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[quote name='sixshooter' post='335029' date='Nov 23 2008, 05:48 PM']Good move, it sounds like my 944, bought it in my mid life crisis and now will never sell it. I have had it for about 14 years now. I was going to replace with a 968 sometime ago, but decided to keep the 944 when I realised mine was better![/quote] I was looking at a 968CS until I realised i) I couldn't fit much kit in one and ii) the depreciation would be less if I bought bass gear instead! Decent milers are getting harder to find though.

I remember seeing about 3 or 4 auctions of wal basses during the time they were becoming ridiculously priced and there was one bidder who snagged 3 or them for relatively obscene amounts. It looked like they had decided they wanted certain examples at whatever it took to get them.

Good grief, that's an eyeful of bass. It would have been great if he'd managed matching covers but I guess that wasn't going to happen with a solid body wing.

[quote name='SS73' post='334300' date='Nov 22 2008, 11:25 AM']I did speak to ''sixshooter'' about his, but I managed to find another inc the 810 cab.[/quote] Hmmm, which country was it in? Belgium perchance?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='334557' date='Nov 22 2008, 06:51 PM']I'm pretty confident it's come in at the target weight of 45lbs[/quote] Well done, sir!

Lovely job, who did you buy it from? Sixshooter? I have one too and a Genz Benz Shuttle 6 too. Its a bit like having a 68 Dodge Charger for weekends and spending most of the week in a Caterham. Welcome aboard!

...bish bosh bash.

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[quote name='Gwilym' post='330051' date='Nov 16 2008, 12:25 PM']I played this [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/overwaterpercp5.html"]Overwater Perception 5[/url] at the Gallery a few weeks ago and really liked it - a really nice sounding bass, and very comfortable to play apart from the neck and string spacing which was a bit wide for my tastes so I didn't play if for long. Really worth a play though if the neck works for you. I tried it out through a Mark Bass F1 into a Schoeder cab.[/quote] Hehe, how tastes differ? After having Overwater recommended to me by a number of independent sources, I tried the same bass and put it back in the bag. I wasn't that impressed with the pickups. The black headless Sei 4 they have in is a corker though, incredibly low action, lots of bark and a lovely feel. If it had been a 5, I would have snapped it up.

still no graphite neck?

[quote name='Telebass' post='332262' date='Nov 19 2008, 01:21 PM']Headless? Hmmm...If I could have a 'modern' bass, it would be a Status S2 headless. With a single passive P pickup. That, I would step up for.[/quote] It can be done, if you ordered a Status Smart bass.

What about this bloke then?

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[quote name='mike257' post='332030' date='Nov 19 2008, 12:26 AM']Good, innovative design is surely about presenting a solution to a problem. When Leo set about assembling the electric bass, it wasn't to pass the time on a quiet Sunday afternoon. He recognised the problem, and attempted to solve it, and solved it pretty damn well. The reason all the radical innovations since then have failed to revolutionise bass design is because they were solutions looking for a problem, or the problem was too small. Innovation in bass design, when it comes, will be driven by necessity. As much of an achievement as the Stick or the ever-growing ERB might be, and I do believe they are, in most mainstream musical contexts they just aren't in the picture right now.[/quote] Thats the point I was making and was also made by LWTait. The design of the bass as it currently stands is more or less fit for purpose - definitely flawed but more or less OK. There isn't sufficient market demand to drive a change in conventions. For there to be any significant paradigm shift, there needs to be a major driver either by technology or market demand.

jeez nearly 700 votes!

[quote name='Leowasright' post='331681' date='Nov 18 2008, 06:16 PM']It's mainly down to the fact Leo Fender got it pretty much right in 1950/51 and got it almost perfect in 1960 (my biased view). 58 years later the electric bass that Leo Fender designed/invented is pretty much STILL what bass players want. At the time (1950) the instrument was pretty darned revolutionary... Think on....[/quote] I think Leo didn't get it 99% right and I think its a mistake for anyone to idolise Leo Fender. If the bigger picture is taken into consideration he was just one of a succession of designers contributing to a gradual evolution in MUSICAL INSTRUMENT design. He an adapted existing idea (the solid body guitar designed by Les Paul) into a different format. Les Paul did exactly the same thing in taking a hollow body instrument and redesigning it so it was less prone to feedback. Ned Steinberger took the standard conventional layout of a bass and made significant improvements in making it headless (which he also adapted from existing ideas elsewhere). Regardless of marketability, I think headless instruments are the most significant improvement in bass guitar design in the last 40 years. Its an incredibly elegant solution to a number of playability issues. So what if it doesn't look "right"? Lets be clear that this is just a question of taste, not functionality. Tastes, as we all know, change like fashion. The prominence of the Fender bass was thanks mostly to producers and sound engineers in the 60's and 70's preferring those instruments as an industry standard to make eq'ing easier and that is what has led to the legacy in music we have today. Fact is, all these people are all standing on the shoulders of giants. No single person is a genius or made a giant leap, they're all part of a process of adaption and evolution. Its Darwinism.