Mabrothrax

Sexbag.

What a bass! Entwhistle would be proud. I know what my next project is

Compressors are such a personal and subjective thing. I use an Exar bass comp for hideous 80s squashing. Had the Ashdown, which I found to be little more than useless to be honest... and it's supposed to be the same as the old Trace Elliot dual band thingy...

Anyway go here: http://www.ovnilab.com/

Hmm.

Bryan Ferry,
Chris Squire,
David Gilmour,
Stewart Copeland

If keys were needed... Nick Rhodes

Damn.

Please tell me you're gonna put flats on that beauty?

I've gone all eighties and am loving some of these - Cherish by Madonna, Higher Love by Steve Winwood, Kershaw's The Riddle etc...

Having done the whole bass/pop music degree myself recently I can say that it's best to avoid soloing or using loopers and stuff. A complex part, an involved technique and a an innate understanding of playing for the song will get you through.

Assuming you're playing to examiners who know your playing you really need to show that you've worked on something new or outside your comfort zone.

Personally, anything prog fits. Something by Chris Squire/Yes?

Finally got the control cavity routed on my Sabre/Precision and have got the gorgeous preamp from Tommorichards set up... the bass still looks fugly without its scratch plate and the spare neck I'm using is shocking, but fudge me it sounds killer and is a blast to play!

I know exactly what it's like trying to finance a forum and getting the financial support when things go bang!

Shame there're no hoodies in the store yet or a 'technical' T-shirt with a MM Sabre on it... regardless I'll sling something your way asap.

Damn good work ripping out the malware and crap.

Oh my. Style sheet gone awry. Some goblins in the CSS or PHP somenwere. Nasty looking. Check none of your tables are missing or renamed in the sql database.

Damn that's nice. Always fancied a fanned fret bass... being a lefty I always knew it's have to be a commission build. Maybe I'll sell a kidney, or harvest someone else's organs...

Hi guys 'n' gals,

I've seen a couple on the evil bay fro the states but was wondering if anyone knows where in the UK I can find a kit or complete assembly for a stack knob v/t v/t set up?

Or perhaps someone talented here can put one together for me?

I could probably source all the parts individually online but I'm feeling a tad lazy

Arise like the vile creation you are!

Yeah, so life gets in the way and all that jazz...

A while back I got the frankly superb Sabre clone preamp from Mr Tommorichards which I had him further od with a push/pull active/passive bypass, and he made a very nice sabre style control plate as well.

Whilst I do need to route a little bit of extra space in the control cavity and get the new scratchplate sorted, I couldn't resist wiring it all up and pluging it in, guts hanging out and all just to check it was all working smoothly.

Oh my. Even in a semi assembled, partially completed state the bass sounds beastly! The controls I have give me an absurd number of sound combinations which wil take some time to truly get the best of:

So that's P & MM pickups with
- selector switch for P/P+MM/MM
- series/single coil/parallel switch
- sabre 'bright' switch (active)
- active bass & treble controls
- volume with push/pull active/passive bypass.

Happy happy joy joy!

the last peace of the puzzle is the neck. I'm scouring ebay daily, and the for sale ads here, but nothing yet is coming up.

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I guess putting the reader on the pots would also work. This is the reading I'd expect on the slab pickups, somewhere between 10.5 & 11.5. This particular pick is one of the highest I've seen. These are '66 pickups, but at $800, I'll pass.....and wait!
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$800?! Ouch!

Didn't realise Slabs had a different pickup resistance. Will you be comfortable with a modern 'vintage' pickup though, or are you gonna hold out for the real thing?

I had one, and really, really wanted to like it but could not get past the lack of waveform selection, nor the overall controls. Not that they were hard to use, really simply (once on the PC) infact, but for some reason it just didn't feel right to me at all.

It is a high quality bit of kit, and does what it does very well, but it wasn't for me.

I still long for an all in one synth pedal that does the job.

Lovely stuff so far. There's something about the slab p-bass that makes me all excited.

I've got the 'bass culture' book of Entwhistle's collection and the slab bass in there is just gorgeous, made me seriously consider trying to build a slab bass of some sort, perhaps with a 51 body from warmoth.

+1 on the Love Tone Meatball

I'd love to get a Boss Slow Gear. I do have the Behringer clone, which works fine, but there's something about having a rare £200+ pedal that no one uses...

Oh, and there was a weird Boss synth pedal once, the Wave Generator IIRC - it was a twin pedal and used a thirteen pin roland style cable. Would love to have a go with that one.

Go on, you know you want it!

Some progress - an alternative bridge, a refretted neck, musing on a headstock...

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I decided to get a hot (over 14k) MM pup to mix things up a bit from warman...

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working on a Sabre pickguard template...

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Indulging in some Simply Red - the live from Montreaux dvd that came with the deluxe reissue of Stars.

Shaun Ward is a phenomenal player - he seems to have done nothing else of note however.

Great album, great bass. The classic albums 'making of' is superb as well.

Sure, I get the reasoning behind conventional pickups, just fancied trying something different with out having to shell out too much.

Besides Delano, does any one else make P bass pickups with the large 'musicman' 3/8" pole pieces?

Can't find any but the Delanos, which are little out of my price range for the time being.

[b]£75[/b] Price drop bump!

Gold! Always believe in your soul.. or plexiglass.

Go for it.

That is a thing of beauty.

Surely there's a silly stagename generator somewhere?

A guitarist I worked with used a stage name and a pseudonym when in manager mode. Both pretty daft names, certainly doubt they made any contribution of any sort.

Nobody's mentioned Flea yet, or for that matter, whatever the symbol formerly known as 'the artist formerly known as' who was once Prince.