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Just been trying. Works pretty well as long as everything is in the same mode. Ended up playing along with the whole of equinox!

Same here My elwood is great and so is my new cazpar

I haven't tried it in logic yet. I assume that means it works in mainstage 3?

Maybe it is just what you are not looking for that come up for sale. When I look basically the world is full of P basses for sale, and then a few jazz basses then a couple of others. I have only once played a P bass I actually really liked (I have a squier P that is ok, but it is just there for sentintal reason, I don't 'get' p basses), which was last week. A Precision bass elite. But really I am a 5 string player.

Sounds like good advice yes, I would have probably used allen screws.

My first bass was an ibanez Ric, would love to have that back, great sound (you won't get a ric to sound close to that ) although maybe not quite that much: https://vintageandrareguitars.com/product/1974-ibanez-model-2388-b-dx/

OK, this has been playing on my mind for the longest time, in the end I thought I needed to get one. I figured the 25 wasn't much use because of the size but I couldn't justify the 49 (not even thought of the 61). In the end I thought I would get a 25 as it was reasonably affordable second hand, if I didn't like it I could flog it again, if I did like it I could flog it and put it towards the 49. My 25 came yesterday and it is so different to the demo units I had tried. There is no drag and it is the most expressive keyboard experience I have ever had access too. The thing is wonderful, if I had had this when i was 14 I woudl never have given up the keyboard and taken up the guitar. So I will keep it for a while and if I am still regulalarly playing it in a few months, I will get a 49.

Not sure on either a clamp or individual screw connections

Yes, thats the sort of thing I was thinking of. Having said that, I have no idea why as I never bend the strings past the bridge anyway

I think I saw the same post as you - was it a G&L post on facebook? I was really impressed with their Alex and Geddy, especially their geddy as that is the one that rarely works as his voice is so characteristic.

That is an interesting idea, but i think the weight of the neck would be very neck divey. I didn't get a head block for it so I figured I would make something with screw terminals so it doesn't have to be double ball ends. But I quite like the bits they do on status basses, where there is a bit of a blank area at the top.

OK, I don't think it is going to be a fireman, and I haven't really got any plans yet other than the vaguest of ideas. The only things I do know is that it is almost certainly going to be 32" scale, a 5 string with 17mm string spacing at the bridge and it is going to be using this:

I agree - more so they need a customer facing representative that is better at communication than Adrian is. He has a good guitar building business and a fantastic bass player, but his communication skills can be a little abrupt for most. It is much easier to lose trade than to gain it. Half of the battle dealing with customers is letting them know you are listening to them, and maybe sometimes that is where he falls short, you often have to message a few times.

Still trying to recover from the weekend. Friday, our favourite pub, absolutely heaving, all went well. I took the messinger short scale, thought it needed an outing. Saturday, little village pub. Actually a really bad building with not enough space that don't pay much (ie, 2/3 of our favourite pub above), so we do a shorter set. Also went well apart from the normal village life with the normal dramas that young women in little village pubs seem to go through. Probably similar to towns to be fair, but they are probably crying to their friends in nightclubs rather than pubs. Sunday, birthday party in.. little village pub, but in a marquee outside. Weather not ideal but not too bad. Got to set up at 2, finally went on at 4:15, supposed to play for an hour until food was ready, played for an hour, DJ came on, food wasn't ready, hung around a bit, then thought we might as well go on again, played for another hour, then food was on, then DJ for a while while we had food and chatted, then played for another 45 minutes or so. Probably about 100 people who were friends of the guy whos birthday it was. He bought all the drinks, for those 100 people, plus the food (which was very nice), plus the DJ, plus us. They absolutely loved us and a few people from some local bands were there who said we were great. Which is odd, because we weren't, we were really tired and run down, the drummer very much so as he had been in the previous pub until 3. But I think we gave a good show and our singer may have been tired but he jumped around like mad, so I don't think anyone noticed

Your missing the point I would say. This is a thread for owners and people wanting to get / order basses, but part of the thing of being an owner is also pointing out if something is wrong. I have an elwood as well, and it is a quality item, except the screws, which aren't.

Looking good. Looks a bit like this actually: https://vintageandrareguitars.com/product/1965-fender-precision-bass/

Course they are - they are owned by ebay, they will take a post down the second anyone complains. And RIC complain.

Get a plastic tube, fill it with meths and put the string down it. Seems to work fine

No, it was when I tried to take it out, it just bent and broke. I was trying to put a strap lock on it. After replacing that one I replaced the other important screws with good quality ones. Cost over a £1. And yes, I was a bit surprised.

Glad that it has been sorted out, even if it had been fixed the trust and shineyness has already gone. Took me a bit of a while after the strap button screw sheared off on mine before I was happy again (which I now am)

Really??

I would, but it won't fit on any of the 5 hangers by the sofa, so I will have to make do with the SR1605/5005, Maruszczyk, fireman and Ibanez SA guitar there

Or even a large stage but want to take a backup bass to every gig:

ok - what is the secret thing on the shelf behind the guitar?

Busy weekend. We played at a local nightclub, which we had never played before, and expected to be not good, but turned out, it was actually pretty good. Sunday, we had to play outside at a football club between 3-6. Which, as you know if you are in the south of England, was about OMFG degrees in the shade. Turned out that gig was also good, I think I drank about 10 litres of water though. Normally I would wear clothes, but it didn't seem like a great idea. I do however, still love my fireman bass!