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Basswood is similar in sound to alder. There is plenty of difference in tone from different woods.

you could just get yourself a good P bass and route it out for a bridge pickup and add a front jazz pickup. A new scratch plate will cover up the old P bass route. Make sure your position the front pickup the correct distance from the bridge like a proper jazz bass.

I like his tone. Lovely grind to it.

Hi to you Bob, welcome to BC. Another local joins (I'm in Deal)

I have a hofner contempary ltd edition union jack bass. It's very nice

buy some rattle cans from Northwest guitars and do it your self. You never know

I was pleased with the master classes I saw. I have no interest in megadeath but David Ellefson was superb, he seemed a really nice guy and was interesting. I'll defo go next year because the masterclasses were more interesting than the gear. The gear is interesting, of course, but it's lovely to watch pro players saying all the things that I already thought and know. It proves either, I'm not mad or we're all barking!!!

A good fx loop is great for modulation fx such as chorus, delay, flanger. But not so good for fuzz fx. However, the FX loop on my ampeg PF500 is rubbish. I have, for the first time since 1996, started to use a chorus and octave pedal (for Sledgehammer, owner of a lonely heart and a muse song) and it sounded muddy. So I just stuck them in the signal path and they don't seem to rob my normal sound (much). A small difference but not really worth worrying about. When Victory amps bring put their bass amp, I have been assured that the FX loop will be fine. ( I play in 2 bands with Martin Kidd, the ex Cornford and now Victory designer)

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1488970842' post='3253319'] Police squad, how did you get on with Demolition Man? I've never tried it but it sounds a bitch to get the singing and bass line timing spot on. [/quote] I never tried it. It was on the list of stuff to learn but we haven't learned any new stuff (well, new, you know what I mean) Spirits in the material world was strange too. Sting doesn't come in at the same point for each line of words. I still count myself in for the very first line. Hole in my life was challenging too!!

I've been doing it since my first gig in 1981. Occasionally I do hit a wall with something that I can't sing and play, for instance, Driven to tears by the Police. It took me 7 years to be able to do it. I'm also depping with a band at the moment and I've only just about crammed their set in my tiny brain. Singing BVs was challenging to say the least but I reckon a couple more gigs and it'll be ok. You have to practice and if you can't sing AND play something, try slowing it down, a lot even and build up your speed. As someone said earlier in the thread, a bass player with BVs is an asset. A bass player that is a singer / frontman will always be in demand

I bought a fretless neck from EYparts in hong kong. It was about 90 dollars I think and it's actually, suprisingly, very good. I use it on my 'Sting' Red Fretless P bass that I built

I found a camera SDHC card on the floor at the show. I was going to hand it in but forgot. I've had a look on it and it's full of pictures of a family holiday in what looks like Italy. Would it perhaps belong to anybody on here?

I had one just like it. GZ34 valve rectifier. Paid 100 quid for mine and sold it in 1991 for £400 to a collector somewhere. Great find

Really easy trip on the high speed into St Pancras, then picadilly line to Barons court, 10 mins later in the show. Saw a load of basses that I'm not really interested in but I'm liking the Enfield stuff by Martin Simms. Saw David Ellefson, I'm not into Megadeath but he was very good, then we watched Ida Nielson funk it up (she was amazing too), bumped into Glen Matlock (literally). We also watched a Latvian duo where he was playing like those percussive acoustic players, very intersteing too Trying to get a cup of coffee was ridiculous. I've never seen such useless staff. Thoroughly enjoyed myself and didn't buy anything. Really easy journey home as the trains just fell into our laps (timewise)

I checked the picadilly line from St Pancras to Barons court and it was ok yesterday. Get off at Barons Court and olympia is a 10 minute walk

got my discounted tickets, thanks to BC. Now to try and book the train. (I've even had my haircut!!!) Luckily, I'm GAS free atm but might buy an Octave pedal

I'm going on saturday, I'll pop over and say hi to Ped. BTW I'll be trying stuff out using a plectrum!! Hopefully some of us will work out who we are!!

I have an old usa custom balledere. Its fantastic

crikey, where do you start with this. Initially, The Police were my favourite band and it was easy to hear the bass guitar and copy it. Then The Jam, same reason. Then Duran Duran. Same reason. I was 12 when I took up the bass in 1981 and there was plenty of good music about. My brothers listened to rock/ glam/ Pink Floyd, Yes and Rush. Then I became a massive fan of Phil Lynott. I saw Lizzy in '83 at Reading then Grand Slam the following year. I thought Phil was great and I loved his live sound. The Roland bass through his Dynachord gear. I was very aware of Nick Beggs playing and also Pino. I started buying albums because Pino was on them. Nick Heywood and Dave Gilmour both recorded with Pino. and yes then there was Steve Harris. My eldest brother support Maiden when they played some shows in Italy, to break Bruce in. So I bought some Maiden to see who they were. Over the years there are so many players that I discovered and loved. Larry Graham, Bootsy, Bernard Edwards, Lemmy, Andy Fraser, the list is almost endless

yep, well done Carl, I think we've all been touched by this terrible disease. I lost my dad and my brother and more recently a band mate. Good luck with the training

[quote name='three' timestamp='1487594229' post='3240973'] Great that you've gigged it! The sustain is a bit of a marvel (along with the clarity and punch). When I gigged mine, it spent around 80% of the time in passive. That lacewood body is a thing of beauty too - I don't think that I've seen one previously. Fantastic instruments that don't appear for sale too often (these earlier models anyway). i'm sure that all SIIs are fantastic but I prefer the first few years of production. [/quote] Yeah I was expecting the sustain as I also gig a 1983 Steinberger XL-2. I used to gig a Status 4000 in the early 90s but went back to wood. Still a great bass and maybe I'll commission a new one from Rob at some point. (with wrap around LEDs)

Well it's done it's first gig under my custodialship !! (is that a word) It sounded great. Endless sustain and (for me) it actually works better when passive. Very good, very nice.

I have been using a PF500 for just over 5 years now. First one went pop, but no trouble with the replacement. Its probably done 300 gigs since I bought it