Lfalex v1.1

[quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1325339663' post='1482278'] You get out, what you put in. [/quote] Awesome! Can't wait for it to start raining chocolate!

He didn't really need to sign it Henry Rollins. Everyone would obviosly [sic] have known it was him. Because he's SHOUTING AGAIN!!!

3 Warwicks 1 Vigier 1 Status (ordered without front markers) All without front markers. Never missed them. I don't like lined fretless much either.

[quote name='voxpop' timestamp='1327342574' post='1509658'] Funky [/quote] As in "American for dirty/smelly", right?!

Can you spend more if it's composite? But in real terms, I'd baulk at anything much over £2.5K, and it would have to be bloody exceptionally marvellous to make me want to shun some of my collection in its favour.

Having played some single pick-up basses, I'm not even too sure that you even need two, let alone all the switching and stuff.. We all know the diverse range of sounds available from "just" a P bass... Jamerson, Harris, Burnel, Simonon, Olivieri, to name but a few. I like the idea behind the Enfield, but they're mighty expensive, and I'd have to try one first...

[quote name='observer' timestamp='1327317667' post='1509099'] Thanks for that. Find it very usefuIiill. I'm already user of DR orange neon. Love the sound, but coating wears to quick and looks terrible. Think next I'll try LoRiders or Sunbeams [/quote] I've Sunbeams on my MIA Jazz. Sound and feel lovely. Not black or orange, though!

I'd have claimed the bass was knackered (take the battery out) and laid a monster guilt-trip on the singer by way of revenge. One unethical turn deserves another...

Bought a Warwick from Romford for a good price, but when I asked to try a s/h Burns on another visit, was told they wouldn't make it playable (it wasn't!) Unless I was buying.... So Romford is a bit mixed. Tried many over the years in Southend. Bought an MIA Jazz in there. Always pretty ok, but they know me by sight now. Can't comment on the online thing, though...

[quote name='dave.c' timestamp='1326446322' post='1497221'] I've got two Vigier Passions and the necks are the best I've ever played, with aWwwn incredibly solid feel to them which I like, I now find a lot of necks feel a bit 'bendy' or 'lively', don't know how to describe it really! [/quote] I own a Passion V series III. Amazing necks are a recurring feature on all the Vigiers I've played (okay, I've not played any series I instruments!) They really are very good; Stable, fast, well-proportioned, well finished, comfortable and expensive ( new) I sold my Ibanez Srx 700 as I didn't like the electrics package. Nice necks, though.

I find Elixirs ok. I tend to mechanically kill the strings before the fluff and dandruff phase begins. My sweat kills non-coated strings quickly, but some last better than others. Coated strings don't sound at all good on phenolic boards IME.Conversely, the set on my Warwick Infinity sound great, a combination I'll stick with

I've always pulled my castored stack. You can get over small obstacles more easily. Friends should be advised that the castors are to save your back, not for them to fulfil their go-karting fantasies...

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1322661447' post='1454078'] This is probably your least destructive option (apart from not messing up... erm, I mean Er modifying your bass at all). Keep the original double ball end retainer, replace the 2nd fret with a nut and remove the first couple of frets and hollow out a bit to look like a bendwell then you won't need to chop the truss rod. But I think you'd be better off trading the bass for a proper short scale jobby, [/quote] I like the idea about hollowing out under where the first 2 frets would've been. I'd replace the second fret with a higher one to use as a zero fret,.and put the new nut just beyond that. I like zero frets. Give a really nice low action. My Status, Vigier and Hohner all have them..

I love these. Except for the lack of pan pot...

Try listening to some; Snot One minute silence Skunk Anansie Rage Against the machine Aggressive music played aggressively, on G&L, Musicman, Warwick/Spector and Fender.. And maybe a bit of Overdrive.

He's used Status and Yamaha too, over the years.

"If I Reach for the tele with my right hand, she won't notice what I'm doing with my left. Either way, not tonight, Josephine.."

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1325612681' post='1485212'] Love this forum [/quote] Conversely, I am finding Pianowaffle.com amazingly edifying right now.

Screw the castors to the side of the cab. Tip it back onto its original feet onstage. Lower centre of gravity when moving it, too.

NS design NXT 5 EUB. Tuned BEADG.

My LX6 is not reassuringly heavy. It is a brute. BUT it has SD soapbars as standard (because MEC didn't make anything big enough in '97) and a 7 piece all-Wenge neck (8 if the fretboard counts) A brass JAN 1, the lot. In a 6-string shoot-out, only a Smith beat it. It laughed at the Tobias. The tone is superb. And the strap is W-I-D-E

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1324918920' post='1478466'] headless. it's not a huge change, and statii don't look right with the head on [/quote] Precisely. Not to mention that the improvement in balance and reduction in momentum of the neck (due to not having the mass of a headstock dangling on one end of it) Might be a little bit odd to begin with, but you soon realise the benefits.

Warwick seem not to care overly about the weight of their instruments. Only one of the 3 I have is even remotely sensible weight-wise. The Streamer LX6 is Maple-bodied, but as they scale the bodies up to match the necks, it's a beast at >14lbs! The Infinity SN4 is Chambered Zebrano. Feels like they filled the chambers with depleted Uranium. Superb tone, though. Wenge, (and Zebrano) Bubinga and Cocobolo are all very dense timbers. But they all look good, feel good, and contribute to a decent tone (body wood / tone arguments notwithstanding)

When I lived alone, the Trace sat in a corner, and was plugged-in, ready to be used. With a wife and 2 kids, the head's under a chest of drawers and the cabs are in the garage. I use a Korg PX4d for practice, through a good set of closed-back Sennheiser headphones.