UglyDog

Like jazzyvee above, I use fives pretty much exclusively. The covers that we do aren't carbon copies of the originals by any stretch, so I'll use the B string as and when it is necessary or desirable. Most of the time I use it to allow me to play across the neck rather than up & down it. [quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1413886809' post='2583070'] However, if a BB425x turned up for sale at the right price [/quote] ...I'd fight you for it!

BB425x apparently. Yum.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1413807624' post='2582089'] My Genz neoxT 2x12 is only 24kg, not deal breaking extra weight over the barefaced with a much more professional finish to the cabinet all over. Shame fender killed them off [/quote] Shame? Positively criminal if you ask me. Lost me as a customer at any rate -- I will never buy a new item of Fender gear again.

OK so it's not [i]actually[/i] 80s, but it looks like it... found one of these on A Popular Internet Auction Site and ohmygod pleeease somebody give me a good reason not to pull the trigger *drool*

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1413754872' post='2581641'] If I were looking for a great 5 string Jazz I probably wouldn't even look at anything that said Fender on it. Overwater/Valenti/Sadowsky/Lakland/whatever .... [/quote] If I were looking for a great 5 string Jazz I'd get a Lakland DJ5 and bung a J Retro in it -- and definitely wouldn't even dream of looking at anything that said Fender on it. The last Fender Jazz 5 I tried was dreadful. I agree that their product range is too sprawling and confusing, quality is average, and the management are bumbling. Bonio and wEdge on the board FFS? Why don't they just hire Cilla Black and Wayne Rooney too? It'd make about as much sense.

I read somewhere once that HARTKE stands for Horrid American Rubbish That Keeps Exploding. I find this highly amusing as it is quite the opposite of the truth IMO/IME. I like Hartke gear a lot.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1413555457' post='2579524'] 😉 [/quote] I've seen this symbol a number of times and never managed to work out what it is. Can someone explain it to me?

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1413620913' post='2580160'] hmmf uh.............. mmm ugh [/quote] Was that Tony Soprano Signature Gaffa Tape, or just the regular type?

Chorus, octave. That'll do me thanks

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1413471687' post='2578595'] Missing a band ain't the end of the world is it? [/quote] If you've been saving hard and travelled halfway round the world, I suspect it rather feels like it is, yes.

5 years and counting for my magna cart -- still working fine. When they're that cheap and that useful and that easy to store, I can't think of a reason not to have one!

God, what happened to Stew?

It's a stunner. I too would love to hear some sound clips.

Nice write-up. I have the SE3P-A in one of my basses (the 3P-A is a three-band with sweepable mid, with bass/treb and mid/freq on concentric pots) and it's just as good as you describe yours to be. As you say, the dynamic cut-boost range isn't massive, but why would anyone need it to be? The frequencies that are there are musical and useable. I like it a lot, but I'm not sure if Artec are making it any more.

If you decide it's not really your cup of tea after all, I will gladly take it off your hands for the 50 quid you paid for it

Blimey, maybe I'm talking to the wrong people then. I've emailed them (very nicely) four times now concerning my ultralite tuners. Not a sausage have i heard in reply.

If youre after a variety of sounds, have you considered trying FX with amp sims? My Pod XT Live for example has a particularly good Ampeg flip-top sim which allows me to go from my normal contemporary tone to a warm 60s woof at the tread of a button, and without changing basses or even touching the eq. Just a thought. New bass GAS is more fun though!

Oh very good

I saw a gorgeous curry-themed one once. It was a cucumber & mint Ritter.

Sounds like a well deserved pat on the back. The amps aren't for me alas, despite having tried them on a number of occasions, but I reckon a lot of manufacturers could learn a thing or two from the Ashdown fellas (yes, Hipshot, I'm looking at you).

IMO Page 'stole' the whole of STH in the same way that Bob Marley stole the whole of Buffalo Soldier from the Banana Splits. i.e. he didn't.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1412960760' post='2573720'] Red Leicester? Tilsit? Caerphilly? Bel Paese? Red Windsor? Stilton? Gruyere? Emmenthal? Norwegian Jarlsberg? Liptauer? Lancashire? White Stilton? [/quote] And what exactly is wrong with Cornish Yarg? Hmm? Are you some sort of Yargist? You want to be careful or you'll have the Yargite fundamentalists after you.

Has anyone bought Bilbo a ticket for this? I reckon it'd be just his thing

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1412938253' post='2573436'] Interesting pic of the gentleman concerned's home studio: [url="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI4MFg5NjA=/z/PosAAOSwR0JUNFdJ/$_57.JPG"]http://i.ebayimg.com...JUNFdJ/$_57.JPG[/url] Looks like he's developing a taste for the more eclectic - on the wall behind him it looks like a Thunderbird, what might be an RD, what I'm pretty sure is a very early Rick 4000, a very old sparkly Hagstrom, Ampeg Devil and what I think is a Meazzi Jupiter bass, or maybe a modern Italia Mondial. Hopefully it's only a matter of time before he discovers JapCrap & I can flog him a Tokai Talbo, Kawai Sleekline, Washburn Vulture II, Westbury Track 2, Kasuga Scorpion, Aria RSB deluxe II.... Jon. [/quote] Never mind the basses, I'm more intrigued by the tartan wallpaper and what appears to be a blanket hanging over the arm of that chesterfield. Mind you, it does get terribly chilly round the old legs as the nights draw in. Where's my cocoa?