New Baby!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Mine's an old westone 4 string, fretless with split mid and an extra bridge pickup (a seymore-something or other). It's a passive doodad, so sometimes the brightness is difficult to bring out (especially with flatwound strings), but it has a lovely warm tone to it.
It was second hand when I bought it but it's a lovely solid instrument.

Awesome! Pics?

I should really play it more often.

Yes you should. Guitars are like women - the more attention you pay to them the happier they are.

Originally Posted by Flaxpants

What sort of tunes are you banging out then?

Folk-Rock-Country-Metal-Blues. Five of our 70+ originals are on our MySpace page, link in my sig.

Also video of one of our heavier gigs, with our old drummer:

Originally Posted by Tchocky

What amp do you play through?

Behringer 1x15 combo amp, 300 watts. I'm looking at upgrading to another Behringer, the 550-watt head with a couple of external speaker cabinets. That's in the future though. For some unknown reason I seem to be broke right now...

[Oberon]

Awesome looking strings there Steve

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Awesome looking strings there Steve

Yep, he should be able to row a lot faster with that large oar

[jumpy]

No pics yet steve, internet ain't got none that look exactly like mine either. Not sure my phone camera is up to the job, so in the mean time there's some awesome double bass 6:45



EDIT:

ok rather than use crappy phone, a little bit more searching produced this: http://www.servimg.com/image_preview...=43&u=14916313 (on the right hehe) now, imagine it with a no frets, a second pickup near the bridge and another dial where the jack plug socket is.
The guy who owns the one in the picture is a lucky sob - mine's not quite as lustrous as that

[Lord_magerius]

Played one a couple of years ago, sexy little minx's they are too.

Edit: also one of the great things about the Boss ME-70 is you can use it whilst it's on the floor too

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

[TarJak]

Great stuff Steve. That guitar looks very nice. Good to hear things are on the up for you again.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Lord_magerius

Edit: also one of the great things about the Boss ME-70 is you can use it whilst it's on the floor too

Very true, but some of the settings are twisty knobs, and while you're learning the twelve gazillion possible settings it's much easier not to have to bend over all the time, especially at our age.

[Lord_magerius]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Very true, but some of the settings are twisty knobs, and while you're learning the twelve gazillion possible settings it's much easier not to have to bend over all the time, especially at our age.

Don't you dare say you're starting to get past your prime

and just for more effect... (dramatic aint I? )

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Very true, but some of the settings are twisty knobs, and while you're learning the twelve gazillion possible settings it's much easier not to have to bend over all the time, especially at our age.

Look after yer back.....young'n

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jumpy

ok rather than use crappy phone, a little bit more searching produced this: http://www.servimg.com/image_preview...=43&u=14916313 (on the right hehe) now, imagine it with a no frets, a second pickup near the bridge and another dial where the jack plug socket is.
The guy who owns the one in the picture is a lucky sob - mine's not quite as lustrous as that

Very nice! I also looked at a Peavey Grind 5, and it had a lighter skin tone with stripes like that. I liked the neck-through-body design
http://www.peavey.com/products/brows...205-String.cfm

But in the end the active pickups won out. That, and availability. I would have had to wait a week for the Peavey. The Ibanez was hanging on the wall.

Enjoy your new toy-tool combination, Steve.

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Very nice! I also looked at a Peavey Grind 5, and it had a lighter skin tone with stripes like that. I liked the neck-through-body design
http://www.peavey.com/products/brows...205-String.cfm

But in the end the active pickups won out. That, and availability. I would have had to wait a week for the Peavey. The Ibanez was hanging on the wall.

Those Peavey's are nice. I had a go on one in my local muso shop.

I know what you mean about the active electronics, there's a world of tone control at your fingertips.
With that in mind, I was soooo close to buying one of THESE a few years ago. Yamaha TRB1006J 6 string bass...

Excuse me whilst I wipe the drool off my chin and my keyboard.

Then again, if money was no object, I'd have probably acquired a Warwick Bass.

[Tchocky]

Holding out for a Rickenbacker

Well, I say that now, I'll probably get something else instead for reasons of $$

Behringer 1x15 combo amp, 300 watts. I'm looking at upgrading to another Behringer, the 550-watt head with a couple of external speaker cabinets. That's in the future though.

Used to play guitar through a Behringer V-AMPIRE, sadly not mine. Good brand.