LeftyJ

Should be fairly easily accomplished. You'd say a P-bass would be the perfect basis, with its splitcoil pickup. It shouldn't be too much of a hassle to separate the two coils and send them to separate outputs. A Wal pickup will also accommodate this, as each pole has its own coil - but who would be willing to cut up his fairly rare Wal electronics and mod the heck out of it? Manfred Mann and bass player Mark Griffiths have actually patented a similar concept, but I don't think it ever made it into production instruments: http://www.sidasante.com/markcv/stereo.htm http://www.platform-end.co.uk/html/downtoearth.html

[quote name='Alfie' timestamp='1389380267' post='2333710'] Has anyone ever tried a bass and then bought one from the extra stock, rather than the one they played? [/quote] Never, and I never would. No two instruments are exactly alike. If you like the display model you tried, that's no guarantee for the one from the extra stock. It may be lighter, heavier, the quality of the finish or the fretting may not be as nice, the wood may not be as pretty, or whatever other reason you can come up with why the instrument may differ from a similar one and might be less good (or the other way round of course!). And if I really wanted a brand new, untouched instrument, I would make damn sure I could try the one from the extra stock too before I took it home

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1388763804' post='2325783'] Cool rare lefty Ibanez Musician on ebay at moment. Im way too small for one of those though. [/quote] Isn't that HADGE from this forum? He was also selling his Warwick Streamer LX Jazzman. Those Musicians are indeed big basses, the lowest notes are pretty far away. But you owned a Thumb, you should be used to that . They're also really heavy. I love mine though. I also have a later version with ash body wings instead of mahogany with ash veneers, which is a fair bit lighter and slightly more ergonomic and compact (the bridge is placed a fraction further backwards). Awesome basses!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1386936089' post='2306562'] LeftyJ, Can you please explain the advantages of Bandcamp because the site themselves seem to be so rubbish at doing it.[/quote] In my opinion, the main advantages are:[list] [*]You can offer your album both as a download (in many different file formats) and on CD; [*]You can easily set up preorders for fans as a means of crowdfunding your release; [*]It's fairly easy to personalise your page or integrate your webshop into your website and vice versa, and onto your social media pages; [*]You can generate free download codes for promotion of your album and for sending to various media. These can only be used once, and not be passed on, so this is a fairly safe method and has served us well for reaching reviewers. Bookers on the other hand tend to do absolutely nothing with them, they generally can't be arsed to go through the effort of downloading anything; [*]You can easily pass around discount codes; [*]Fans are free to pay more than your asking price, and you'll be surprised how many fans actually do. We were! [/list] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1386936089' post='2306562'] Even physical sales can be just as easily done from my band's own website and that way we get to keep a larger percentage of the purchase price, and because all the band's merchandise is on the same page, someone buying the new EP may well decide to get a T-shirt as well while they are there - something that you don't appear to be able to do from Bandcamp.[/quote] [url="http://evesfall.bandcamp.com/merch"]You can[/url] . And on Bandcamp you get most of the price. Bandcamp just takes 15% on downloads and 10% on merchandise and physical CD's, and then there's the PayPal transaction cost of course. All in all we get to keep about 75-80% of sales. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1386936089' post='2306562'] I'm also not a fan of physical distribution deals without having a proper record company to back them up. IME they take a lot of time and effort to set up, it ties up a proportion of your stock, and you'll be very lucky to get the all money and any unsold stock back at the end of the deal.[/quote] I agree with you on that, but there are more options here. The way we do it, our album is in consignment with a distributor. They requested 50 copies for their stock. They send us a monthly automated email with our sales for the month, and we can send an invoice as soon as the combined sales reach €160. It's easy, it barely costs us any time, and they only needed 50 CD's of our stock. I agree that without a record company backing them up and promoting your release, a construction like this will not do much for your sales. We also made a bit of a mistake here: we were offered a great purchase price for our CD's, but this leads to excessively high in-store prices being charged for our album! We didn't think of that beforehand, we just thought "Oh great, big profits!" For example, we sell our CD for €10 at gigs and on Bandcamp (we're free to ask whatever we want, no limitations here from our distributor), but in the largest record webshop in the Netherlands it'll cost you €18,49... [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1386936089' post='2306562'] In the end selling through an Aggregator is mostly vanity selling unless you get lucky. My band sells about 10 times as many copies of our two EPs at gigs then we do from our web site or as downloads combined.[/quote] Same here, our sales revenue through CDbaby is just about double of what it cost us to set up the account. Bandcamp revenue on the other hand is about equal to our sales at gigs!

Whatever aggregator you choose, ALWAYS sell through Bandcamp as well! None of the digital distribution sites require exclusivity, you are always free to use a different in-store distributor and/or your own webshop or Bandcamp simultaneously. It works like a charm! My band uses CDbaby, Bandcamp and we also have our album in consignment with an in-store distributor that operates in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg (Sonic Rendezvous). I wrote out a whole 8-page comparison of several aggregators and Bandcamp for my band when we were in your position a year ago. I wish I could share it here, but it's all in Dutch! I looked at Bandcamp, CDbaby, Rebeat, Songflow and Tunecore. We chose CDbaby because they've been in the business the longest, have a good reputation, a large network of retailers, they can sell and distribute physical CD's too, and their rates seemed fair. In the end we didn't use CDbaby for physical CD's, because they only stock 5 pieces at first. The shipping costs would get very expensive if we'd have to send them just small numbers of CD's per mail every time. Shipping to the USA is expensive! Personally I'm very happy with CDbaby so far, but if I were to do it all over again today, I'd probably pick Rebeat. Their list of retailers is HUGE, their computer application appears very easy to use, and they charge a one-time fee of €99 and after that it's only €1 per song, €5 for a barcode for your album or single, and €1 per song to request an ISRC-code which seems fair. If you're planning on doing more than one release, that's fairly affordable. Only downside is they require a Credit Card to charge all your payments. No PayPal or bank transfer or whatever! They do pay you by bank transfer though. Bandcamp just requires a PayPal account for all payments, and is very easy to use. What's very cool about Bandcamp is that you can also offer your album on presale, before the actual release date. You can offer any number of tracks for immediate download at purchase, and you can ship out the CD's later. Bandcamp will release the other tracks for download as soon as you've manually confirmed the release date has been reached. That way, you can more or less use Bandcamp for "crowdfunding" too! Most of our sales (aside from CD sales at gigs) went via Bandcamp

Interesting SSI to the far left, I've never seen one with dual splitcoils!

Hey, that looks very similar to a Daion bass somebody I know owns. Might be related?

Riiiiight. So basically they're just saying "F*** you, go get a right-handed one and flip it" and even assuming you're going to do that anyway, as they're asking for your serial number already

Pretty cool, needs some tidying up but looks like a lovely player given the right amount of TLC

[quote name='TraceAmp' timestamp='1373520492' post='2138485'] [/quote] Awesome collection! I use the SVP-CL and SVP-PRO too, love both of them.

Forget it, they're not going to... Maybe save up for a Schecter Hellcat VI?

Looks interesting, never seen anything like it.

I shipped a Rickenbacker 4003 to Spain with DPD. Most Dutch shippers had a length restriction and being a neck-through-body bass I couldn't remove the neck to make the package shorter. DPD were the only ones not having that problem, and still at a good price.

I've been listening to this band a lot the last couple of weeks. I had never heard of them before, but saw their album featured in the little Inside Out Music leaflet that's always included with releases by that record company (in my case: the new Ayreon album) so I downloaded the album to check them out. May well result in me buying the album on CD, I'm impressed

This is interesting, I'll be keeping a close eye on this topic I've been using an 80 GB iPod Classic extensively, mostly in my car (hooked to a Parrot MK9200i carkit with an iPod connector, SD cardreader, USB in and mini-jack in) or in my company van (hooked to a iPod USB-to-mini-jack cable - I hate going from the headphone output to a line input) nowadays and I would hate it dying on me. They're still selling the current 160 GB version, but I would hate having to spend 250 euros on a new one.

Both my TRB5II's had this too. It took me hours to find the problem the first time it happened! I did a full rehearsal with a slowly increasing squeal and had no idea where it could come from! Switched cables, tried a different amp, a different wall socket, but as I hadn't brought a backup bass, I couldn't switch basses. Back home I changed the battery and all was quiet again. Scared the living crap out of me!

The whole band is playing Ibanez in that video They probably had an endorsement.

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Well, bit of a dilemma here. Right now I'd say the bass I play most is definitely my Warwick Streamer LX5. It's got a very agressive, bright, growly tone with lots of punch and supertight fat lows which works perfectly in my metalband. But "the One" would probably be my Ellio Martina Forza 5. It's been with me for about 7 years now and has been my go-to bass for most of the time. It can do all: it's basically a Jazz Bass on steroids, but the versatile electronics and the amazing pickups (homemade by the luthier who built it) make it capable of almost anything you throw at it. If I could only keep one, this would be it.

I just switched from using a .130 B-string to a .125 (Elixir) and I'm loving it! It sounds less boomy, more defined and feels great. I feared it would be sloppy, especially compared to the E-string, but it doesnt! Even though I'm still using a .105 E! Maybe next time I'll try an overall lighter set with a .100, who knows, I might actually like it!

Looks nice! I don't usually like black pearloid pickguards, but this one goes really well with the orange. What preamp is in it? Are those Rotosound Nexus strings? How do you like them? I absolutely hated them on my G&L SB-2 and Cort B4! Thin and awfully dry.

Part 5: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_9T25Wgvg[/media]

Part 3: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhBHnuiDCBk[/media] Part 4: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgf15YJ2NaQ[/media]

If you liked watching that, you may also enjoy this documentary hosted by Howard Goodall. It's one episode, split into 5 short parts. Sorry, forum rules only allow two per post: Part 1: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81N_fMNVFzw[/media] Part 2: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhQJZuFUOA[/media]

Looks nice! Makes a lot more sense to me than a Thumb SC, which looks HUGE. This one is actually quite elegant!