Woodinblack

Really? I just put in 4003/5 in the search, then selected 'is in the UK' and saw them there.

Well, if you look on reverb, there are a couple that are new and below £2000 (albeit, by £1!). One thing I don't get. I see the pickups are meant to mirror the inlays on ricks, but all the 4003/5s have dot inlays (which I think look pretty cheap) - seems like it would make more sense if they had the normal inlays?

Oh that guy again. I really can't tollerate watching him but notice that ibanez have reintroduced the 1605, but in a blue colour, which I am surprised at. Still my favourite bass after all these others.

I also almost picked up a burgundy mist one at some point as Gak were kicking them out cheap, but couldn't get with the non maple neck for some reason at the time. Regret it now!

Oh I like the back on that, and it looks like purpleheart stripes, that is nice.

I wouldn't touch a hercules mic stand if it was given away free, my last one was that, you couldn't do the boom up hard enough for it to not fall down and smash the iPad, the bottom bit worked loose, and in the end when I accidental left it in a pub, I couldn't be bothered to go back for it.

So, fairly similar to a 1605 or a 1705. 1200 - there is never a 4. The 1x05 is a 5 string, the 1x06 is a 6 string, but for whatever reason, the 4 string is the 1x00!

I have two and love them. Technically I have one and my wife has one but I am the one that carries it around. Mine is a boom mic one, and hers is a standy up singer one with a clutch control handgrip thing. Haven't had any trouble with them. My last one (a cheap one I got from PMT) slipped on the boom, and the bottom nut the plastic came off the nut. This one is much better, which is nice. I also got a white one as I wanted to be able to find it in the black poles. If I was to get another microphone stand, it would be another gravity.

Looks great - I would say if you have photos of it being made (or even if you don't), you should post it in the build diaries, people there would be very interested to hear how it went

sure you could find someone to pick it up for you!

Ignoring the colour for now which I am not sure we could agree on - are you really sure that is a classic vibe? I just sold my classic vibe PBass and in common with all other originals they have really yellow stained necks and yellowy cream pickup covers and volume / tone knobs, unless the new ones are different? Also the necks are heavily varnished, rather than matt, unless yours has been modified. I know a lot of people complained about that. Like that one you linked to up there - yours doesn't have that at all, your pickups and knobs are actually whiter than the pick gaurd material.

Well, I am pretty sure that they didn't do a seafoam green in the original classic vibes, and if they did, it is very green. Trouble is that fenders colours change quite a bit. Here is seafoam green: https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-guitars/stratocaster/fender-vintera-50s-strat-sea-foam-green And here is sonic blue: https://www.andertons.co.uk/fender-american-performer-mustang-rw-satin-sbl Maybe it is a bad colour cast on the picture looks closer to sonic blue than seafoam green. I always thought sonic blue was green anyway.

`my last band was a cover band which did some 'originals'*. Me and the drummer were jamming around and we got a whole thing going so the guitarist did 'oh I have some lyrics that would fit perfectly with this'. OK, so bring your lyrics in. So we start again and it was very much 'oh no, you can't do that chord there we need to go back to the riff', 'oh no, don't add that bit'. OK, so what you are saying is lets just play E, G and A as a 12 bar again? * noone had written exactly those words to those chords before, not to be confused with actually original in any way

That looks very much like Sonic blue in that picture. Seafoam green is a much darker, the second darkest compared to sherwood green (I almost bought a sherwood green strat when a shop was closing out).

I would listen, take the bass lines that he sends, say 'oh that is interesting' and play whatever I was going to play anyway. We had a keyboard player like that in my other band, he just whizzed everyone off.

Cant you sell it to them?

A filter in this case is just a term for anything that changes the level of different frequencies of a signal. High and low pass filters are types of filters that cut either lower or higher frequencies. Technically, although this is what they do, the point of their name is the pass - a high pass filter is a type of filter that allows high frequency signals to go through, but not low frequencies. A low pass is the opposite. Where you would have a high pass filter for instance is to get rid of problematic bass frequencies, and it would be a fast filter, such as 12dB/Octave or 24dB per octave, aimed at removing all the frequencies as fast as possible. it wouldn't really be a 'musical' bass control, you couldn't 'turn the bass down a notch'. A bass and treble control on an amplifier is a type of filter that can cut or boost its range. it is still a filter though.

Just wondering what? It will be fine, it is basically the same as all the 1x05s, but with a different top wood. I think there is a 1200 and a 1206 mentioned on this thread. Probably similar to my 1605 but a tiny bit heavier, they came out exactly the same year, the 1205 just lasted a bit longer (the 1605 had a very short run as it was a bit head heavy and had issues with the top wood).

I think the pod might be more immediate for a lot of people, certainly the traditional multi-fx market

Nice model. I played - not sure if it was that one or the one before, (in Pmt) and it's all good, it is one of the standard range with the nords, so seems great value. I have the same pickups (well, the 5 string version) in my Maruszczyk and it's good. the advantage with the Ibanezes are they are consistent so you can get them on line without the worry you are going to get a duff one

Thanks, but not for me

I am guessing that this policy is created by someone who thinks like you and doesn't understand why someone like me just won't do it, which is probably why when making a sales decision it is important to consider that not everyone is like you. The thing is - I don't mind asking how much something is, assuming someone is there, which is not always the case. When I have a look round I want to see if there is anything in the price bracket I am looking for that is interesting. I have no interest in engaging or finding a salesman just to find out that first step. Say I wanted a jazz bass. I go into PMT, there is a wall of maybe 10-12 jazz basses, from squiers right up to some custom shop thing. I would look at that, and I want to see what of those basses I should be being tempted by. Say If I have £800 to spend, I want to know what is up to £800, but maybe there is something really nice at £900, maybe I would be ok with that too, a salesman can't know that. Say I can afford all of them. Some of them are nicer than others, some of them look better than others, some are cheaper than others, some look horrible but play well. He could tell me the prices of those basses, but there is no way I will remember them. So yes, I will still go there for something I already know the price of and have already decided on to try and buy, but it completely stops the idea of an impulse purchase. Its just not practical, that is why shopping online is such a joy, you get to know the price. People always say the internet killed the high street, but that is rubbish. The high street killed the high street, it was just it had nothing to be compared against until the internet came along.

I have no idea who he is or know much about Mars Volta, but that is a very horrible thing to happen for his family etc, hope he gets better.