Woodinblack

Just because you have an active bass doesn't mean you have to whack the bass and treble controls flat out. Personally I almost never use my controls, I leave them flat, but I wouldn't by choice have a passive bass, because I don't want the tone of my bass to depend on my volume level, the type of cable I am using, the input impedance of the amp or effect I am using etc. Give me a nice low noise low impedance output from a bass, and I can use controls I have on the amp to change the response, rather than relying on a poor quality cable to make it less trebly!

Yeh - then you really need to be careful with the router

I think I have finished the finishing now, so I just need to bolt it all together (and wire it etc)

I am sure it will

Does that make the custom shop the collector?

That is really a non colour though isn't it? Its a 'can't be bothered to come up with a colour like blue'.

Would be nice with cream pickups on that.

Electomusic in Doncaster have now shut down Shame, it was a good shop if you had the misfortune to be in Doncaster

I already like the sound of the b2, only reason to upgrade would be to fix the string shortage!

Thanks for the info, that is what I heard. I guess I will just keep looking out for the b2v, they do come up all the time, just not when I am looking!

I wasn't when I was first offered one, but now I wouldn't mind one at all. But they are far from cheap so I doubt I will ever get one as in that price bracket there are lots of more desirable instruments. But if it was gold.. hmm...

Took the wrongo to a gig the other day, did the first half of the gig with it. I had two comments, one was from the guitarist who was wondering what was wrong with the bass as it sounded bad, and one from a member of the public who said it looked really cool! I might try it again with proper strings, to see if it makes the difference. One thing I noticed, when I plugged it in at the gig it didn't work. I realised the battery was dead, the battery I put in when I got it. Thought that was odd, but I checked the power draw tonight. not only is it 2.2mA which seems a bit high, it doesn't switch off when you unplug the bass!

I have a Hohner B2 (no other letters, passive, twin humbuckers). It is red and tatty but it sounds pretty good and plays well. I don't really use it that often but I take it to every gig as a backup. Problem is that it is a 4 string and I realised that I play a 4 string so rarely that the other day when I tried I messed up quite a bit, so as a backup it is not so great! There are the occasional B2Vs around, but I keep forgetting and not getting them. However, a new XT25 is only just over 300 and as B2s go for 200, it isn't much to upgrade it. Some people say that the XTs are made pretty much the same as the B2s, and some people say they are not as good. Anyone got experience of whether there is a material difference (apart from the string count!) between the two?

Unfortunately I suspect for most that Saturday is a far busier day than sunday. For a lot of people Sunday is the only free day of the week.

Had less luck here. Tried to buy an bass recently but after a couple of messages they didn't get back to me. On the plus side, it was a bit expensive and so I still have the money!

No, it got swapped out for oak at the top of page 4

So many things in life are just designed to get in the way of what you want to do. The last two weekends we were away, this one i had 3 gigs! During the week I did get to do some sanding, all at 1200 after the colouring, and I found the joys of lintfull paper. If you rub it down with a paper towel, it only leaves lint where something catches it, so that is the bit that needs smoothing. I did all the final holes I needed for neck screws and jack socket. I messed up with the jack socket but luckily it didn't do any harm and didn't show. After having to go and get stuff I managed to put a coat of oil over everything. It looks a lot darker, I really like it, even the line down the back. Like this:

Well, not that bad an idea, if you have the fibre optics then if the leds fail you don't have to take the neck apart to fix it. Just the issues of attaching the fibre optics through the neck (although fibre connections are pretty common for comms)

Sounds great - I would be happy with side dot leds. I don't really like much on the fingerboard of a bass, it doesn't seem to have a point, but side dots are useful. My Maruszczyk has luminays but I never remember to charge them, so less useful then you would think. Leds though, that would work. Although I suspect I would just use individual leds.