tom1946

I know what you're thinking.... did he fire six shots or was it only 5? You've gotta ask yourself a question, do you feel lucky? WELL DO YA PUNK?

Well this is mine, very thin neck, doddle to play, great sound. Stunning looks.

I wouldn't, to me they look as though they have a growth on the bottom horn, just looks so ugly. I realise that beauty is in the eye of the beerholder....

Just had a deal with Neil for his Caprice. What a pleasure! Fast, friendly communication and the bass is exactly as he described it, Superb. Fast delivery, I would happily deal again. A real asset to Basschat. All the best my friend. Tom.

Yes I bought the yellow maple one, was £199 though but as said it's a great bass for the money. Must play it sometime.

Smoothhound deffo, best I've ever used! my wife uses one on her 12 string guitar and it works great on my Stingray.

I have a walnut/ maple sub and would't sell it for the world, I also have a 2007 Stingray and it's worrying how alike they sound. I also bought both of the Harley Benton musicman copies and they are excellent too, sadly these 2 are going up for sale this week. I just have too many now.

Hiya, thanks for that, so the oc2 could with some adjustments, sound a bit like one on its own. Ok thanks for that, I'd overlooked adjustments. Now to find one...

Hi, looking at an octave pedal right now but I know very little about them. My question is can you get a pedal that will just play an octave down on its own? Or dies it HAVE to have a normal note to track it with? don't really want an 8 string bass. Sorry if it's a dumb question, but it would be nice sometimes to just switch to a lower octave on its own. Ta.

I too am 72 and an accidental bass player in our church band. Our old bassman had moved away and as both my wife and I played 12 string guitars it fell to one of us to take the bass. Well my wife could barely lift one off its stand so I had to quickly learn some notes to accompany keyboard and guitar. I've had no lessons so it's all guesswork. This was about 5 years ago and I've got better by adding runs and other stuff. We do that many different songs every week (usually about 10 a week) that I struggle to learn even ones that we did 4 weeks ago, I can't remember them and have to practice hard most weeks to keep up. I can't read music so I just have the words typed out in 14 point 'cos I'm going blind as well and add the basic notes for the song and improvise. We have an ex rock bassist in our congregation who says it all sounds great but he could be just being kind. It definately gets worse the older you get and my memory can let me down even when I have my notes, if I take my eye off the ball on a song with a lot of notes and get lost, I stop playing and fiddle with the volume control and cast glances at my Trace amp..... Fun innit?