GreeneKing

I play like a bloke, who plays very lightly. Haven't voted as there doesn't seem to be a catagory for this

Thank you that is a real beaut. £30? Seriously, all original I seriously reckon over £2k would be a realistic selling price.

Bad news I'm afraid, with the Seymour Duncan the devaluing is immense. I'll give you £20 for the bass and take the original pup off your hands for a fiver. Can't be fairer than that. In seriousness. I'd say over 2K, definately, and pics would be nice.

[quote]Should have used the Overwater comfort strap,[/quote] Is it only me that bridles at 'Should have....' statements. I had an Overwater comfort strap and couldn't stand it! Comfort Strapps are far superior imo. One is now fitted to my very fine Overwater bass All the elastic on the Overwater strap was in one piece in front of the padded section and my bass neck was doing nodding donkey impressions. For me a very significant design flaw.

Many thanks This tells me that the pedal isn't AC supplied at all, as I suspected, it's DC like any other just a 3.5mm jack [url="http://www.bassic.co.uk/"]http://www.bassic.co.uk/[/url] Pictures 5 and 6 would be the appropriate connectors, exactly the same as my Small Clone then. Putting AC at the top of the pedal only serves to confuse. Peter

Hiya I have a mate who has a US Electroharmonix Bassballs that he's trying to source a power supply for. If you go here you will see a US, NYC Bassballs with quite clearly a standard 9v positive tip power supply. [url="http://www.ehx.com/products/bassballs"]http://www.ehx.com/products/bassballs[/url] i.e. But, a big but, his bassballs looks like this: Which seems to indicate an AC power supply. I haven't actually seen the pedal but it seems to have the usual 3.5 mm EHX socket. So does anyone know if this really is an AC supplied pedal. EHX aren't answering emails on this. I find the very idea of an AC supplied pedal a bit odd. If it truly is AC supplied where does one actually get a PSU for the beast. Help here would be greatly appreciated. Peter

I'm thinking that I understand your appreciation Matte, looking at your avatar Marks out of ten for ascetics hmm.... not a hug amount from me but it's Kev's bass and it'll hopefully suit a purpose.

I use a LMII and 2 x GS112's (one NT) and I'm totally happy. In terms of lightness I would argue that if the cabs are a one handed carry how much lighter do they actually need to be?

This guy the salesman, he's just a bloke with issues. Move on and deal with somewhere else. Don't let his stuff get to you. Leave it with him.

I think that Alan at ACG would be my 1st choice (I don't really think this, I know this) but then again 1000 to 1200 euros isn't going to get you far with any custom bass. Just a reflection on the fact that a US Fender, MM or Rickenbacker will cost you more so custom may be pushing it a bit. ACG would be perhaps more reasonable than many. Hiya Russ. I'm assuming you mean me? Thanks. A young lad came round this eve to pick up the fretless - totally awsome player, Overwater owner too. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvTuD1dXU4&feature=PlayList&p=3964EAF20CC2BED0&index=2"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvTuD1dXU4...ED0&index=2[/url] Peter

Another transaction with Paulo painlessly completed Peter

[quote]I don't suppose the fact that the bass is not an active one makes a difference does it?[/quote] That could be your answer. Aren't these pickups normally used just with the Fender 18v active pre-amp?

I'd have said that a good proportion of 5 stringers are 35" nowadays. Anyone care to comment?

Just a thought, how often do we let a note ring long enough for any increase in sustain to be significant? If you increase sustain it usually is at the expense of attack. How often to we use the sustain gained and are we prepared to lose attack? I'd like to thank Jim Fleeting for the above info btw. Personally having fitted 3 or 4 Badass II's I'd say the difference almost imperceptable in a gigging situation.

I was getting really enthusiastic until the word 'relic' came along. Each to their own of course but how about using it for a few years and the relicing will be. 1. Genuine 2. Free Just a thought.

[quote]I think Chris May, Martin Petersen, the people at Alembic, Fodera, Mike Tobias etc etc would probably argue that point.[/quote] I think that's a very fair comment but, the two luthiers I've spoken to on the subject give the wood about a 10 to 15% influence on the 'tone' as a maximum. So maybe it does have a small effect, and if you're shelling out for a custom instrument then 15% would be significant. When combined with wood mass, neck construction, pickups, strings and pre-amp it will become considerably significant. Then going back to the argument that most punters don't know their 4 string P from their 6 string Yamaha it's only likely to be us who care anyway. As I've said before, coffee table woods have their uses:

Personally I need to understand whats going on musically to be able to play. But I know a lot of people out there who gig regularly, play far better than me and have a great time without being able to read music or academically understand chord structure. So I'd suspect that the Berlin stuff is a narrow viewpoint, valid only if you are of that ilk. I think that if you are going to take playing to the nth degree then it becomes progressively more important too.