Bassmurf

Started off liking "poodle" rock then got into metal - Megadeth, Maiden etc then grunge then indie and have now gone back to listening to a bit more metal again! Current faves:- Lacuna Coil Dream Theater Coheed & Cabria (prog metal?!) Pantera Megadeth (J.Lo rocks!) Sabbarf Queensryche (Eddie Jackson - v. underrated)

Agree with all the previous comments - friendly, great advice on gear etc - only trouble is my GAS has gone thru the roof looking at what everyone else plays!

Saw a clip of Coheed & Cambria's Mike Todd on Youtube last nite and it looks to me that he uses a Geddy Lee jazz like myself and it doesn't have the white scracthplate on it! With jazz basses can you just take the plate off and unlike the precision you won't have a big gaping cavity? Cheers! Dan

Hello and welcome! I think there is a lady bassist from my town that uses a Traben as well! They look pretty cool - good to play?

I'm looking to get a wireless unit but haven't a scooby doo which one to get! Can anyone recommend a good 'un? Cheers!

No, it's got the gloss finish (I only read about the sanded neck yesterday when I was waiting for it to be delivered) but I'm gonna see how I get on with that and I may sand it down and beeswax like I did on my first bass (a Yamaha RBX550M!). Re: Hyperdrive - friday is payday so we'll see...!

I'm very interested in getting the J-Lo pedal meself so will be following this thread very closely!!

Just took delivery of my Geddy bass yesterday and it's the first bass out of the last few that I just can't stop playing, had owned a USA P-bass which was ok, hadn't played a jazz before but am loving this version of it! Now I just have to look at that J-Lo Hyperdrive pedal...

Similar thing happened to some friend's band on sat nite at the Tilgate pub in Crawley, Sussex. They'd played there twice before but this time ther was a new landlady, they did (as before) 2 sets totalling about 50 mins each starting at 9pm thus finishing just after 11pm. 10mins into them packing the drums, amps and guitars away the landlady comes up and says to the singer "what's going on, you're having a laugh - £250 for just over an hour and a halfs playing? That's digusting! I've got alicence till 1am, I was expecting you lot to play till then". The singer replied that £250 was the fee they had been paid the previous two times for the same setlist and all the other local pubs they play didn't seem to mind! Anyway, the whole band went back into said pub after putting the gear away and lo and behold the landlady had conveniently disappeared into the kitchen and they ended up getting paid £200 but they too have been spreading the word around about this pub.

Sat 8th March, Broadbridge Heath Village Centre, Wickhurst Lane, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 3LY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri 4th April, Holbrook Club, North Heath Lane, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 5PJ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat 5th April Ashington Social Club, Near Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 3BX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat 5th July Hare and Hound pub, Cowfold, West Sussex RH13 8DR

Have narrowed down my choice - but can't decide between which of these two to get! The Geddy jazz is about £50 cheaper form what I can find out! Has any one got/used/tried the fenders with the S-1 pickup switching system?

Hi from another southerner, I'm not from eastbourne but went there once..

I'm upgrading to a slightly better bass, have got £500-600 to spend, need one that has two pickups (passive or active - haven't decided) and a fairly slim neck (as I haven't got the biggest hands in the world!), I have been looking at the Geddy Lee bass, possibly a Spector Legend or even the Peavey DE Zodiac - anybody tried/owned one of these or have another sugeestion? Cheers.

Hello, I've just received an e-mail from Martin @ Ashdown and he says they should be readily available in about 10 days time from any main Ashdown dealer.

Spent a lot of money with them back in the mid '90's - trace head, hipshot tuners, books etc, my best experience with them was in the old shop at Wapping when I bought a 1979 Ibanez 8 string - they let me tinker around with it for an hour before deciding to buy it then gave me a free gig bag, 2 t-shirts and a set of elites! Worst experience was when I went to part exchange said 8 string they would only give me £200 (and I bought it from them for £800 9 years before!) then charged me full whack for the Fender P bass I was after, didn't have the right one in stock so had to have it couriered over to my home, they managed to give the courier firm a different address to mine I then had to drive 15 miles to get it - not impressed!

[quote name='nash' post='126334' date='Jan 23 2008, 05:55 PM']whats the ibanez like?[/quote] Nice thin neck, weighs next to nothing, pickups are v.powerful, quite middy- lacks a bit in the low end but that's the only thing that lets it down!

Apologies for the photo, my digital camera is broken and phone cameras are s**t!

Here's my current (budget!) set-up. Will be replacing bridge on bass, getting the 1x15 Ashdown cab to match, DHA VT-1 (when I get paid) and am tinkering with the idea of getting the Hamer Chapparal 12 string!

Have tried Ebay and have emailed a variety of Ibanez stockists but still no luck. Anybody got any other ideas?!