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The other is the one on eBay at the moment, a 4001 C64S, the much modified McCartney bass with a reversed headstock, smaller reshaped body, zero fret, dot markers and single mono jack. It's basically a new bass that I bought as an investment and now need to part with. Unashamed plug: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=220443316730"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220443316730[/url] I prefer the CS if only because of the colour which is amazing. It's only a colour I know but the whole basses oozes something because of it

What's with the Ric love Joe? A bit surprised You need to get your hands on my 4001CS, now there's a special Ric

Bloody brilliant, here's hoping it all works out for you

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I've used Gotoh and BA and Gotoh 201 work well with less fuss. No saddle filing or neck adjustment required.

Excellent stuff. Those pup's'll turn up now Peter

Here's my 1990 Thumb It's like something that's been hewn by German elves with Adzes. And a photo nicked from John:

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='526475' date='Jun 28 2009, 03:28 AM'] It might be worth having for intonation adjustments, although I've got a Boss TU12 that I use for setups which is pretty cheap and it's always been perfectly good. I use a Planet Waves pedal tuner on stage because it's very visible and does the job, I don't think you need especially high accuracy on stage.[/quote] Oh dear, here we go again.....

Yes as has been hinted at you have slightly the wrong end on the stick (or amp) Your bass is active - always. Some basses are passive. You should ideally plug into the active amp input. The signal from the bass is attenuated slightly to match it with the passive input. Use the passive input for a passive bass with a weaker signal. So if you plug your bass into the passive input it will be louder as the signal isn't being attenuated. It's not an exact science and some passive basses have huge outputs and actives visa versa.

Well it certainly looks quite incredible. Great gloss finish on the one. Fairly rare mind with only a dozen made.

Nice one

If you make basses as nice as Graham's I don't think you need cheap tricks to draw punters into your website, give a new member a break! For me Jameson wins but I'd happily take half the talent that Carol has and improve 100%!

yes, more so imo. We all spend a fair bit of time getting in tune and smooth tuners with little stiction and a good ratio are vital.

Alan of ACG basses has contacts and an account with most hardware manufacturers. He's also extremely helpful. I'd say that decent hardware is important but it is a law of diminishing returns. i.e. a Goth 201 bridge copy is a world better that a Chinese bent tin bridge and buying a genuine Gotoh won't add anything perceptable to your sound. More expensive bridges will possibly give you more adjustment and the option to load strings without threading them but so far as tone is concerned it's less bang for your bucks. But if you have a high quality custom bass it makes sense to have the hardware commensurate with the quality of the instrument itself. ABM are good enough for me personally although I do admire Schaller gear.

Nice Telebass there Graham. Welcome. Peter

I have a Tribute and I'd find it hard to imagine that the US model is significantly better (I'd not turn one down though). I think the necks are a bit anemic looking on the Tribby and mine isn't light but it's very well assembled and sounds superb. Such a versatile bass, more so than a P I'd guess, a strong output too even in passive. I like the way that such variety is available even before you reach for the tone controls with neck/both/bridge : Parallel/Series : Passive/Active/Bright Active switches (3). The pups and electrics are the same as the US models too. I'd get one over a P bass personally

I've decided that I should have a set of flats on one bass. I usually use nickels on all my basses but the choice for the flats was fairly obvious with the Darkstar on my Warmoth with ACG02 pre being the one. I've used TI's, La Bella Slappers and Ernie Balls and have got on with them all but a recent read up on the Pyramid Gold Flats set me off in their direction for a try. I got a set from John at StringStar and at £40 a set (a good price) they aren't cheap. John's BC discount helps a lot though and he's great to deal with. Now here's the odd thing about these strings; they feel quite unlike anything I've used before. The inner core seems very flexible indeed and the slight gap on the outer winding means thay sort of 'flop' in a very flexible way until the gap is closed up and they become firm again. This makes for a very soft feel indeed. Talking of gaps, this isn't at all obvious from looking at the string and that have none of the 'stickiness' that some flats have. These strings ooze quality (they are German made). On the bass they stretch a whole lot when fitting but do settle down. If you like flats these strings really are at the extreme of flat sounding. I'll try them for a few weeks to see how they go and use them in anger at the next Jam night and I'll update. Lovely quality purple silks too Peter