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Area Pro Tools BC Ritchie Rich Ampig Stretch Armstrong plexiglass Epi-phony Gibson Les Dennis Rickettybacker Takeyoursy acoustic Pee-vey Zod Sonus - All hail Zod Ya-mama All equally bad as each other

Another alternative colour would be white. Google Larry Graham's Moon bass. Its a rear routed Jazz style bass with gold hardware and looks really good as well. You could also go for a deep red or brown finish. that would suit the gold hardware. I'm thinking along the lines of the Walnut & Elite Precisions of the early 80s. Look up the 30th anniversary stingray. i always thought it would've looked good with gold hardware

did someone say gold? Warmoth make the whole process so simple. The neck is predrilled so that all you have to do is offer it to the body and bolt it together it is that simple. My bass is bit extreme as everything except the neck itself is gold. I have: Schaller straplocks Gotoh machines gotoh 201 bridge Gold knobs gold frets Gold Hipshot string retainer If you have trouble with wiring bestbassgear.com can prewire a harness so that you can just drop it in and solder the pickup wires to it. It might seem like the pot calling the kettle black but a gold scratchplate may be too much for the bass. If you're going with a flame top why not go for the rear routing option like my gold one? Incidentally, the blonde finish on a swamp ash body looks like this:

If you know what I play then you'll know what i am going to say. You could easily get yourself a Warmoth body and neck in your choice of woods and finish. Put all the goodies in it that you want and still have the best part of £300 left over if we are talking about a £900 starting figure. You could also take it to a luthier and have the frets dressed and everything else done while you are at it. Fair enough, its not going to say Fender on it and you'll get about 2 bob if you ever try to sell it but it will be exactly to your specifications. The last bass I had before my Warmoths was a CIJ Fender '51 reissue precision which was a phenomenal bass but great as it was, both my basses wee all over it in terms of balance and playability and I have exactly what i want. Jon at MIJ Fenders is a good guy to deal with if you'd still prefer to get the real thing. Surprised that he's not got back to you but he does go over to Japan every couple of months to buy new and used Fenders. He's a huge Ritchie Blackmore fan. I used to play in Rainbow & Black Sabbath tribute bands with him a few years back.

I love Japanese Fenders. great workmanship at a fraction of the cost of a US one. Some of the non import ones have US pickups as well. They were my preferred bass of choice until I went down the Warmoth route.

Not the easiest board to master but the Boss GT6B is phenomenal. Once you get your head around it, there are some great sounds to be had. It can be bought realtively cheaply second hand. I bought mine on this very forum. The usual Boss setup with banks of sounds but as an added plus you also have dedicated pedals that you can assign and add an extra effect to your preset sound such as a flanger or the usual other stuff.

Bearing in mind that I played only 5 and 6 string basses for around 6 years means that anything with 4 strings feels comfortable to me so I might not be the best judge

I've never been able to get a cut through sound with a semi-acoustic bass. they tend not to lend themselves to that kind of sound IMO. But if it is the bass you want to keep and you like it then something in the Schroeder 1212L style would help you no end as they tend to have more pronounced mids. Case in point is that i used to run a couple of Ashdown ABM115s and they gave me a very indistinct wooly sound that only creatures at the bottom of the sea could hear clearly. I replaced them with a single Schroeder 1212L and I'm as happy as Larry. Haven't even came close to the cab's or my GK 700RBII's limits and that is even when it is being used as my out front sound. Not as much bottom end as the Ashdowns but perhaps that's a good thing in that it eliminates the wool from my sound

I must be in the minority. My car is a 2007 Vauxhall Vectra with 13000 on the clock. My 2 main basses are Warmoths worth about 2p each

Shakie's - Merry Christmas everyone Elton John's - Step into Christmas Until he started fiddling with kids - Rock & Roll Christmas by Gary Glitter was a good one Bob Rivers- Walking Round in Women's Underwear

Nope. Still loving both of mine. Incidentally both of mine have '54 bodies with jazz width necks and tele headstocks albeit with single coils. One's rear routed and one's front. They have a solidity about them that I never felt with other basses- especially Rics. Perhaps something to do with me choosing the woods and components and putting it together myself. I know I've taken the time to build it properly rather than owning a mass produced 'how many of these can we build this week?' bass which can vary wildly from bass to bass.

I have a 2007 Vectra hatchback and can fit: Schroeder 1212L 6u Rack Cab & Amp Stands Bass in a gig bag My bag of leads Change of clothes for the gig in the boot. If I fold the seats down I can fit all of that plus 8U rack Bass in a hard case Bass Drum 5 - count them, 5 Toms Drum hardware case - big long Hardcase fellow with the wheels Cymbal Bag Stick Bag Drum Rack Case with Drum Mics Drummer's monitor Drummer's change of clothes Plus the drummer of course. I've always loved Vauxhalls and the fact that i can get my gear for the rock band in the car without putting anything in the passenger area.

your avatar is scary. that's my thoughts. I like fish but so much krill scares me I used to watch 3,2,1 and can still do the hand gesture. I always wished Ted would do it wrong one day

John Deacon is the reason I play bass. Learned 'another one bites the dust' on acoustic and was proudly playing it when I was 12 years old. I have to begin by saying that there is no Queen without Dame Freddie Mercury and think even less since there is no JD. My first exposure to Queen was the 1986 Live Magic tour when they were at their most magnificantist. Totally sh*t hot to a 12 year old bassisst who's learning everyting under the sun

[quote name='Protium' post='308085' date='Oct 16 2008, 07:17 PM']How exactly did you blow the speaker? Sounds like you did something wrong vs. there actually being anything wrong with the speaker...[/quote] It was only a couple of years ago and I've now been playing for 21 years so I'm confident it wasn't me. I was using it with an EVO II rackmount head at the time and one night it just started farting when I was playing. I was actually a bit sceptical about the Fane drivers as I know that the Celestion's are bomb proof and even emailed Ashdown prior to buying it to find out more.

If it was the same as mine, your cab will have a Fane driver which I didn't rate very highly before buying and I was right, I managed to blow it relatively quickly. I put an Eminence Kappa driver in it as I had one sitting in its box. Sounded really good too. I swapped the original driver in a previous Trace cab i had. It ws the compact 1153. i can't remember the exact model but it was another celestion, albeit 300w instead of the original 200w and 4ohms instead of 8ohms. Sounded really good.

The best thing to pack a bass with is a flat panel TV box cut to size. Normally a 40" one if its in a gig bag and a 46" one if its in a hard case. The worst packaging I ever had was with a 1979 Rickenbacker 4000. It arrived in an old gig bag with a burst zip that didn't fasten at all. the seller held the bass in the bag with brown tape wrapped round it. How it survived I will never know.

[quote name='SisterAbdullahX' post='304686' date='Oct 12 2008, 03:19 AM']I'm currently half way through building my first Warmoth, a 4 string Jazz with swamp ash body and maple/ebony neck. It currently has no pickups or electronics in it and does suffer neck dive. I'm hoping that fitting p.u's and circuitry will add enough body weight to balance things out. I enquired if Warmoth could fit graphite bars, instead of steel but they said they'd tried that and it resulted in dead spots so they decided to stick to steel. I find that a little strange as my Fender Jazz Deluxe 5 string has graphite bars and balances perfectly despite the extra neck mass and additional machine head and doesn't have a single dead spot anywhere.[/quote] My newest Warmoth also has a swamp ash body but maple neck and fretboard. I went for Gotoh Resolite tuners just in case there was going to be any neck dive. Happy to say that there isn't on this bass. It balances perfectly. The only reason I used the Gotohs was because they were reverse winding like the original Fender ones. Also, you don't mention if it is front or rear routed - if rear there is a lot of room in the cavity to add weight

Me and a mate were doing a talent contest at primary school miming to Bruce Springstein of all people. Another mate of mine had an acoustic guitar and I thought it would be cool to hold the guitar pretending to play it. This was when i was 11. My mate agreed to let me have the acoustic for a fiver and i mucked about with it for a bit. I was a huge Queen fan at the time and tried hard to play along but I didn't understand the concept of chords or anything. Anyhoo it gets to Christmas and I'm asked what i want. I was leafing through the Littlewoods book and started looking at the guitars but spotted the bass alongside. Everyone wanted me to get the guitar so i picked the bass. Christmas morning comes along and I get my Marlin Slammer P bass copy which looked a bit like John Deacon's red P elite that he used on the One Vision video. I also got a curly guitar lead just like Brian May's and played it through a Squier 15w guitar combo. That was me until I was 16, same strings and everything. I did consider getting a guitar a couple of times but when i went to a music shop to try some out I always felt that there was something missing and that it was a bit light on the loafers compared to the power of the electric bass. I wouldn't be interested in any other instrument now

Good bits: I've always been able to pick up a tune really quickly I can play most songs in any key After 20 years I have the best gear for my needs My gear is lightweight I wear earplugs at every gig I can slap & use a pick if I need to I'm still getting better all the time I'm always at a gig in plenty of time I maintain all my own gear I can sight read I got lightweight gear before I did my back in or got too old to lift it I can get all my gear in and out of a gig in 2 trips - 2 basses, gig bag, cabinet, amp & stands I'm good at improvising thanks in part to being in a dixieland jazz band when I was 17 where all you got were the chords, no dots I'm a typical bass player in that I carry a spare of everything: speaker cables, stands, straps etc I'm confident I'll try playing anything Bad bits: I never practice Since I began wearing earplugs I think I play louder than I used to I don't spend time sorting out the settings on my effects so don't use them as much as I would like to I react to the crowd - If they're being dull and uninterested then so am I; If they're up for a good night then so am I I would rather pack up and go home and donate my gig fee to charity than play 'sit down' by James. If that's such a bad thing