lemmywinks

How do you build a single-pickup passive generic bass for £1700? Either he's telling a little fib or someone's ripped him off. Either way, what an idiot!

I'm also strongly against this, and lefty players in general. They'll be wanting to vote next!

[quote name='grumble' post='508954' date='Jun 9 2009, 12:38 PM']Booths of Bolton have got a new Stagg in at the moment, slightly over your budget at £425 though[/quote] Cheers bud but I've found a brand new stagg for £299 so I'm going with that. Was on offer from soundslive as was the last one, should have it today or tomorrow Ta Steve

This guy charged £40 postage too so someone's paying nearly £700 for one of the cheaper Warwicks.

Hi I'm looking for a cheap starter EUB if anyone's got one, see the following thread for details and tradebait: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51090"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51090[/url] Cheers Steve

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WARWICK-CORVETTE-5-STRING-BASS_W0QQitemZ170338584983QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item27a8f88997&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1688|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WARWICK-CORVETTE-5-S...93%3A1|294%3A50[/url] A Warwick Corvette Standard Active, Bubinga body. Up to £510 already? I've seen Corvettes in various incarnations going from £280 to £370 in the last few months. This is the Ovangkol necked version too, after the more desirable Wenge ones. His reserve is £600, i have the Ash-bodied 4 string version of this and i paid £598 for that new! A bit gutted cos i should be in the market for a Warwick sometime this year! EDIT for bad spelling!

Er.... I actually quite like that! An improvent on a godawful design [runs away]

I love my Corvette, nothing wrong with the cheaper ranges. Very well made too, it cost me under £600 new and has paid for itself and then some. The only things to watch out for are the jack socket and the push/pull volume pot, other than that it's put up with years of gigging abuse

Bought Rich's rather good Warwick Pedalboard, top bloke Thanks again! Steve

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='505232' date='Jun 4 2009, 07:15 AM']I work in Morecambe at the mo and suspect there's only one music shop. Presumably he bought it 2nd hand? Interesting Maybe they have a Fender J bass in stock with a Tele style neck?[/quote] Promenade Music? They were brilliant when i was trying to get parts for my Warwick, really nice bunch of guys. I don't think they'd pull a con like that, probably just an honest mistake. They gave me parts at cost because they'd lost them (Warwick sent them inside a Rockcase which they had sold, so they had to trace the buyer to get my part!)

Mine used to cut out every so often, happened a couple of times during a practice although was always ok afterwards Check something inside hasn't worked loose. These were so poorly built that the screws can work loose with the vibration of the amp, used to happen all the time on mine and i had to take an allen key to practice to tighten them all up afterwards! I solved it by buying a new amp and relegating the Ashdown to bedroom amp status

Remember, a mistake isn't a mistake if you cover it up well! I'm sometimes the king of balls-ups, i've just got really good at making them into fills. Also do not ever stop playing, even if you make a huge gaff, most people won't even notice if you just carry on playing. Scowling at the drummer in an obvious manner helps too And don't get too p1ssed, we used to get hammered at gigs and it showed

+1 for the MXR M80, blends with your signal so you can keep the low end and still get silly with the gain! It has 2 pedals, one for the effect eq section and another for the OD (you have to have both on for the OD to work). I set mine up so i can use it as a clean boost/eq switch and also a distortion pedal so it's very handy It also functions as a DI box too! Oh and if you want class fuzz without Wooly Mammoth prices check out the ZVEX Mastotron (there was a thread about it recently). I paid £76 posted for mine and it rules. I currently use just these two pedals for OD/fuzz, both keep the low end and sound the tits!

I was looking at a Kustom Groove head a while ago, absolute monster of an amp. I heard so many good things about it but that's their higher end stuff. If it's a cheapy there may be quality control issues, i remember being distinctly unimpressed by a guitar combo of theirs i heard while ago

So the bolt-on version goes for £600, his has a crack in the back..... Where did he get a grand from?

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='503157' date='Jun 1 2009, 06:39 PM']This might be me going a bit crazy, but the shape of the Zender looks like a very similar shape to the bass in your avatar…[/quote] Blasphemy!

+1 on the Planet Waves, although replacing the jack is probably the better solution in the long run

The first one is the nicest IMO, bit more like my idea of a Warwick I don't like the Zender or the Cort

[quote name='BassKS' post='502173' date='May 31 2009, 11:52 AM']woolly mammoth is a lot of money.... 350 dollars i think. Tried to get one but with all the shipping and taxes was a fair bit.[/quote] I have a ZVEX Mastotron which was £76 new, posted. It's meant to be quite similar to the Wooly Mammoth i hear. Does really low fuzzed up sounds, i'd imagine it would work well with a Synth pedal

I'd swap the word "conversion" for "abomination". Looked like a really nice bass too