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[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1349539689' post='1827524'] Yeah definitely I bet thats amazing. Me and missus have this ongoing joke about whether he'll play piano (she plays it) or guitar/bass. I hope he will embrace any musical venture as its been a passion of both of us playing music and be great for him to take up an instrument when hes older. I love spending time with my boy, hes growing up so fast and developing new skills daily (grabbing his feet is latest!) But there definitely isnt enough hours in the day to do it all as he comes first. Still, I did grumble to myself about postman! The parcel wasnt even for me [/quote] This is so spooky - my three year old loves instruments and we spent ages trying to work out what one she actually likes. I have a pic of her at 18 months plugging in my jazz bass. I think it will be drums . Partner keeps saying "it will get easier, you'll get more time to practice" but it does not seem to happen. However nursery tires them out more so you do get at least some earlier bedtimes Still waiting for a full nights sleep - was getting by in 3 broken hours a night at one point

I'm in central London at moment with my "gar" mad three year old. I might wander along to look tmrw

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1349553688' post='1827765'] Hold on,you mean a girl actually spoke to a bassist after a gig? [/quote] Even knowing its a bass, not a guitar, would be good enough for me. My partner of 8 years still can't tell the difference

I have the squier VM precision (Cort factory, Indonesia 2006) and it is just [b]amazing[/b]. Crisp, taut and like no other P bass i've tried. Its totally displaced my CIJ 62 reissue jazz.

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1312760306' post='1331584'] If you plan on buying without trying then don't get an SRX as they are the wide fingerboard models. The SRs are famous for their slim necks but the SRX is a bit of a beast in comparison [/quote] I didn't know that - if might explain why I struggled with an srX595 and its width. Still I sold it to a bass chatter who loves it so its gone to a good home

There's a sticky thread for this in the repairs nd technical issues forum - I had just this same problem and posted about it once solved

I have the yellow four string active. The only change I felt it needed was a copper foil lining for minor noise. Even the wood grain is quite nice. I assume its a good enough copy that a music man pickup would fit ?

Patrick pfeiffer explains this really well in bass guitar for dummies, available at your library

its on the lacquer - i had one. It is poly laquer so the colour is quite pale. Wirewooling the whole face of the headstock sorted it out, but the shadow was fairly tenacious

You could always get a Zoom B2.1 - it has a metronome in the builtin drum machne.

I have a Squier VM p bass, which has shielding paint in it and the standrd "duncan designed" pickups. It buzzes quite badly, but calms down a fair bit (but not totally) when I touch the strings. Tone up makes it worse. Is it likely theres a poor earth connection to the bridge ? second question, doesn anyone know if shielding paint is superior to copper tape with conductive glue ? I have some spare tape, and I'm tempted to add it but not if there is no gain thanks. EDIT - I solved my issues. I put extra shielding in, and tucked a little foil up so it reached the foil on the back of the scratchplate.I noticed that resistance from the bridge to the jack (0.50 ohms) was much higher than from the pots (0.009 ohms). Taking the bridge off I noticed that although the earth wire was in place, the exposed wire was twisted and quite slender so contact with the rough underside of the bridge was less than ideal. I pulled it through a little and put a piece of sticky copper foil over it to a ) stick it down and b ) widen the area of contact. This reduced the resistance from the now-refitted bridge to the jack socket to just 0.008 ohms. Bass now very quiet.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1347671474' post='1803969'] By Spinal Tap. Here's a picture of them performing it: [/quote] There's a reference to the real story behind this in "sabbath bloody sabbath"

I'd like it next please - makes me sixth I think

I'm not sure where I am in the list

Ive sent GS1000 a mesage about pickup/exchange as he lives fairly near.

My first bass was a noname copy and I really hated it, I've always played jazz basses and shied away from p bass necks due to concerns about width and profile. Couple of weeks ago I scored a cheap broken squier p bass on evil bay to do up. It turned out to be a stock Indonesian squier VM Precision in faded white/rw. It's brilliant in every way and so nice to play. I havent touched my jazz since - I finally "get" p basses

Poster above is quite right to warn about parcelforce and insurance but it's not quite true to say instruments are excluded from claims but the packaging requirements listed on their guidelines are so onerous they may as well be. No other courier is so demanding. The prosebass they carried for me looked like it has been machine gunned after they'd finished with it

that is a good idea,.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1347311919' post='1799295'] , it depends on so many things, as a law student you should know that - the act is a whole lot longer than "should be of suitable quality and fit for purpose" and value does come into it, not that it should in this case but it does in the actual act in law, it's often down to what can be "reasonably expected"; which is why I suggested he contact experts on the subject. And even with law on your side you can't walk into a shop & take money you're owed from a till, you have to decide what you're going to do about it (been there, done that, T-shirts etc). It's very difficult, to have any of the relevant bodies actually enforce the law even when they say they can and would do, - again T-shirts to show for it. As I said, so many things have happened as to negate many points of the sale of goods act - and why I suggested some of the things you now have [i]a few days later[/i]; eg. 2nd opinion without having work carried out being one, too much time passing as to invalidate others. Photographic evidence can - and has been - considered invalid if you can't also prove it's the exact same item in question.[/quote] I apologise for not being quicker off the blocks, I get time to read this board when I get time. It does indeed depend but I also know that County Court judges ([b]if[/b] it goes that far in these cases) generally go for their gut feeling about who's played by the rules and who's being naughty without actually bending the law too much. They seem to reach these decisions very early, judging by what I've seen. Its not like a simple sale of goods case would ever reach the court of appeal with its associated costs and there are no minutes. I've won every SOGA case I've taken to court by following SOGA good practice. I do agree its hard to get public bodies to act, and its got harder recently. Youre pretty much on your own. [quote] This would also appear to be irrelevant discussion since the OP has said a few times now that he's actually prepared to accept - grudingly - the bass, but would prefer to have £ for wasted time & costs, I'm not sure if that's something which can be claimed for alone at a small claims but they only way to find out is to investigate. Personally I'd try a letter to the owner of the store with a "is this how you like your shop to be portrayed?" Another alternative, which the law does cater for is for the OP to warn the shop that since they are unable to rectify the fault they intend to have the work done by someone who can & then sue the shop for the value of those costs. I've used that as a threat in the past (along with "You realise it would appear in the local papers too? - bad publicity") but didn't have to carry it out as the shop conceded. [/quote] Not sure this would work, although I see your logic - they sound a bit hard-core. I [b]would[/b] have bought from them until now, but I'll avoid them like the plague based on this report. Maybe thats where the OPs revenge should lie. Everyone who's read this (I would think) would at least think twice now.

its off to GS1000 next