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How do I get towards this bass tone (Bernard Edwards influenced). My Barefaced Dubster will deliver serious quantities of bass. Any thoughts gratefully used.

Get working, get focussed, two weeks is not very long for a dissertation. Good luck.

Super guy to deal with. Excellent communication and the pedal arrived as soon as possible and well packed. Thanks Alex.

At the money £300 it is a steal. USA bass, real wood. What have you to lose? If I was nearer Aberdeen and bass purchase brings potential divorce I would snap this up. They are not making them anymore....

Am awaiting the results, more pictures please.

Try another set of strings. I was recently fooled by a faulty new string (first ever in 40+ years bass playing). Could not get G string to intonate and tune correctly. It was a duff string. If the string does not fix your problem, take bass to a good luthier. Good luck.

Another two weeks and still nothing no email, no replies, nothing. Caveat emptor I am afraid.

Patents, other countries who do not care, alternative solutions that do not violate patents e.g. digital synthesis. Watch this space.

In my case I traded in a 1958 EB2 against a Precision in 1977 (I doubled my money). I would be more than happy to have it back, not likely though.

Wish I had seen this sooner, I would be more than happy to have a second one - suspect it would have been rendered fretless.

They certainly know how to get a potential band member into the best frame of mind to play well. Well avoided I feel.

Someone got an excellent bass here. Clarity of tone and no dead spots on mine is super. Whoever has it will need strong shoulders and a wide grippy strap. Mine is weighty and a slight neck diver.

Many thanks for offer, may get to N Yorks one day. Holiday was planned (camping) several years ago, then floods. Time we thought again.

I am still waiting nearly 8 weeks after paying for an amp (sold as faulty, not working). Payment was sent 19 Feb 2013 and an extra £10 for beer money for effort of packing the amp was included. Still no amp [size=4]. Emails and pms not replied to since 27 March. FB and emails to band members - they are helpful, but still no amp. Guess I put this one down to experience chaps unless someone knows Zach personally and can help. I can provide audit trail to show payment was made, when and where etc. This is the only BC purchase/sale that has gone wrong for me, sadly there will always be exceptions I guess.[/size]

If you can get 'mwahh' from bass unplugged imo you are 95% on the way. I have an EKO acoustic bass circa 1981, it has mwahh, plays itself almost. It has a £6 japanese 1980s jazz pu that I popped in soundhole. Great bass, massive neck, laquer so thick it is like toffee. It has 'mwahh'. Stick a pickup in it - wilkinson? see what happens as a starting point.

I have thought about one of these. Am a long way away in the boonies from any Gibbo holding music shop. Will it do the Jack Bruce / Andy Fraser (Cream/Free) sound?

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1366571340' post='2054293'] I once turned down a Gibson Ripper in favour of a cheapo P-bass. The difference was only about £20, too! It was a natural maple body with the 'arrow-head' headstock, as on the Flying-V bass, and with the sliding pickup. I couldn't get the pickup to move, the frets had been pulled, and even then my preference for P pickups was starting to show. Still, it remains a bargain I should have put the time and effort into fixing up. [/quote] It was a Grabber, another highly underrated bass. On my list for one day, however the power of P always draws me to safety.

Model 1 or Willpower, measure the pole spacing and determine which using tech specs on DiMarzio website. If it is not the 'real thing' (highly unlikely) it is a very well done copy.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1366392769' post='2052070'] Just because you are a large MI retailer, it does't necessarily mean you will fit a manufacturer/distribution model criteria. [/quote] If you are a manufacturer can you afford to ignore one of the largest MI retailers? Guess they know best.

Ou7shined's build is a great thing. It is something I have thought about (a la Gibson Varitone) but never implemented. The results save me (and others) the effort of replicating it, so a big thanks. Next question would be what is 'optimum value' or is it the iiipopes 0.033 value (somewhere in the middle of most basses).

Barefaced Dusbster - the destroyer of buildings (and no shortage of hf with TI flats [size=4] )[/size]

Super purchase of machine heads from Stephen. BCer rocks, he replied to 'hopeful ad', good deal done. Many thanks. Francis

G&L SB1 3 bolt 1985 - rock solid neck joint and the tilt made setup easy. Opinion based on 23 years in my possession. Are 3 bolts one too many? my 1979 Kramer DMZ 4001 has two bolts, it is also dead stable.