Grand Wazoo

And here is the finished project. The Mighty Mite neck is on and so is a white perloid pickguard, original Fender vintage reverse tuners and bushings. I think it looks great

[quote name='Schnozzalee' post='1093708' date='Jan 18 2011, 12:19 PM']Love the P/J configuration one! They've finally lined the pickups up with the bridge!!! I was expecting you to say rosewood and tort for the finish to go with the Squier CV. That's gonna be a great sounding bass [/quote] Ah, but he CV Fiesta red is also undergoing specs changes as we speak, I've got a Mighty Mite maple f/board neck to go on it and a white perloid p/guard to match. Pics to follow when it's completed.

I've forgot to mention the control layout and what does what, see below:

[quote name='Johnston' post='1093619' date='Jan 18 2011, 11:00 AM']Thats what happens when you let people work on swivel chairs instead of standing. They get lazy and take no pride in their work So whats the specs going to be on this one Grand Wazzoo?[/quote] Ok it will be a Super J with a split P bass pickup in the front and a Jazz in the back quite similar to the one in the pic below but in a 5 strings issue. Colour wise it will be Fiesta Red with maple fretboard, pearloid block inlays (wonkey ones ) and non matching headstock with a white aged pearloid p/guard almost similar to the one in the pic below but without the matching headstock and black p/guard

[quote name='Johnston' post='1093558' date='Jan 18 2011, 10:10 AM']I'd be gettin on to them about that. who ever has routed and drilled that body hasn't a straight eye in his head and I thought I was squint [/quote] Yeah I know, you should've seen the last one I've got from them, the frets were all pi$$ed! But you know, you've got to adapt innit? So now I play all wonky ever since.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1093397' date='Jan 18 2011, 01:46 AM']You're a Dingwall addict![/quote] 10 POINTS!! hehe

Can you guess what it is?

[quote name='Chopthebass' post='1092981' date='Jan 17 2011, 07:25 PM']I reckon a lot of the sounds will have subtle differences and in a live situation you won't hear the differences between a lot of them. I bet you could count the number of decent tones you can get out of it on one hand. Another post-NAMM gimmick![/quote]

[quote name='longtimefred' post='1093091' date='Jan 17 2011, 08:49 PM']i sold my 1989 stingray for the same price i bought it for 6 years ago. but you will be lucky to get an old ray for £500 so this post is a bit pointless! sorry [/quote] In the last 10 months I have sold 7 basses as follows: 1) Stingray 5 2) Bongo 5 HHp 3) EBMM 25th Anniversary 5 strings 4) Fender Jap reissue Precision 5) Squier CV 50's style Precision 6) EBMM Big Al 5 SSS 7) Squier CV 60's Jazz Total purchase cost for those 7 basses: £6'430 Money made from the sale of all of them: £6'570.50 Which means I haven't lost anything and made instead a £140.60 profit in the process. This proves to me that if you buy quality gear and you keep them in mint conditions as I have you shouldn't really do to bad when you sell them on.

First of all when you buy a nut, never buy it pre-cut no, get one blank and then either you place it against the old one and start cutting the slots off yourself, or get a luthier to do it. Fender sell a very good reconstitued bone nut, which behaves and performs exactly like a bone one, bear in mind a real bone nut cut and fitted by a pro can cost between £45 to £65 and I have known plenty of luthiers that recommend the Fender recon. one as being as good as [i]the real thing[/i]. But as I've said the most important thing is to buy it blank, glue it in first and then gently start cutting the slots to match the other one or follow the way your strings naturally fall from the tuning peg on to the new nut.

I am sure you've probably heard about the forthcoming London Bass Guitar Show at the Olympia Conference Centre that will be held on MArch 12th and 13th this year, well I have read in the Dingwall forum that Sheldon Dingwall will attend and here is a good chance to meet the man and ask questions about his basses and perhaps to try some too. Here is a link to the event [url="http://www.londonbassguitarshow.com/"]http://www.londonbassguitarshow.com/[/url] Buy your tickets online and Save. On the door price for each day - £17.50 / ONLINE PRICE £12.50 click here to buy your ticket [url="http://www.londonbassguitarshow.com/get-tickets.html"]http://www.londonbassguitarshow.com/get-tickets.html[/url]

Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Squier Classic Vibe all the way

yawwwwnnn ... seen it all before...

[quote name='merello' post='1090239' date='Jan 15 2011, 10:57 AM']I'm sure Warmoth do it too.[/quote] Yeah they do but they don't let you see a preview like Fender does.

[size=7][b][font="Times New Roman"][i]CONFESSIONS OF A 24 KARAT PLONKER = ME![/i][/font][/b][/size] i.e. [b][font="Times New Roman"][i]MEA CULPA[/i][/font]![/b] (Latin for my fault) I have sorted the problem, I had overlooked the obvious and the reason I couldn't plug the Ashdown head into the Mark Bass combo is because the MB cab does not have an amp input as such, what it does have, it's a little male jack that comes out of it's speaker and go into the speaker output of the MB head!! Now what I did that obviously didn't work was to try and plug a speaker cable coming from the Ashdown head into the other head of the MB i.e. I was being a total PLONKER. DOH!! Now, thanks to a bit of late wit I realized the mistake and got a speaker cable with a female / male where I can get the output from the MB connected with the male from the MB speaker and all works well. So yeah call me a plonker, I just didn't have my thinking head on that day. All is well what ends well

Feedback for obbm I have just bought a KLOTZ female / male speaker cable and a bespoke VAN DAMME microphone lead from www.bassic-bits.com aka obbm. Fantastic pieces of kits, professionally made and speedy delivery. I particularly like the Neutrik female jack with the push clamp that stop the male jack from.... jacking off!?? LOL Cool stuff. Added to my fav retailer's list.

I can't wait either, in fact if they do that that for basses too, I'd build me a P Bass in this colour scheme

[quote name='Johnston' post='1089578' date='Jan 14 2011, 05:43 PM']Ahh what exactly is going on there??? [/quote] Yeah.. like... did the game change for you? or... did the earth move even? I couldn't tell a game change from a dramatically out of phase setting which BP kicks in near the end of that torture, only for him to change it back ever so quick because it just didn't cut the mustard and sounded like pooppa! Judging on that video, I know this much: all my game's gonna stay unchanged, thank you very much.

and here you can get a taste of it... One ridicolously dressed up Sterling Ball (yeah he likes dressing up apparently, each to his own I guess) playing with Dave LaRue

[quote name='jimmyb625' post='1089200' date='Jan 14 2011, 12:20 PM']How on earth can you possibly say that Fran? It's like saying that you liked the sound of your Dingwall at home, but then got to the studio and it didn't sound as good. You'd really be in trouble then though, because you couldn't even go onto the 'net to download any more presets, you'd have to go home to get another bass.[/quote] Ok Jim to me it's simple to explain to you that that was my opinion and to make you understand where I come from with that statement, I'd like to compare this game changer with my last bike before I retired from riding bikes to keep my skin, ok? 1000cc 230bhp and 6 gears but to me all that means nothing. The way I ride it, my bike has only two throttle positions, 1) off and 2) full on. Otherwise whats the point in having a fast motorbike?

I'd say, the concept is appealing of course as a toy we'd all want to own one, but... the reality is grim: every sound man and studio producer is going to hate you. Chances are if you are a working musicians, and if you sit there in a session with your iPhone / iPad or other android device connected to your bass trying to download sounds which you liked at home but now they don't sound too clever in studio, you are at risk of pissing off every bloke in your band and probably will get fired in the long run for spending too much time faaakin' about with your new toy rather than making music as you are expected to.

[quote name='Wil' post='1089078' date='Jan 14 2011, 11:08 AM']Pretty impressive, but I can't help but think that would drive me nuts! I'd rather just have two or three quite different options with a way of blending them and a good preamp I think.[/quote] Here HERE!! We are bassists not synth players, sod that!

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='1088182' date='Jan 13 2011, 03:39 PM']do you think they're "drop-head gorgeous"?[/quote] Yip, they are the bollox! Mine souds like.... a stradivarius is being played through it, creamy and mellow until you take the volume past 12'oclock then you'll have a little moster to deal with.

[quote name='drewm' post='1088062' date='Jan 13 2011, 02:36 PM']When it stalls, does any aspect of the page load? Do you e.g. get the page title in the window title bar, or any of the page loading at all?[/quote] I sometimes get just the forum header which is the big black band with the basschat logo on the left and that jazz bass on the right and every thing else is blank, other times just a blank screen with the url search line on top.

[quote name='Hamster' post='1087742' date='Jan 13 2011, 11:19 AM']I'm presuming a basic clearing of cache and cookies hasn't helped?[/quote] Negative