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Just found out that Dawsons & micro music in Liverpool are both trace dealers so may take a trip there one day.

sounds like a plan christmas hat man

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Brut 45 - slap it all over Man am I drunk right now

No worries - you're third on the list There are a silly amount of people interested in this cab. I don;t think that it will make it to the for sale section.

I sometimes find just a slight turn raises the neck over first 5 frets or at least the others look straighter. It could be the drugs or lack thereof. Definitely sounds like you need more relief on the neck if it buzzes everywhere

I could quite happily take the Pepsi challenge and make any bass playable. In fact, how about a challenge for one of the bass bashes? Bring a bass in any condition, as long as the electronics work, If I have a supply of cheap strings and tools I will make any bass play brilliantly. I'm not an expert, I just have a lot of experience of playing cheap basses and making them gigworthy.

One thing I discovered and have mentioned before is that as long as it can be adjusted, any bass can be used professionally. The only advice I can give is to try different basses. I found that ones I really wanted were the ones that ended up being the ones that played horribly and ended up going for something completely different. I normally think of the most complicated bassline I know I can play and try to play it on a new bass. If I can play it straight away then I know I'm on to a winner. After that its all about the balance, comfort factor and price

Woohoo - it accepts the plural but not the singular. how queer

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[quote name='budget bassist' post='392757' date='Jan 27 2009, 02:31 PM']Alembic "soiler"? [/quote] Its shits all over the competition. Ideal for bass [b]runs[/b] I could go on

Although I don't personally like Jazz basses, I have a soft spot for cream ones with rosewood boards as when I was at school, we had a squier jazz in that finish. Looking back, it probably was a JV or SQ and I loved it and being one of the few that played bass at school and being as popular as I was as big fat party animal, magic mushrooms wizard, acid casualty, where's the doobie?, I always got to play that one [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Made-in-Japan-MIJ-Excellent-with-hardcase_W0QQitemZ190282678348QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Made-in-...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

I personally do not have gas for any bass but I would love to buy one of these just to try it [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-1983-Precision-Elite-Gold-II-Bass-Vintage-Jazz_W0QQitemZ120368810865QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-1983-Precisio...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] Unfortunately I will be on holiday getting shitfaced when it ends so could not possibly bid on it.

Anyone else noticed that the postage is really high? You think he's delivering it door to door?

[quote name='bremen' post='392743' date='Jan 27 2009, 02:11 PM']Dare you to ask him [/quote] I just did

And correct you were. When I left it to dry it was silky smooth but now its showing just the right amount of grain - not that you can actually see it from the picture. Thought Id finish this thread off since I actually started another in the gear porn section showing off the rest of it. The finished result:

I can vaguely remember in the olden days before surround sound systems were mainstream of taking a lead from the headphone socket of my TV to my Peavey TNT150 combo to give it some bollocks and bollocks it gave

That probably explains why my other bass sounded damn all like it did with the tone control in any position. Looking forward to getting it back up and running again. Need to get the finger out before the Warwick sells as I;ve been relying on that for band practice.

Its just round the corner innit?

I'm guessing you have rotosounds on your bass? Unless someone can tell me differently I don;t think it does anything. The strings on my Warwick don;t have any silk on them. One possible reason is that they put them on stainless steel strings so as to avoid scratching the chrome on the machine head post.

Being absolutely honest I do miss the bottom end grunt. I like the sound but its not very manly. A bit light on the bass but then that's due to the design and the size of the cab. It was a welcome change from my wooly Ashdown ABM15 cabs but I seem to have gone from one extreme to the other. A few years ago, I had a bit of a mish mash setup consisting of a GK 800RB, Trace 1153 and Peavey 410 TX. It sounded fine but looked silly so I gave it the spanish archer and got the Ashdown Evo II rack mount shiny amp thingy and the 2 15" cabs and hated them from day 1 of playing live. They sounded fine on their own but in a gig situation I just couldn;t get a decent sound. Thing was that the GK & 1153 on their own sounded great with the wedding band but I stupidly sold the lot and bought the wooly behemoth. I don't want to sell this cab and then regret it so have to choose wisely what the replacement would be - do I go for another lightweight cab with a lightweight sound or what i would call a more traditional, heavier, less efficient cab that produces a good amount of low end? I suppose I'm drawn to the Trace gear as that's what I used to have. My original setup was a 7210H combo with a 1048H cab which I sold and bought the GK & 1153 in its place as my band had a full PA so I didn;t need the extra grunt. I've been playing in the rock band for a few years now and more and more I am finding that the lack of bottom end is annoying. I think that this was just the push I needed to go out and look for something more suited to me. It is a fantastic cab and can be driven so loudly. I've never got anywhere near making it distort. Its just not what I am looking for in a cab anymore. I think I got caught up in the whole lightweight thing. I like my Shuttle as its a nice change from using GK for a long time. I generally keep amps for about 3-4 years.