post='1101377' date='Jan 24 2011, 09:03 PM']Am i right in thinking you've changed out the pickups and preamp in your shuker 6? any particular reason?[/quote] I've changed the pickups, because the stainless steel frets and maple board are extremely bright to the point of sounding brittle. I hoped that a set of wizards that were the same as fitted to my spectors would tone the sizzle down compared to the Delanos that were fitted originally but unfortunately this hasn't worked. I didn't anticipate how clean the ceramic magnets were in the custom pickups fitted to the spector. The Noll 3 band parametric eq does a pretty good job in taming the super highs but the degree of intervention still bugs me. I may end up just getting the fingerboard replaced with something darker sounding like rosewood or bubinga and use brass based frets rather than stainless as used on Warwicks.

thats fabulous, I'd give my left nipple to be there.

Dave's a member here, I believe.

Two Annie Lennox albums 'Bare' and 'Songs of Mass Destruction' fit the criteria for me, plus they make great playalong tunes for fretless. I've been doing a lot of fretless playing recently. Diva is another cracker but less melancholy.

[quote name='setekh' post='1093315' date='Jan 17 2011, 11:42 PM']Well, then, my mistake. Apparently, I was under the impression that you were interested in discussing the matter. Evidently, however, this was just an announcement. I'm sorry I'm not patting you in the back, but I disagree with the philosophy behind this move.[/quote] Thanks for your input but if you read the original post, I just asked if anyone was going to be adversely affected. You have 194 posts as of your response above so it looks like you won't be affected at all.

[quote name='setekh' post='1092489' date='Jan 17 2011, 01:50 PM']Do you seriously feel that way?[/quote] Sadly, it's not a personally-held conviction that I'm prepared to defend until the bitter end. [quote name='setekh' post='1092489' date='Jan 17 2011, 01:50 PM']Much like skankdelvar, I find this restriction to be more potentially harmful than otherwise. I don't think you'll reap the potential benefits you expect to, but the scenario will, at best, be mixed.[/quote] Skank has already stated comments were based on a misperception. In any case, I can't find a setting behind the scenes that allows access to be restricted to particular forums based on post count or membership rank, just membership status, and I've been advised that creating a setting would be "complicated" by Prof. Phatmonkey. I feel like quoting a line from Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", but regrettably I'm not that well read. Instead I'll just change the description on the Ebay links forum so its clearer what the purpose of the forum is.

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Might cost you a bit unless you have friendly contacts in the electro plating industry.

No worries. I can't help but wonder if the process might have been simpler if we'd just went ahead implemented it, though.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1092006' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:39 AM']Is the volume of one-off's really worth worrying about?[/quote] Not in the short term but in the long term it artificially inflates forum membership numbers and makes management of all accounts more time consuming. [quote name='skankdelvar' post='1092006' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:39 AM']In fact, a block is counter-productive, IMHO. Here's why: * Blocks off people who [i]might[/i] turn into useful contributors. What's wrong with people who initially join to sell? Of course their first post is going to be "Here's my X for sale". Lots of us here did just that and stuck around.[/quote] There's nothing wrong with people joining initially to sell. That isn't the proposal here. The proposal is to limit access to a forum that was created for the purpose of discussing Ebay links, not advertising them. I guess that hasn't really been made explicitly clear but it was the understanding behind the initial creation of the forum (which was in response to popular requests IIRC) [quote name='skankdelvar' post='1092006' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:39 AM']* Discriminates against long-term 'readers not posters'[/quote] The forum can still be viewed by long term lurkers. [quote name='skankdelvar' post='1092006' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:39 AM']* Links will turn up in 'for sale' anyhow[/quote] Which is probably the best place for them, to be honest. The membership has already expressed some fairly strong views about For Sale threads that just list a link and no other information. [quote name='skankdelvar' post='1092006' date='Jan 17 2011, 12:39 AM']* If we say there's a min of 50 posts, what sort of post should they be - and where? If OT doesn't count, then they're going to clog up the 'useful' forums with all sorts of guff to reach their threshold. So, instead of one offending post, you've got 50. That's the same as allowing 50 one-off's. [/quote] Not sure that the kind of people who would go to that kind trouble would necessarily be welcome by the time they achieve their objective.