All Activity

https://reverb.com/item/90669474-steinberger-style-pivot-plate

Looks nice - hope it sounds good too.

Dog Breath -FZ-

Only 3 months of fraud? Surely they have a lot more evidence than that!

Please expand? I was just going to post a topic to say I’ve never seen a better selection of boutique and vintage basses available in the UK. It’s incredible right now

All done! CTS pots and switch craft socket, new pick guard, new Tone Rider The Duke pickups, fender Hi mass bridge and new DR Low Rider strings. £340 in total but that includes the bridge I didn’t need (but I have to have) and you could save money on some cheaper strings if you wanted so less than £300 for a bass which to be honest is as good as my Fender! Sounds completely different though as I got the vintage ish pickups and I went for a higher value capacitor on the electronics. Output seems high and quite bright right now but strings are very very new. It does sound wierdly like my Musicman Sterling I just sold but passive which is a really good thing!

You Can Eat Dog Food - Tom Paxton

Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Years ago, I was doing some recording straight into the studio desk. My Antoniotsai active bass was picking up lots of interference and the engineer offered the use of a Precision that could have been used at Agincourt, the neck was so bowed (and it had one string too few). Fortunately I also had a passive Peavey Zephyr with me and that proved interference-proof. When I thought about it afterwards, it did occur to me that I could just have gone into the studio away from the racks and racks of electronic gear and used a DI box.

Boutique basses…..?

In my last band I played a part in the songwriting, probably 30% of the songs had the music written by me, with an occasional lyric or chorus, and an even less occasional vocal melody. In my current band I joined just as they were intending on recording an album with the songs pretty much already written, so I only added bits in when there was a stumbling point - not many times I should add. And that’s pretty much me, I prefer to be the additional songwriter rather than the main, and to add in extra passages to existing songs such as a guitar solo that has a key change or change of structure etc. And since ditching booze I’m usually the calming influence in the band, not that I was bothersome on drink, more that sober I listen and mediate whereas when drunk I’d just reach for another pint and ignore whatever the rest were arguing about.

Thinking of cricket bats, there's also the Westone Quantum and the non-cricket-bat small-bodied headless Ibanez Axstar, although both are now obsolete and priced accordingly.

My 2004 Lakland Skyline JO5 with a J-Tone John East preamp.

Congratulations @Blondy, you did it, and very well! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Nice set list, most are pretty standard fare for covers bands, but for a reason, they’re decent songs that get a crowd going.

WOW that was an interesting thread. Nice approach, very impressive. Dave

Fine & suspended sentence, anyone?

Great to read all the comments, tips, experiences, memories and choices! Hopefully depping will be a bigger part of my playing life from now on for all sorts of reasons that many have mentioned already. The dep setlist for this Saturday. A few days into a week's notice and seven basslines I already knew.

I doubt it would be boss/ehx/Mxr as frankly if they wanted too they could bring their own anagram type unit to market - and they aren’t going to undercut their own products. I imagine it will be things like is it the Valhalla reverb where a plug-in can find a new audience and compete with something like blackhole

Whats so strange ?