TomWIC

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1354195161' post='1883366'] I like this one, a lot. Really want to get myself a Decimator some time! [/quote] They are brilliant pedals, the amount of noise my setup generated is no more and with no loss of tone whatsoever. Best investment I've made in a long time.

I don't make mistakes, I add in "jazz notes"

This is the bass I'll be building soon, the body will be coming off an Encore Blaster of the same colour, the rest of the bits I'll be sourcing from here if possible. Haven't decided on the pickups I'll be using yet.

New board and the removal of some pedals and the addition of another calls for a new photo I think Bass -> Boss TU3 -> Barber TonePress -> Dunlop CryBaby 105Q -> Ibanez PD7 -> Boss ODB3 -> Sansamp PBDDI -> Line6 Echo Park -> ISP Decimator -> Amp. Now using a Pedaltrain 1 board.

Bought an ISP Decimator from Harry, great communication and friendly chap - pedal even turned up next day. Buy with confidence

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1352846228' post='1868471'] Plastic is really nowhere near as weak as internet forums would have you believe. [/quote] This. I used to use Behringer's TU300 tuner pedal, and it was so awful (it struggled to tune a low E) I used to give it quite a bit of abuse and stomped on it pretty hard with steel toe caps. Frequently. It still works. As well as it did new out of the box anyway. As for their other pedals I've tried, never noticed any big problems with them and their studio gear has always been pretty good. Just stay away from the tuners.

[quote][font="Arial"][size="4"]I know nothing about the Balwin range[/size][/font][/quote] Fixed [quote][font="Arial"][size="4"]I know nothing about any guitar or bass, made anywhere at any point in[size="4"] time, ever[/size][/size][/font][/quote] The nut on that is atrocious. I feel sorry for the poor person who buys that thinking they're getting a playable guitar.

I'm using Dunlop Stainless Steels on both of my basses at the moment, one dropped to CGCF tuning and the other BF#BE and they've been brilliant, still sounding as good as they did when I first put them on and I'd definitely recommend them. I need to test out DR Droptune strings and see how they are, but until then I'll only use Dunlops.

There's plenty of good condition, reasonably priced hardcases on here at the moment! I rarely buy from anywhere else now!

[quote name='Dr Chocolate' timestamp='1352717190' post='1866369'] Some of my favourite bands don't have a bass player Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode to name a couple but it still doesn't stop me jamming along to them and enjoying their music. [/quote] As much as there's rarely live bass on NIN albums, they do have a live bassist, bar some songs where the synth bass is too prevailant, i.e. Head Like A Hole and March Of The Pigs. Although, I regularly jam out Head Like A Hole and I can't imagine why they still relegate the bassist to rhythm guitar for that song. It sounds so good played on an actual bass with a bit of SVT overdrive. Same can be said for *some* pop music out there, there may be rarely bass guitar on records, but I'd imagine a lot of them still use a live bassist - The Veronicas for example, their second album was 95% synth bass, but all the tracks are played live with an actual bass player.