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I like that, would be a great band to see live me thinks.

So no coil tapping on a Bongo? I never found it that useful on either my SR5 or Sterling but it's nice to have the option, in fact it's more useful on my cheap and chearful passive OLP then either of the MM's I owned.

I think you will have a vast array of quality sounds, I had a Stingray 5 for a year or two, it was my first 5er but I missed the neck pick-up of a two pup bass, saying that I now have an OLP that I'm using to practice on and it sounds fine, it's passive and less aggressive then the MM was. A generic J pup would look a little odd I think but a Delano (type) would probably work with the big single pole pieces.

I have always fancied an HH or HS Stingray 5 so this project is great, shame you can't get hold of Musicman S pick-ups as that woould probably be my preferred route.

That's going to be a fab looking and sounding bass when it's finished, look forward to seeing the end result.

I'm running mine off of USB bus power from my computer, for the more adventurous types out there the B3 could possibly run via a mobile phone charger connected to the USB port! I'm far from an expert on all things electrical and probably way off the mark so I take no resposibility for damage if you do try it

Yeah it's only Fuzz Face or Big Muff, I'm using a little bit of Tube Screamer in my main patch for some dirt which I'm liking a lot.

It's runs off of a Boss style 9v supply, it's says it's needs 500ma but I've tried it with a 300ma supply and it works fine so you should be able to daisy chain it as long as your power supply has the ampage to cover all your other effects and the B3 - hope that helps.

I've had a bit of time to play around with the B3 today and it's pretty impressive, I own compressors, a pitch shifter, distortion, chorus and an octaver, most of which only get used at home on the fretless and I'll probably sell them all now except some of the compressors. I find the B3 very easy to get on with and can see me having a few patches with amp simulation for practice/recording at home through the computer and a few more with out the amps for rehearsals. I've never had a muti-effects unit before and the amount of sounds from this is amazing, great fun playing with the synth patches some track a lot better then others though and my sloppy playing can cause some odd glitches, one of the ptichshifters actually tracks better then any pedal I have owned, going down to an open E without glitches. I'll probably use this instead of my Edirol interface even though it only does 16 bit 44.1KHz recording and you can't turn the displays off so they will be needlessly on while it's used as an interface only. That's it for now. R.

Here are two more recent pictures from Lawrence of the fretless neck, it's really starting to look good. [attachment=97767:P1120080 lr.jpg] [attachment=97768:P1120081 lr.jpg]

Tis a bargain indeed! I have bought a couple of Hipshot Type A bridges from the US on ebay and not got stung for import duty or VAT which meant a reasonable price for a lovely bridge, it a bit of a gamble though, if customs do pick it up you also get a processing charge. Look forward to seeing this come together.

I haven't had enought time with the unit to give an honest opinion of the it yet but thought I would post the things I find as I start to use it, I downloaded the ASIO driver and plugged it in using USB bus power which works fine, on the down side it doesn't seem to be possible to have the Zoom as the computer input and my Edirol as the output, probably due to the two different ASIO drivers, I'm no expert but there may be a way around this or I just use the Zoom as my sole input/output device.

Also I noticed a bit like buying printers theses days it doesn't come with a USB cable so you will need to buy one or nick the one from your printer.

Arrived sooner then I thought! Had a quick look at the unit and it's a bit bigger then I imagined, the red is quite dark and muted which I'm pleased about as I'm not a fan of red, it's reassuringly heavy as it made from metal and the construction is excellent, the rotary knobs are recessed so you shouldn't hit them when going for the footswitches. Right back to work.

[quote name='soldersqueeze' timestamp='1326804608' post='1502092'] Tempted by this! I've been looking for a D.I solution for easy gigging and if the emulated out on this is any good I'm pretty much sold. Looking forward to brensabre79's thoughts. Anyone else here taken the plunge on this? [/quote] Mine is in transit and will hopefully be here in the next couple of days, but I'm so busy at the moment I doubt I'll be able to give it more then a very quick try out until the weekend.

You could try Basschats Bass Doc or Henry Norton, I have a Bass Doc Jazz 5 body. R.

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1326469394' post='1497689'] No, in fact I've never even met him! [/quote] fair enough.

I'm envious it's a beautiful looking bass, have you played it? If he ever thinks of selling it I'd love first refusal

No worries Mark - will do.

There's one less in stock now, even though I have an aversion to all things red I have ordered one.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1326384866' post='1496496'] Available now at Thomann. Just ordered mine [/quote] Thanks for the heads up, under 150 squid to.