gjones

Most professional musicians I know, have a wife who has a proper job.

We should start a guilty bass players therapy group.

I have some expensive basses, which I bought partly because Of GAS and partly because, if I buy them secondhand, it's a better investment than just parking the money in the bank. I'm always aware that I'm playing some very nice basses, in some pretty unsalubrious, establishments. But the only time somebody accused me of overkill with my choice of instrument, was when somebody accused me of playing a Pino Pallidino, Signature Precision, at a gig where we were being paid via a pass around bucket (I was actually playing a Classic Vibe Squier ).

I have never ever Done that. Ever......... Honest.....😎

The definition of a gentleman is someone who can play slap bass.........but doesn't. It'll save you the cost of a replacement bridge

Are you trying to get your Stingray to sound like a Precision I have my ideal bass sound in my head (which is a Jazz with about 50% of the tone rolled off) and whatever bass I take to the gig, Precision, jazz or Stingray, I always end up with the sound of a Jazz with about 50% of the tone rolled off. I really should just stick to Jazzes.

I found that with my GK MB500 it wasn't quite loud enough to keep up with a heavy hitting drummer. So I bought the 800 watt version of the same amp and that does the trick. My advice is to make sure you buy a powerful amp if you want to use it on it's own.

Honeyblood, supporting Garbage, at The festival Theatre Edinburgh 2018. Honeyblood were a lot more Rock 'n' Roll and had a great sound. Halfway through Garbage's set, Shirley Mason stopped the band to complain about the monitor mix. Not very professional.

Well, as well as my class amps, I also have an Ashdown ABM 500 III, which I bought on Ebay for the price of a pair of Dr Martens boots (i.e. pretty expensive for a pair of shoes but dirt cheap for such a classy amp). It sounds great!

I have a GK MB500 and a GKMB800 (I like them a lot) but they can't do what that Trace GP7, I played through, could do.

I came to the same conclusion, when I got to play through a GP7 Trace Elliot combo, a couple of years ago. Can we get the sound without the weight?

A Silver Series Squier was my first Jazz. The pickups and necks are great (pickups are darker sounding than a typical Jazz). Both the Jazz and Precision necks are 38 mm at the nut and really shallow.

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Excellent. Annie Mccaig is the ex backing singer for Level 42 and she lives in Edinburgh down in Leith. You should see if she's available for backing vocals She sang on a couple of tracks on my bands album - she was awesome Here she is in Fandalism https://fandalism.com/anniemccaig

I think I've found it. It was sold to me as a CV Strat but reading up about them, they started manufacturing them in 2009 and mine is a 2007. I do believe it's a Daphne Blue Deluxe, like one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squier-Deluxe-Stratocaster-Fingerboard-Daphne/dp/B001MW7WV0?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001MW7WV0

If you want a bit more volume, if I were you, I would buy a cab first. You can then pair it with the combo you already have. That will allow your amp to use it's full wattage (500 watts rather than the 350 watts it will be putting through it's internal speakers), that and the extra speaker/speakers in your new cab will enable you to drown out your drummer, if you ever feel the urge.

This is very informative. It appears that mine is the sea foam FSR version, from 2013. http://www.alston-family.co.uk/CVs/indexcv.php

I used to have a sonic blue strat but this one is a very pale green.

I know a couple of very good guitarists, who own the natural Telecaster version and say great things about them. I own a Classic Vibe Stratocaster. It's a beautiful thing, it's put together very well and the back of the neck is matt. Here's picture. Can anybody tell what colour it is? I think it's seafoam green but I'm not sure?

I wonder if this has been the catalyst for a crazy Fender price war between music retailers? Call me cynical but I think I already know the answer to that question......

I have removed necks from basses and months/years later fitted them back to a bass. The truss rod didn't spontaeously explode out of the skunk stripe, while they weren't attached to a body. I don't think the damage had anything to do with loosening the string tension on the neck.

It looks like it's been savaged by a pack of dogs! I like it!!!!!

I recently bought a 70s VM squier maple body. I attached an old MIJ Silver Squier neck to it, that I had hanging around, and it sounds and plays really great. I'm thinking of fitting a John East Pre amp (which I have hanging around), which will probably end up sentencing, my other much posher basses, to the space under the bed.