Woodinblack

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.

As tempting as it is to go in and ask the price of everyone in turn, I haven't done that. I went in at one point, I was after a yamaha reface, and they had them, I played them, and decided i wanted the yamaha reface DX, rather than the YC I went to look at. But they had no prices on them, so I didn't buy one, I assumed they would be more expensive. When I got home I looked on the net, and it turned out PMT were cheaper than anyone else for the DX by about a fiver. I knew the sort of price these things went for, if the price had been on it on the shop I would have bought it, but as I was on the net anyway, I had a look on ebay and there was a good condition one £50 cheaper, so I got that.

Mine has the 'nappy' bit at the bottom, where there is a bit that goes underneath to keep it on. I also don't have the standard feet. I have that on my speakers and thought it was worth having. Very happy with it, and them.

No cross purposes - a bass and treble dial don't have a centre frequency, a bass control goes from some frequency to zero, and a treble goes from some frequency to the highest the amplifier can do (or the highest you can hear) - there is no 'centre' to that. If you have a parametric control, or mid control, it has a centre frequency, which is the centre of the range of frequencies above and below where the largest effect has. If you write a frequency on a bass or treble control you have made an arbitrary decision what the frequency is and how you measure it. For instance if it is a bass control, maybe it starts at say 600Hz, you certainly can't hear that, but the lower it gets the more noticable it gets. So do you call it 600Hz where you can't here it, but it actually starts, or do you call it 400 by which time it is down 3dB (so its half of what it was), or do you say it is 200Hz by the time it is 10dB down (like really reduced), or maybe at 100 by the time it is 20db down? There is almost nothing of it then. So you make a decision and say 'we are going to call this 400Hz, which is the point that the output has been reduced by half', and that is what the bottom and top knobs do on an amplifier.

That is exactly the method I use. I don't ask, so their policy means it isn't worth looking. I have told them, they ignored it, that is their choice. If I a looking at a wall of basses, one of the important thing for me is the price of them. WIthout that, they become less interesting.

A low pass and high pass filter can't have a 'centre' frequency, they are from a frequency down or up. In common discussion of filters we tend to use a frequency when some effect occurs, so often the frequncy is quoted when the signal is changed by 3dB. So for that chart on that link, if the numbers are accurate they seem to both cross the 3dB range at 600Hz, and also would appear to be around 5dB per octave.

Never seen one in the real world. The only place that sells rics that I have seen is in PMT. And with their policies of not putting prices on anything, it kind of kills interest for me.

Except under current rules you can't post offers on the thread. Why would anyone want to do this? You can already make an offer to someone selling something

Well, yes I could do, but seeing as how ibanez put the specs on their website, where would be the need? Like this: https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/sr1705b_1p_02.html I must admit I don't really use the centre frequencies much on my ibbys live. In fact I rarely use the tone at all, except the 2605 is a bit harsh and I knock a bit of treble off with that. It is very unusual that I would use a tone control on a bass.