ashgeezer

The original and still the best in my opinion. I wouldnt play anything else, it can be a copy, the real deal, i just dont care as long as its a precision style bass, i own a precision copy and a mex fender precision. Theres just something about them that i love.

Is your squire the affinity or standard model, im quite new to bass playing myself (about 1 year ) as the standard squires are slightly better quality than the affinty series, ive never owned a squire bass so i cant really comment but everybody will say different things, some good some bad, personally i"ve heard the standard squire series are decent basses and are quite easy to upgrade, i upgraded my beginner bass a few weeks ago to a mex fender precision and im very impressed with it and its fairly cheap as well for a fender. If i were you i would stick with the squire for the time being until you feel your ready to upgrade to a better quality bass. you dont need to go to fender as theres loads of excellent brands out there, i chose fender because i like the precision sound. good luck with the learning, you will find loads of info on here, if you cant find what your looking for on here then its not worth knowing about. better to own a squire than a no name knock off, but even no name knock offs can surprise people.

How ya doing john, i just started learning bass last year, a bit late in life (39) but what the hell, its fun, im also in wigan so if you fancy a natter email me, im teaching myself but i have a couple of dvds you might find interesting, if you want a copy of them, let me know. cheers mick.

Ask your local guitar tech to knock you one up, it shouldn"t cost to much or like someone else said try making your own, buy the material and take it to a joiner or someone similar who can cut it to size for you. I made one about 20 years ago from a security sign i pinched off a fence ( i was young and daft then ) and it came out fine, if you can afford it though goet tit done proper so the bass looks the business.

I would be lost without mine, if it broke today would commit suicide, its a brilliant piece of kit, i bought it years ago when i first started learning then i packed up altogether but kept the tuner, its only a crappy little seiko thing but the 9v battereies last forever and ever, when the battery does die i just rob one out of the smoke alarm ( bad move i know) and when i started up again last year i"ve used it everyday since. I LOVE IT MORE THAN THE WIFE (JUST DONT TELL HER)

Even to my untrained ears, i would say you definately hear the difference in certain woods. I have a precision copy made from ply and it sounds ok but heavy as hell, i also have a mex precision thats alder and it sounds really nice with tons of sustain (rings forever ) another of my basses is a stingray copy thats also alder and sounds different again. so to sum it up i dont think i would care what wood my basses were made out of as long as they made the sound i want.

I"ve seen a couple of nice sx basses and they look nice although i"ve never tried one but personally i dont think i would sell my mex precision as i"m a sucker for a precision bass but thats just my opinion, each to their own. Go for it, you have nothing to lose amd if you dont like it then trade it in for a better bass.

if you do then let me know what they sound like and i might just go and have a bash myself, my local guitar shop is a waste of space so i travel to one a few miles away, dont fancy going there to find out the bass is crap

love the colour scheme, looks kinda cool.

A friend of mine down south has just bought one of the spear gladius 6 string electric and hes pretty impressed by it, so impressed that he sold his gibson sg to fund it. I believe their a new company founded in 2006/2007 (not exactly sure to be be honest) and their getting decent reveiws in the guitar mags, i agree with you their pretty decent looking but have no idea what they sound like, but with any new company i think it will take a while to convince people that their the real deal if they want to compete against the main companys like fender, warwick, ibanez etc etc. I just may try one myself but i have yet to be convinced, knock yourself out and try one, apparently the company will send out any guitar or bass to the shop of your choice so you can give them a try and your under no obligation, sounds pretty decent of the company to me, thats how confident they are about their products.

my girlfriend asked me last year to teach her electric guitar and seeing as i only know 3 chords it didn"t go down to well and she gave up within half an hour and has never picked one up since. She fancys herself as a keyboard player but when i bought her one she hardley used it and said she was to busy ( it wasn"t with housework, thats for sure ). getting back to the bass though, she doesn"t grumble at all, just lets me get on with it, i"ve just started going jamming and shes not bothered about that either so i should think myself lucky really.

MB1 Youv"e certainly got me sussed, ok i admit they are mine but i only listen to em every now and again.

just try clear laquer, but before you do, get a similar piece of scrap plastic, scribble your signature on it, let it dry then try the laquer over it, if it doesnt react with the perm marker you should be fine and you can then do the autographed plate. Before i try anything new i always try it on scrap first, just in case, a very bad experience in the past with a project i was working on, i ended up stripping the whole body down again and it was a nightmare.

Mark king is a awesome bass player but slap is just not my thing, i do enjoy listening to him every now and again and i do own a couple of level 42 albums only because an ex girlfriend of mine from many moons ago was level 42 mad and i think the albums i have are probably hers

cheers mate nice one, i"ll try and get it up to my uncles over the weekend, i"ll let you know how i get on. Thanks again. I love this site more than my wife.

cheers for the info, would it be possible put a tuner on the bottonm edge like the actual stingrays.

yeah i was thinking about that as well, i"ll see what a few more people say then get it done next week sometime.

hi people. I have a johnson stingray copy and i hate ( and i mean hate ) the shape of the headstock, its the ugliest thing i"ve ever seen, i was wondering if i could have it reshaped to the more tradditional shape without weakening the headstock itself, my uncle is a joiner with 40 years experience behind him so could do the job no problem, if it can be done successfully then i would keep hold of the guitar and have it upgraded with better pickups etc. any advice would be greatly appreciated. I"ve added a photo of the headstock to show you the shape.

My x wife once said to me that i was a simple man with simple tastes and she was spot on. Theres nowt wrong with my mex precision, it plays fine and looks fine, although i would like to change the neck to a maple fretboard as i love them but cant see me doing anything to it in the near future

BLOOD ON THE WORLDS HANDS by iron maiden. I saw steve harris do it live on a twin necked bass on the x-factor tour in the 90s although i wasn"t playing bass then but a few months ago got the tab for it and had a bash at it ( no chance ) it looks easy tabbed out but its the speed its played at that freaks me out, i will keep attempting it though regardless of how long it takes.

welcome, i was 38 when i started learning and that was only a year ago, i love it and have just started jamming with a couple of guitarists i met not so long ago, i make loads of mistakes but thats what its all about, practice,practice, practice. At the mo i"m learning some beatles and sting basslines.

welcome mate, you should find whatever you want on here, nice to have you aboard

i have a carlsbro kickstart 30w and they sound really nice for a practice amp there not exactly tiny but nice little amps, 10in speaker which sound quite clear and you can pick em up off ebay now for about 50/60 quid, well worth a look. i "ll be upgrading soon but i"m keeping the amp as i really like em.

cheers mate, much appreciated, a mate of mine is an electrician so i"ll ask him. thanks again. Ash.

A band without a bass player is like a fire without heat, POINTLESS.