lemmywinks

Gigged an active ash standard for years, great bass. You'll probably want to swap the nut out for the brass verson, aside from that they're rock solid, sound great and are a joy to play.

This is why I remain anonymous on forums!

They're a bargain so trying them out isn't a gamble, even if you don't like them you won't lose money selling them on. I bought some used Nordstrands for my Sire, gigged them for 3 years and sold them on for what I paid for them when I got a new bass.

That kinda did happen, the majority of modern music isn't guitar based (might not even be a bass guitar on the recording) and even live drums are often time aligned. Younger generations have a lot of options if they want to make music and less of them are picking up guitars.

Does make you wonder how many of the vintage guitars in private collections are very good counterfeits and how many dealers know about it. I remember the Music Ground crooks getting caught with faked up vintage amps a while back.

Havig a clearout and decided to part out my bitsa fretless, been playing it with roundwounds for years and the ebanol fingerboard has picked up a bit of wear, mainly paler streaks down the length of it. Is there anything I could do to polish/buff these out? With ebanol being paper/resin I thought some sort of car buffing compound would work but don't want to ruin it through stupidity!

Would the hard foam cases be suitable? I used one of these with my Warwicks back in the big PA in a big van days and it was as good as any regular hard case while being incredibly light. Unless you're flying then I'd just use one of those if weight is an issue. Mine was a Warwick branded rectangular one which was huge but you can get less cumbersome designs now.

That's the best finish of all the EHB basses along with the Black Ice 6er IMO, wish they did it on the other models.

Started listening to these last year thinking they were an exciting new band, they've been going for 14 years.

The advantage of Thomann pre-paying fees and doing all the paperwork on their side not only means it most likely makes it through customs a bit faster but you also won't get hit with the handling fee courier companies generously award themselves.

Disappointing but in no way surprising.

Yeah Thomann stuff is still coming through ok, had a pretty large item arrive after 5 working days recently.

Saw this on their Facebook, hope they get it back. I think their original bass player used to post on here every now and then. Top band as well if anyone wants to give them a listen.

Gator Transit, ProGo X and ProGo Deluxe all have movable neck blocks.

Was one only at PMT, got it for £730 in the end.

Well I also got the EHB1505 and it's brilliant, however I think the only real solution is to still get a KZ5 at some point and stick some Big Splits in it just to be sure. The KZ5 for sale on here isn't too far from you.

We used to use an old H2 many years ago, results were always decent and a lot better than you would expect from just sticking a small gadget in the middle of the room and pressing a button. It eventually died a death at the hands of our guitarist's teenage son so as long as you keep them away from clumsy teenagers you should be ok.

Is there somewhere that lists what gigbags fit these basses btw? I know the Gator Pro Go Deluxe the Transit bags do, the TGI extreme might make a nice cheap but good bag.

Btw this might sound like a stupid question but if you change strings are the old ones still usable as spares after being taken off the bass? I always keep an old set of strings as pre cut spares on regular basses but not sure if the locking posts on these facilitate reusing old strings.

Yeah, the premium gigbag it's supposed to come with although I didn't really want to use as it's quite flimsy and I don't like how the shoulder straps sit. I got the Gator ProGo Deluxe one as it's the only reasonably priced gigbag that is sturdy enough and can also fit all my cables, laptop, in ear stuff and preamp in the pockets. I don't think this bass has had all that much use tbh, the jack socket has only just started loosening up and the fingerboard has zero wear on it. The gigbag was as new and all the accessories were still in the sealed bag when I got it, the ramp hasn't been taken out of the packaging either.

Leave a metronome on the doorstep?

Contrary to the norm on here I generally gig the same bass for years, besides I've already bought a guitar gigbag for it so kinda have to keep it now as nothing else will fit in it!

You can be polite and unreasonable at the same time, just because someone words something in a pleasant way doesn't mean you have to bow to their every whim. The OP isn't doing anything wrong IMO and he can tell them that in an equally polite manner without fear of being the bad guy, nobody is entitled to absolute silence during daytime hours.

Btw I think we'd all be interested in knowing the make and models of these little combos that can turn a Summer house in a field into the Pyramid stage.

I wonder how he found that out?