Woodinblack

The flexibility is good, I am sure, if you have an effect pedal, but with the amps you just pick up the phone, send the toneprint and you are done, it works well with two effects, each with one knob without too much faff.

My friend repairs old instruments so I got a good look at his friends hurdy gurdy. Then when his friend was round we got a demo of it. i find it totally fascinating how it works and horribly irritating after one song! He is in a group with the guy and they use it for a few. Can't say I am a fan of that pony's trick!

It does have a truss rod when you take the neck off but the reason that neck is foreword is the lack of shim, it's not a clever design feature! you can see now why I said the switch being backwards was irritating, it's hard enough with those controls to get the right thing without a reversed switch!

No, you cant change the parameters but there are many different presets of how the thing is setup within what that knob does, so there are loads of different default toneprints, so a spectacomp by some artist, or something like that. You still can't adjust much, but the bass effects are different.

When I had a TC BC250 bass amp and although it didn't have an editor, it had a lot of different presets.

None of the configurators let you select an opaque finish if you select ash (unlike alder), and there are no listed instruments on their site with opaque coloured ash, so it seems a reasonable idea. I am sure they can do it if you ask

Presumably though that must mean there are a lot of jazz bodies and precision necks going spare!

Obviously the weight doesn't equal quality, but I know on the few occasions i have specified the wood in a bass, the lighter ones were more expensive.

I was until 46 when my knee collapsed. Now I can't be bothered struggling with stuff. for 95% of my gigs in pubs, absolutely noone in the audience is going to be able to tell the difference between my valve amp and my tc450, which goes over my neck in a bag and I can carry it at the same time as the speakers. If I have the space on stage and the easy load in I will take the CTM. As long as I can be far enough away from it as my main gigging basses have nordy big singles in and multiple large transformers don't mix well with them.

To be fair, the drummer helps.

Umm.. isn't it? I haven't used my CTM100 for the last 20 gigs or so, just didn't have the space to take it in or the effort to fight through a pub crowd with it.

Hit me with your rythmn stick. For years it was just way too fast, then one day, it wasn't. Litterally one day, I couldn't play it the previous day, my hand worked it out while I was sleeping. Still can't play it well, but not really the point!

The CTM300 will take a few years off it!

How good is your back?

Better that way round certainly. Shipping is never a fun thing.

The look of the top of the neck of a bass when you are playing. If there was only one decent bit of wood, that is where it needs to be!

Maybe not in the same year as getting the Shuker and Ibanez EHB. Anyway, can't buy any more until I have sold some, numbers too high

Same here. Unfinished instruments as my wife calls them. used to have a telecaster with that transparent yellow stuff on it, she wouldn't allow that in the living room collection. If you are not colouring it, it needs to have some pretty impressive wood.

Depends how hot it is...

I have asked what the price on a 5 string like that was already. Not going to get one.. not going to get one.. not going to get one...

If I was in that situation I would go back to a TC combo. One box, spectacomp, amp, cab, tuner, audio lead, power lead, jobs done. I quite often wonder why I don't go back to that.

I must admit I would always put the whole thing with the case in cardboard to protect the case from getting scratched or the clamps being ripped off. I would view it as too much of a challenge for a courier otherwise if they knew it was a hard case! DPD certainly insist on it being in cardboard.

I think the pink looks great, its a good choice on Ibanezes part, sort of goes with the green option really. Now I have my replaced EHB, I must say that it and the shuker are all I am playing these days. The shuker is better standing up and the EHB is better sitting down.

Yep, can't go wrong with a patio sound!