Conan

Hey! I managed it!!

Hi! I'm new here. Does anyone like my Musician 824DS custom active fretless? Damn! How do I attach a pic from my PC rather than a website?!?!?!

Hi Bass Doc! I never met you, but at the time (about 20 years or so ago) I was having bass lessons with Kenny Potter, who passed my guitar on to you to sort out. Great job - thanks mate! Sadly, I'm trying to sell the bass on ebay at the moment, but it must be the wrong time of year or something... Two of them went for £600 the previous week! I recall Paul Garvey Music... a guitarist I was playing with at the time worked in there - said the boss was a right tw@t!! What was the name of the little place on High Bridge? Spenders rings a bell... I was once in there when a kid of about 14 came in with his mother. He asked for a Gibson Les Paul gold top to play.... usual scenario - smoke on the water and whole lotta rosie on one string. Anyway, after about 10 minutes of this awful torture his mother pipes up "who do I make the cheque out to?". The guitar was a cool £2500, and this was over 20 years ago! To add insult to injury, after getting it all packed up and stuff, she says "Oh, and can you recommend anyone who gives guitar lessons?" !!!

Howard Satterley! That's the name I've been trying to recall for ages! He repaired my Ibanez MC824 fretboard after I ripped the frets out in one of my "Jaco wannabee" phases! He did a nice job of installing an active pre-amp too. Thanks for the reminder dude!

I'm reminded of a quote by (I think) Wilko Johnson of Dr. Feelgood... "If you make a mistake, just look brash and the audience will think they heard it wrong!" Works for me!!

I guess there are a number of ways that someone could honestly and genuinely have "as new" instruments in their possession and want to sell them privately.... but, I too am rather cynical - especially as sometimes the written description of the gear does not sound like it was written by someone who knows what they are talking about. That really sets my alarm bells ringing, although I suppose they could be selling it for a friend or something?! Better safe than sorry I suppose!

Sometimes heavier gauge strings can give more harmonics or overtones to the sound, which might make the your tone a bit "fuller"... Or adding a bit more middle to your EQ should give more definition. Not sure what you mean by a "bassy" sound!? Do you just mean roll all the top end off, or set all the bass/low-mid knobs to 11?! Its all very well flapping your own trousers, but if there is no definition to the sound nobody will be able to hear what you are playing!