ezbass

I put a Bigsby on a Casino a good while back (a B9 I think), easy peasy to fit and it sounded marvellous. P90s are my fave pickups and Bigsbys just do something magical to a guitar's tone to my ears. Enjoy your new purchase, but watch out for feedback.

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Nice
[/quote]It sure is. This is the only piece of music that I've played to Mrs Ez over the years to demonstrate the sound of a particular bass where she's actually said she could hear something different and could see why I wanted one. She wasn't so keen on the cost of a new one though, fortunately one came up here second-hand.

I am a complete child, the opening paragraph of chapter 24 had me shaking ang giggling out loud!

Just saw it on Facebook; nice one.

Another Kindle download here.

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You will not find a worse album cover than Virgin Killer by The Scorpions. Wrong on so many levels.

I won't post an image here. The morbidly curious can do a google image search.
[/quote]Oh no they didn't! The Blind Faith cover could be called dodgy, but there's no 'could be' about that. Just wrong.

Now I think of it, I would probably break out Good Times.

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When Doves Cry by Prince.
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I've never been asked by non-musos - such is the lot of a bass player However, if asked, I'd probably go for Wherever I Lay My Hat or Pete Kastner's version of Nardis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycN9x_5MqHQ

Allianz.

And so it begins - yummy!

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God, has it really been 6 years? Miss ya, daft old sod.
[/quote]Wow! Where did those years go? Much missed on these pages.

This will just embolden more chancers in the future I feel. A poor decision IMO.

Both are cracking.

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OK, for those of you local to Watford [url="http://www.lemonrock.com/firefly?page=gigs"]http://www.lemonrock.com/firefly?page=gigs[/url]

Don't forget to wear your BC tee shirts just to put the pressure on.
[/quote]Good for you! Can't make it myself as I'm in Scotland this weekend, but hopefully there will be a BC contingent. I hope you all enjoy it and that you get more paying gigs off of the back of it.

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Cheers for your comments folks. At the weekend I went into a guitar shop and in looking for something with a beefy slap tone I played around with a few basses including an Indonesian made S.U.B with basswood body in natural finish. When slapped it packed one hell of a mighty thump and I was sold. Very nicely crafted and a high quality grain to the maple neck. Considering the low £319 price tag it's a steal. I'll still hold out for a decent used Stingray below £1k but they're hard to find.
[/quote]There's nowt like actually playing the thing. At that price, if you like the way it plays, you can always upgrade the electronics, if you're looking for something 'extra' and still be £s in. Congrats, but now to the serious business

Are you doing anything else that Sunday? If not, treat it as a rehearsal without having to pay any studio fees. Use social media to advertise as much as possible, friends and family are your draw when getting going, they will still be faces the venue's management have never seen, so a good thing. Knock together some posters for the venue to display to show you mean business. If you don't get any bookings from the gig (at that venue), well that's that and you did your best and hopefully had some fun. However, it might also pay off and there might be other people there who know other venues and will recommend you (this happened to my band). Ultimately you either want to do it or would rather do something else. Are the venue taking the pee? Yes, probably, but 'twas ever thus. If you do do it, enjoy it for what it is and don't constantly be thinking how you're being taken for a ride.

I've had a full on EBMM, a USA SUB, a Ray34 and I've played the SBMM SUBs too. For my money, the nicest one was the USA SUB, it played really nicely and had a really rich 'Ray tone. The SBMM SUB Ray4s that I've played were very nice for the money with reasonable tone but a little lacking in the build quality, however, that was to be expected and realistically I was very impressed at that price point (plus they're light by comparison). In terms of tone, I found the 'Ray34 and EBMM 'Ray to be almost identical, both giving what I consider to be the trademark 3 band tone (plenty of clank and presence). The difference between the two, for me, was the attention to detail in build, where there was nothing to fault the US version on at all, there were a couple of small niggles on the Indonesian build (which were very easily remedied). Both were a similar weight, i.e. heavy. If I was needing to pick between the SUB Ray4 and the Ray34 then, if I had the extra money, I'd go for the Ray34 as it is a better built product and really sounds like a full on Stingray to my ears. However, in a perfect world, I'd try to pick up a second-hand US SUB.

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Before I start I'm going to set out some caveats because the moment I hit post what I say will be decried as snake oil. There is an element of truth to that but not to the black and white way in which many talk about it.

It's a matter of nuance. Certainly the main sound of a Wal will be from the unique pickups and active circuitry. That and the bolt on construction. A Wal sounds like a Wal irrespective of the woods it is made of. And, in a mix context, the nuance will be much less obvious than solo'd in a perfect listening environment. As many others have said in the inevitable/interminable tonewood debates it is very unlikely that your band or your audience would/could ever tell the difference. However, unlike some who say there would be no difference whatsoever I would say that there will be real, appreciable differences - albeit subtle ones. In any complex system all the elements will contribute to the results albeit to a greater or lesser extent. But other elements like how and where you pluck the strings eetc etc will have a much larger effect on any particular sound.

So, whatever wood you plump for you will still have a Wal that sounds like a Wal. However, there is an accepted understanding of how the various Wal woods tend to vary in sound... This goes from Wenge and Maple which tend to be considered the hardest/brightest sound through to English Walnut which is considered to be the most mellow (Ian and Pete always considered this the best wood for fretless).

So, here goes. Maple tends to be thought of as the brightest sound. Wenge is close behind and is thought of having more of a punchy sound. Shedua (a relative of ovangkol) comes more in the middle with a pretty balanced, punchy sound. It also comes with some very unique figuring patterns. Paduak is a bit more mellow and then softest is English Walnut.

However, I would underline that this is really subtle nuance territory. I would echo the other comments above... Focus more on the aesthetics of the wood that most float your boat and whether to go for a matt or gloss finish.

[/quote]Great post. As said, the things that transfer mechanical energy into electrical energy will have the greatest bearing on tone. The construction and woods used all add something, but in a band mix you might be hard to put to hear the difference between two basses that are ostensibly the same, but built with different woods. Definitely go with the advice that Wal will give you after taking into account your own aesthetic choices. Exciting times ahead

A great build and a nice set of photos too. Well done.

Ooh, another build; goodo!

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ezbass - dangerous suggestion that! Ha!
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Of course, if you don't mind the MM p/up, off the shelf is always available https://www.public-peace.de/index.php/bass-guitars/maruszczyk/jake/5-string

Get a custom build Maruszczyk.

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Here it is, 32" scale, matching headstock, and I've called it "Old Thumper" rather than "Jake", which Adrian was happy to do after I sent him the artwork for the logo.
[/quote]More class.

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Here's the sofa shot for mine. Just waiting for payment to clear...
[/quote]As mcnach said, classy. Man alive I have GAS for another one!