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[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1368794219' post='2081590'] [url="http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1467.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Which rig are we looking at - the one in the background or the one on the stool?

Love the MB rig - this was my dream rig for a while, but for a couple of complicated reasons I just couldn't get it together. The 2x15 rig I ended up with is even smaller - a one-hand carry, but a little low to the floor sometimes: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:113954]

D'you know, there was something niggling me about that name, and now it's clicked. And now I've read the whole thing. I think what fooled me was that it isn't funny...

There's a fine line between impenetrably deep, artistically significant guru-speak, and simply talking bollocks. And I think yogi's well over that line.

Loving all this sage advice from people who haven't a clue about the passage in question...

Sounds lovely on its own, sadly it'll disappear in a lot of live band setups. Took me an age to realise that Pleasing Solo Sound does not equal Pleasing Ensemble Sound...

The Streamliner has a particular tone stack that is both interactive and not immediately intuitive (hence that loooong Talkbass thread) and is proving in the longer term to be a Marmite amp. Mine works really well with my Schroeder 1515, which is another heavily voiced oddity. It happens, though, that they are a very good match for each other: one mid-shy(ish), one with a biiig low-mid bump. To my ears (and I've AB'd this a lot) the Schroeder suits the Streamliner better than the Barefaced Super 12T, which is somewhat of a paragon of a cab these days. By simple substitution, it's clear that the mid-shyness is the amp rather than the cabs, so I'd slog away at the EQ of the amp for a while yet. It took me weeks to get to grips with it, but I'm happy with it now.

Yep, the BDI-21 is a winner in this category all right...

Bought a really nice bass from Paul. Completely painless transaction, deal with him in confidence, he's one of the good guys! Cheers Paul!

That's how I play it - I can't think of any other time in any other song I've come across the need to do it that way, so I don't worry about long-term damage* - it's only the chorus, guv'nor... * At my age, the phrase 'long-term' indicates less and less anyway...

Just seen this thread, coincidentally we added Locked Out Of Heaven to the setlist over the weekend, great song, goes down a treat with the punters, and a blast to play. We also added a Courteeners song (Not 19 Forever) that was by comparison a dirge.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1367579412' post='2067127'] I am just trying to give myself permission to be crap and happy at the same time [/quote] NOW you're talking my language As has been mentioned, there's a very real possibility that you're your own worst critic - 120 gigs a year in a genre where musical scrutiny from players and audience is at a relatively high level means your peers must be impressed. Either that or you've got a van.

Heavy Weather indeed. Listening to those clips, I think it's the parpy sound which I dislike the most. Technically very good and all that but leaves me cold and slightly irritated. Edit: back to the OP, first time I heard Jaco was via Joni, on Hejira. Still like that album.

Love a Thunderbird, but my obsession with maple boards means it's got to be a Fenderbird!

Almost everything I've got is modded in one way or another - even my Dingwall. It's done for various reasons, to add bits I prefer to standard like bridges and tuners (Schallers and Hipshot Ultralites), functional additions like Hipshot Xtenders, and purely cosmetic bits (chrome surrounds and pickup covers on my Fenderbird). I keep going (and sometimes backtracking) until I'm happy. There are very few stock basses I like these days, I usually end up looking at something and thinking "It's really nice, but it could do with a better...bridge" or somesuch. It's also helped me define exactly what I like in a bass, and I play pretty much unique instruments. I wouldn't ever simply add the value of the bits up and value the bass at that, that's about as valid a method as getting Ford's parts catalogue out, adding up all the bits and claiming that's what your Focus is worth - the mods are done solely for me, and in most cases if I was selling, I'd put the bass back to stock and keep/sell the parts.

Every Rickenbacker I've ever tried or owned. I love Thunderbirds visually, but I'm in the process of making my second Fenderbird (this time with a Lakland neck, so I suppose it'll technically be a Laklandbird) as I prefer the ergonomics.

Love the look of the Sabre, but not a single tone in that vid appealed to me.

I've got the Big pair in a couple of basses, and I really like them, very ballsy pickups, and one of the few bridge Js I'd ever consider using soloed.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1364341119' post='2025281'] Also - Bass Central will negotiate heavily on price. Don't believe their list prices! [/quote] Oooo, thanks for that one!

It's a family holiday (Mrs and the boy (8) ), staying with friends in SC, driving down to Savannah to watch friend's lad who's playing as an All American for the USA Eagles rugby team, then a week round the parks in Orlando. Three weeks in all, should be able to get a bit of bass in there somewhere - the Mrs even suggested I buy a Sinsonido for the trip...

Oh, I won't forget.

Sooo, the holiday Stateside starts tomorrow, off to South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, so a trip to Beaver Felton's Bass Central is definitely on the schedule, and I wondered if anyone has any wizard wheezes for bass-related purchases to [s]smuggle[/s] innocently transport back to Blighty? I'm up for anything up to and including a whole bolt-on neck bass (which could be dismantled and split up amongst the baggage - to spread the weight, obviously) - am definitely going to buy a few sets of DR Low Riders, for starters. Answers on a postcard...all suggestions gratefully received, etc.