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[quote name='paul_5' post='1227684' date='May 11 2011, 03:55 PM']Hi TNIT, loads of guitarist that I know swear by GFS stuff. ...[/quote] They look sweet actually, but I don't have the time/patience for international delivery really. I hate having stuff sitting in a depot for two weeks while they finish their biscuits and get around to billing you.

I think you would get £900 - £1000 for the two Jazzes, but I doubt you would get £650 for one of them. The fretted one will go for more, partly because it's a very popular colour and partly because there aren't too many fretless players around.

Just accidentally bought an SX strat on my way home (these things happen) but it's got this weird active circuit in it which needs pulling out and a set of cheapo Wilkinson pickups with inappropriately-staggered pole pieces that I can't adjust because they're working off bar magnets glued to the backs of them (the poles themselves aren't magnetic). So I need recommendations for cheap but decent Strat pups please. I'll only be using this guitar for recording demos I'm not a guitarist so cheap n' cheerful is the order of the day.

It's like someone else said though, even if you've got a complete mastery of the instrument and - the really rare element - something actually interesting you're going to play, it would still sound better on another instrument. I think the exception is a bowed double bass. Pizz DB solos sound awful, they just demonstrate what a pig of an instrument it is, but bowed a quality instrument with a quality player sounds stunning.

[quote name='RhysP' post='1227288' date='May 11 2011, 11:09 AM']Did you ask for a discount due the the headstock damage? [/quote] Gumtree Classics Vol 3.

The Japanese Jazzes might go for anywhere between £400 and £600 (used prices seem to have taken an up turn lately but this might be a temporary / fashion thing). The other two I can't help you with, sorry. Oh and be wary of posters who give you a valuation and follow it up with an offer to buy.

Haha yeah what a time to multi-post.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1227301' date='May 11 2011, 11:22 AM']I'm not suggesting it's bad to revisit old ground otherwise I would not have commented. Sorry, I thought my overuse of emoticons would demonstrate my comment was toungue in cheek but possibly not [/quote] Over-use of emoticons, to me anyway, makes the writer look at best flustered and angry, and at worst positively deranged.

I think if you don't naturally move to the music you're playing then you probably shouldn't do it at all.

[quote name='Grant' post='1226864' date='May 10 2011, 10:39 PM']"Spiny Norman" shall be the name of my new band... [/quote] Spiny Norman was a hedgehog in a Monty Python sketch. Actually when I was a nipper my band 'Even Jammier' nicked a singer from a band called Spiny Norman. True story.

I've set up my basses to get rid of it. I never use enough treble to hear it anyway but my effects track better without fret noise so I don't make fret noise.

Yeah but chorussed fuzz is still cheesy-sounding even for electro tunes, it sounds very Euro.

Seems influenced by Adrian Sherwood's On-U-Sound production style. Did you hear that Mongrel album? This stuff:

Nice bit of bass here from MCA: [url="http://soundcloud.com/beastieboys/multilateral-nuclear"]http://soundcloud.com/beastieboys/multilateral-nuclear[/url] It's not a stellar record really, but this is a highlight.

[quote name='bassix' post='1226481' date='May 10 2011, 05:33 PM']Thanks for the responses, I would've considered a programmable Sansamp but I don't really want to get rid of what I have due to the extra money it will cost me to replace. I currently use the Sansamp to create a SVTish sound to the bass and just use as a amp emulator/pre amp. I already have a Big Muff Pi but i'm not sure the fuzzyness is really what I'm after. In my mind I was thinking of a chorus pedal which a few people seem to pointing me towards.[/quote] Bear in mind that while a chorus does thicken things up a bit, it will also make you sound '80s as hell.

Hahaha! Yeah I think this smoke machine operated in a similar way. Before we'd plugged it in my mate was messing with it and managed to use it to squirt green slime all over the back of a drummer from another band while he was setting up. Thankfully he hadn't noticed so me and my mate just slunk away quietly... Good fun those things though. Another time I completely filled the room with smoke at the end of our set just because I thought everyone would get a kick out of it. Delayed the next band by about 15 minutes waiting for the smoke to clear and the audience to come back.

[quote name='lettsguitars' post='1226208' date='May 10 2011, 02:11 PM']i dunno. if you're into metal they're aint much better than a charvel. demz wuz da siht bak in the day. i'd love a charvel strat.[/quote] I've got a mate (who is sitting at the desk just over there ---> in the office I'm working in today) who keeps buying old Charvels on eBay out of a sense of nostalgia and then selling them again. I think most of them come and go for under £200. I think he's got a black model 4 at the moment, collecting dust at home.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1226241' date='May 10 2011, 02:42 PM']You can actually buy the different brass inserts to cope with guage changes. However - like anything new with Warwick written on it - not cheap.[/quote] I did email Warwick to ask if they did these and where I could get them, but I never heard back. Suppose I could've pursued it a bit more...

You could try an octaver or a chorus or something but my advice would be to use it as an opportunity to play something busier / different.

[quote name='bremen' post='1226055' date='May 10 2011, 12:26 PM']Mind if I nick that for my sig?[/quote] I am honoured.

One where my A string broke, or the core broke and the string went slack and stuck to the pickup, muting my E and D, so I grabbed it and ripped it off the bass, shattering the winding and embedding 13 little slivers of steel in my fingers which proceeded to bleed profusely for the rest of the set. Blood proper everywhere. At least that time I knew whose blood it was. The time our tenor player turned up late, having tried to race down from a studio date in a neighbouring state, picking up a speeding ticket on the way and expecting us to pay it, which we refused. So he sulked, and when his first solo came around he was blowing an awful racket, sticking his knee in the bell of his horn and generally being obnoxious, so I put my foot on his backside and pushed him off the stage. He was a big lad and obviously furious so when the first set ended I ran out the back of the building and went to hide at the beach a few blocks away until I was due back on stage. He went backstage looking for me, didn't find me, so he tore a steel door off an ice machine and beat the DJ's bike to death with it. We were asked to leave before the second set. One of my first gigs when I was 16 or 17 someone organising the gig had hired some fancy lights and a little pedal-operate smoke machine and stuff, and I was put in charge of operating the smoke machine during our set. I had it plugged into the same socket as my bass amp, and the first time I trod on it a ****LOAD of smoke came out and I must've hooked the power cable with my foot, so when I moved away from the smoke machine I unplugged it - and my bass amp! I quickly ducked behind the amp to plug it back in but in all the smoke I couldn't see a f***ing thing. =D Took me ages to find the wall socket.

Yeah I don't see a lot of EBMM basses either and I think it's because they are so over-priced. Same reason I don't see a lot of Rickenbackers.

My band repeatedly suggest that I should play solos, and I repeatedly turn them down. I don't want to get a reputation as one of those bass players who does solos, I'm sure enough people think I'm a twat already.

[quote name='icastle' post='1225690' date='May 9 2011, 11:17 PM']Probably useful if you're a persistant tinkerer or like experimenting with different strings.[/quote] Or not. I've got the original brass JaN on my Thumb and strung it with 100-45 slinkies recently - the 65 gauge D is a teeny bit too big for the slot and catches as I tune it. The height adjustment also isn't very useful because half a turn equates to quite a lot of height, and the individual brass saddles sometimes get stuck - I noticed my E doesn't move at the moment, not that it matters... I would agree with the above that a good nut cut to the right height is all you need. Also despite the nut being brass and the frets being brass, open strings don't sound like a zero fret, they still sound like they're stopped at a nut.

[quote name='Jerry_B' post='1225689' date='May 9 2011, 11:17 PM']I agree. The badge on the headstock doesn't count for much really - tone and playability is much more important.[/quote] Not to mention cheapness. You really appreciate the cheapness of a Squier the first time you knock an important lump off a Fender.