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[quote name='Welshbassist' post='233174' date='Jul 5 2008, 03:11 PM']Hey mate, if I were you I'd have a look round the items at the for sale section within your budget - there's always something good running at a really good price! Maybe something like this? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22561"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22561[/url][/quote] You can't really go wrong with trace elliot in my opinion. played a few and my mate's band have one, i've been nothing but impressed. good name for quality, hard as a bad of nails too.

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='230315' date='Jul 1 2008, 09:37 AM']Has anyone actually had any knobs made yet?[/quote] In that department i've always found stock equipment to do fine...

OK, i'm thinking about a practise set-up after having to practise silently for the last 9 months. I want to.. - play with tone to figure it out. So i want it to sound relatively nice, and be configurable/play-aboutable - practise silently as far as neighbours are concerned, and also along to cd/computer etc. - have a line out/output suitable for recording on my computer. Also be able to go round my mate's house to record there, and sound nice. - use effects (my own, but more are always welcome) I WAS THINKING.... - of getting a small mixer (like this [url="http://www.behringer.com/502/index.cfm?lang=ENG"]http://www.behringer.com/502/index.cfm?lang=ENG[/url] ), - and a pre-amp (like this [url="http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TubePRE"]http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TubePRE[/url] - i use this link becuase the pre-sonus site doesn't work at work, flash huh..). it should sound good (assuming the pre-amp is any good), can play around finding the best setting etc, take the pre-amp round my mates, and of course whack effects before/after the pre-amp. and the mixer will have headphone amplification. [u]I basically want to know if you guys have any better ideas.[/u] Of course money is an issue. but temptation for nice kit is also an issue. I've been out of touch with whats about for a while. and i can't tell you how sick i am of playing 'acoustically'. i should have moved on this earlier. thanks for any help.

I've been playing with the idea of replacing the pickup in my stingray for a while. I get a really weak G string sound, and tbh sounds a lttle.. i dunno dead. it's doubtless the desire to fiddle added in as well. I've heard great things about the Nordstrand and thats what i'd go for. Also i remember john east doing a 2 band based on a very early pre-amp, but with a sweepable mid added in, so you'd have bass and treble on one stacked, and gain and sweep for the mid on another. Since you're building it all from scratch a series/parallel switch has gotta be on there. it'd be rude not to.. these 3 are all things i'm thinking of doing to my stock ray. [quote name='obbm' post='214646' date='Jun 7 2008, 09:51 PM']EBMM will only sell on an exchange basis. They will not do an outright sale. The closest that you will get to an early Stingray sound is a Nordstand pick-up and a John East MM style 2-band pre-amp, in fact there is really nothing in it.[/quote] By nothing, could you please elaborate? Cheers

i've never bought anything from bass bass gear, but i have thought about it and still do a lot when i fancy changing my pickup. i've exchanged some emails with them and they always seemed helpful, and their shipping over here doesn't seem extortionate either. Chris

[quote name='umph' post='110498' date='Dec 29 2007, 11:35 AM']morley wah and big muff? sounds like you'll like it from your name[/quote] I tried buying a big muff off the bay, and by mistake ended up with the double muff fuzz. i have since tried the big muff (owned by a guitar playing friend) and i actually preferred the double muff fuzz, having thought the big muff would blow it out the water. jus my 2 pence worth saying you may get [i]ideas[/i] from here, but they're no substitute to trying stuff out yourself. also i do recommend the double muff fuzz if you're after a distortion