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[quote name='icastle' post='1112532' date='Feb 2 2011, 03:20 PM']...so I've been paying out something in the region of £600 a month![/quote] Crikey! When you convert that into bass purchases it could quickly turn into feline resentment! Well, ex missus resentment....

[quote name='Bankai' post='1113573' date='Feb 3 2011, 10:28 AM']This upsets me. Generally the feedback has been good with only a couple of people reporting bad experiences. I was planning on a tele but I'm now worried it'll not be worth the £59, what to do...[/quote] I've put a few mates onto these, one ordered the Tele (should be here today) and the other got the Strat. The fret wire issue is worrying, still the loaded body will fetch a few quid on fleabay if it's no good. I've nicknamed the Strat the Lollercaster as when my mate was opening it he cut his hand open (don't know how but he did!) so he has a new guitar he can't physically play and has missed practice this week!

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='1112826' date='Feb 2 2011, 07:01 PM']Mick Quinn from Supergrass played his Ibanez Blazer bass.[/quote] According to an interview i read the natural Ibanez he always used was his first bass which he never felt the need to replace as it sounded spot on. Also his main recording amp (for their 1st 2 albums anyways) was an old Carlsbro combo - again his first amp. So the massive bass sound you hear on their albums comes from kit you'd find in a pawn shop in the early ninetes!

This is just down the road from me, the seller has previously sold other butchered novelty tat on eBay which has been flagged up here before. He seems to have a habit of acquiring cheap instruments, ruining them and selling them as "one offs" even though they are barely usable.

One thing i would say about Warmoth necks is that they can be heavy (they have steel support rods in them) and might change the balance of the bass for the worse. This wasn't an issue on mine as the body was a hefty chunk of mahogany but it might affect the VMJ. Also it felt a lot chunkier than what i'd call "Jazz width", i think that's quite a common complaint with the Warmoth J necks/. Another thing - the blocks on the maple necked VMJ are stick on ones IIRC which may explain their appearance.

They're not my favourite nylons but they are nice and not too pricey. They are thick due to the nylon coating but not especially high tension, the thickness may be a problem on the SR basses as they're string through and the bridge may not accomodate them. Also the ferrules on those basses might be too small (i think someone has already had this problem) - they're easily replaced though. I had to modify my acoustic bass at the bridge to accept these strings - it's a problem common with most nylon coated strings though. EDIT: Another thing - you may need to modify the nut slots for these strings. I just bought another nut to use with them as they're cheap enough.

[quote name='henry norton' post='1110713' date='Feb 1 2011, 10:11 AM']. Warmoth parts are very nicely made - generally better than the far Eastern fleabay stuff,[/quote] I'd say that's a bit of an understatement! The quality of the body and neck on my old Warmoth J was head and shoulders above pretty much every Fender style bass i've seen. The wood (Walnut and Pau Ferro) was stunningly figured and faultless. I got it used for a very good price and sold it for even less (£360) so they do lose a lot of value. It's new owner described it as "a work of art". Warmoth isn't the cheapest route to go down but the quality is assured - it's really great stuff.

[quote name='adledman' post='1110642' date='Feb 1 2011, 09:09 AM']i really have been trying to resist but not neutering on moral grounds! i think with all the unwanted pets we have in a so called animal loving country and the vast numbers destroyed because the charities are overwhelmed is proof that worrying about tibbles balls and how he wont be able to strut his stuff has back fired in a big way. lets hope they dont reach sexual maturity and multiply even further! i hope you manage to find a suitable home for them and that they get to have a long but sterile life. and blow a raspberry at the ex for me if you see her. thats the nicest way of putting it anyway. ad[/quote] Yep totally agree. Another thing i don't understand is people who buy kittens from pet shops. Why the hell do people still encourage kitten "farming"? Most animal sanctuaries have kittens as they get pregnant female cats dumped on them. When we went to get Mrs. Lemmywinks' cat they had pens full of kittens - all needing a home. A big pen with about 20 tabby kittens in it all meowing and climbing the mesh to get to you is probably the cutest thing imaginable! Both of our moggies were in need of a home and we were only too glad to take them, especially my little tortie as she's a total idiot.

The bassist from Jefferson Airplane. Great original player and active circuit pioneer. Also comes across as a very nice bloke.

Well, it's different... Can't help thiking he could have made 2 really nice basses from all that wood though. Tempted to message him and ask if there's any neck dive!

[quote name='willyf87' post='1106086' date='Jan 28 2011, 12:23 PM'][b]''I have previously listed this and been offered over £300 but I didn't consider that enough...it really should sell for around £1000 but the bidding is up to you !''[/b][/quote] That translates as "I paid £1000 for this ugly POS and am not willing to accept i was robbed."

I tried a set on my acoustic when Stringbusters first started stocking them (they were dirt cheap back then!). Very long lasting and durable like most black nylons, i preferred them to the Rotos and they were cheaper at the time. I see they're quite pricey nowadays though!

[quote name='markstuk' post='1105103' date='Jan 27 2011, 02:27 PM']THis makes an entertaining read :-) [url="http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm"]Speaker Cables[/url][/quote] Haha you're right, it does! Ta, i'll have a proper read through that in the morning.

Might be worth making sure it's not a structural thing. I had a rear panel on my old Hartke VX215 work loose which caused distortion, 30 mins with a drill and a pack of screws sorted it out. Try getting someone else to play your bass while you put pressure on different parts of the cab to see if that's the problem. When it happened to me it sounded very much like speaker distortion (Lemmy style) so i was chuffed when it was such a cheap repair!

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='1103796' date='Jan 26 2011, 03:10 PM']Just watch though, every BC-er is going to now buy one, and suddenly Sue Ryder will start thinking "hold on, I can get more money for these if they're this popular!" Won't be surprised if these eventually go up in price![/quote] They were originally £120, Sue Ryder are having a big sale atm on lots of their new stuff (check their site out, lots of guitars) and these are half price. The shop near me had them at £90 for ages, they had a white one but that sold and there's just the blue one left now. No gigbag included on it there though.

[quote name='EskimoBassist' post='1102681' date='Jan 25 2011, 08:19 PM']M80 can do parallel effected, which I've found to be quite useful. Personally I chose the M80 because of its' switchable distortion channel (which I prefered the sound of compared to the sansamp) and the mids control, which the standard Sansamp was lacking.[/quote] What i like about the M80 is the seperate switches for distortion "channel" and the actual OD itself, the pedal does 3 jobs for me - boost switch, OD and DI. I have it at the end of a very small signal chain (Tuner>Mastotron>M80) so it get my full signal going to the FOH. If my amp fails then no worries, still have bass!

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1103284' date='Jan 26 2011, 10:35 AM']The real problem, I think, is the stupid industry practice of using 1/4-inch jacks for everything. Half our band have trouble figuring out how to connect the PA together and I've watched them plug speakers into line inputs before now, presumably simply because the cables fit. I use speakon connectors on my speaker cables, so there can be no confusion. It's a shame they are not more widely used.[/quote] Huge +1. If an amp doesn't have a Speakon connection it'd make me thing twice about buying it. I really don't see why 1/4" are still used as speaker cables, speakons are a much better alternative. On a similar note i got a call from my keys player the other week who'd carelessly plugged a random cable into one of the sockets of his newly acquired synth - apparently it made a nice burning/melty smell and his synth doesn't work any more!

Could look at Protec stuff, never used them but they look solid: [url="http://www.ptcases.com/items.aspx?ProductID=275&InstrumentID=5&InstrumentGroupID=4&CategoryID=2&subCategoryID=7"]http://www.ptcases.com/items.aspx?ProductI...subCategoryID=7[/url] [url="http://www.ptcases.com/items.aspx?ProductID=410&InstrumentID=5&InstrumentGroupID=4&CategoryID=2&subCategoryID=45"]http://www.ptcases.com/items.aspx?ProductI...ubCategoryID=45[/url]

[quote name='tom1946' post='1101095' date='Jan 24 2011, 05:35 PM']From what I hear they are from the stagg messenwerks. No brainer for 60 quid so we'll see.[/quote] If they are Stagg quality then they should be good, i've liked some Stagg stuff.

Had another look at this on my way home (4pm finish - win!) and it's down to £60 in the shop too, they also have a "Ryder" badged acoustic which has Stagg tags on, maybe these basses are from the same factory as Stagg stuff?

[quote name='StevieD_FenderP2009' post='1100919' date='Jan 24 2011, 03:27 PM']Does anyone seriously think these may be worth the plunge? I mean, the alder body (if thats what it actually is) is exactly what I want in the P Basses I use so I may invest in one. and it's for charity...[/quote] When it says "Alder" it doesn't say how many pieces of alder that is! I'd be very surprised if a bass in this price range had a 2 piece body. That doesn't mean it's any worse (i have a Jazz bitsa at home made from what looks like 2,362,545 pieces of unspecified body wood which is great!) but maybe not everyone's idea of an "alder" bodied PBass and maybe not a selling point.