NancyJohnson

Make sure you go with a glossy option.

we usually give away CDs after gigs...can I suggest that you download the ExpressIt software (free) to aid better printing. While it's great for printing, design your label in [a program like] Photoshop - it's pretty easy to make a square template with a layers showing non-printable areas then build your designs, then save the file as a hi-res jpeg and then pull it in ExpressIt. Works a treat.
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Anyone have any experience of these strings or know of a UK seller?

Very favourable review on bassplayer.tv. Interested in trying them.

Cheers
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[quote name='warwickhunt' post='212262' date='Jun 4 2008, 07:16 AM']Nothing wrong with Warwick basses that couldn't be levied at [b]ANY[/b] bass!

Fenders... some people like em, some people don't.

Musicman... some people like em, some people don't.

Sandberg... some people like em, some people don't.[/quote]

This is very true. I was in love with the [i]shape[/i] of the Streamer more than anything else, when I bought one years ago I used it until the style of music I was playing changed and I got a Precision. I'm kind of tiring of that after about ten years - don't get me wrong, it's a lovely bass, but I need a change - so I'm likely to be going with a Lakland DJ5 as soon as the money kicks in.

My old Warwick had three different necks on it until they changed it for bubinga one. This was a first series Streamer bolt-on (I think it was called an LX model even back then) - and the necks (maple/evangol? laminates) weren't that stable. After they fixed the neck, it was a wonderful, versatile and phat bass.

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Travis Bean 2000 #222.
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[quote name='99ster' post='209306' date='May 30 2008, 01:18 AM']
I should have offered to swap it for my Jimi Hendrix white Strat that he played at Woodstock![/quote]


No no. That can't be. I've got that hanging on the wall in my extension.
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I've always maintained that original material is my primary goal...I never ever wanted to play anyone elses songs.

Recently we gigged in Reading and (as it was a paying gig) we were asked to throw in some covers. We did a couple each of Blink182 and Feeder and some more obscure stuff...IMO it was these songs that let down our set...the original material went down much better and we played our stuff with more passion. I felt a bit[i] used[/i] considering my originals only stance.

I guess if it's your only source of income (or even a potential source of income) then maybe you need to consider what's more important...your integrity or playing Chris de Burgh covers. Personally, as music doesn't pay my bills, it's integrity as far as I'm concerned. I hope never to play [i]Every Rose Has A Thorn [/i]ever again.

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Schooldays...late 70s. Three piece. We had a different name every week. Uncle Herbert...Individual Cheese Portions...The Dags...Funcrime. We sounded like a 78rpm version of Rush meets the Police.

The guitarist went on to play with Go West, Tom Jones, The Art Of Noise, then write for Hear Say, Ronan Keating, and a bunch of other people. I fell into an office job.

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Years ago I had a brief conversation with Mark Plunkett, who used to play for the late Little Angels. They played at a club owned by a mate of mine before they were doing a Wembley show supporting Van Halen.

I asked why, when he had a rack of Spectors et al, he favoured an old Precision. He just said, 'a million people can't be wrong, can they?'. I don't know if his numbers were that accurate (but his estimate must be on low side), but if it was a rubbish bass, Fender would have stopped making it years ago.

I do love mine (even if the E is very boomy), but it's nearly time to retire it. Soon. Soon.

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There's a NAMM Duck Dunn on eBay at the moment - £500.

[url="http://tinyurl.com/6fjy3c"]http://tinyurl.com/6fjy3c[/url]

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I read some of the Russ Ryan stuff on TB a few months back and while it was an interesting read (and I would say I haven't re-read the thread this time around...I'm at work), but from memory he did seem blissfully ignorant about the different versions of the Geddy Lee signature model, kept saying 'I'll have to ask Geddy about that' and he did come across as a bit of a slack-jawed yokel insofar as his knowledge of other bass gear went.

Am I right?
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[quote name='crez5150' post='200131' date='May 16 2008, 08:14 AM']I think too many players are too loud on stage....[/quote]

I played in Reading a couple of weeks ago in a real metal pub. Our drummer is a fantastically loud player. The guy doing the sound said to us we needed to ramp the sound up, so we did.

During the set, we were getting a bit of feedback off the stage microphones and one of the venue staff tweaked the mixer (which was at the side of the stage) - he shouted over to me that we were the loudest band he'd ever had in there, which I took some pride in considering the venue.

Loud = good IMO.

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[quote name='metalmickey' post='196597' date='May 11 2008, 05:30 PM']Oh. No. GAS ATTACK.........


P.S. Linky link?[/quote]


I was on ibeke-gakki.com - [url="http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/goods_detail.php?g_id=100177"]ATK[/url]

Also, if you're using Firefox, I found a nice translator plugin - QTL - that helps you get around Japanese or any other [i]foreign [/i]site. It works a treat. [url="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5641"]LINK HERE[/url]

89,250 Yen - about £450.00. There's probably loads of places cheaper if you want to find them.

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I saw this on some Japanese site earlier today. Five-string Ibanez ATK with a rosewood board. Very non-standard.
Enjoy
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Like this one:


A little bit of a different target design to the one they're now selling on the site. Note single pickup as well.

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[quote name='warwickhunt' post='195939' date='May 10 2008, 12:37 PM']Ah! The Jam connection may go part of the way to explaining the mod 'target' finish on some of the range... or maybe I'm being too simplistic [/quote]

Nope you're spot on. Bruce Foxton is also one of their endorsees. Steve Jones (Sex Pistols too). The target design was originally destined for an orange-sparkled coloured TP12, somehow it got changed to blue. The orange looked much nicer.
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[quote name='warwickhunt' post='195927' date='May 10 2008, 12:09 PM']I've been a fan of Cheap Trick and TP for longer than I'd care to say and on numerous occasions I've been tempted to get one of these. I contacted Waterstone a short while back and the prices aren't as mad as I assumed they might be but like you I'd likely as not just pick it up every now and again to try some CT or PJ licks [/quote]


I'm guilty of being a CT fan for years too...I saw them first at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, 1977 or 1978.

Always a fan of TP, the 12-strings he used were way off my cash-availability - the Hamers, Kids, Chandlers. I chanced upon a copy of US Bass Player containing an article on Tom Petersson, read about the Waterstone and contacted them - this was around two years ago. CEO Bob Singer and I exchanged a few e-mails, spoke several times and I tried my darnedest to set up a UK distribution channel for them (which indirectly is kind of how I ended up with this baby).

Bob is a really nice guy (check out his bio too - he's actually a brain surgeon by day) - he's a huge fan of UK 70s punk, The Jam, the mod scene and a big vintage guitar collector. He's very receptive to ideas and guitar mods and will answer any e-mail he gets.

The long and the short of it was not one store was interested in taking the bass (or any of the range), primarily because there was no profit in it for them because, as you say, they don't cost the earth and you can buy direct. Shame.

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[quote name='Sean' post='194928' date='May 8 2008, 07:27 PM']WAS! Kinda got kicked out in a weird bitchy way.[/quote]

I think you hit the nail on the head there. If you read the [i]Everybody Wants Some[/i] biography of Van Halen it's pretty clear that while he was [i]in[/i] with the Van Halen boys, he was never really in - always an outsider. Concerning the in-band battles against DLR it was more like (2+1) against 1, rather than 3 against 1. I always wondered how he actually lasted so long with the band...he always seemed the weak link.

That said, from the footage I've seen from the comeback tour, Wolfie seems to be able to fill Michael Anthony's shoes pretty easily.

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My Waterstone TP12 bass.

I've had this for about a year and a half now and to be honest while I really don't use it that much I think it's a pretty special and beautiful bass. A new pearloid pickguard arrived today from Pickguardian and it looks real purty, so I took some snaps.

34" scale, currently wearing a set of D'Addarios. I put some Dunlop Straploks on almost immediately, but that's it. All stock. Thinking about putting in an East pre-amp later in the year.

If you want any more pictures let me know.

Have a good weekend.

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PS - I forgot to add - here's a scan of the review it got in the US BassPlayer magazine.
[url="http://www.waterstoneguitars.com/images/bass.guitar.mag.article.jpg"]Waterstone Review[/url]

No one has really answered here...sometimes it's simply not about taking a neck off and putting a new one on.

That said, try Dick Knight. Long established luthier, now in their 2nd/3rd generation. I had my Travis Bean refretted by them a loooooong time ago and my guitarist at the time had the neck on his Les Paul shaved and some electrics work done. They build some lovely archtops.

By way of coincidence, I sent them an e-mail this morning for a quote for blocks on my Waterstone.

[url="http://www.knight-guitars.com"]http://www.knight-guitars.com[/url]

Good luck.
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[quote name='Astronomer' post='187650' date='Apr 28 2008, 10:23 PM']I'm physically cringing as I type this. Could someone please tell me what compression does? I've heard and read a lot of talk about using compression to get a particular sound, but when I try to use it the only thing that happens is that things get loud enough to make small children cry. In Norway.

So, what's it about? Is it just a means of preventing damage to the input stage of an amplifier, or to a speaker, or does it actually change the sound?

Sorry, I know it's a really dumb question, but it's bugging me and I can't understand much of the stuff on the net.

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+1.

For me, limited compression evens out my bass so everything sounds [i]level[/i]. Excess compression c/w a bit of drive/gain gives me what Line 6 would describe as pawnshop punk/JJ Burnel kind of distorto.

To be honest, for some time I've been wondering what compression does as well...

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Doesn't do anything for me, sorry. When I visit a guitar website, I want to see saucy pictures of the guitars reclining on silk sheets (well, you know what I mean), not planks of wood ('The Process') in a Flash presentation that is too big for my display (my screen resolution is 1024x768)...I can see wood going through surface planers on the Discovery Channel any hour of the day.

Having a quick look at the Bongo pages, I'm still a little staggered that a company of this size doesn't actually have some well photographed images of the actual model in all the available colours, with the actual hardware/scratchplate options, rather than some quick and nasty rollovers that display other models. If it's an available option, then they must have a demo model that can be photographed to serve the purpose. At the very least, do a job of it in Photoshop.

While writing this epistle, I remembered looking at the site Nissan set up for the Qashqai car...this was some time ago (they've changed it since, but this is still way better). That's how options should be shown. [url="http://tinyurl.com/4ly3pq"]Nissan Site[/url]

First impressions are it's a bit of a cut and paste job. Horrible.

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I just took the pickguard off my Waterstone bass (don't ask why) and it broke.

Anyone here adept at making me a replacement on a rapid turnround? I'd prefer a tortoiseshell finish, but I would also consider a pearly one. No screw holes. I have the bits for the template!

Thanks
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[quote name='robert43' post='180833' date='Apr 20 2008, 01:54 AM']Hi all the head stock looks a lot like the old SX head ie the hook type of head[/quote]

I thought that as well...they have to all be coming from the same factory.
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[quote name='lukeward2004' post='180786' date='Apr 19 2008, 11:55 PM']Wow, that is a stunner!

I bet it costs a nice wedge too.[/quote]

$4000
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Christ. Where did I put my tissues? I don't generally get stoked at basses that look like furniture, but it's a thing of beauty.



More here: [url="http://www.rocketmusic.net/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=2293"]Streamer 2008 Ltd.[/url]

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