danny-79

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='835664' date='May 12 2010, 08:51 PM']The prospective value of a vintage bass is immaterial unless you're a hardened collector. You buy basses to play them, so which do you prefer to play & listen to? That's the real question you need to be asking yourself. [/quote] +1 Totaly agree with that

Its got Fender on the headstock an thats about it! (talk about taking sacred names in vain!) I'm guessing its all down to the amount of cheep copy's there are about (pretty much everything is based around the ONE shape / design etc) so Fender are just making there own cheep copy's and putting there own name to it. But from some of the examples that Ive seen/played they just keep getting worse. When i started playing a Fender was a Fender end of. And the copy's that were about were still just as good (if not better).

[quote name='Metalmoore' post='834675' date='May 11 2010, 08:40 PM']Yeah, get yourself to a music shop ASAP and spend some time just playing around with different basses within your price range and one or two thats not to compare.[/quote] Thats great advice (still do it myself just for the fun of it )

Just had a sort out / rearrange of the old board, Ive removed the Envelope filter and compressor an added a Boss LMB-3 with a new power supply from [url="http://johnnyshredfreak.com"]http://johnnyshredfreak.com[/url], it was recommended in a thread on here and i have to say that for the price of them excellent value for money (even comes with a fixing kit!!) works great with no hiss or hum etc so while i was on the site i ordered a fixing kit (massive improvement on the cable ties). So this is what it looks like as of today (well for now at least )

Brought a Stingray back from America a few weeks ago in its original case and it survived the trip in the hold just fine, it was still in tune let alone damaged in any way (the only scuffs were on the fragile stickers that they put on it when i checked it) but still working on getting a flight case just for my own peace of mind (its a long flight as it is with out worrying about, did it get changed to the correct connecting flight? is it OK ? etc)

This is a nice comprimise if you dont fancy fitting straplocks (or dont like bottle washers an duct tape )

Yeah watching it myself! Pino with is fretless nice and various other interesting 80s bass lines) glad i switched over now.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='833562' date='May 10 2010, 08:34 PM']Nah, if you want ghetto straplocks the rubber bits from Grolsch bottles are the way to go.[/quote] Perfect answer

For £52[u] NEW[/u] you wont do much better than that, but keep in mind secondhand stuff, you never no what might/will come up .

[quote name='DreadAlert' post='833199' date='May 10 2010, 04:22 PM']wow. I didnt see that the first time. I'm not a MASSIVE fan of the looks though.. and I'm looking to do jazzy kinda bass. And collection isnt possible. I have a question about the Vox Amplug thing.. My dad is telling me that if I were to use that connected to my speakers, they would probably be messed up by the bass.. As in the speakers not being able to handle them. Is this true? I think my speakers are 30w with a subwoofer.[/quote] It wont do them a lot of good or even sound that great, lets put it like that. (i don't no the technical info but its a bit like putting a Bass through a Guitar amp, you will end up killing it) Set yourself a limit (i.e £50) an keep your eyes open in the for sale pages on here, ebay, or even your local cash converters, there are some cheep bargains to be had in there an all).

[quote name='Metalmoore' post='832794' date='May 10 2010, 08:39 AM']Mate, your best off getting some sort of PJ Bass with a amp and bag as the PJ gets you the best of both worlds and as mentioned before is very versatile. eBay used to have loads but now there seems to mostly be P basses. If your interested in a metal bass i got one for sale [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=68378"]HERE[/url]. If your not 100% about playing bass start cheap, i got my first bass, amp, strap, tuner and cable for 60 quid just under 4 years ago.[/quote] If i were just starting out in playing, id rip this guys arm off!!! (what were people saying about the forsale adds )

You go for it !!!

"Presidents Of The United States Of America" come to mind, and if I'm correct the bass player and the guitarist only had 5 strings between them (just played 5ths)

Just setting up a feedback thread for me "Dan"... Having brought and sold equipment or just passed stuff around in trades, please let me no what you thought so that others that i trade with in the future will get an idea of whats what. Thanks for reading, Regards Dan.....

Ive been contemplating getting an upgrade to my power supply so when i first started reading this thread i was about to say go with the Diego one as i brought a no name power brick in the past an it worked fine, did the job as it said but the quality of it wasn't that good and its at present held together with gaffer tape and cable ties (but still working) so it was a bit of a false economy, but then i followed the like that "dannybuoy" posted and before i no it Ive ordered on, a mains lead and 2x daisy chains including postage under £25!!! if it works as good as it looks then all is good ( i will let you all no how i get on with it once it arrives) Thanks for the link dannybuoy!!! (cool name by the way!! )

Pleasure to do business with this guy, brought a Boss limiter pedal off him and it was exactly how he described it Regards and thanks again Dan.