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That looks good! Pity it's not fretless...

Fretted or fretless?

Is this one of the same guitarists who didn't think you were ready to gig originally?

I'd dump him on his sorry ass and make sure that every other musician/band in the area knows exactly what a d!ck he is.

"Musicians" like that shouldn't be allowed out of their bedrooms IMO.

I think you'll have to just try it and see.

I have a Hughes & Kettner guitar amp with a built-in red box DI. When I was playing guitar in my last band, live it was plenty good enough to use and in most instances far more convenient than mic'ing up. In the studio we would use both mics and the DI and then use the sound that was most appropriate for the track.

[url="http://www.simscustom.com/html/pricing_ordering.htm"]Around £300[/url] from Sims Custom.

There's a prisitine Jack Bruce Cream Reunion Warwick on Ebay at the moment (which is the only Warwick I've ever played and liked). These were over £4000 new and right now it's not even selling at £1500...

Draw your own conclusions.

I have Pedulla and Overwater rounds with black silks on the ends.

Any chance of taking and posting a good clear photo of the wiring?

Might be able to spot if you've done something obviously wrong.

The ACG Filter or a pre-amp that will allow tone settings separately on each pickup are the only pre-amps I'll consider in basses nowadays. Everything else can be done at the amp better.

I tried one of those at Music Live last year. A little clunky but not at all bad for the price, and AFAIK it's the only production singlecut available. I still want to try the CT-esque hooked double cut, but haven't seen one anywhere (Spear had sold all their stock at Music Live by the time I made it to their stand).

If you've got a Pro version Line 6 obviously assume you have a rack full of other tasty toys and don't need extra inputs.

BTW is the Pro 3 out yet?

I find that's not so much the overall length of the neck is how it relates to the body and playing position that can cause problems. My Overwater is comfortable to play and I don't really notice the extra length (in fact the first time I realised that it was longer than 34" was when I bought my first set of long scale strings for it and they didn't fit!). On the other hand I can't get on with Fender P or J basses because of the way they hang on the strap when I wear them the first fret is too far away...

Just been listening to the Fleetfoxes album.

Next up a CD by a local band "None So Blind"

Denmark Street is fine if all you want to do is look (as in look only) at some instruments and be ignored by the 'sales' staff.

If you actually want to try and maybe buy a decent bass go to [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/"]The Gallery[/url] in Camden.
Ill be there sometime during that week to pick up my new Sei bass which has just been finished...

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20170"]Someone here's already bought one[/url]

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='258775' date='Aug 9 2008, 12:20 PM']Nope - it's the idea of a Fender fretless electro/acoustic bit that interests me. And I woudn't want a blue one![/quote]

Does it have to have the F word on the headstock?

If not I believe both John Shuker and Rob Allen make P-shaped thin-line basses with piezos and magnetic pickups.

Is [url="http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/ubox.cgi?T=syosai&sline=1047&print=1&keys2=shibuya%40ishibashi%2Eco%2Ejp&tid=list3"]this[/url] close enough?

Sounds as though someone else had one [url="http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_archive.html"]here[/url] although the pictures have vanished...

The "Made In Japan" neck plate means that it won't be one of the Fetish Guitar models as they're all Italian. Hopefully Bassassin will be along soon with some expert knowledge rather than my speculation.

Interesting...

Shape-wise it's closest to the [url="http://www.voxshowroom.com/us/guitar/cougar.html"]Cougar[/url] [url="http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/crucianelli/335/196669voxcougar.html"]Bass[/url]

More info at [url="http://www.fetishguitars.com/index/vox.html"]Fetish Guitars[/url] and [url="http://www.voxshowroom.com/"]The Vox Showroom[/url] although neither are exhaustive in their bass coverage.

I'm just under 5'6" and have fairly small hands and for 10 years my main bass with an Overwater with a 36" scale length. No problems playing that at all (and before that I played a Burns Sonic Bass with a 29.5" scale length)

If I went shopping for clothes and came back with a bass instead I'd have probably saved money...

It makes the string vibrate using magnetic induction in conjunction with the pickups. Not so easy to use on the bass because the unit is designed to rest on the two strings either side of the string it's driving on a guitar. The wider string spacing means you have to hold it in place. I'm sure at one point there was a bass version, but can't find any details now...

Custom bass builders in the UK - by no means exhaustive...

[url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/index.php"]ACG[/url]

[url="http://www.johnbirchguitars.com/index2.html"]John Birch[/url]

[url="http://www.freewebs.com/ebasses/"]E Basses[/url]

[url="http://www.jimfleetingguitars.com/"]Jim Fleeting[/url]

[url="http://www.gbguitars.co.uk/"]GB[/url]

[url="http://www.gusguitars.com/"]Gus[/url]

[url="http://JayDee%20bass"]Jaydee[/url]

[url="http://www.overwaterbasses.com/"]Overwater[/url]

[url="http://www.rimcustombasses.co.uk/"]RIM[/url]

[url="http://www.freewebs.com/rpbasses/"]RP Basses[/url]

[url="http://www.rimcustombasses.co.uk/"]Sei[/url]

[url="http://www.shukerguitars.co.uk/index.htm"]Shuker[/url]

[url="http://www.status-graphite.com/"]Status[/url]

Not all of them will do 7-strings but many of them will and I'm sure that other BassChatters will chime in with the names of any luthiers I've missed out.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='258294' date='Aug 8 2008, 04:28 PM']That looks amazing, but how hard is it to get something that good? I understand customising Myspace is all about CSS, so I wondered if a style sheet editor like Cascade would help?[/quote]

Thanks, when I first decided that a MySpace site might be a good idea, I went for looking for some that didn't make my eyes bleed...

In the end I Googled for customisation tutorials and found one that pretty much wiped out all the MySpace formatting and used that as a starting point.

I don't have any CSS knowledge, the last time I did any HTML it was all tables and Javascript rollovers were the latest thing...

As far as I can tell the code I used works by taking all the MySpace style sheets and asigning now values to the styles lower on the page. The it's just a case of going into the code and fiddling with it until you have something you like the look of. Changing the colours, typefaces and font sizes is relatively easy. There are certain things that it doesn't seem possible to change like the basic 2-column layout or re-skin the music player, but with a bit of thought you can make that work for you (I must remember to alter the width of the YouTube clip to match the player).

Be prepared for the page to completely broken while you are tinkering. I saved my custom code into a text editing app each time I had something I liked the look of before fiddling any further, so I could easily go back to something that worked.

That's a wonderful piece of music. Is Manring using an Ebow at the end?