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This happened to me a few years ago with the stand on my WAV. I got a free replacement which when arrived was already broken! I was pretty furious by this point, I must admit as I had a lot of gigs playing upright back then. I eventually got in touch with House Music and bought the upgraded (and properly made) stand for at cost price (£60) which was all they could do for me, or send me yet another WAV stand. I asked them to pass on the infomation that the WAV stands were crap and that they should really do something about it. It kinda pissed me off that I really didn't have any option and that a company like NS Design cut corners on such a vital part of the instrument. Still grinds my gears to this day thinking about it again haha! ah well the new stand is good tho, def worth upgrading!

[quote name='monkeynuts' post='1220929' date='May 5 2011, 12:38 PM']Nom Nom Nom (The bass that is not that god awful video! Just to clarify!!!)[/quote] Cheers. That picture really doesn't do the bass justice - it looks 10 times better in the 'flesh'! It just feels solid when I pick it up compared to my Fender. I've never had a custom shop bass for and I'm so appreciative and honoured FGN built and gave me one! It's got a really great snap and punch, lots of low end and warm but with a really nice high end that you can get to 'bite' if you dig in.. which i do! I'm hoping somebody will start to distribute them in the UK, they really deserve and have blown previous 'high end' bass I have used out of the water! Oh and yeahhh we ain't the attack attack from the us. thank f***.

So after a week of it sitting in the Parcelforce depot down the road I finally had my FGN Custom Shop Jazz Bass delivered this morning. My first impressions were this is the nicest instrument I have ever played and the build work is exemplary, I haven't found a dead spot on the neck, each note rings out clearly with a bell like 'piano' tone, really 'fast' neck and it just looks stylish. I think I may be putting my 75 reissue Jazz into retirement as main bass! I had the bass built to my specifications, tho with a Jazz there isn't a whole lot you can do but it's finished in Metallic Charcoal Grey with matching headstock, rosewood board/maple neck, ash body, Hipshot bridge and d-tuner, Seymour Duncan SJB-1 pickups and CTS-pots. It has a really cool feature that I think they used to do on old fenders where they leave a bump in the wood at the neck join on the lower hord for stability, I know Alleva Coppolo do this too... if it makes a big difference or not I dont know. Anyway I thought I wold post a pic they had put up on their twitter before they sent it to me. [url="http://twitpic.com/4o0951"]FGN Twittpic Page[/url]

curse of the bass player haha! ah well. It's a moded america 75 ri with a badass bridge and quarter pounder pickups. The bass sings - best bass I own! If you want to see more of it you can check out some our previous videos [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op1MDTYFs08"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op1MDTYFs08[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0DTfz6hqc&feature=channel"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0DTfz6hqc...feature=channel[/url] [quote name='bubinga5' post='1109468' date='Jan 31 2011, 02:17 PM']i dont listen to alot of this genre of music.. but i genuinely really liked that!! thanks for sharing... just one thing... we dont see enough of your bass! playing is great.. is it a Squire, or a 75 ri?[/quote]

Thanks for every one who has given positive feedback - it's really cool! That song is actually getting day time a-list play on australias biggest commercial radio network right now which is really bizarre! Also loving the BC youtube comments - especially the one 'the bass playing isn't anything special' - made me laugh as all the song needs is a supportive line - I just did what I thought was right, held back and managed to get a little james jamerson vibe on the go. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion tho! [quote name='mep' post='1113204' date='Feb 2 2011, 11:05 PM']Good stuff. Liked a lot about the song. Great bass sound. The Orange rig was the star. Good luck and keep it up.[/quote]

[quote name='crez5150' post='1109549' date='Jan 31 2011, 03:08 PM']I'd pay good money for that show![/quote] haha yeah thosebloody waders - they could;ve at least have got some that were actually dark! ah well not many people seem to have noticed! I can't embed it sorry - for some reason people can't watch it in germany - we're trying to get it sorted out tho.

Would be cool if you could watch my bands new video, there are a few bass licks in there even if you don't like the song If you like it, would be awesome if you could share it, tweet about it or whatever else you can do these days! Thanks for watching (if you do) Watch it on youtube [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4OXzl0WIg8&feature=player_embedded"]here[/url]

I have one as a backup head which has never been used! Great head. Really thick warm tone that cuts through, plus has some really cool features like the overdrive section, room balance etc I'm actually considering selling it as the last tour I did it just sat in the hold of the bus, flightcased for 3 weeks, it is very heavy for what it is but then it does sound awesome and it's very, very loud!! [quote name='*Monster*' post='1076876' date='Jan 3 2011, 10:19 PM']I would like to know how they sound too. Posted nearly the same question a few weeks ago. seems that hardly anyone stocks them over here, they get really good reviews in the USA and a lot of bands that used to use the ampeg svt 5 pro now use that fender or the one up with more watts. I heard that they were basically the same design/amp as one of the old Sunn amps ? (correct me if i'm wrong) Think a few people on here might have played one of them so might have an idea of how it sounds.[/quote]

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