Jean-Luc Pickguard

Blummin' 'eck! Eric Pickles has turned into a bass.

My NS has a preamp, however I have made piezo pickups (using cheapo piezo elements from maplin for under a quid) for guitar, banjo & ukulele that have worked very well with a behringer ADI-21 pedal as a preamp. The ADI used to sweeten the tone of the Dean Pace bass I used to own.

I also find that a bit of reverb with the room set to the size of a DB body helps as well - I explained this to the engineer when we were recording by asking for a reverb room the size of a cupboard. Now when I get an NS bass tone that meets someones approval, it's described as 'nice and cupboardy' by the band members.

[quote name='mikeswals' timestamp='1318930232' post='1407756'] There used to be a better color version of this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeH2ls71CWE[/media] [/quote] They all look like they forgot to go to the bog between having a few pints and going onstage & are trying to make it to the end of the song without peeing themselves.

They look good unless the colour clashes with the bass.

Once I walked into a packed pub with a a gig bag (multiband charity gig that had already being going for some hours) & someone asked "is that a six string guitar or a four string guitar?" I told him it was a five string & he thought I was taking the p1ss.

wilco? Surely that should be Wilko - he's the one with the Norm T-Shirt

Bryan Adams tribute eh? I don't think I would be able stand the excitement.

Probably the original body or at least a correct one - fender used to glue together all the ugliest offcuts to make musicmasters, I've seen alder musicmaster bodies where the alder on one pieces range from the usual pale colour to much darker pieces with a massive variation of grain pattern. Not sure if this is the result of a stain or other process - perhaps the outside plank in each batch was treated with something - I don't know. This is probably why early musicmasters always had a solid colour - of course this one was so fugly when stripped, the veneer was added where a nice coat of paint would have looked much better.

The mustang being available in just vintage white or fiesta red is a pretty poor choice. They should reintroduce 60s & 70s versions of the mustang in more colours, particularly a daphne blue 66, a 70s sunburst one & a natural ash 70s one with maple fb.

I'd have sworn it was a warrior. Even though its not the kind of bass I'd use it would look nice hanging on the wall

[quote name='Slipperydick' timestamp='1318090820' post='1398040'] Having said that, a lot of 70s copies were better than present day copies, so might not be all that bad, might be good as a project, [/quote] That's not my recollection of 70s copies.

That t-bird 5 string looks amazing. I wish I had some money

The retailer has offered a refund hasn't he? If that is the case, I can't imagine how chasing up people further along the chain can achieve anything better.

*cough* Warrior *cough*

'tis a warrior innit

sime17 - you're not Skankdelvar's Welsh cousin by any chance are you?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1318001151' post='1397166'] I don't know and I hope I never need to find out. [/quote] Look away now: C7 F7 G F# F7 C7 C7 F7 C7 G F# F7 C7

Shops will often put a bass which has been on display in any box that fits, so I wouldn't worry about the box saying cort on it. Also I doubt that anyone's making fake tanglewoods - it would be a lot more lucrative to put a Martin decal on the headstock. I have a Tanglewood TRB CE "Rosewood Reserve" acoustic bass. Mine has the full "Tanglewood" text in pearl inlay on the headstock, but I've also seen a later version with the big 'T' logo instead and a few other minor differences, so I doubt that's anything to worry about either. Tanglewood do change their ranges - the rosewood reserve link on their website is currently broken, so maybe your one is an older one which has been discontinued. Tanglewood acoustic basses are very nice instruments and seem to be priced well below other brands of similar quality I've compared mine to (although I did get mine for £230), so I don't think you've got a knock-off, but I'm sure you can get further info on the tanglewood forum: http://tanglewoodguitars.com/community/

I wouldn't use a scourer. Fender sell cleaning kits made by a company that does car cleaning products. Dunno whether t-cut would do the same job, but probably worth looking at the stuff Fender is selling.

Heres the fugly Ibanez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6dETcyEzc

I play an NS CR5M. I doubt I'd ever want to add markings to the ebony board on my unlined fretless, but if I did I wouldn't get lines, I'd go for a cascading dot pattern like on the NS - not sure whether that would be more or less of a job for a luthier than lines though.

A Kent armstrong cool rails dual blade humbucker makes my cute little '71 daphne blue musicmaster bass sound massive and as it has a plain black enclosed cover with no poles showing it looks totally stock. I've also tried a hotrails - in my daughter's musicmaster, but that's all growl & not enough woof for me - even with dead flatwounds.

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