Random Guitarist Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 HI, I'm Grant. I use the name randomguitarist because I seem unable to remember arrangement details and have to improvise a lot on both guitar and bass. I seem to be heading more to the bass side of life at the moment. I Currently play: Ibanez SR500 with flatwounds, love the feel and get some good sounds but it's not very fender Sire P7, swamp ash/maple on roundwounds. I know some people have commented on slight variations in quality, I was lucky enough to be able to play this one in the shop and it is utterly perfect, there's a risk it may make the Ibanez obsolete Squier p-bass body with a mighty mite fretless neck. It's a mess in that the neck was a 5 string, but the body is a four the neck has had a 4 string nut put in at some point, so it's all a bit Frankenstein really. Loudness comes from a TC BH500 that I got cheap when they were being discontinued. I then cam across a guy selling two of the 2x12 TC cabs and another head the same. So far I have never found one head/cab inadequate, but I keep the other head/cab for 'spares', I also fantasise I might get around to running to amps in parallel, one clean and low, one high and ditrty, but I'm too lazy TBH. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Welcome Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6feet7 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Welcome from Sussex too. Watch the GAS. This site is addictive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiOgon Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Welcome from another Sussexian!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard R Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Welcome aboard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Guitarist Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 Thanks all I know what you mean about the GAS. It's already pulling me towards a better fretless bass. My wife will be so pleased . . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GisserD Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Welcome! I'm in shoreha. If your interested in FX, synthy bleeps and bloops funk/reggae hit me up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSeagull Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Also from Sussex, welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Edge Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Seemingly a lot of us bass chatters in Sussex. It must be the sea air. Welcome aboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownote Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 I grew up in Horse Ham. Found it very difficult to escape but did in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Edge Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, lownote said: I grew up in Horse Ham. Found it very difficult to escape but did in the end. I lived in the Fens for 20 odd years. Could not wait to get the hell back to civilisation. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownote Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 12 hours ago, Cliff Edge said: I lived in the Fens for 20 odd years. Could not wait to get the hell back to civilisation. 🙂 Know what you mean. Only the last time I went back to Sussex it seemed to be full of oiks with baseball caps driving L200s. Nostalgia's not what it used to be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Guitarist Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 It's not what it once was, I was born here, went to university in London, came back tired, emotional and barely qualified. Found a local job and never quite felt the need to move. Having said that, I think it might be time to move soon. Creeping urbanisation and a road system that is becoming more complex and busy every day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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