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I felt this just warranted its own thread.

So, you want to learn to play 'Rocket Man' on this ?.......... By Thursday?

It's in a queue Fixed it for you Al Have you been banned form comp chat? You should start a new compressor related forum with a .comp web address

Perfectly understandable. We're all different. I understand how gigging a lot can work for some and not others. I answer to no one and can sleep as late as I want. I'm single by design, as a matter of fact, I broke up with the last woman I dated because I knew she didn't get rock & roll or gigging. Our guitarists wife comes to every single gig with him, she's never missed a show in the 7 years I've been with the band. I asked her why; "Because I love watching my husband do something he loves" That's the kind of lady I need to meet. No woman is ever going to give me any type of grief about gigging. The money I earn from gigging means so much more to me than the salary I drew when I was a part of the traditional workforce. And I had a great paying career. I still feel that getting paid to have fun and do something you love is, well you can't beat it. Sure there's little inconveniences and every gig won't be great, but I still wouldn't trade away gigging for anything. I'm not important enough to hate any genre of music as long as it's professional and played well and I get paid to do it. I truly love this business and I love playing. BTW, sorry about the rant. Blue

In October of 1978 I saw Slade play the first night of six in a nightclub chain. Very little advertising and the bouncers were turning away fans who weren't dressed "smart but casual". Slade played to 19 punters in a 1000 capacity venue; the smallest crowd in their professional career. they still talk about it yet. When they came on Noddy Holder said "Jeeesus, did you all come on the same bus?"

... and done (all except the 'Smilies'; I'll do them later, one by one...). Enjoy.

Sounds like a good reason to take up double thumbing.

Ableton is fine for programming drums, however it's arguably not the best DAW for 'band/instrument' recording, it's way more geared towards electronic music (which it's amazing at). As such you may want to look at Garageband, or Logic (running in it's simplified mode......allows you to get more advanced when you're ready), as mentioned above, they both have very useable drum sequencers. Fun fact, although Logic's drum tracks appear as an audio wave at first, you can simply drag the part onto a spare soft-instrument track and it will show you the midi score......you could then apply any drum sounds soft-instrument (DFH, Tooktrak etc) on that track. Allows you to pull together drum grooves very easily, then apply your own preferred sounds to that groove. Si

I don't hate anyone I've never met nor got to know personally.

I dunno, you buy one little Ferrari and EVERYONE hates you. That's England for you.

I find them an exceptional band. I know a lot of folk don't like JK, but he's a great front man & a great vocalist too. The bassline in this is fantabulous...

Courier service

It might be better to accept that than spend hours digging through the box mountain in the loft to find the certificate, and then when I've found it, some clever so-and-so will say I photoshopped it!

You get my not whining about a challenge and doing something about it award. Well done!

Generally if you have to ask...

If you're going to patronise people (that means "talk down to" for all you thickies out there ) then at least learn to spell pigeon.

I would look at the Pedaltrain Nano/Metro series. They have a planner app on their site to help your work out which model will be the right fit. Then if you want a flexible power supply that will fit underneath then you'll be after a Cioks DC5 (sold by HotRox) or a Onespot CS6 (Andertons currently cheapest). For cables I would recommend a solderless kit like Evidence Audio SIS or Tightrope for their ultra low profile plugs and the ability to change lengths as your board evolves.

The spark between musicians is where the magic lives. Playing without it is like being in a loveless marriage.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha still laughing. Perfect answer and applies here, too

It needs damping because if it's not damped waves from the back of the cone reflect off the panels back to the cone, meeting it at various angles of phase, causing peaks and valleys in the speaker response. That's the case with all speakers. This isn't a debatable topic, it's Acoustical Engineering 101, first semester. Un-braced 15mm plywood is insufficient to make the cabinet panels inert. The only difference between Marine plywood and standard grade is the use of waterproof glue. What does matter is the number of plies, which is responsible for stiffness. A single brace connecting the middle of two opposing panels gives the same result as doubling the panel thickness. That's Civil Engineering 101, first semester. Giving the cab designer the benefit of the doubt I'll venture he may have studied acoustical and civil engineering and specified how to correctly build the cab, but the bean counter who over-ruled him in favor of saving a few quid certainly did not.

I love the first three Jamiroquai albums and find it bizarre when fellow musicians don’t share my enthusiasm. I find Zenders playing inspirational, groovy as hell and effortlessly cool. By Zender’s own admission however it was often the case that JK would sing the bass melody to him, and he would then build upon it with his own ideas. The more recent albums sound rather generic in my opinion and aren’t what Jamiroquai were originally about. Here’s Zender on a P, Derrick McKenzie laying it down, and JK hitting the high notes after (I suspect) one or two fragrant roll-ups.

Ben Thanks for the tip: the PowerAdd was removed from Amazon when I was first looking around, but seems to have reappeared at a reasonable price, so I bought it, as it was a sure thing to fit snugly in the carry handle slot (as demonstrated. i made some mock-ups of other power banks, but none of them would be so integrated. I’ve found that the knobbly finish on the amp makes mincemeat of the (rather pretty) battery case. Ho-hum!

Best solution for GAS: bass bashes! I was cleared of a lot of GAS and saved a lot of money through my meetings with a hand full of friends. Between all of us we tried almost every brand of high end bass and amplification you could think of. Liked some, hated some, was unispired by others. It's a great way of everybody getting to know different equipment and finding out what works for each other. And the truth is that no piece of gear is better than the other, each is more apropriate for each one of us. That's why me and my friends tried the same gear and ended with different equipment suited to each one's needs. The total investment wasn't much as it was shared by all, each time everybody replaced a few bits of equipment a new meeting was scheduled. Great fun and great lunches with very nice people.

Understandable. It's still annoying if you do both anyway. I never understood those who have an us and them mentality.

Thank you, I love learning stuff.

yes, whether its to do with design trademarks or what i dont know, but every precision type scratchplate will not fit every precision type bass. some wont fit over the control recess, some wont fit over the pick up spaces etc - and some will, but may need completely re screwing down as the screw holes are in the wrong place. i couldnt find a replacement for the v4 anywhere. i contacted the manufacturer in the end (jhs) but the one they suggested definitely looked like it wouldnt fit. it had screw holes in different places and the pick up space looked much closer to the edge of the scratchplate than the existing one i had. its definitely worth asking round round first if a replacement will fit your bass.

The guy I dealt with recommended that I do this on my cab, said it would really tighten things up. I`ve used the cab this eve and it sounds great though, so coupling this with my natural laziness means I`m holding off on damping the cab at present, think it was Dacron he advised to use?

Cancelled my order for a Pork and Pickle and got a Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi instead. Initial impressions through my 2watt all valve guitar amp with my bass in the living room are great. Can’t wait to plug it into my bass amp!!

The ... is called an ellipsis and is very often misused, much like the word 'literally'. Here is the definition from the OED. Grammar. The omission of one or more words in a sentence, which would be needed to complete the grammatical construction or fully to express the sense; an instance of such omission. Formerly used as the name of the dash (—) employed in writing or printing to indicate the omission of letters in a word. It should only ever be three full stops long and always has a space after it.

When I was in a local pub (Forest of Dean) someone made a crack about shagging sheep, to which an old soak at the bar shouted: "We don't shag sheep, we rape outsiders." It was crude, but got the point across adequately.

I like the idea of the 'Drag' control. - I'd love to be able to adjust the flamboyance of my stage costume mid song.

When I grow up I'm going to be a bass player.

But you don't own any of it, you just rent it.

Sad... used to be a national touchstone. You'd watch with your Granny who like Lena Martell. Your sister would like Duran Duran. You'd be waiting for the Smiths. OK I mixed up the time-zones there but you get the picture. Now the charts are just anonymous. Does anyone know what is no 1 this week?

Whatever happened to using a capital letter for the first word of a sentence?

Hello, this is my first bass 6 and my second bass 5 built, is not perfect, but I play my bass 5 in répetition, she as a good sound with bartolini pickups neck and delano pickup bridge.

Reviving an old thread about varitones, rather than starting a new one - just wondering if any BCers are fans of them? (Or otherwise..... ) My only previous experience was on a BC Rich CS NT Eagle bass, which rather bizarrely had a 9V active output boost with passive Varitone, which to be honest I wasn't too impressed with and usually left on "bypass". Generally I prefer passive basses anyway, and rarely touch the treble roll-off tone control. However, I was recently looking for a decent wiring harness to put in my latest bitsa P bass build, and bought one off this forum from (top fella) greenolive, which had an integral Tonestyler Varitone: http://www.stellartone.com/Page.asp?NavID=313 - replacing the tone control, with the standard tone control on a stacked double pot with the volume control. Thought I'd give it a go, especially as it was only a couple of quid more than a standard P harness, and the components were top notch. Have to say I'm knocked out by how good it is; the darker settings give a thick, punchy bass and midrange with all of the growl and clarity intact and none of the woolly mushiness of a standard passive tone - really usefully sculpts the sound. Wonder why varitones aren't more widely used?

Because it's easier than sitting practising for hours on end.

Because I'm stupid

My Fenix by Young Chang Jazz ..now with a lovely French couple

Just got the bass Jamie shipped to me in Sweden. Very helpful and pleasant gent to business with. Good packaging and bass in superb condition and good setup. 5 stars!

I'm currently a newbie and wanted to buy Jamie's Alpher Mako (my first possible transaction on BC). Jamie put my concerns at ease, a very nice chap to speak with, the transaction went smoothly and the Bass arrived the day after collection very well packaged. A really lovely bit of kit to sate my GAS a little... & Jamie's a gent to deal with 5*'s. Cheers, jamie

Bought a Markbass combo from Jamie and used it as an opportunity to visit the Kent coast to collect. Had a thoroughly nice day and picked up my bargainacious combo at the same time. Great comms throughout, couldn't be happier with the combo. Cheers Jamie, hope to do more business with you in future!

Completed a fantastic deal with Jamie - he was incredibly helpful throughout and communications were excellent. Payment was instantaneous. Most highly recommended as an upstanding pillar of the BC community

Sold my BareFaced BB2 to Jay. A guy to recommend! Thanks

Harley Benton RiB-shorty project is done. Detail pictures: This was a smooth and simple conversion, only minor setback was the breaking out if the chunk of wood while drilling the hole for the sidejack. Verdict: This one was the best made HB instrument I've had in my hands until now. Nice tight(ish) fitting neck/neck-pocket, frets are level and there are no sharp fret ends, only two tuners were a little bit misaligned that were fixable without any 'filling and drilling'. I replaced one bridge saddle due to the fact that the height adjustment screws were not at an straight angle to the intonation screw (the original one worked okay but I don't like these small disturbing details). I also placed a neck shim, this was not necessary but I prefer to have the strings a little bit higher in the bridge position. These Chinese toasters sound amazingly Rick-ish, even though they are dual coils (in series), the round rolling sound with a bite, the only minus is that they are slightly microphonic.

Another update: The old J humbucker was seriously microphonic which made me decide to replace it. I replaced it with a DiMarzio DP148. Experienced some problems with the wiring while replacing the old pickup, it also took a while to adjust the two pickups to get an even sound from both together. In the end I'm glad I did replace this pickup, the new one sounds better and is dead quiet, no microphonic noise and no hum.

Applied conducting paint again. I am roughly at the point where I was before I discovered the pickup didn't fit.