getting a bass guitar!!!

[Knoxville]

Worst i've ever had was for my gibson sg. Got £900 trust fund cash come through a couple of months after my 18th, so i was thinkin i'd get a telecaster for around £300 and put some cash towards a new amp, then i discover sound control near me were doing sg specials for £500....

Off down to birmingham i go with a friend to check things out, walked in and had a little look at the telecasters which the sensible bloke in my head was screamin at me to buy, wandered over to look at the sg's (the friend now bored as she's looked at the paisley strats and ain't interested in anything else. sales bloke comes over and asks if i'd like to try it out. go on i think, what the hell i ain't gonna be down here again what'll it hurt. Plugged into an amp and selected the neck pick-up after one rendition of back in black the sensible guy was no-where to be found and i walked out £530 poorer

[wilsonian]

LOL you leave a post one day and get all these replies.

i was playing around with the bass for a while on wednesday. only problem is it keeps going out of tune as the strings are new (i've been told of several people this is common) also i have to get a tuner, i was thinking about a Korg CA-10 tuner.

As for the deal i got i don't think they have any more in stock, this was the cheapest in the store and it was a 5 string. and the amp was an old Xmas starter deal that was left over.

[Knoxville]

Never restrung a bass meself but i know guitar strings have to settle before they stay in tune for any decent amount of time. As for a tuner the korg is ok i've used a couple in the past but i much prefer my Seiko ST737

[wilsonian]

well i took your advice and ordered one from ebay for £15 - thought it was a bargin considering it's on by now brand new and they RRP at £25.

should get it on tuesday - wednesday.....

[unrealrocks]

Heheh - Cheers Knox, thats well cheap for a 5 string (doesn't look that great - but hey, it wont be my main bass, lol). I'll prob buy it sometime

[Knoxville]

been looking at getting one of those myself as i don't actually own a bass yet, they ain't spectacular but it'll do the job i reckon

[unrealrocks]

LOL you leave a post one day and get all these replies.

i was playing around with the bass for a while on wednesday. only problem is it keeps going out of tune as the strings are new (i've been told of several people this is common) also i have to get a tuner, i was thinking about a Korg CA-10 tuner.

As for the deal i got i don't think they have any more in stock, this was the cheapest in the store and it was a 5 string. and the amp was an old Xmas starter deal that was left over.

Did you run the strings in properly? On basses its much more important than on guitars.

[wilsonian]

not too sure what you mean by this. the strings came already on the bass, i have ordered a tuner which i should be getting on tuesday so i can get it tuned correctly.

any advice on setup etc would be great!

[CMC]

if ur lookin for tabs, download guitar pro, and then get tabs for it fomr www.mysongbook.com its great, im a guitar player but i play a bit of bass, learn to play wasting my hate by tallica, great base riff