MoonBassAlpha

The Bongo headstock needs to be taken in the context of the body design. Still doesn't make it pretty though, but it makes more sense.

That looks like one of the blanks for a d.i.y. neck. It's a very half arsed bit of design.

That Dunlop stuff works really well for most finishes, but disagreed REALLY badly with my '74 Gibson SG, so I'd advise trying it on a really inconspicuous area on anything old or nitro finished. I just found a small nozzle/brush attachment from a long deceased vacuum cleaner that I'll try next weekend. It may prove just the thing.

Even the little Ashdown CTM15 will give you reasonable volume through your 2x Zilla cabs, and you can get proper output stage breakup without deafening yourself. I find it quite a nice recording solution, putting the speaker output into a DI box with a speaker load. I also use it for rehearsal in my very small garage studio, through 2x 1x12s. They can be had for a lot less £££ too!

Yup, right on it! Good stuff.

Like it! Did the guitarist mix it?......

I think, although many tunes are formulaic to a large extent, I hear the loops, repeats and construction of some electronic music more than in conventionally produced music, even though they may contain the same levels of boohickey.

Only 1 side is run full-range, the other side is low-passed, presumably at a frequency below which beaming isn't an issue.

A paintbrush it is then folks. Thanks for the input kind folks!

I keep most of my instruments on wall hangers. What are the best dusting implements? Normal cloth dusters tend to snag on the strings and other snaggy bits.

Teen Town for me. I've given up on it, I find it too hard!

The gold colour is caused by a minutely thin plating of gold. That's why it looks gold. I doubt the amount of gold consumed covers the price hike, but the chemicals used in the process are nasty and need a lot of care in handling.

Let's face it chaps, if you're in a prog band fronted by a girl, your audience will barely notice there's a band behind her, much less what you look like or are playing...

I'm amazed Ashdown don't use LEDs these days. Incandescent bulbs are sooo last century. Then again, V.U. meters?

Anyone played one yet? No, you say? I thought not, but let's just write them off based on the pictures, eh? I used to own a fretless Marathon 6, and I liked it well enough, but I always wished the body design was more elegant, and comfortable, and find the distinctive headstock just clunky. I really wanted to love them more, but imo they never came up with a great looking design. The double necks did look impressive though. I roadied for a friend's band (called Media) that had 2 6/4 double necks, back in the 70s (and bass pedals too!) Eye-catching, but a bit out of step with the zeitgeist of 1977...

I think Dangerboy on here might have one. Don't see him on here much these days though.

One of my basses is fitted with a Kent Armstrong Tone Choke. In one position it gives a mid scoop, in the other, a mid bump. There is another switch that gives a shift in the points these occur. It's not as extreme as an active mid but very usable, and no batteries! There's also a pot to dictate how much scoop/bump you hear.

Update: they seem to have gone now. I did wake up with Pulling Mussels from a Shell yesterday though, who knows where the hell that came from? But at least it wasn't an Anton Barbeau tune from the set! So, it seems that just a bit of time is the answer after all.

I think it also depends on your setup. I you go for the lowest possible action, and slight movement could render it unplayable, whereas with a higher action, you may never notice the difference.

I was just the same for years. Now I play a less aggressive sound, and for the time being, they're staying on the fretted. Still rounds on the fretless though!

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1487178225' post='3237813'] Thats a strange name .. oddly enough i saw a band back in the 80's or was it the 70's, called the 64 spoons , downstairs in The Corn Dolly, Oxford . He didnt know it back then but the gitwrist would later play with Level 42 .. bloke by the name of Jakko Jakszyk [/quote] That's them. They were from the Watford area and I saw them loads of times. It was about the nearest you'd get to seeing Zappa in a pub. The rest of the guys were equally talented, Ted Emmett, Lyndon J Connah, Tam Neill. The bassist, Andy Crawford, was fantastic too, but no longer plays. Jakko plays with King Crimson now, btw.

I think there is quite a lot to like, the rosewood neck, decent pickups, locking tuners, and those inlays are a nice touch. If the quality is along the lines of the Faith acoustics, or they play like the Eggles from the '90s, they should be really decent instruments. If they had just been replicas of the original, they could equally be criticized, like many do of Fender and Gibson, of simply 're-hashing decades old ideas and designs. Maybe the logo should be a guy standing next to a cnc router

64 Spoons

I've heard worse!