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You were almost in Frightened Rabbit? I'm impressed!

[quote name='Duarte' post='873182' date='Jun 21 2010, 12:40 AM']The bass tone on that entire album blows my mind...frikkin' stingrays are EPIC![/quote] +1 Such a good slap and fingerstyle tone, if i could have a sound like that it would justify playing slap bass!

I watched his set at radio one's big weekend, and the bass playing was really good! I think he was playing a five string warwick?

Lake Placid Blue, I'm a sucker for a matching headstock and it's the same as James Johnston's!

Yeah, and if it sounds as good as the fours string it would be great only the build quality with Corts is shocking! The amount of times I've had problems with my four string I don't know if i could take the hassle all over again!

In my band we spend alot of time tuning between drop-d and drop-d flat, and I've come to realise it would be easier for me to own a five string bass as i could get even lower without having to retune and probably get a tighter sound. So I've been looking at five string basses and so far I've found the five string version of my current bass: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/cort_gb35a_3ts.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/cort_gb35a_3ts.htm[/url] this rather nice looking Squier: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_squier_deluxe_jazz_v_bass_bk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_squier_del...z_v_bass_bk.htm[/url] anyone got any other recomendations? Budget is up to £250, and I like jazz style basses.

Mexican deluxe 4, love active electronics and modern features and don't want to have to pay extra just so it can say 'american' on the headstock!

That status one looks like exactly what I need! Cheers to everyone for replying

Hi, I need to replace a pot on my bass. It's a dual concentric pot rated at 100K. The only ones I can find on the internet are in America, anyone with any ideas of where to get them in the UK? [url="http://store.guitarfetish.com/cp10copotmo.html"]http://store.guitarfetish.com/cp10copotmo.html[/url]

[quote name='MythSte' post='849095' date='May 27 2010, 01:39 AM']Lauren Laverne is a tuffing fwat.[/quote] still would though

0.96 Tortex (blue)... matches my main bass. Anything thinner sounds weak, anything thicker is difficult to play with.

[quote name='DreadAlert' post='832631' date='May 9 2010, 10:27 PM']Gaaaah theres just too many to choose from! I'm finding more and more possibilites like Epiphones and Fenders and stuff and its all very confusing haha. I would've loved a Fleabass, cause Flea is awesome and they look great, but they're just too expensive for a beginner IMO. Also, whats the difference between active and passive?[/quote] If you want to sound/look like flea pay a bit more and get something from Cort's GB series, alot of bass for the money and the tone from the musicman pickup is pretty much the bssm sound (even though he played warwick on bssm) if you crack the treble up and pluck HARD! Active basses have an internal preamp which basicly means you can get lots of tonal options from it because you can do alot of eqing before the sound even leaves the bass, the downside to this is the preamp runs on a 9V battery (or sometimes 2). Passive basses don't have a preamp and usually just have one tone control, but they don't need a battery. Flea exclusivly used active basses up until the fleabass was released, but i reckon he'll return to active basses before long.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='815365' date='Apr 22 2010, 07:35 PM']Imagine if they had a love child? F*** me![/quote] We can only hope said love child is a basschatter!! I'd have to say flea though, reason I started playing bass. Some of the stuff that comes out his bass is unbelivable!

How disco are we talking? Get a microkorg XL! It's got some nasty synth bass sounds.

Laney RB9 Laney RB410 great modern sound

Has anyone ever played a bass with them on? It looks complicated!

I saw an advert in a magazine with basses boasting 'fanned fret technolgy' from the picture all i could make out is that the frets were squint and to be honest it looked really hard to play! Just wondering what the advantages of having them on a bass is?

NICE! it looks really well done aswell.

If your looking for something cheap i'd recommend cort gb-series, jazz/stingray hybrids. I've got one and it's easy to get harsh high tones.

GAS!!!

don't know how it'd look in another colour but that red one is foul! especially at that price!