Storky

The bass VI is described as “long scale”?

I had a fender mustang (jap). Really nice, similar sound to a precision, maybe better. Wish I still had it.

My band pretty much plays the social club circuit 90% of the time. We play 40 gigs a year and the rate around here (Surrey/Sussex) is typically £320/£350. Pubs are a bit less, around £200/£250. Hope that helps? 😁

Thanks for the info’, that’s very helpful. It’s good to hear from someone with first hand experience of doing the job.

Did you end up replacing your tuners? How did it go? I’m wanting to do something similar to get rid of some neck dive on my 4003

I have recently brought Steve’s Sandberg VS5 (which is lovely by the way!) Steve could not have been more helpful and included a set of strings with the bass and gig bag. A pleasure to deal with.

Nice, it’s actually what I need right now. Any idea how much these new?

2 hours ago, 4000 said:

Just been looking at some YouTube stuff of these. I know they’re discontinued, but anyone got/had one? Very interesting, although I’m not sure how I’d get on with that body carve.

Yes, I had one about a year ago. Nice, easy to play. I found the sound a bit generic and nothing special. I didn’t really find much use for the high C although I enjoyed the shorter scale. I also thought it a little on the small side (I’m 6’7). I loved the look and the through neck design and had no issues with the body carve. If I got another I’d consider changing the pickups and/or the preamp.

1 hour ago, petebassist said:

Plugged my SRH500 Fretless into GarageBand last night and recorded some tracks to see what kind of tone I could record. Here're a couple, with the out-of-the-box 60s Combo GarageBand amp and 60s shuffle drums, and the bass and mids turned up, and a bit of drive to try to fatten up the tone on the So What track, but clean on the EveryBody Wants To Be A Cat jazz standard. Still stock strings at the moment, which I'm enjoying, so I'll leave on for the time being then I'll probably try some tape wounds.

https://soundcloud.com/james-bllonde/fretless-bass-line-so-what

https://soundcloud.com/james-bllonde/everybodywannabeacat

I'm just using this as a rehearsal instrument at the moment, so I don't have to drag my double bass along, so I made a couple of adjustments to slightly raise the action to take off some of the mwwahh that it had originally, which sounds great but not exactly what I need right now.

Very nice tone. 

Ive got the 5 string fretted, but don’t get as good a tone as that! I like the bass; I find it light and comfortable but the sound is a little nasal. I’ve changed the strings to la Ballas as have others and it is better, but I’m still not totally happy with the sound 😏

I just brought a new one as well! 😉(Fire-glow)

Lovely 😍

Recently brought a lovely Rob Allen Mouse from Owen. Very straight forward purchase and bass arrived very promptly.

Recently traded my Squier P for Ian’s Ibanez SRC6. Unfortunately the P was damaged in transit but Ian was very understanding. For his part the SRC6 was extremely well packaged (double boxed) and arrived promptly in excellent condition. Great comms and a nice guy to deal with throughout.

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My old B301 wasn’t so bad for neck dive; it had a slight inclination to head south, but not too bad at all. Like anything, l guess it depends on the weight of the body and if that is weighty enough it won’t dive.

My first bass was a Guild B301, brought as an ex demo from Rockbottoms in Croydon in 1981 for £195 served me very well  for about 30 years. It was my only bass and I had no interest in anything else. Then I sold it for £750 and the flood gates opened!

it was a very good bass, I think it had a dimarzio pick up, simple tone and volume and I guess it was a bit like a single coil jazz bass. The neck was narrow like a jazz, but deeper, possibly a U shape and it is a set neck. All good quality hardware as you might expect.

i believe the bass player in Stiff Little Fingers played one.

I played it in my acoustic band on Friday. I think it works as a double bass substitute, where a venue is too small, or it’s just too much hassle to bring in a DB. Also think it would work in a 60s band for those Beatles, or similar numbers for a violin bass type thump. And any other rock n roll numbers where a double bass was used. Country, why not? Actually there’s plenty of uses, but watch for feedback, it was ok and it was easy enough to control, but it will feedback way before a solid body I think.

Just weighed it: 6.22lbs and no neck dive! 

It’s got a medium deep neck, and a modern precision nut width. I’ve played other largish necks and this is the most comfortable; it’s very nice to play. Sound un amped is quite loud, certainly enough to practice at home with. Plugged in it’s the nearest I’ve heard to a double bass; it’s very full sounding, great! I think the strings are really good, tapewound and not too rubbery! Nice touches include aged binding and the whole bass has the feel of a decent quality instrument and it’s clear that some thought has gone into it. It’s not heavy, no neck dive. Obviously it’s quite a large body, so some may find it bulky and could be prone to feedback due to fully hollow body, but no problem so far at home volumes.

Yep, picked one up yesterday. Really good!

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Squeeze for me. Lots of reasons why I think they’re good, but they just resonated with me at that time. Age has a lot to do with it (I’m 55.)

I've had four wiring kits from John now and they have transformed the basses concerned. One bass was being put together for me by Mo Clifton and he was full of praise for the quality of the wiring loom. John is easy to deal with, helpful and gets the loom in the post promptly. Recommended!

I had one. Strangely, I miss it. It had a great neck, was well balanced and light weight. The active pickup and eq could sound very aggressive and harsh with too much treble, but it was easily tamed, sounded great, powerful and cut through really well. Good quality fit and finish as it was their professional range. But I sold it when I left the U2 tribute band. GLWTS