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When did the standard Ray get the pickup switching...? Website looks way better than before!

[quote]Ya see i'm looking for something (4 or 5 i'm not sure yet) that has a neck and a feel like my tobias (really thin neck and assymetrical, small body too with 24 frets so it feels nice and small in my hands) but it sounds really ballsy like my musicman and obviously looks really nice.[/quote] What you are after is a Fender Stu Hamm Urge II, small body (thinner than p bass lighter than a jazz bass) has a fast assymetrical neck, its lightweight, has a never ending tonal variety...I was after the same as you and it was the Fender Urge II that had it all! Brand new they're about £1100 - £1300, second hand (if you can find one) theyre about £700 - 900 Oh and all the warwicks I played did have the same fat neck (corvettes, streamer stage 1 and a thumb thru neck 4) Hope that helps, Will

[quote]You could try a Yamaha Bb, mine's ace.[/quote] I had forgotten about yamahas completely, cheers 610! I do like the looks of the OLP's and I'm dying for a real stingray! I also love the Rockbass corvette again cos I'm dying for the real Warwick Corvette! Thanks for all the help so far!

[quote]After a bit of a setup my OLP now plays and sounds just fine. In fact if your interested drop me a PM![/quote] What OLP have you got ste...?

Evening guys n gals I'm curretnly looking for a back up bass as im putting my Fender in to have a big of work done on it and I'm going to be in need of a back up bass. I've got a budget of about £350 max so I've been looking at Rockbass, OLP's, Squiers and few other brands. I'm in need of some advice when it comes to OLP and Rockbass; I haven't come across either in shops so I was wondering if they're actually any good seeing as theyre both so cheap, or do you get what you pay for? Any other recommendations on basses around this price range are welcome! Thanks in advance Will

Problem is now solved, I was putting it in a gigbag today and i noticed the neck was bowed slightly so I adjusted the truss rod and set it up and the intonations alright now! Out of curiosity though what is it that causes necks to bow?

Howdy folks, I'm having some problems with the intonation on my bass, its been set up professionally twice and its gone out yet again! This shouldn't happen on a bass of this quality, does anyone have any ideas on anything I can do to prevent this? I read somewhere about the Buzz Feiten Shelf nut but would like to keep this as a last resort if nothing else can be done to stop the intonation going out as it requires a modification to the bass that I'd rather not do unless its desperate. Also whilst I remember can people please recommend me some very decent luthiers please? I've been through the list of luthiers but would really appreciate some word of mouth recommendations to have some fairly extensive mods carried out to my bass. I've decided I want to get LEDs in the neck so I'm going to go to sims for that but I'd also like to get a new bridge and new tuners with hipshot fitted which will apparently require some mods because none of the hardware is standard Fender hardware! Sorry for the waffling and the ranting and thanks in advance if anyone can help Will

Hey Smash, I own an Urge II and I have to say I didn't have this problem. I recently had it set up as my intonation was out but I've had it nearly two years and its the only problem I've ever experienced with it. How long you had yours and what colour you got? I've never met anyone with another Urge II, everyone on the Stu Hamm forum seems to prefer the Kubicki or the Urge I and not many fans of the Urge II Cheers, Will

[quote]Other than that most rate the ABM above the MAG.[/quote] IMO the Mag heads are better than the ABM range but the ABM cabs are of better quality to the MAG cabs...I just bought a Mag600H and Mag 410T Deep, what an amp seriously! I don't know much about the 210 and 115 Mag cabs but if theyre anything like the 410 then you won't be disappointed. As pointed out by someone earlier they do require some compression as they are a bit boomy but its not absolutely vital. The Mag600 head is pretty cheap over at Soundslive, I got mine from Thomann.de for about the same price although I think its gone up on thomann now due to exchange rates or summat. Will

[quote name='Paul_C' post='23105' date='Jun 25 2007, 04:15 PM']I thought my total of basses previously owned had peaked at 55 (including the 10 I have right now), but I have remembered another 3 today, so that's 58 I haven't got pics for many of them, but I thought a list might amuse .. Aria P bass copy (my first bass, I was given it by a friend) Maison (Bass Collection's cheap range) Squier Jazz (one of the first, wish I'd kept it) Gibson Thunderbird (s/h knackered, horrible, I took it back and bought the Maison instead) Yamaha SBV/SBs (16) The Collection, now down to just two Yamaha SB-2s (2) still got these, they need shifting EB Musicman StingRays (4) Rickenbacker 4003s (4) EB Musicman Bongos (4) bought another one (a 4HH/P) so the total stands at 5 now Pedulla Rapture J2 Epiphone EBO Dean acoustic Washburn AB10 acoustic Status Stealth 4 Status Stealth 6 Fender Precision '78 Fender Highway One Precision Fender Std. Jazz Lakland Skyline Jerry Scheff NS CR4MG upright Daisy Rock Butterfly Aria Pro II Modulus Sonic Hammer Modulus Jazz Fender MB5 Westone Thunder 1A Westone Thunder II Yamaha Attitude I Fender Jaguar Fender Urge I Levinson Jazz Ibanez Sr305 Squier Bronco Kubicki Factor There's probably more that I've forgotten about, but that's the total for now [/quote] Have you still got the Urge I or the Kubicki Factor Paul...?