Woodinblack

I now feel slightly dissapointed that my TC-RH450 doesn't have a thrust control. There are many times I am sure I could have done with more thrust, and as we don't get invisible bears over here, that would have been perfect. I am sure there are times when there is just way too much thrust too. In fact I might have to make an effect pedal for some thrust control.

Were the finger positions to tell him where to play or indicating where he was playing? Is that not musical? Duran duran were basically just a synth group, so that is most of it. I just make all the thuds and clanks in my group

Used them for years without trouble, then got an ACG that had the dunlop ones which I preferred, so changed some basses for that, then the guitarist had a dunlop set fail, so now in the worst of world of having some shallers, some dunlops and some no strap locks and not sure where way to go. Prefer the dunlop shape in that you can still use a vanilla strap

Its always hard to fill in the keyboard player compared to a guitarist though

Doesn't seem that unusual in a group of 3, the drummer and the bass player gel well, and probably the drummer isn't that bothered about the guitarist but stays because he enjoys playing with that bass player. Frankly in groups that I have been with, a change in guitarist wouldn't have that much impact, a change in drummer is pretty major.

My last group was an advert from the drummer looking for a guitarist and bass player with vocals. That worked fine. If he already has bookings with the group it doesn't seem unreasonably I wouldn't have thought.

Well done and very well deserved!

The only two basses I have seen in shops in the last 6 months that I was interested in buying was one in the Bass Gallery, one in Wunjo and one in Vintage and Rare. London is 120miles, Bath is 50. There is little chance that something I was interested in would turn up in a shop near me.

Nothing worse than when your favourite place gets turned into something else. We had that with one of our locals, and now our main local (ie, the one that always called us first when someone else let them down) has been sold and no idea what the plans of the new owners are, but it is being done up at the moment and reopening in the autumn. Although as you said it was full of music lovers, maybe they will go somewhere else?

Nothing compelling in my local shop. I have bought some strings in there before, but thats about it. They do at least have something other than fenders - they have one PRS (but it is a 4 string). And a few fenders. There is another guitar shop around, but they aren't really open when I can go to them. I went in to vintage and rare in bath the other day, and it wasn't that bad an experience. And I went into the new shop in bath, they had NYXL 5 strings for £29.95 Thats cheaper than anywhere else, so I thought I would get some. They told me it was a mistaken label and they were actually 39.95. So I got no strings. I generally don't bother with music shops. I did go to london recently and actually got round to going into the bass gallery.

It lasts about.. oh.. not at all! I have had a few new basses, including an elwood. None of them involved settling in. Also adjusting a truss rod is only something I have done recently in 35 years of having guitars and basses, and certainly not much. Adrians not convinced that is a twist? Unless you paid extra for one of those fancy torzal twist designs, that is what my parents would have said is as bent as a 9 bob note. I would be cautioning him that there will be a consumer fitness for purpose action coming.

Yes, I was just looking at the simple ESI 4x4 - good price.

Multi midi port interfaces aren't too much, and probably worth getting if you have a large setup. Its worth having several midi outs if you want to control many things, you generally need fewer ins, unless you have a lot of control surfaces.

Maybe she was just a bit too late, if she had been around in the 80s she would have been huge, but now its not as popular a genre. And she should have come up with a name that didn't sound as close to alestorm, as I always assume people are talking about them when they mention the group!

Not my sort of thing normally but nice to hear clean vocals on it - sounds really good.

I had that on my jazz (with an S1 switch) makes all the difference. i also have it on my fireman but that is way too loud anyway!

Its true to say that I could let some of my guitars go, as I virtually never play guitar. But honestly I am not even sure where some of them are. I can see 4 when I walk around. Not sure where the other 6 or so are.

He won't take responsibility for a twisted neck? how old is it, how much of a twist is it? How are you supposed to twist a neck yourself? At that point, yes, I would be asking for a fix or a refund probably

Err.. 1 or 2.. oh no, those numbers were supposed to be together. 12. But one shipped out yesterday (the 13th), and another is up for sale

I only ended up doing that as fiddling around with equator, one of the patches was absolutely identical to one of the main theme synths in equinox - so you start these things and well, turns out you can do pretty well everything in equinox with equator. Wonder if the similarity in name is a coincidence

I would, yes, I am an ibanez fanboi as you can probably see from my list! They do have very narrow necks compared to a lot of 5s, certainly a lot less width than fenders. But I am a favour of trying as many things as possible, I would recommend going down to the local bass store (or a trip to a bigger city) and trying as much as you can.

What is decent budget? One persons decent budget it another mans loose change. There is a nice Ritter on here for £5600 There are quite a lot of light basses around - I quite like light, I dream of only doing 2 hour sets. My main basses are Ibanez, mostly because of the narrow necks which are also quite light (except the 5005, that is rather heavy), and I have an Maruszczyk Elwood, which is a bit jazz like with exactly the same profile as the ibanezes (was specified that way). Also have a G&L which I keep meaning to get rid of but ends up staying for when I want a P bass sound. Main bass now is my fireman, which I built, which has a very very narrow neck. I suppose the most obvious question is what is your current bass, and what is it that you like or dislike about it?