Jean-Luc Pickguard

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='410924' date='Feb 16 2009, 12:02 PM']I must say i think you can get more for £500.[/quote] Correct. I paid £135 for mine on eBay.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='410701' date='Feb 16 2009, 08:04 AM'].... daisy rock .....[/quote] My Daisy Rock elite is the most Rock n Roll bass I have, slightly longer scale at 32". It sounds very agressive, but the looks aren't to everyone's taste. The Short scale heartbreaker bass 30" my daughter has sounds as good as my mustang and has a very playable neck, (not as slim as the mustang though) but its, er Heart shaped.

Not sure how my mustang would sound with a low B. There's only two songs I do where I would use a Low D. Three of my basses have D tuners on them and my NS upright is a fiver. However if I'm using a bass without a low B, I just play the Ds an octave above. No ones noticed so far. Horses for courses I say. I'm happy sticking with EADG as I use the G string more than I use the B on my 5ers.

The pickups on my '71 musicmaster were very weak & wooly. I put in a Kent Armstrong enclosed dual cool blade. I still prefer my CIJ mustang for the slim neck though. My original Korean reissue danelectro longhorn is cool, but still not as nice to play as the Mustang.

If you must upgrade, you'll want a badass 3 as it'll fit and is a string-thru design

I play my CR5M through my usual rig - LMII & 1212L which works well.

Those look really crap. At screwfix you can get ten sets of straplocks for a quid, but they're sold as rubber shower hose washers, don't require a screwdriver to fit & look much better than those steel ones or red Grolschies. Also they don't cause the strap buttons to come unscrewed sending your bass southbound like schallers.

I bought my CR5-M just before the WAV4 was announced, so I didn't have to make the choice. Also as I was after a 5 string bass the Wav wouldn't have been appropriate for me anyway. The WAV4 is a great instrument and if I had been after a four string I would have probably bought one to save a few quid. Although they look similar there are a few differences apart from the country of manufacture. The Wav is made of beech whereas the CR range is maple. I prefer the oiled finish and the flamed facing of the CR. Th The WAVs have a nice range of colours, but they have a thicker glossy finish which I don't like so much on the back of the neck, but is a matter of preference. The magnetic pickups in the CR5M help to beef up the sound. I wasn't sure how much use they'd get, but I tend to mix the magnetic and piezo pickups. Also the eq is very flexible. If The wav4 has no preamp - its passive, so I don't know how a long cable run would affect the sound of the piezo. I'd probably use a preamp with it. Something like the Behringer ADI21 (which I've used with the Dean Pace I used to own) would probably sound great with it. The only thing I really didn't like about the WAV is the stand. The one I tried was on a tripod that looked much like one from Jessops. The one that comes with the CR range was designed specifically for the job and seems a bit more stable to me.

[quote name='~tl' post='405668' date='Feb 10 2009, 07:30 PM']...sometimes with block inlays[/quote] Not on a precision

[quote name='Gothicontheloose' post='403651' date='Feb 8 2009, 07:03 PM']... So that excludes Fender [/quote] [quote name='Gothicontheloose' post='403651' date='Feb 8 2009, 07:03 PM']... I don't know much about 'em![/quote]

[quote name='ray_6ao7' post='399698' date='Feb 4 2009, 09:05 AM']thanks for all the advice! d'addario have also been in touch so gonna have a word with the guitarists and see what they wanna do.[/quote] No contest - & you might be able to get some nice planet waves stuff like cables & SOS tuners by going with d'addario. Personally I'd hold out for thomastik to make an offer though

I wouldn't use 'em even if they were free.

mine is: fingers -> mustang with TI 324 flats + tone rolled off -> behringer cheapo limiter pedal all controls at 12 oclock -> littlemark II everything flat -> schroeder 1212L with tweeter off

[quote name='hubrad' post='395690' date='Jan 30 2009, 07:59 PM']Hmm. I'm stuck with IE6 as I use Win2000 Prof - nice and stable but lost support from MS. They're pulling support from WinXP in a while.. anyone think that'll give them time to iron out all the Vista incompatibilities? Plucking up courage to switch OS to Linux or just get my hand deep in my pocket and buy a Mac![/quote] Firefox 3 runs on Win2000 - it installs without replacing IE6 if you just want to try it without committing to it. [url="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html"]http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/syste...quirements.html[/url] Vista will never be fixed. When Windows7 comes out I expect M$ will try to erase the memory that Vista ever existed like they did with WinME.

[quote name='Jono Bolton' post='395392' date='Jan 30 2009, 01:46 PM']...and you can pick them up for about £400 new too - bargain![/quote] Shame they don't import the california blue ones though I think mine looks alright in vintage white with with aged pearl pickguard though. I didn't like the original tort pg much. [attachment=19417:mikeys_mustang.JPG]

[quote name='tauzero' post='394620' date='Jan 29 2009, 02:52 PM']Only now it will be three, one for IE7, one for IE8, and one for proper browsers.[/quote] Assuming MSIE6 will finally die. Looking at the stats for some of the sites I have developed, I see that people are still using that old heap of sh*te.

My CIJ one is my no 1 gigging bass. It sounds deeper & punchier than my precisons (all using TI flats - the 'tang has a 32" set), but I really love it for the super slim neck and excellent playability.

How about using an [url="http://www.o5b.co.uk/ashbory-bass/"]Ashbory[/url]? I play mine in a blues band for acoustic sessions.

Mine doesn't do that.

I own that one. A copy of the book that is

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I have a few keepers: [list] [*]my '81 Precision I bought new from Rockbottom for £260 with my wages for working all summer in Bejams. I recently refitted the eighties EMG pick up I fitted andtook out a few years ago, but this time running it off 18v - It sounds massive now. [*]My Black Ashbory - no idea why it should be any better than my blue one, but I prefer it as it just seems nicer to play. [*]NS-Design CR5-M. lovely lovely electric upright. I bought it new when the exchange rate was better and it was just blummin' expensive. If I hadn't bought then I certainly wouldn't be able to afford one now as they have since gone up to f'kin expensive. [*]My white CIJ mustang might also be a keeper as its been my favourite gigging bass since I bought it (& I have bought one or two others since) [/list]

I'm always surprised that the instruments hanging up in a lot of small shops are often not set up at all and would put non-savvy purchasers off, so it must be a unique selling point to have new & secondhand instruments that play. Boxed encores from Argos won't be able to compete with that.

If you need a web site for the shop, give me a shout. I've just started in that business. I might even be able to do a special "basschatters rate" Good luck.

Nice. I alway wonders gibson/epi don't just put the front strap button at the neck heel like I did with my alpine-white epi tbird, then people won't keep going on about neck dive.