Woodinblack

Ooh, liking the check. Just like my iceman!

haha - I looked for a video to post my semi acoustic (which is more like a gretch than a gibson), and found this video. Almost the same guitar but mine doesn't wobble like this!

Sent. I would be very angry to have been expected to pay another £90 to send back something to fix their fault, and would have been mentioning the sale of goods act that is european wide. So I admire your calmness in dealing with this issue.

Or me - mine are from Maruszczyk

Its odd that he thinks it looks ok, I haven't seen dots looking that bad. They aren't even flush are they? You only need to look two pages back to find a better example. Or you can stick some glow on stars on an old neck for the same effect.

The black and dark colours look good, not so keen on the sunbursts (but that is true of a lot of guitars). Mind you, that is for old ones, 20 years or so, once they have some life in them, the brand new ones look rather bland and almost fake. Would certainly prefer the Yamaha if I could get a decent one rather than a new gibson, but better would be an older 355 with the varitone. And it should have a bigsby. Even though they are stinky poo, they look the part.

Probably easier to find a cheap fretless I would think Don't get me wrong, the barts are fine in the standard range. Just the nords are in a league of their own. Note that the prestiges have barts too, and the ones in the 5005 I like very much

I personally would take that more something said in jest that didn't really translate well, rather than a sign he didn't care.

Here we are always paid after for a pub gig, or before for a party or wedding.

I tried one, it was fine. Prefer the pickups on the premium. Went to that there London the other day, went in wunjos and bass gallery while my wife was shopping with friends. No one told me there was a SR1705, like the 1605 but gloss.. oh that’s nice

I always wanted a 335, I was seriously tempted to get a 1965 335 a few years ago cheaper than the full new price - for some reason their prices weren't as crazy at the time, probably caught up by now. But playing one for a bit puts me off as they are so awkward and heavy. Those problems are a bit sorted with the 339, smaller bodied, lighter weight, all the advantages. I would say though, as mentioned up there, for half the money they are charging now you can get much nicer guitars.

That is amazing. So much detail work

So much better uncluttered by a pickguard.

Last night was a venue in my town that we hadn't played as it isn't a pub, more a nightclub. New territory for me because I didn't grow up here, so I had never gone to that sort of place. Was expecting it to be really bad but actually it wasn't that bad at all, we had a small audience to start, which was people who came to see us, which was nice, and when it got fuller after half time the audience actually were pretty responsive. And as it was an organised place it was held down to just two one hour sets which is really short for us and very pleasant.

Yes, I remember the endless debates about Geddy Lee switching between his 4001 and his Jazz, and how he clearly unmistakably used the 4001 recording tom sawyer, as it sounded so much like it and he used it in the video. Until he came out and said it was recorded using the jazz.

Doesn't work with us, just changes us from 'way too loud' to 'deafening'.

Not really. I can go out and get an epiphone burst Les Paul for a few hundred quid that is a fine guitar, and the image is fine. In fact I can get a gibson studio for not much more. Stingray? I can get a SubRay again for a couple of hundred. Not the same, but the image is the same, and if I did that, when I got more money I would just go up the stingray route. I could see my idol and get something that basically looked the same. Gibson actually discontinued the Les Paul in 61 because it was too old fashioned. It was only the (primarily british) rock stars of the day playing them that made them bring them back in 68 - because people saw their 'heros' playing them. When I was a kid into Led Zeppelin, I had a Les Paul that wasn't real but looked it. I had a Ibanez double neck that looked like both Jimmy Pages and Alex Lifesons. I had an Ibanez Rick copy that was like Geddy Lees. None of those were real, I didn't have the money, but when I did I could get the real ones. If I had been a rock star I would have carried on with those instruments, and people would have likewise copied me. I look of the rockers of today - I still see les pauls and strats, I see stingrays, I see fenders. I don't see rics.

Certainly working for them currently, but I think as a long term option it is a bad move. They are iconic because the were the instruments played by the youths in groups of iconic groups. Those groups when they start don't have a great deal of money, if you put your instruments into the Gibson custom shop / stockbroker and retired banker toy, you make money now, you don't get seen by the people who are going to be buying things to emulate their icons. When I was growing up, a lot of my bass heros played them, so I still love the look, if not the instruments themselves. They were something I wanted. When I watched top of the pops, at least one in 3 groups would have one. Now? doesn't seem to be the case any more.

I agree, but would extend it to 'you should try everything'. I tried a ric and liked it, it was fine. At £500-800 I would buy one without too much though, but for me its not a £1k+ bass, and as they are that sort of price I will never have one.

Yet I would say for the majority of those people, those aren't the iconic basses they are known for.

Yeh, and 15.4k on the 5s, which is what I have. So when I switch from parallel to series it goes from one extreme to much further along the same extreme!

I have two of the warman MM humbuckers in my fireman. They are great, very powerful output, I need to wind them down a bit so I don't have to readjust all my inputs!

Yes, that’s what I am saying, isn’t the pickup surround on that the same size as normal guitar humbucker, certainly looks like it. I will measure it tonight as I have a b2 and some guitar humbuckers - I added “on a b2a” afterwards to save confusion as the thread is about a b2v

Isn't it the same size as a 'normal' guitar surround on a B2A?

No, it means the input of your amplifier is heavily loading your bass, and in passive mode you are having the output dragged down to more than the bass can give, so your treble control Is working at a lower frequency etc. The reason I never use passive basses if I can help it. On any of my basses here, the only way you can tell if you are in passive or active is to adjust the bass control. Well, in the case of push pull volumes, that is a bit of a give away - the ibanezes I can never tell.