Stewart

Or Kent Armstrong, or DiMarzio...

Hi Nick,

You could try these:


The Hope Queens Road, Brighton
The Prince Albert Trafalgar Street, Brighton
The Brunswick Holland Road, Hove
The Portland Rock Bar Portland Road, Hove

Looks like a '57 Reissue - apart from the black pickguard (should be white single ply or anodised gold?).
Tuners look the same as my Japanese '57 RI (long stems, rivets, huge mounting plates).

I'd have thought that the lacquer finish over the entire fretboard and frets (invariably used with maple 'boards) might have as much influence as the wood itself...

This works well for most vst plugins:

[url="http://www.xlutop.com/html/products.html"]Chainer[/url]

Yes - a dodgy soldered joint, for almost certain.

Time to buy/borrow a soldering iron and some solder, and just 'freshen them up'.

Dont forget to put at least some paper between the plate and the body, and it's easiest to get someone else to hold either the wire, iron or solder...

Take off the plate and have a look - chances are there's just a wire come adrift (the cap is probably soldered directly onto the back of the tone pot).

Assuming it's passive, then the capacitor has gone open circuit (or become unsoldered)

Yes, it looks a bit like a mustang neck & body...

Super 10

Maybe check out a Cort Curbow - I like mine

It has two power amps - if you have GK biamp-capable speakers and 4 core cables, then the main power amp drives the bass speaker/s, the other (about 50 Watts) drives the tweeter/s.
You get a control for each on the front panel, and most of the advantages of any active crossover system (like distorted bass drive doesn't translate into harmonics that will hit the tweeters).

A stereo compressor isn't intrinsically going to help with your basic requirement - which is for a two (or more) channel mixer...

Two precision pickguards supplied in record time, extremely well packed and marked.

Superb service, and a pleasure to deal with.

There are two here [url="http://www.fareastguitars.co.uk/usedbasses.htm"]Far East Guitars site[/url] (1 alder, 1 basswood)

Slightly later models in good nick - useful as a reference...?

Levelling the top of all the frets, which is followed by a fret dress to put the curved profile back on the frets (some of which would otherwise have a flat top following the stoning).

What's the weight of the body?

(Dodgy shoulders demand lighter bodies... )

Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
Great fun

Fabulous!

The one that really grabs me though is the sunburst spitfire with the maple neck - gorgeous

Hi Jase,

[quote name='Jase' post='176179' date='Apr 14 2008, 12:31 PM']am I right in thinking that the solo is actually distorted bass? ( hope so ) been a bit of a Purple fan over the years but never paid any attention to it at all. Can anybody confirm this?[/quote]

I'm almost sure it's Hammond organ + ring modulator....

I think it's used as a low-cut filter, rather than anything EMI-related...

You could probably knock one up if you knew the inductance value - I'd try looking round this site, and maybe ask on their forum if you can't find the answer:

[url="http://www.gibsonbass.com/"]Gibson Bass site[/url]

I was at the last one for a couple of hours - picked-up some good tips from some of the 'tutorial' sessions.
This one sounds like it'll be bigger and better - I dropped a bass in to GB Guitars for a setup and Bernie is going to be exhibiting

Unfortunately I'm booked to be elsewhere ...

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='170368' date='Apr 5 2008, 06:31 PM']... but if Badass are so great, how come all the UK's custom builders dont use them.[/quote]

Aesthetics mostly, I'd imagine - They can't be described as elegant, can they?
(In my opinion they suit precisions, but not jazzes...)

One of my main requirements for a bridge is quick-release for the strings, once I've got the new one none of my (5) basses will require me to poke the entire length of each string through a hole - which is as it should be, I reckon !

I like the Hipshot bridges. I've got a 'Vintage' on my Jazz-thing:



And I'm about to replace the bridge on my precision with one of these:



(Which uses 3 of the standard Fender 5-hole fittings)
I want a bit of side-to-side adjustment on that one...

The only units I have personally used enough to comment on are the Compounder and the Behringer MDX1600 (which is good value and fairly tasteful at lower ratios - gets a bit knarly cranked-up)

I've heard good things about the DBX 166, and even better things aboth the 160 but that's very pricey...

If you haven't spent some time with one, I wouldn't spend too much money (and on that basis the 3630 is obviously a possibility)
There will be plenty more suggestions though, I'm sure...