barry44

[attachment=27158:DSC00090.JPG] what about black/black/maple? yum

Can anyone provide a sound clip of the stealth pup?

i have just satisfied some P bass gas, thanks Jezzaboy. and i have never been happier!!

Hi, just swapped my SRX700 plus dough for jezzaboy's black/black/maple P bass and very nice it is too. jez is an absolute gent and is a pleasure to do business with. now if these kids would just get to bed and let me play with my precious... cheers again jez, i hope you enjoy the SRX Barry

hi, after wetting my whistle with a MIM 50's reissue yesterday in guitarguitar i have managed to become stricken with some minor GAS for a P bass. i have heard good things re the classic vibe and the colour certainly works for me too. does anyone know if any store in glasgow has this guitar in stock, merchant city music have them on the website but nowt in store. oh and does anyone want to buy any of the two basses listed below to allow me to feed my GAS??? cheers, Barry

klaus fluoride of the dead kennedys

eric avery - janes addiction

i just played one at lunchtime and i'm currently thinking how i can get it without the wife knowing. it was delicious

My Faves, in no particular order: Eric Avery Colin Greenwood Andy Rourke Carlos D Klaus Fluoride Nikolai Fraiture all of these guys play basslines that make the song imo.

absolutely gorgeous and a good review to match. i second the call for soundclips!!!

i know exactly what you are going through, i feel the exact same. my band recently split up, this was the band i started playing bass for. For a couple of years we wrote and played basic punkish stuff with basslines that were no too adventurous but were fun to play. myself the drummer and the guitarist have started a new band and we have been joined by an ex bandmate of my mates from another band that they play in. so far we have had a couple of jams and this guy has got me feeling embarassed at my level of playing. he is really good and is equally as good upon bass and guitar, he took a shot of my guitar as he had not played a 5 string before and i did not want to take it back, i wanted to watch him play it all night!!! when i got it back i felt really staid and dull in my playing based upon all the stuff he was playing. it was so disheartening that i thought about chucking it over the following couple of days but what i have decided to do instead is to start again at the beginning and try to relearn the way i play. for example, we were jamming an idea that we had and as usual i was plugging away all 8ths and 16ths as normal because i was tryin gto concentrate on the changes etc. the next time we go in, i am going to listen to them play and try to add my bass to the mix rather than plugging away over and through it. this will be me getting outside of my comfort zone and i am looking forward to doing it. to keep me going i have recently started using tab to learn how my fave songs are played, i never really played along with music before now apart from a few covers at the start of the band. this is helping me learn little bits here and there, i.e. learning the hammer on pluck off at the start of three days by janes addiction. i would also urge you to take lessons as i found lessons to be very helpful, unfortunately family sistuations got in the way of my lessons but i would like to go back to them one day. the gist of this rambling email is to say that i feel for you and i hope that you keep at it, as when a song comes together that you have had a part in, there really is no better feeling, is there? i apologise for my shocking spelling!!

i prefer my 5 now and if i pick up the 4s i have they feel strange now. mind you i use the B as a thumbrest most of the time!!

Russ, Check out the upgraded apple in ear phones, they have 2no drivers per plug and sound amazing. they come in a shade under £50 and should be available in itunes. cheers, barry

Hi guys, i was on the SD site and came across these pups, which i assume are quite new: [b]Blackouts for Bass [/b] application Active pickups and electronics voiced for the aggressive bass tones of metal, classic metal, punk and heavy rock. description Blackouts for Bass represents the active bass soapbar pickup specifically voiced for aggressive music. Instead of the radical EQ boosting and cutting required to make flat, sterile pickups come alive, Blackouts for Bass delivers the goods with less tweaking. Blackouts for Bass have more of what you want: cleaner highs, deeper lows, and greater dynamic range than traditional active bass pickups. This high energy, expansive sound is capable of covering all your other gigs with ease. complete setup The full-length dual blades accommodate maximum string spacings up to 2.70" (68.5mm) for the four-string model and up to 3.10" (78.5mm) for the five-string model. basses The full-length dual blades accommodate maximum string spacings up to 2.70" (68.5mm) for the four-string model and up to 3.10" (78.5mm) for the five-string model available mods Available for four- or five-string bass. Same size as our Phase II soapbars (direct replacement for EMG© 35 and 40). Also available is a Blackouts for bass Tone Circuit , which offers two focused bands of EQ dialed-in to the frequencies that metal players need most. these sound quite interesting and i am going to check the dimensions against my K5, has nayone had any experience of these? cheers, barry

My ATK400, which is for sale: [attachment=21149:DSCN2194.JPG] [attachment=21150:DSCN2195.JPG] My K5 with an ACG EQ02 pre amp. this one is a definite keeper, although a pick up change may be in order... [attachment=21151:10052007027.jpg] i also have an SRX700, which is also for sale and a GSR200 which was my first bass and is untouchable!!! the reason i am selling the other two is that the K5 is pretty much all i want to play. when i swapped the K% for my model t, i thought i would have it for a couple of weeks max as my first try of a five string had not went so well, but when i played the K5 it was an epiphany, it felt great. i didn't really get on with the sound in a live situatio which may have been due to a lot of factors but it prompted me to buy the ACG pre amp and since then i have never looked back. it is a great bass, the only thing is the big inlay, if that were a plain fretboard.... if any of you want to try a five, i would sugest searching out one of these as they are class.