Kiwi

Gush gush gush...amazing basses...gush spout splurge...love them to bits...spurt splurge gush...just as good as a Smith or Tobias.

Far more versatile than their US rock associations suggest. With replacement Ken Smith style pickups from Aaron Armstrong, they're the perfect gospel bass.

I have two of them. This one is nicer looking than either.

Peavey made some incredible basses in the 80's and 90's - let down by awful pickups. The Jeff Berlin model is a little cracker and like hens teeth now, the Rudy Sarzo model they made is fabulously easy to play too (in fact if they'd ever offered that as a 5 string my gas may cured sooner).

[quote name='JensWest' timestamp='1407935063' post='2525474']
Ok.
I can't confirm, nor disprove that number, but 400 is what I've read on several places and never 600.
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In which case, may I direct you to the following...?

[url="http://musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0018.htm"]http://musicmanbass....tompage0018.htm[/url]

[url="http://forums.ernieball.com/music-man-basses/6433-cutlasss.html"]http://forums.ernieb...3-cutlasss.html[/url]

Would be otherwise very interested in yours but I'm in the process of setting up house - one day maybe...

[quote name='JensWest' timestamp='1407167011' post='2517975']
Yes. I've read that only about 400 were made.
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There were rumoured to be 600 Cutlass I made and 300 Cutlass II.

I'm still looking for one with low action.

My EBS Combo 60 has proven to be well worth its purchase price. Tilt back feature is very handy too.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1407233881' post='2518521']
Yeah, but that was when 6d was really worth something and you could buy a house, a new car, a new bass and full rig and still have change to take the missus out to the cinema with a slap-up meal afterwards. Ah, the good old days.
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Lllllllllllluxury!!

About as growly as a stingray - depends on who is playing it.

Imagine being one of the security at that gig. All night, you'd have to keep your back turned to the stage...

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1407247281' post='2518719']
Why are you asking us? Surely that's a part of what you are paying your luthier for - to advise you on the best way to get the sound, feel and look that you are after.

IMO if your luthier isn't doing this for you, then you have the wrong one.
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Its more than just a luthier, its also what kind of wood they have in stock.

My Spectors are also growly but because they use soft maple. The maple that Jon Shuker uses is too stiff to be growly without a healthy dose of wenge. The maple is almost like graphite. Dood's headless 6 sounds nice and growly though. Martin Petersen makes some amazing wenge and maple necks. Urb's bass has exactly the kind of growl I've been looking for. The Yamaha BBNEII Is also very growly but has a 5 piece maple and mahogany through neck and alder wings. Old Musicman Stingrays are super growly and some of the SR5s from the late 80's and early 90's are very growly too - maple neck and ash body.

Each bass is its own recipe and has its own flavour of growl. The Yamaha is very soft and purry, the Spectors are a little barky and the stingray has an aggressive snarl.

Welcome to the club

This is one of mine - a second Yamaha MSG deluxe in cherry burst. I've commissioned a set of PAF's from Aaron Armstrong that do jazz archtop and tele tones for one of them.

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I'm surprised that listing is still up.

They are a great bass - more refined than a bog standard stingray and possibly even better built . They have fantastic, if somewhat squarish necks. I only sold mine as I didn't get on with the body shape.

Is that the Oteil Burbridge model that Steve Lawson plays?

IME it's sensitivity...which is admittedly ironic for an instrument that requires the proverbial being beaten out of it. Perhaps explains why good 'uns are so rare...?

100w would probably be a better choice if cleans are desired.

This is one of those frustrating questions that I used to know the answer to but have since forgotten. I know it isn't any of the above but the brand was sort of emerging as an alternative to Avella Copollo at the time things started going pear shaped for them. I believe Paul thingy from Jamiroquai was playing one as well for a short time.

[quote name='MB1' timestamp='1403786676' post='2486344']
MB1.
but here's a quickie from Cliff!
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You don't often see the words "Cliff" and "quickie" in the same sentance.

Solid state or valve rectifier?

Plus one to having a 'tribute' built. You've made a reasonable request and Warwick have made a choice.



The Hellborg basses look very similar in profile to the instruments made by Abe Wechter...in fact I've just checked the Hellborg site and he has played a Wechter ("[url="http://www.hellborg.com/index.php/de/equipment/96-the-roman-bass-wechter"]The Roman Bass[/url]") in the past (below).

Basschat - home of waistcoats and low end lunging.

Just found out that some guitarists have replaced Marshall Guvnors with the Fabtone so I guess it does do British

The Danelectro FAB tone is one of the crunchiest OD pedals I've ever come across and it goes particularly well with bass if you ever feel like using it for that too. Not sure if its british sounding though.

Jon Shuker had a Les Paul custom shop in while I was doing my build. It was worth a couple of thousand quid and had some very poor finishing around the neck joint. Shouldn't be happening on an instrument a quarter of the Les Paul's value, let alone something that expensive.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1402317933' post='2472003']
Which Artcores have you been looking at? The current Terrortones guitarist has been using one and although it looks at sounds the part the faux Bigsby vibrato system has been giving him a lot of tuning problems and he's discovered that there is insufficient break angle over the bridge to hold it securely in place when he plays with any kind of aggression.
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I've tried fixed tail Artcores - mainly AS and AF. All my other guitars have whammys on them and I have no need for another guitar with one for funky James Brown skanking. My Yammie MSG is pretty close but I'm looking for something mellower.

The Ibanez George Benson model was seriously nice but outside my price bracket.

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1402323353' post='2472120']
if you can find a mid/late 90's tanglewood chicago
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Thanks for that, I'll give them a look!