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The usual Marta thread always descends into pointless garbage. If she was fat and ugly this thread wouldn't even be here.

The Trace Ah250smx brings back some jolly memories for me. Was in my early 20's playing in a loud rock band. There were 2 guitars, one playing through a Marshall Superbass 100w to one side and to the other side having to deal with a Hiwatt 100w valve head. Also had a hard hitting drummer at the time also.I can't remember what I was playing through but I stood no chance volume wise. I really needed something more powerful, and as things were moving forward with bigger and better gigs I just happened to come into some money at the time so off I went to the music shop to investigate the options. I remember Hartke was just starting to make a name over here at the time but didn't do much for me when I tried it out. They had that awful Warwick stuff also. Did nowt for me. Then I had a look round the corner and saw the new Marshall DBS stuff and I was in love instantly . It sounded absolutely killer, looked amazing, but the problem was the cost... That rig was around 2 grand if I remember correctly! Next to it was the Trace Elliot stuff which I didn't know much about but was within the price range. I plugged into the 250SMX rig and it blew me away (literally)… Needless to say it was purchased on the spot. Fast forward to next band practice which at the time took place in a medium sized hall with a big stage. I really wish I had a camera to take a picture of guitarists faces when I bought in my new rig (with a bit of help), and setup up on stage … a Trace 1x15 , 4 x10,and a Trace 250SMX It was truly monolithic.... "ok lads when you're ready ….1-2-3-4 …." Needless to say it solved that volume issue forever anyway. ** EDIT Just noticed it's my 100th post 🤩 … I've only been here since 2007 to be fair though. 😐

It looks good on the website, just the sort of book I would buy EXCEPT for one thing, the tab immediately below the music. At the risk of opening the perennial tab/notation can of worms again, I really hate that, as where my sight reading is right now, I want to concentrate on the notation and not have my 'brain' have a cheeky crib from the tab fingering. Now if the eBook is formatted such that I can see only the music, then I'll buy straight away. Any chance of that please @Rob MacKillop? I guess not, but nevertheless all the best with your venture. Ralph

No Dreadful name, I know, but still very much on-topic... if you get my drift. 😀

This thread would be here, because i posted it due to her abiilty on a bass. I never mentioned anything to do with her looks, or this ballacks about JK. I didnt even know about that story.

Yeah I don't think it will really make a difference to neck stability it's just more annoying than anything Looking at other 4 to 5 string conversions the strings will still sit OK over the poles but if it's not I can just change the pickups for a rail magnet instead White or black body and I think a matching headstock looks nice but I don't think it will suit a blue one but it's certainly not a dull looking bass 😀

Thank You! You really should get patented that body shape - it`s perfect every way and won't be surprised if this design will be stolen from You! and forget to mention headstock shape should be patented too!!!

This has nothing to do with being young, female and attractive. I am going to prove it by uploading a video to You boobs … errr I mean YouTube of me playing my best average renditions of "Sex On Fire" and "You Sexy Thing". I will be naked while I do this. I will be expecting a thread to start shortly afterwards, commenting on what a seriously groovy player I am, and that it has absolutely nothing to do with me being a slightly below average looking white male in his mid 40's being naked. (I'm single by the way).

Reminds me of a gig we did at the Goth and Giggle one night... Moany Ben had worked up an arrangement of Disco Duck and was dressed as Count Duckula. I had misunderstood at rehearsal and I'd learnt Joe Dart's line's from Funky Duck. As we launched into the intro Antwaun Stanley got up and started to sing... Well. Moany Ben was all about the Rick Dees lyrics and Antwaun was all like oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo The crowd loved it. Disco laced with Funky, Goth garnished with Disco cheese... we got a nomination for Mash-up of the Year, a bale of pancakes and a firkin of Hoisin sauce to round the night off. Good times. I just wish Will I Am would stop pestering me to sign up.

Get some step drill bits and a 22mm Forsner bit. The step drill bit drills like a countersink and located inside the hole. Then you can drill until you get a 22mm step, then use the forsner bit to do the rest. The steps means the forsner bit won’t wonder. Step drill bits are very handy to have around.

I won't go into the details of what happened but while setting up at last night's gig our guitarist had a little 'toys out the pram' moment. This morning we all had this email; "Just want to say sorry for my tantrum last night, no excuses, I was a tool!" Obviously I accepted his apology and replied telling him he was a d!ckhead. See, they're not that bad after all

To be fair, commercially speaking, tab and score probably doubles the potential sales. Cannot blame the publisher for that decision.

Ooft! Good luck fella, that will be a cool gig to get

After only one play through, The remix doesn’t sound that much different to the old cd version. However you also get a remastered cd which has much better clarity. But imho it loses some of the warmth. But it’s still worth the dosh. You also get the Squire/White Run with the Fox tracks. (?!)

The rack's got a dbx 2 channel compressor, a BBE pre and a Marshall Jubilee being used as power amp. The enormously heavy cab is a Yamaha 1x15" currently housing a Precision Devices 600w 15". 10cc? Eek! It's to teach the drummer to dance... It's the only way I can get some funk into the rest of the band!

Just bought Chris Squire’s Fish out of water remix cd. Had the vinyl in the 70’s, then the cd, now the remix. Still stands up as a stunning album. A true original innovator. Always loved what he played. I still listen to Fragile and CTTE. Great bass sound. But every time I’ve tried a Rickenbacker it felt like a plank.

Is this decorative too or does it come with rubber pellets for the 10cc section of your set?

I played two gigs yesterday back to back (what a sweat fest!!). Anyway, unpacking quickly for the second gig, I sorted out my input gain level, checked the EQ was off and had a quick check on the level. I was met with an even better tone than I had previously but couldn’t work out why. I had a look and noticed the “EQ Balance” knob (circled yellow in the picture) had been turned nearly all the way to the left, towards “low”. Wow, it was fantastic and my bass sounded superb. I highly recommend tying it out if you have this head. The passive tone on my bass was left full on, no EQ on the head at all apart from the EQ Balance turned left and a small amount of Low Compression. Please note, this is an old picture, not of how I was set up (hence the EQ on in this one!)

That would the adventure of a lifetime. I bet it was amazing. With this kind of thing, if you approach it right, you can come away with ideas that you can keep dipping into whenever you need to. I did a weekend thing with 6 string player Todd Johnson about 8 years ago. He did a lot of chord melody playing and soloing concepts. Things that take ages to assimilate into your playing anyway. There were things that he covered that every now and then I think ah yes!

At long last. Someone who can finally explain who the flipping walrus was and where Paul was buried. Oh yeah, and Happy Sixty Fourth you old scrote!

What? And no local hands to help? 😉 That, my friend, is quite the dream load-in.

I haven't seen Marta doing it either. I genuinely don't, I am genuinely just seeing you complaining that this woman is trading on her looks and miming. WTF?? Now I am not allowed to have an avatar that I want because I am hiding behind a cartoon? I wasn't aware that someone had died and made you the avatar police. Maybe I am am concerned that people like you would think I am just trading on my good looks?

Had a chance to do a bit more routing!! After my previous router failing, today routing decided to have a go at me by disintegrating a bearing on the template cutter I was using. Luckily I was cutting the hollowed out section of this bass so no real damage done but it did take a thin strip off the template before I noticed. First job was to repair the template - relatively easy, just needed some veneer supergluing on and trimming back to the original line. The remains of a template bearing - all the ball bearings disappeared along with the other retainer!! I found a new bearing the same diameter so carried on. I've also cut the scroll hole on the top. Time to start gluing this together and routing the chambers on the other body.

I've trimmed this down now and fitted the threaded inserts. The repair isn't a perfect alignment but it is near enough as it is in a place where it won't be seen.

Wholeheartedly agreed.

Thanks, Neil and all you others. I was doing so well until the end of the England match when, in the excitement, I went down and cut a few bits of wood: "Oh no - he's not going to try an make his own knobs again, is he???"

- And of corse;

There is a comprehensive thread here. Hope it is not against the law! https://www.talkbass.com/threads/g-l-and-clf-research.1323999/

I'll remember that. Shipping doesn't look too bad, quotes I see are $200 to $250. One TNT quote did say $150 but with the 2 other TNT quotes giving prices then saying "service not available between these addresses", it'll need further investigation.

I had a young, rather drunk lady shout in my ear whilst playing with my blues band, asking if we knew any songs by One Direction. I shouted back "Ask the singer". Her reply, "which one's the singer?". When I told the rest of the band at the break, the singer told us the said girl had then shouted in his ear (whilst he was singing) "are you the singer?" - not knowing the context, he had been quite confused.

Production fashions go in cycles. That much is obvious from the few comments here already. In the 80s I couldn't stand listening to most of the albums I'd grown up with in the 70s due to (at the time) sterile sounding production with their weedy cardboard box drums. Now it all, sounds fine again to my ears. I can remember someone on one of the recording forums in the late 90s berating the gated reverb drum sounds and wondering how we ever tolerated them. It didn't go down too well when I suggested that in another 10 years time they'd be saying the same about the currently fashionable ping-y snare drum sounds. And to answer the OPs question, it is for me not so much about the production as about songwriting quality control. There's plenty of albums on CD from the mid 90s onwards that are simply TOO LONG. Just because the CD format allows you to put 80 minutes worth of music on a single album doesn't mean that you should. Like most albums there are a couple of killer tracks, some other songs that are OK and then an additional 40 minutes of self-indulgent rubbish. I find that the higher proportion of poor songs makes me less likely to listen to the album as a whole, whereas if it had been a normal 35-40 minute release I'd have probably played it more often and spent time getting to like the less obvious songs. Instead I just stick with the 2 or 3 tracks I know I like and never listen to the rest.

Fair point. Anderson / Howe / Squire / White / Wakeman for me. That's not to belittle the contributions of the others in any way. (Hey, I even like Drama.)

OK, I'll play... I like to keep things simple, obviously.

Look like Re-issues of the early ones. I have owned “L2000e and L-1000 in various finishes. The L1k is stellar but both of the L2ks seemed to be over 12lbs. Hope these Re-issues don’t replicate that feature. I currently own an Empress Wood L2k which is under 8 lbs. My best L1k had a MM neck shape and smallish frets which contrasts with the latest Empress featuring huge (to me!) frets. My friend in Seattle is Hip to all things G&L and he will be able to shed some light on these models. Will update when I hear back from him.

Full house. Path is LS2 Loop A>Okto Nojs>PS6>Pork Loin>Scrutator>Manta>VP>Flashback>Ditto 1>. El Cap and Ditto 2 are post LS2 so I can mess with the output of Ditto 1 through the sound-on-sound and then loop it. The expression pedal controls either the filter sweep or the sample rate on the Scrutator, depending on what I'm attempting. It's a bit cramped to be honest. I'll probably try moving the loopers and the El Cap onto a Nano+ and spread the gigging pedals out a bit. I'm fairly likely to sell the El Cap and replace it with a nice reverb (Afterneath maybe). It doesn't really get enough use and for all the Flashback's limitations as a tape sim, I still use it more often, and the toneprint option is my main delay sound. Everything else stays for now and I don’t want a bigger board.

March '64 would be the spaghetti decal with 4 pat numbers. The transition was late summer '64. Here you will see an April '64 Precision (Refinished), with the Spaghetti decal, your March tribute bass would precede this; https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Fender-Precision-Bass-1964-Blue-68661 Good luck with the Project, you'll enjoy it, I've done a few, and its good fun. As you've already found, the hardest part will be getting a veneer rosewood board. Others reference points for March '64 would be clay dots still used, they changed to pearloid in late '64, and the tuners still didn't sit flush, the divots weren't milled in the back of the headstock until late '64 also. White guards were also nitrate in March '64, and not the vinyl which came in later that year, some good aged repro's are available though. Look forward to seeing your progress.

That's the equivalency, but it isn't analogous. A Fodera really isn't that much better than any high end ($1200 + ) bass. It's not a piano. 80% of the sound is the pickups and fancy wood doesn't necessarily sound or play better than ash or alder or even basswood.

No, its not just you, that is a mess. As is that headstock and that string retainer and hole for the truss rod. I am sure it is a lovely guitar and fantastic to play, and I am sure it is very well thought out, but it really doesn't look like it.

Ok, I'll play! Clean bass, then adding the layers of Diabolik, Octabvre Mini, MXR Bass Envelope Filter, MXR Carbon Copy: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKsVfvGwYkOiqkL9mVycX-u9kCMAA Chain is in that order, octave after the fuzz to keep the low end clean. Recorded direct, no amp or speakers involved.