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synthaside

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  1. excellent , I expect a full review with pictures as soon as its in your paws ;-)
  2. I think its pretty poor form , that's got to either be scripted buying .. Somone else with a more aggressive version of your job , twit , and no morales looking to pass them on via ebay or Thonnman removing them . Its bad ... because it will mean misrepresentation of these usually very good , well priced instruments , probably sold for a mark up perhaps Thonnman might like to be informed so they can , sell some expensive Deko Air in a box just for decoration priced at 1000 pounds.
  3. Alright let me know , if its feels good value and worth the 10 miles of London traffic through mitcham i'll bring the status for neck appreciation , there ... different ;-)
  4. We could always go halves 54 quid is not huge a investment and if they turn out to be junk we donate it to the great bassist in the sky. I'll even be a gent and offer to go last , as i'd want the slightly more pricey sunburst ;-) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkFWvgPKsmA"]https://www.youtube....h?v=pkFWvgPKsmA[/url] found this depends on how good your german is ;-) but sounds alright in freless 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXKdMBboncw English guy ... but not quite as detailed
  5. Have you tried contacting [b][email="[email protected]"]dimaverymusic.nl[/email] [/b]? rather than the UK stockist , from the sound of there contact us page they seemed that they'd try to answer any question
  6. I own a status Graphite vintage P , So I can vouch for the playability of the necks ;-) if you ever find yourself in Kingston you can find out . As a source for a 5 bitsa the bass sounds like a good doner , but i'd probably want to change the pickups I've bought ultra cheap n cheerful Chinese stuff in the past and its been surprisingly good once ive ripped out the 2pence pickups and popped in some cheap entwistles .
  7. they do a sunburst 5 for not a lot more money , `119 quid for a MM inspired 5 , 1 volume 2 tone .... O.O does that mean 2 band im not sure why you'd have two tone pots for a passive single humbucker.. Rumple what are you planning .... and if the things any good let me know because i'm toying with the idea of a cheap five You could try calling here ... seems these guys make them , I particularly liked the google translate from dutch [url="http://www.dimaverymusic.nl/over-ons"]http://www.dimaverymusic.nl/[/url] [center]Do you have a question about one of our musical instruments? Whether you want to know which guitar is the best choice for you?Call us and ask one of our staff the shirt of their bodies.[/center] [center][color=#696666][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Phone: [b]06 37227135[/b] Contact: [b]Michel Kronenburg[/b] Email: [b][email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email][/b][/size][/font][/color][/center]
  8. Greetings from another Kingston based bass player , I'm actually to going to see them at the half moon in Putney in march with my band , to see a real funk outfit to try and inject some SOUL into our live act ;-) / an excuse to see a great band and imbibe a few beverages.
  9. when learning a new song my attitude is use the resources you have , to learn a song in the best way you can , a mixture of crap you-tube tutorials , songster scrolling tab , sheet music and by ear .. to come up with that feel best represents what i hear when i listen to the song. At the end of the day, if your playing to enjoy yourself and make a half tidy sounding racket down the bull and bush on a Wednesday night then whatever you come up with that goes with your arrangement is fine . Professional muso or dabbling idiot in his bedroom , the answer to this question all comes down to what you want to get out of playing bass If you find yourself playing a corporate covers band then i can see that paying for original liner notes , getting the sound down perfectly listening for hours on end to an original 45 to get the tone perfect is perfectly acceptable and encouraged but one shouldn't be-little the other's validity to the person doing it. .
  10. I had remember dating a girl who im pretty sure had a couple of CD's specifically for this Tracks that stick in my mind are ; Closer NIN , Jeff buckley' Lover you should have come over and the way young lovers do.
  11. If this were a five string the seller would be suffering from whiplash.
  12. i swapped out some crap Chinese pickups on a J bass not so long ago , if your looking for good and cheap i considered these [url="http://www.entwistlepickups.com/pickup.php?puid=JBX"]http://www.entwistle...up.php?puid=JBX[/url] which some people rave about . In the end i found someone who had done a swap out of some Squire VM J Seymour duncans on the evilbay , they also threw the loam in but i imagine the wilkinson loom is a lot better than i had to work with.
  13. I think there's always the chance that serendipity smiled on that factory that day, the right parts ended up on the right bit of wood. In my case I'm very fond of my bitsa jazz copy , the body/ hardware and neck is from a most probably Chinese knock off . It feels great and it resonates really nicely, a thunky deep tone , holds its tune for weeks on end ... the electronics were a joke but that's easily fixed with a iron and a 2nd hand set of Squire vintage modified from evil-bay. Obviously i would never suggest that its better than a boutique zebra wood topped master crafted instrument , but i'm happy for any bass player to pop round and have a noodle to help them get over their GAS.
  14. Im a big fan of the "Mudbucker" neck pickup and being 6'5 and not the lanky kind, certain instruments look daft when i hold them Sixer' guitars actually feel like and look like toy's in my mit's . For years I tried to find a telebass or 'vintage P bass' ,that suited but the Squire felt a bit underwhelming and the vintage things i tried were way out of my price range .. status make these , they even do a pino model with a bridge jazz pickup but im very happy with mine
  15. I'm afraid i'm in chasing the roots club , /cough cough I'm aware that its not a true cover, but for filling out the sound its what we've ended up doing * ill get me coat* The singer always makes a point of mentioning the scowl on my face during the big slide during the solo , its a very long way to shift down my tbirds neck.
  16. Our drummer only has a electric kit he has access to an acoustic kit when needed at the rehearsal room, but for everything we've done an electric has been great no awful painful ears at rehearsals . I'm sure there are some snob's who sniff at them but I think its working amazingly well Adjustable volumes , modes to give brush sounds , loads of different drum tones , Im sure some of the early electric basses were frowned apon by upright players ... but in the end its somtimes just a little more convenient than to mic up an upright.
  17. GAS BUILDING ...... DAMN YOU .... I love these so much , I' love my cheap EPI-"Foney" enough already ... Sound samples next please ... you know you want to ... nice flat EQ ... frontpickup about 7 rear at 10 .. Lets hear it
  18. My guitarist has a nickname for me ... the cover police , He's more than happy for me to find the roots carry the groove and show off when i want to ... But he has to regularly tell me ... that i cant ask to drop a song because i cant nail the part to my satisfaction . At the end of the day we obsess over our stuff to the level that most people who aren't analyzing it wouldn't even know, and we are re-interpreting songs with different vocalists ,key's or time signatures ... getting the Feel is sometimes better than getting it perfect.
  19. I'm Looking for a small but loud amp solution ... lugging trace while sounded great and making me feel 15 again ... Is not doing me favors in the long run , and my other half wants the living room door to open all the way rather than bonking into the front of a stack.
  20. I've got these , work great and now i dont get moaned at about the messy stands http://www.amazon.co.uk/WOODIES-HANGER-BRACKETS-STANDARD-accessories/dp/B002TREG34/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421841687&sr=8-1&keywords=woodies+wall+hangers
  21. I've been rebuilding one of these, great little workhorse sadly I did terrible things to mine in my youth such as spraying it dark purple with car paint .. I had no idea how decent a bass i'd picked up in the 90's it was better than i deserved . The neck feels great and the pickups are expressive and versatile and it stayed in tune , while all of my mates crap copies were re-tuning every second song. [size=4]I'm salvaging it and treating it to a nice respray with real guitar finishing paint this time around.[/size] [size=4]FYI they had one on Denmark street for in wunjo's up for around 300 in a rather nice white finish, so this is probably a pretty fair price.[/size]
  22. I mean to reproduce the intro sound, which is vocals I assumed that was what the OP was talking about when they said " [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]Is it one of those voice tubes"[/size][/font][/color] but i'm also also using it for for the overdub parts in the middle to try and fill out the climbing slide i think its a not bad reproduction of the overall sound of the song In a 4 piece setup , with no army of backing vocals to tackle it. Its not perfect by any means but it sounds tidy in the mix, and for <a night out at the pub in terms of pedal not too bad
  23. I'm good for Neil diamond .... but just to be an absolute Git im going to leave this right here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-signature-Mark-hoppus-bass-guitar-jazz-precision-blink-182-/271723705180?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f43feb35c
  24. Were also doing this in our set , I'm getting a pretty decent sound for this using an inexpensive Digitech Synth wah on envelope down setting with the sensitivity right up and playing finger style real hard when i want the envelope to really open towards the end of bits , sounds good on the climbing run and slide back too. Eats 9 volts like a demon though. :-( ... not one if you dont/ cant use a 9 volt adapter , 3 x 9 volts eaten in the course of two weeks its got to the point where I'm unplugging it pre and post song. I've got an inkling from the live performances its Jamareo Artis , getting funky on this one , i like his work a lot.
  25. The Vultures are circling on the plank :-P, you could always look at upgrading the pickups on your old plank i was amazed what a set of pickups installed by me from Broken for parts J did for my bitsa Jazz. I'm also 100% behind the really great setup , Charlie chandlers who does mine ( i'm lucky to live near his Kingston / Ham store) does wonder for my Tbird and my Status , they come out feeling amazing its the best 50 quid you can spend new fancy nanoweb nonsense be damned . You'd find a lot < 300 quid in the for sale section here I know you've currently got a P bass so maybe spending a little on a new P pickup to fix the technical issues , especially if you like the neck. What about a J like this http://basschat.co.uk/topic/247169-fender-mim-standard-jazz-bass-2001-wine-red/ ( not mine but i do have a thing for red so it was on my radar :-P)
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