gjones

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.

After reading these replies, I think you should change your question to, 'What sounds bad through a barefaced two ten?' . It'll save you a lot of time.

I played the Precision Deluxe and it was fantastic. It has a lovely Jazz neck, has a great sound and feel and it's put together really nicely. In the end, I ended up buying the Fender Elite Precision, which was the USA version of the Precision Deluxe, at the time The Elite is a very nice bass but it cost twice what I would have paid for the deluxe , and it's definitely not twice the bass.

The bassist and keyboard player look like they could be characters from 'The Big Bang Theory'. It reminds me of when I played at a mathematics conference at St Andrews University, a few years ago. There was a lot of sandal and sock action on the dance floor that night.

If you leave, take the drummer with you, he sounds pretty tight.

Buy a Trace Elliot 4x10 combo. You could leave it in the street and nobody would have the strength to pick it up and run away with it

£66 quid! I thought me getting an Ashdown ABM III, for £134, was a good deal. I played my Precision, at a Ska gig, through one of these and it sounded fantastic.

'It's all in the fingers'

The Cobra 90 was my first amp, when I was 17. It was too underpowered to play with a drummer, so I saved my pennies and bought a Carlsbro Stingray 150 combo, with a 15 inch speaker. I thought it was the beez kneez, until I plugged my bass into it. Put any actually bass through it and it would fart like a hippo. So I had to play with a crappy twangy sound, that I hated. I once played a 5 string through it and it almost exploded. Sh*te!!!

His bass player, Vail Johnson, was a member of Basschat for a short while, until he got chased off by armchair experts.

I used to own a TV15 and it was a lovely combo. But because of the, very heavy, ferrite speaker magnet in the original speaker, it weighed a ton. I used to dream of fitting it with a Neodynium speaker By the way, the original speaker was 4 ohms.

I bought a Class D amp from Basschat, about two years ago. When I plugged my bass into it there was a background distortion, every time I played a note, that sounded ominous. Before I contacted the Basschatter that sold it to me, I opened it up and made sure all the cables were connected securely to the board (they weren't soldered, they were attached using little plastic connectors). I replaced the case, plugged my bass back in and the distortion had gone. I put the issue down to the courier chucking it around in the back of his van. I've gigged it plenty of times since then and it's never let me down (I do bring a spare, just in case). My point is, before any money is paid for a repair, it's a good idea to open a faulty amp up and make sure there are no obvious, visible problems, that can be sorted easily. Which of course you did, without success unfortunately.

Uhhhh.......WhatsApp I recently came back from a couple of days away, to over 200 messages on WhatsApp, from my fellow band members. There was absolutely nothing worth reading. They all have too much time on their hands.

I'll not be going back to my Carlsbro Cobra 90, oh no 😨

About 10 years ago I had an ABM 500 III which, although I loved the sound of it, just wasn't loud enough through the (very heavy) ABM 15 cab I also owned at the time. So I bought a TC electronic classic 450 and a TC 212. I didn't like the TC head and because I liked the Ashdown sound bought their brand new MiBass class D head. Which I really liked and went well with the Barefaced Compact I then bought. I went off on a bit of a tangent, by buying a GK MB500 head (which is exceptionally loud) but a few months a go I saw an Ashdown ABM 500 III (made in the UK) going cheap on ebay and managed to buy it for the stupidly low price of £134. It sounds as good as I remembered it sounding. I haven't had the chance to fire it up and play it loud, as most of our gigs have backline provided by the venue but I'm sure it will sound fantastic through my Compact once I do. Great amps..

Why didn't they do the honorable thing and disband the band, then two weeks later, reform it with the previous bass player and a different name? Isn't that how it's done?

I usually gig with a Barefaced Compact and an 800 watt amp, which is very loud. But in smaller venues i can use my Rumble V3 100 combo. They sound great, are a 1 finger lift and are loud enough to compete with a sensible drummer. I bought mine for £165 second-hand and is one of my better buys. I love the little thing.