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Many with 'proper' headstocks. Lawsuit imminent?

bandmix, joinmyband, formingbands ... all worked for me at one time or another...

Hi and welcome to the forum There's a few guys down in Bristol - Mr Foxen, JoeGarcia - they might know someone - and you could always check out the tuition section, maybe post a request there. May your ascent to greatness be swift and painless.

Thanks for spotting that! Awww! Poor old bass. Beyond my talents to fix...

Hi there and welcome Lots of good stuff for sale here and a useful 'feedback' section. Enjoy!

Even more so than bass guitar, the whole home recording thing is chock full of confusion, questionable manufacturer claims, well-meant voodoo and varying mileage. All of which increases the mind-f*ck and condemns you to months of Web-bage when you could be knocking out some tunes. I'd recommend you start with the simplest of entry-level gear - both software and hardware - so you can actually get some songs down. After a bit, you'll have hands-on understanding that'll highlight which areas of limitation (track-count, system stability under pressure, mic quality, acoustic environment) are most relevant to your objectives. Thus you can scale your 'Stage 2' accordingly. In certain instances, projects are migrate-able, so time spent creating stuff on an entry-level platform is not necessarily wasted.

Is it my eyes or a Shergold characteristic? The e string looks a bit too close to the edge of the fingerboard?

DI-ing works great for electric instruments - but the biggest problem I had when using a mic for acoustic gtr and vox was my acoustic environment. Nasty short room reverb, external house and street noise, fan noise. Once you dip your toe and decide you're going to follow it up, getting some acoustic treatment materials is a really worthwhile move.

OK, I have to ask the question, silly though it may seem. Aren't most PB's SC? Is it a manufacturer designation?

Sorry for all this, guys! The sentence should have read: [quote]And a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how neither has cropped up as a re-issue.[/quote] Which, as they re-issued the 6, means Bottom-endian had it right, yet so did Buzz I , on the other hand, conveyed inaccurate information in a poorly constructed and confusing sentence! ...and apologies to the OP for the accidental thread derailment.

Before they'd invented the term GAS, I was suffering for one of these in the 70's. Antoria had a really good rep at the time. And now, of course, they're just re-launched the brand-name...

DI all your instruments via a £50-100 interface. Nice little Shure PG mike - £30-40. Loads of free plug-ins out there, including amp sims. Reaper - Free. Never been a better time to start. Enjoy!

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='519708' date='Jun 20 2009, 11:42 PM']Yep the sunburst just doesn't look authentic to me either.[/quote] Dunno - 50:50 on that... On the one hand, just had a look at my old P and it's similarly black-edged. On the other hand, those colour transitions on this 65 are a bit 'abrupt'. And the orange is a bit muted making the yellow area stand out. And the yellow doesn't quite follow the edge curve of the guitar as it sweeps round into the upper horn - front and back - and ends a bit early... Need some higher res images - so difficult to say without getting your mitts on it.

[quote name='arabassist' post='519731' date='Jun 21 2009, 12:48 AM']I'm thinking of getting coated strings due to their longer life. I assume i'll still have to clean them to keep their life long? What do people suggest i use, WD40? Cheers[/quote] You absolutely don't need to clean them... Just a quick wipe down with a dry cloth when you're finished playing. Make sure you're getting underneath the strings while you're doing this, as that's a prime place for build up. (Even with normal, uncoated strings def not wd-40! It might transfer onto that nice, uncoated rosewood fingerboard on the bass in your avatar, possibly staining it and, at least, making it slippy and smelly!)

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='519285' date='Jun 20 2009, 01:48 PM']Ah, but they did [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/11204-fender-bass-vi-sunburst.html"]a few years back[/url], for one year only. There's still a few NOS ones on US sites for around $3k.[/quote] Ta for that - my error. B*gger, I'd have one of those if it was $2,500 cheaper and there wasn't an amp-shaped hole in my bank account.

[quote name='Muse_Cubed' post='519169' date='Jun 20 2009, 11:21 AM']Any advice?[/quote] For ease of availability and VFM, try the plasti-kote range - [url="http://www.plasti-kote.co.uk"]http://www.plasti-kote.co.uk[/url] - available in most DIY superstores. Maybe buy some stencils while you're in there? As it's poly over poly you should be fine. Just clean the body off with a gentle degreasing agent before spraying. Maybe not as 'fine' as a pro-job, but cheaper and more fun.

That's a pretty shade of blue...probably make for a nice beater bass at the right price.

They're kind of an evolutionary dead-end, but I think they're cute. Sound awesome played clean with cavernous reverb. And a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how they've never cropped up as re-issues...

Hi count2ten - welcome here! May your low-end enjoyment be boundless.

Hi Buzzy - welcome to the forum. May your riffs be bountiful!

Hi Chris - welcome to the forum and good luck with the course.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='518355' date='Jun 19 2009, 01:27 PM']Need a bassist? [/quote] Welcome aboard! We've got 48 songs to write and routine by July 1. Tour starts July 2 for a year, sole headliners. (We need to find a drummer, 3 percussionists, Keys, Zither, Pan-pipes and a full brass section). Rehearsals - sorry, no can do anytime Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday next week. Weekend's out too. Or any time the week after. It's gonna be great! Big Time, here we come!!! PS: I've decided I want to pursue other musical directions. Thank you for your interest. PPS: Hi, don't know if you're still available but...

I've been through 5 bands in the last 12 months. Most of them had pretty much similar problems as you've experienced - scheduling rehearsals, unrealisable expectations, unclear objectives. Maybe this stems from working with family guys - for most of them, a band's rarely going to come first. They like the idea of being in a band, but they don't want to do the work. While I'm not flogging my bass gear, I've realised that the only way I'm getting out there in the near future is to work on the singing and get out there with a guitar and a tiny amp. Seasick Steve, only rougher and more basic.

[quote name='molan' post='516161' date='Jun 17 2009, 09:57 AM']I did eventually get a reply to my 3rd email - it kinda said "we're too busy to reply to emails".[/quote] Phoning them is definitely the best option - do all my orders by phone. They've always been really helpful. Can't understand this...