budget bassist

[quote name='BigRedX' post='437643' date='Mar 17 2009, 06:12 PM']Its one of the Splat Hybrid bass prototypes. Gorgeous IMO, but the rest of you feel free to keep talking it down, that way I'll have less competition... However the sellers estimate of it's worth is somewhat inflated. From what I recall it sold originally for around the starting price and last time I was in contact with Michael Spalt a new one to my spec would have cost about $3000.[/quote] I was just thinking to myself "looks like something BigRedX might want", seems i was right! I doesn't look too bad IMO but it would look better if the wood on the body matched.

You're more indecisive than me! Some nice looking basses there though, nice to see the recession isn't affecting everybody

[quote name='josh3184' post='436335' date='Mar 16 2009, 05:25 PM']Bongos do seem to be superb instruments, if they managed to get the tone in a slightly more conventional body then I'm sure it'd have more adopters![/quote] I tried a bongo and a $$, i picked the $$ for the price tag, but i'm glad i did it because it's SO much better. If it had a mids knob it would totally kill the bongo (IMHO 4 band is a bit overkill). For me it plays/feels better, sounds more aggressive and is loads more versatile, corvette $$ all the way!

Nice collection man! Those rockbasses and olps are really great basses for the money, and i'm actually interested in the idea of one of those new neck thru thunderbirds Also, is that ashdown an after eight or prefect ten? I have a perfect ten, and i really rate it! It's got a great sound for a little combo that i paid next to nothing for!

haha that's awesome, we're such geeks

nice nice nice The musicman and the jazz are gorgeous

like warwickhunt says, try and find a used high end ibanez soundgear. There was a neck thru ibby SR900 doing the rounds here for £300 i think it was, i really wish it was closer so i could have had a go but it looked gorgeous, and a bargain too. If anybody fancies selling that again give me a heads up!

5 string generally means smaller string spacing and easier to move around on a lot of the time, plus, the artcores have HUGE bodies. My corvette feels tiny in comparison to my musicman. You should buy it, or at least try some others out

i was playing my SUB last night, and realised that it really does sound nice for funk... maybe not metal, but a funk machine quite relieved, i thought i was going off it!

I've been wanting one of those sledgehammers for a while too, they look pretty damn cool. I've wondered about those peaveys too, if dave ellefson plays them then they must be fairly decent right?

Is that a black DT-10? that's pretty cool

[quote name='William James Easton' post='432876' date='Mar 12 2009, 09:01 PM']i cant find anyone else. bassists are easy to find coz basses are easy to play! [/quote] That's a bit defeatist. You're the one that wants to be in a band, if you can't be arsed to try and find some more band members then who's fault is that?

Don't give up matey, you can always find new musicians that want to do your thing with you, it's difficult but it's worth it.

nice nice nice looks like it would be good as a rehearsal room too

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='431750' date='Mar 11 2009, 06:13 PM']I just mute at my pedal tuner, jack out, bass swap, jack in, job done.[/quote] +1

that's rather pretty

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='430412' date='Mar 10 2009, 12:58 PM']I wonder what all those knobs do? EDIT: I've worked it out. Some of them run the country.[/quote] Volume, blend, 4 band EQ, active/passive switch, pickup selectors and series/parallel. Pretty cool.

jay from bullet for my valentine uses musicman basses. Although after having bought my corvette $$ i'm kind of seeing what you mean...

Cheers for the advice guys The q-tron sounds like it could be a solid choice or the mxr higgie mentioned. And of course i'll probably buy used, they don't call me budget bassist for nothing

what a f***ing joke

[quote name='Machines' post='428505' date='Mar 8 2009, 12:19 PM']That Euro is fantastic. There's something about a red stain on highly figured maple..[/quote] +1, the figuring on that is gorgeous