Machines

The NS series are US made, hence the Czech ones having Euro in their name (except the ReBop of course). [url="http://www.spectorbass.com/NewFiles/usneck.html"]http://www.spectorbass.com/NewFiles/usneck.html[/url]

Yeah my '96 is a bit grubby - looks even worse when you take the strings off. The dirt does seem engrained into the wood, thus I feel the very light steel wool might be the only option.

The Stingray 2EQ I find well suited - it doesn't distort the natural sound of the bass only accentuate it. I've played a few Ibanez and been impressed, especially the SR505. The EQ on that was terribly powerful..

Oooh very nice Gwilym, what's the top ?

Here's my defretted Yamaha RBX775..

Dawsons is a bit dull. Expect standard Squier/Fender/Peavey/Yamahas and if you're lucky a couple of Stingrays. SC in Salford is definitely the best around however isn't walkable from the city centre - can't really get there without a car. Don't even bother with Forsythes, they'll probably have a bashed up dusty Squier Jazz at £220 and that's it.

I've played that Buzzard ! It's a tone monster - but that neck would be a handful for anyone.

Beat me to it ! I got my Stingray plate from there. It was a VERY tight fit at the neck pocket, took some persuasion to go on but it's fine.

My RBX775 has a fairly thin and shallow neck at the nut, it gets reasonably wider nearer the top frets and isn't too chunky anywhere. The BB614 I had felt fairly similar to a Precision.

Stunning. One hell of a piece of maple.. when we get soundclips ?

I got my Spector Q6 Pro from SoundControl on interest free finance. Paid it off on time and all was well - £330 in total. If I hadn't have paid it within the 12 months then it would have automatically begun a 3 year plan at about 30% APR that would have made the bass cost around £600. Be aware.

The bridge cover certainly isn't something I'd expect to see on the V940.. As long as you like it .

Headphone amp is a must - the walls are pretty thin.

Spector Q6 Pro. I sold it because I wasn't advanced enough to make use of the higher strings, I feel now I would. Only thing that doesn't maks me feel better is that I got what I paid for it when I sold it.

I played a Euro 4 Zebrano the other day. Felt very nice - sound wasn't my thing but other than that a very nice bass. Very well put together and I think good value (compared to US Fender / Musicman / Warwick).

Stringbusters once sent me a 5 string set when i'd ordered a 6. When I rang to point out the mistake they did send the correct set immediately and came the next day, along with an SAE to send back the 5 set. Stringsdirect have always been 100%, although a little pricer on D'Addarios (which I use).

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I played a Buzzard LTD in black today at Birmingham Sound Control, the neck was HUGE, gave me cramp pretty quickly. Sounded absolutely awesome though..

Look forward to this when it hits the shops.

I used my Ashdown Electric-Blue 180w at my first gig and it wasn't quite up to it (farted a bit). As soon as I attached a MAG210 cab and ran it at 4ohm - everything was perfect, only have the volume on about 3-4.

I think it's sometimes possibly disassociating with the problem and blaming someone else as a way to feel better. For example, you know you have some bills coming up that you can't afford, and that bass/amp hasn't been collecting dust for months but you like the look of it. You don't really want to sell it, so she made you do it ! Personally, my GAS wouldn't know any ends, there's always something else I'd want. I do quite well, the missus will always buy me anything easy to get hold of or cheap (pickguard, strings etc) without asking. When it comes to basses - I generally try to upgrade via trading rather than buying out right. I swapped a Yamaha BB614 for a Fender Jazz, and an Ibanez Musician for my Stingray, so i'm quite happy with that.

Gone..