Owen

Approx £540. That is a very fine price for what looks like a nice piece of kit.

Bartokian Pizzicato - a term which instructs string performers to play a pizzicato note to pull the string away from the fingerboard so that it snaps back percussively on the fingerboard. http://www.imusicdictionary.com/definition.php?term=bartok%20pizzicato

[quote name='bassist_lewis' timestamp='1463483283' post='3051655'] beyond the 4th fret. [/quote] What are you doing playing ANY string above the 4th fret? Where is your dignity?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1463128347' post='3048777'] I ask you all though... Does the audience even notice? [/quote] The audience have no clue, but if I go for a low note and it just does not "happen" then it makes me REALLY sad inside and puts me right off. Having said all this, I am actually planning for a full scale 6 string fretted EUB with a bottom F# (with a detuner obv). My NS5 EUB sounds pretty fabulous through a big PA system I REALLY love LF!

[quote name='Musashimonkey' timestamp='1463089847' post='3048601'] Interesting... Are they tuned with a low B? [/quote] You cannot spell Bass with a B! My problem with non 35" basses for a very long time was that the B did not sound like an organic part of the instrument. It was almost like an aftermarket body kit on a car. You knew it was super cool (!) but it did not seem to sit well with the rest of the car. Both my 33" are strung with a B. They do not sound like a 35" but then the rest of the instrument does not either. For me, with these basses, I can play below E and not get cross inside because the tone changes.

I used to be 35" (MTD, Ritter, Sei, Lakland blah blah blah blah) all the way and then I fell into a 33" Shuker Uberhorn and I now have two 33" 5 strings and could not be happier. I have no bass guitar GAS at all for the first time in about 30 years. It is all very odd

I am feeling a bit light headed at the moment because I went onto youtube to hear these things. They sound really good. I will try some. However the video I watched was of a guy playing left handed with upsidedown strings. I can handle left handed but the upsidedown strings made everything wobbly in my head. He played lovely stuff though. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI2CgGaKKqI[/media]

Do not underestimate the importance of a preamp. Piezos NEED to see specific things further down the signal path otherwise they sound ike crud. As I have learnt. The hard way. On gigs

I have been through more basses than I care to admit to. Some of them were eyewateringly expensive. My present Shuker is easily as good as any of the others I have ever owned. He just makes a lovely instrument.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/281131-mesa-mini-rectifier-stack-price-drop/

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462879113' post='3046485'] Sorry I quoted you in error. [/quote] I am so upset that I am considering flouncing off AND taking all my toys home with me

I was not suggesting that the BF One10 would be moving at all. The DOD was making the cone move in truly alarming ways.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462870798' post='3046370'] I can tell you that the excursion effect will not move a cab, even one weighing only 7kg. [/quote] I tried a DOD Meatbox through a Mackie Studio monitor last week. It was moving around the desk like a slow hovercraft.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1462869001' post='3046340'] In which case I think I shall commission a pair of those nifty right angled Spekon cables. [/quote] Speakon lead GAS!

Catswhisker pickups will wind you anything you want in an EMG 35 sized case. As I am sure loads of other people will, but I only have experience of Catswhisker pickups.

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1462049757' post='3039978'] I don't have a heatgun or a blowtorch but i do have a hob! [attachment=218249:IMG_20160430_215647.jpg] [/quote] That's my kind of lutherie!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462532623' post='3043800'] [/quote] Unexpected speakon lead GAS I have.

[quote name='scojack' timestamp='1462267377' post='3041500'] Just waiting for a set of strings coming, [/quote] They should be with you today

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1462257563' post='3041434'] Hah! In your dreams mate. The average Basschatter is WAY older than 25, and I'm ... ahem ... rather older than the average Basschatter. [/quote] I resemble that remark!

Direct me to the Chowny blog.