GremlinAndy

I agree on making changes for *your own* preferences. After all, it's for your pleasure... It looks great, and now it's a player to your taste too! Cudos!

Just bought a Babicz bridge from Andy. Top geezer, great deal and prompt delivery. A pleasure to do business with! GremlinAndy.

Bought a Shuker fretless 6 string P bass from Marc. An absolute pleasure to do business with!

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1370356334' post='2099625'] I have to agree with @iceonaboy. I like to have bright-sounding strings for playing harmonics or a bit of slap. I also like to sound like a whooly rhinoceros from the '60's with a nice bottom! I might try picking a bespoke bass to string with flats and see how it goes while the others get their ration of roundwounds when I can afford it. I dont have overly-greasy paws but some strings do just die super-quick. I have noticed the Warwick strings on my Warwick Thumb are doing ok and its been a long while but the rotosounds on my Jazz were dull in two weeks. [/quote] Rotosounds only last weeks before they sound dead and lifeless to me too. And as I said above, the Warwicks last ok, but the 'wick EMPs are astounding value (even if they cost more). They will easily outlast 3 sets of just about any other string I've tried by quite a magnitude, ...and there's the value. For me anyway. Others may just not like the way they sound ;P

[quote name='Moos3h' timestamp='1369859514' post='2093720'] I bought a set of elixirs and apart from the feel which is very nice, I could not be more unhappy with them - the sound is just dire! Straight back to Legacy rounds for me. [/quote] Is it the Elixirs that have the silk style wrapping? Never tried them myself... Sounds like I was wise not to...

The Warwick EMPs are great. From the off they are not *quite* as bright as (for example) Elites, but they dont change. For months. Even with regular playing they stay bright. They dont loose any coating either, which some of the others do. Give em a whirl one time, I did ...and I stuck with em.

I'm having Jon Shuker build me a 39.5 inch scale monster... just for the wheeze. Lets call it a victorian style folly! The build has already begun. Will keep you posted with photos as they arrive. (slowly I imagine)

My 2 Shuker Headless... [attachment=133218:Shukers.jpg]

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1366627917' post='2054959'] Some of us don't find that compression in the signal chain gives a more "punchy" sound. It will certainly give you a more even sound in terns of levels and do things like simulate longer sustain from your bass but I prefer to have the original dynamics in my playing preserved as much as possible. With strong consistent technique, you can eliminate the use of compression from your live playing altogether and reduce it's use in the recording environment to a bare minimum - after all, the less gubbins between you and the speaker which will finally reproduce what you're playing, the better, no? The use of compression as an effect is of course something different. (Runs for cover) I see he plays mostly fingerstyle but throws in a bit of slap for effect - some basses (yes even high end ones) do not produce consistent volumes between fingerstyle and slap techniques so he may have used the compression to help mitigate this. Anyway, at least part of what makes this a nice punchy sound is the cleanness of the playing and in particular regard to note lengths and dampening. Not only is the start of each note nicely judged and executed but also the end of each note - gives that nice contrast between note and space and helps give great definition to the rhythm and groove. My tuppence worth! Ed [/quote] I'm with you... compressors arent always desireable... However you cant make it sound like you squashed the crap outta a non compressed bass with any amount of technique... Whether it's *everyones* description of punchy or not is debatable, but it's definitely got compression on there... My penneth...

Nice Fella, great commuication! Deal went very smoothly... All the things you look for in a Basschat purchace. Cheers buddy.