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ah greeneking, i always liked your singlecut, too

yeah, you know the fretless precision? well my dad decided he wanted a fretless jazz in stead, so he's bought the classic vibe jazz, put the fretless neck on and i think he's planning on selling the precision with the jazz neck on. which will probably lower the price, because its a fender body, but with a squier logo

[quote name='budget bassist' post='415477' date='Feb 20 2009, 03:57 PM'] when did he get that one??!![/quote] wednesday

[quote name='dlloyd' post='415377' date='Feb 20 2009, 02:50 PM']No idea why, but Sterling Ball never went for my vision of a single cut Stingray... [/quote] thats one of the nicest singlecut designs i've seen, but then, apart from maybe the shuker singlecut, i dont like singlecuts. by singlecut, im excluding things like telecasters and les pauls, you know the sort i mean.

i expect simon1964 will be bringing his fretless classic vibe jazz

any pics of it with the big scratchplate bassassin? i like basses with big scratchplates. oh, and sorry for re-hijacking your thread gafbass02, it was lukeFRC's fault for bringing it up in the first place, blame him. EDIT: wait, i think i can see where the original pickguard would have gone

i prefer the epiphone ripper, in looks its just a suprise to see an overpriced gibson, theyre normally so cheap

i vote for no colour, just a clear laquer, its looking brilliant as it is!

[quote name='Chris1127' post='412479' date='Feb 17 2009, 09:39 PM']funnily enough my other/main bass is an original series made in Japan Ibanez ATK. Much as I like the OLP I wouldn't put them in the same class - the finish and equipment (bridge, tuners, wiring hardware etc) on the ATK are far better, as is the sound which is just awesome. I'd stack the atk up against basses costing twice or three times as much without hesitation - mind you for what I paid for the OLP I'd say the same about that too[/quote] oh yeah, the ATK is way better than the OLP a different league entirely, i was more just saying that if the OP wanted to buy a cheap stingray a like, the ATK is much more like a stingray, even if it does cost a bit more than the OLP, and just not to think the OLP will sound more like a stingray because it looks like a stingray and is licensed by ernie ball. im looking forward to playing a sterling ball stingray, i wonder what theyre going to be like? and if theyre a similar price range to the OLPs or to the music man SUBs? i get the feeling its going to be more SUB price.

i've had the passive version (a 5 string) and the active version (4 string). the passive was decent, not too bad sounding, but there wasn't anything special about it. it was gigable, nice to play, and not bad looking. i even recorded with it at some point, it wasn't half bad. not much like a stingray though, mostly cos its passive and the wierd controls making it more of a double jazz pup than a stingray pup. i can't really comment much more than this, because i had the OLP when i was still fairly new to bass, so didnt notice things like tone and stuff much back then. i've currently got te 2 pickup active version. just wow. for that price its excellent. the back pickup sounds very stingrayish (my dad has the 2 band EQ stingray) but the stingray is a little treblier, the OLP a little deeper and muddier. not a huge difference though. when on the two inside coils, it sounds rubbish, i can't fins a good sound with it at all. on both pickups its sounds good, although a little too smooth and slightly muddy sounding for my liking, but thats just personal taste, i like more of a treble clicky slightly distorted sound than a smooth one. the two outside coils are a decent jazz bass impression, and one of the best slap tones ive heard. it sounds absolutely phenominal for slap. the front pickup i use for playing with a pick, but its good sounding with fingers too. i don't really know what to compare it with, but its still a lovely sound, especially with a pick. theres a massive weight difference between my dads stingray and the OLPhowever, the OLP being much heavier (but my dad's stingray is a light stingray, too), and the OLP feels much cheaper, but this is to be expected with a bass quarter of the price. all in all, i'd say a very good stingray impersonator, but it does other sounds as well (although ive never played a 2 pickup stingray). BUT if you're only after a stingray sound, i'd recommend the ibanez ATK series. they're practically a stingray but for a quarter of the price, and do a decent (but not amazing - bearing in mind that its not made to do a precision bass sound) precision bass sound on the front coil.

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='411100' date='Feb 16 2009, 02:08 PM']A very special something else, that has no pictures (yet), and can't be explained.[/quote] sounds exciting

what gear have you got GAS for at the moment? mines currently this- [attachment=20376:atk.jpg] i love white/black/rosewood basses, and i love the sound of my dad's ATK, shame its a 5 string.

i considered stringing one of my basses BEAD for a while, but then i realised i dont need it, at all. every song in one of my bands can be done in EADG (or on the records they're Eb Ab Db Gb but we play them in EADG) and in my other band theyre all EADG or DADG, so i really didn't see the point. it was a matter of if it aint broke, dont fix it. but i can really understand how useful BEAD would be, and now this threads come up its making me think about stringing my OLP BEAD. i dont think i will though, cba to file the nut then replace it when i decide i dont like BEAD.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='398932' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:00 PM']From memory, there are quite a few errors with the Bassist transcription, not least of which is that the tab doesn't match the score in certain places (end of bar 7 for example has F on the 8th fret of the D string instead of the A). I also disagree with the run at the end of the main riff, for example in bar 2: ---------------8--8-------- -----------8-------------- ----8-11------------------ ------------------------- I would play ---------------8--8------ -----------6------------- ----6-8----------------- ------------------------- And the verse is all over the place. I would play the first bar (bar 8): ---|-----10-8-8---------------------------------| ---|------------10-10-8-8-----------------------| -8-|-(8)------------------11-11-8-8-10-10--*--*--| ---|--------------------------------------------| (with * being 16th rests) Bar 10's also wrong, but I'd need my bass to write the correct tab That's what I play at least, but it seems to match the record and the NWR solo recording.[/quote] thats what i play, too

after half a years break, my old band blank canvas have just got back together. and i realised i never posted a thread about us before, so i figured this will be a good time to do it. we've got a new singer now, so we're planning to entirely re-record all of our songs. but you can hear the old versions of our songs on out myspace. we're a lot more punky than our myspace shows us as being, but this is because these are some of the last songs we did before we broke up and we were trying a new "acousticy" sound. anyway, heres the link, to be updated soon with new recordings and new photos - [url="http://www.myspace.com/theblankcanvasband"]Blank Canvas myspace[/url] have a listen, and feel free to tell me if theres anything we could do better this time around.

OP, have you read the sticky about buying your first bass? helpful stuff there. and theres an excellent article in the wiki about buying your first bass that you probably wont have read. other than that, id agree with the buying second hand idea, you want a decent resale value if its your first bass, you may well give up. every ibanez i've played has been brilliant, a really underrated brand. if you can get one of the active OLPs, also great basses, although an ibanez ATK sounds as close to a stingray as the active OLPs. my personal favourite ever stock bass is the ibanez SR500, its a phenomenal bass. i keep meaning to write a review on the SR500 cos i rave about it so much, but then i keep forgetting.

i'd go VMJ or something completely different all together if it were me

not the kind of music id normally listen to, but i thoroughly enjoyed that!

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='408064' date='Feb 12 2009, 09:39 PM']Or Near Offer OVNO = Or Very Near Offer[/quote] ahh, thanks a lot!

ok heres one i keep seeing in the for sale threads, "ono" and i just cant figure out what it means?!

i love grabbers, they're just sooo cool looking.

[quote name='Buzz' post='406358' date='Feb 11 2009, 02:47 PM']On the mention of Blink 182, is everyone aware they officially announced their reformation this week? Check their official website if you don't believe me, new material will be surfacing in the summer.[/quote] i know, i hope they come to britain. i've already got a group of mates who i'm going to see them with if they come lol, and theyve not even said theyre coming yet. and GOD... I LOVE THAT MUSIC TOO

[quote name='Andyalfa' post='406535' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:11 PM']Hey guys, would it be OK if I brought my 16 year old bass playing nephew along to the bash. or is there an age restriction, being in a pub and all that?[/quote] im going, im 16. i went last year, i was 15 then.

[quote name='stoo' post='405569' date='Feb 10 2009, 05:58 PM']The last batch of OLPs (the MM22 and MM32) were made in Korea, were HH config and active. 5 way pickup and 3 band EQ setup much the same as the proper HH Stingrays. Build quality and sound quality were much improved, and they seemed to be much more consistently made too. They were a fair bit more expensive though - between £250 and £300 new I had a MM32 5 string and now have a MM22 4 string and have been very impressed by both, given the price. The 5er had very tight string spacing (about 16.5mm) which I didn't really get on with. They both felt much better made than my MIM Jazz, but it's been over 10 years since I had a go on a genuine EBMM ray so I can't really compare them with the real thing.[/quote] like simon1964 said earlier on this thread, i have an OLP mm22, and he has a stingray. having compared them, i got to say they OLPs bridge pickup soloed sounds VERY stingray like, although theres a little something in the stingray sound that just isn't there in the OLP sounds. still, for a quarter or the price, its worth it. i used to have a 5 string OLP, the passive version, and it was quite good, but not a stingray. IIRC, it sounded more like a precision than a stingray, but it didnt really sound like anything, it was its own bass.

[quote name='stoo' post='404996' date='Feb 10 2009, 03:49 AM']Looks like OLPs replacement line is almost out.... [url="http://www.sterlingbymusicman.com/"]http://www.sterlingbymusicman.com/[/url] It's not much of a website yet, but there is a product brochure pdf thingy on there. No HS or HH basses as yet, and no maple fretboard option on the SB (Sterling equivalent) Maybe the range will expand if demand is good enough....[/quote] do we know how cheap these are going to be? are they going to be as cheap as the OLPs were, or are they more SUB prices?