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[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='967725' date='Sep 25 2010, 03:48 PM']my guess would be a hohner jack bass or cricket bat, steinberger bridge too ?[/quote] That was my initial guess, but the Hohners don't have that angled heel. Hard to tell from the bad pictures, but the bridge doesn't look right for a Steinberger either (AFAIK): the tuning knobs seem to be offset from the line of the string/saddle, and there isn't that large flat area where the Steinberger stamp goes. It's all a mystery.

Toit like a toiger. Lovely.

Vile, but slightly intriguing... I'm just trying to figure out where all the bits might have come from. Control plate from a Ray-copy, pup from a Precision-a-like, body hewn from a dining table with a rusty spoon... but the neck? The angled heel makes me think Ibanez or similar, but they'd have to have hacked the headstock off. I just have sincere doubts that the person who made that body has the requisite skill to fashion a neck from scratch.

I'm usually pretty visually understated, but they're really rather cool. Quite tempted by the idea of a pink set on my all-black SR5.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='967366' date='Sep 25 2010, 10:11 AM']I'm guessing Enfields Super 8 pickup would be the last innovative thing out there... don't know if it's experiencing much success though.[/quote] At £2650 for the [i]basic[/i] Enfield model, it doesn't surprise me that it's not a runaway hit. [b]Sweeping generalisation here[/b], but I reckon people who are spending that sort of money generally aren't looking to reproduce the P, J and MM tones; they're often after something more "hi-fi"/hi-tech-sounding. If they licensed the technology to a manufacturer that could produce it cheaply and have it installed in a wider range of lower-priced instruments (even around the £1000-1500 mark), I think they could sell loads. I'd definitely have one. It's such a versatile concept.

Sweet holy mother, that's a lovely bit of maple. :wub:

[quote name='xgsjx' post='966517' date='Sep 24 2010, 11:14 AM']Incedently I've never known Db, D#, Gb, G# or A# to be in any scales other than in humour situations.[/quote] Surely G# and D# crop up quite a lot? They're both present in the E-major scale (G# being the major third of the E-major chord, so you hear it all the time), and G# is in A major too. A# is the seventh in the scale of B major, which is another fairly common key and chord in the realms of guitar-based songsmithery. Oh, and the B-major scale's got G# and D# in it too. The flats appear in the key signature in the order Bb - Eb - Ab - Db - Gb and so on (corresponding to major keys of F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db...), so you have to be a few keys down the flats line before Db and Gb crop up, but I imagine they're pretty common when playing with a horn section.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='966450' date='Sep 24 2010, 10:09 AM']We were joking about sorry, The Burpster will be along soon, he is the authority on PRS basses, he will give you all the info you need.[/quote] And warwickhunt's very taken with his PRS too.

Piezo. :ph34r:

I just do my "fretless voice" and play through stuff in my head... out loud. It's not entirely dissimilar to Hugh Laurie's trombone singing (from 0:37 in this clip):

Previously owned by a Pete Shelley fan, perhaps? I almost quite like it a little bit.

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='963589' date='Sep 21 2010, 05:49 PM']try to imagine any rock bass player using flats.[/quote] OK, I'm imagining Steve Harris. Now what do I do?

[quote name='tauzero' post='961930' date='Sep 20 2010, 10:21 AM']A small subset of "we" embrace change. 90% of bassists in local bands for local people play Fenders or Squiers.[/quote] Actually, yes, this is very true. I get a bit skewed by hanging around on bass forums with all the bass über-nerds and mega-geeks. That said, I've spent a fair bit of time looking on guitar (and general music) forums, which are full of presumably equivalently dedicated guitar-nerds... and everyone's still talking about Strats/Teles/SGs/Les Pauls. The odd Ibanez or PRS, but it's still mainly the big four.

[quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='960778' date='Sep 18 2010, 09:37 PM']hmmm i think the sei may be longer than 34 but they are long scale double ball ends sorry to be a knob but how do you measure the scale of a bass?[/quote] "Long scale" is 34 inches. Dunno why it's called "long", because it's been the standard since the Fender Precision was invented. But if the Sei's longer than 34", long-scale strings won't fit. You'll need "extra-long scale" or something, and I have no idea who makes that sort of length of double-ball strings. The most accurate way to measure the scale length is to measure from the nut (the fingerboard side of the nut, to be precise) to the 12th fret and double it. If it's 34", for example, it'll be 17" from nut to 12th fret. And quite honestly that's one of the least knobbish questions I've heard for a long time.

[quote name='ziggydolphinboy' post='960766' date='Sep 18 2010, 09:05 PM']bought some trace elliot double ball end strings to re string my sei 6 headless and the seem like they are a whole first fret too short!!!!!!!![/quote] On a standard long scale (34") bass, that's about 2 inches, right? Are you sure you haven't ended up with a set designed for medium scale (32" or thereabouts)? Or is the Sei longer than 34" scale?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='960158' date='Sep 18 2010, 09:07 AM']Are the players on the audio definately Gadd and Carter?[/quote] It's from [url="http://chetbakertribute.com/disc_shewastoogood.html"][i]She Was Too Good to Me[/i][/url], from 1974. Gadd and Carter are listed in the album credits, but the video's clearly a fake/montage (as noted repeatedly in the YouTube comments). Most obviously, we can hear a trumpet... but see a flügelhorn.

[quote name='51m0n' post='959631' date='Sep 17 2010, 04:25 PM']Too far for me I'm afraid Is he playing any other dates in the UK though????[/quote] London, definitely (with Steve Lawson IIRC).

[quote name='tino' post='959556' date='Sep 17 2010, 03:25 PM']I play an 80's Electra X-940 Les Paul with interchangable on board effects....but Im a saddo [/quote] Ah, but you're a bass-player too. Exempt!

I think you already know (via Twitter) that I'm dead keen for this, but midweek might be a real bugger. Once details are finalised, I'll be able to say one way or the other.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120622777850"]This one[/url]? It's still for sale, with a BIN price of £252.01. Thailand, with zero feedback? Wouldn't touch it with someone else's.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='959328' date='Sep 17 2010, 12:17 PM']Here - drink this. don't worry about that chalky stuff at the bottom. It's just there to make it taste nice.[/quote] *swaps drinks while WoT's not looking* Sup up, lad.

[quote name='Raggy' post='959285' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:43 AM']?[/quote]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='959246' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:08 AM']the Academy is sonically an awful room[/quote] Totally. Boom, whoooffff, booooom. And that's just the vocals. Saw Bauhaus there a few years back. They put on a good show, but it was sonically [i]so[/i] frustrating. No definition to anything. Pure mush. Glad Wilco kicked ass though. Great band.

[quote name='Conan' post='959200' date='Sep 17 2010, 10:31 AM']I didn't know that.[/quote] Neither did I. Can I ask how many Vintages have made it into the wild, Alex? Just trying to work out how much of a rarity my Vintage #1 is going to be when my kids inherit it. Ooooh, just remembered. Still don't have my foam port plugs, Alex!

[quote name='The Burpster' post='959076' date='Sep 17 2010, 07:34 AM']BE, I'll take that on the chin if thats what they state, however do you use them...?[/quote] I do. There's a set on the Hondo right now, and they were my string of choice on my old Ibanez BTB. And I agree with all of this... [quote name='The Burpster' post='959076' date='Sep 17 2010, 07:34 AM']I've lost count of the number of sets I've used and I'm yet to to open a pack that I would consider polished. They are wonderful, wonderful strings, but my idea of polished is clearly different to thiers. They are also covered in ucky packing oil that needs to be cleaned off and leaves a black residue on the cloth that you use. A small price to pay for the wonderful tone they produce, but I would challenge their claim when compared to other products. (GHS - DR - Optima)[/quote] They're clearly not [i]visually[/i] polished, but the [i]feel[/i] is a lot smoother than something like La Bellas or TIs, both of which I consider pretty smooth. I can't really feel the windings on Chromes. I assume the original finish on the outer ribbon winding is pretty rough, so they polish it to smooth... but certainly not gleaming. The first time I opened a pack of Chromes, I thought they must be an old set that had been knocking around for years and they'd corroded. They were a sort of gunmetal grey. After a quick Google image search, I realised that they're supposed to look like that, whacked them on and loved them. They're not perfect for every bass, but (IMO, obviously) they work really well with P-type tones or very polite pickups. I've found them a bit clanky on other basses, where I've preferred La Bellas or TIs. It's an expensive habit, trying out different flats. Especially on 5-strings.