James Nada

I've always thought East 17's Stay Another Day is sparse enough to cover in a variety of styles- one to make your own.

@hooky_lowdown, can I ask where you got the replacement pickguard?

Very cool - nice one.

Thanks - I've messaged them.

I have a Roland Bass Cube RX, the one with four 4" speakers. Unfortunately, one of the speakers has developed a blown speaker "fart", so I would like to replace it. Can anyone recommend a suitable replacement speaker - a Google search offers no joy.

Didn't Mike Lull use one of Jeff's Hamer 12s as the basis of a "new" 12er? I think the neck was reused and grafted onto a new body. Did I read this in Bass Guitar Magazine a couple of years back or am I misremembering something else?

Gene can be an enormous prick at times, humble and humorous at others, but is a pretty genuine WYSIWYG guy by all accounts. I believe he's a pretty underrated bass player, and not one to shout about how good and tasteful his long melodic lines were on those 70s Kiss records. Great tone too!

This has total Glam swagger AND make up, but isn't always thought of as glam.

I remember this well, RAW magazine (the wannabe Kerrang). I was keen on getting the drumkit but my parents convinced me to get a bass (a Marlin Slammer)

I'll send you some pictures

I have one. Contrary to what most internet options are, I don't find it at all wooly. Quite middy in fact. I actually modded it so the humbucker is wired in parallel to round the tone out a bit. Nice neck too. So nice I took it off and put it on something else. (Not trying to hijack the thread, but if you want to buy the complete body it's doing nothing in cupboard)

One of these would do it Fender ABY Pedal Switch Between Two Amps or Guitars 023-4506-000 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HQXUH5W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_USZwAbXNJ0RPR There are cheaper ones out there too. A friend if mine uses one of these to switch between guitar and pedal steel into one amp.

Very nice

That wedge monitor looks dangerously pointy!

This is the case for an Orange Bass Terror. I have one and have tried to do exactly what the OP suggests with no success

[quote name='Mike Brooks' timestamp='1510086984' post='3403938'] I chose 1987 and hence the INXS/Def Leppard/George Michael albums. [/quote] I can't see any problem with any of those albums being featured as a bass album. However, you've missed a behemoth of a 1987 album, certainly one that's influenced countless bassists- Guns n' Roses, Appetite for Destruction.

I know it's pretty much a no no, but good enough for low volume practice at home. [url=https://postimg.org/image/4bw3ejvmz/][/url] I couldn't face carrying the 4x10 into the house so I got an old 2x12 out - it's been gathering dust for 20 years. It sounds pretty good at low levels - I daren't turn it too loud though. Cab is an HH from the seventies I think + it might actually be a PA cab.

Mine arrived today. Works just fine.

I got one last time. Chucked it in my gigging bag unprotected for months, had to use it last week as my pedal tuner packed in. Worked fine. Ordered another as a spare spare.

[quote name='ForbiddenWytch' timestamp='1505046703' post='3369078'] The only thing I'm really not sure on is the top nut. I'd like to know peoples (and your) ways and measurements on the spacing on the top nut. How far between the strings in each pairing then how far between each set of strings over the 43mm nut. [/quote] Like the rest of my conversion, I've just bodged the existing nut with a view to getting and cutting a proper one when I've experimented with it. I have a 42mm nut and figured that I would leave the bass strings in their exiting positions but move the whole nut down about 2mm (yep, it sticks out a bit) so the G was as "south" as it could go and still be playable on the fret board. This gave me room to cut slots above for the octaves, and crucially, meant there was space for the high E at the "north" side of the fretboard. I cut the all slots with slightly different gaps between pairs and the most comfortable is 0.070" (1.78mm). I measured that with feeler gauge between the strings at a position closest to the nut. I hope this helps.

I'm currently working on a prototype 8-string conversion on an old short scale Encore P bass. This may or may not help but here's a few general things about my conversion. I used banjo tuners as the "extra" tuners, becuse they stick out of the back they take less space. I actually just put four in a line on the bottom half of the headstock and used two of them for bass strings (the tension on the bass D and G is about on the limit of the pegs, they're fine on the octave strings though). As mine's short scale I was able to use guitar strings for the octave pairs, though to reduce tension and compensate for a standard guitar scale of c26" I used an A string for the E position, D for the A position etc. I put the bass and octave strings through the same hole on the bridge, let the bass string sit in the usual saddle groove, and let the octave string sit on the saddle seperated from the bass string with a wooden kebab stick!! Like I said - it's a prototype! Intonation on the pairs is surprisingly good. I have ordered some knurled bridges in order to do this a better but I think a proper 8 string bridge is needed to get perfect intonation. I haven't given the electronics much thought do I'll be interested in what you do. The Encores P-Bass pickups seem to do a reasonable job across all strings without worrying about the pole positions. If anything here is of any use to you please feel free to PM me for pictures or anything else. My prototype conversion isn't at all pretty, but more of problem solving exercise.

Ha ha, I love that guy. "Big bass, great for hiding tit sweat"! Nice axe too.

Apologies if simmilar has been posted before... My knowledge of matching cabs to amps is thus- Valve amps must always be matched to a cab with an impedance equal to or lower than the amps stated impedance. Class A and B solid State amps must always be matched to a cab with an impedance equal to or higher than the amps stated impedance. What about Class D amps? It seems logical to me that they would follow the same "rules" as the above mentioned class A and B solid state amps. Is this correct?

Amazing! Very cool.

I never understood why Fender would think the Thunderbird infringed on their designs.