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(I offer this without further comment) We’re getting rid. Doesn’t help load in. Doesn’t help load out. Applies minimal effort to something he’s “passionate” about. Never responds to urgent gig related messages. Can’t drive. Never, ever, ever buys his round. Ever. Never offers petrol money. Writes questionable lyrics about his man parts. Cannot remember the practise schedule (same place, same time, fortnightly). Zero ability to think for himself. Has less game than a three-legged badger with a heroin problem. Get the idea? We’re an established, gigging originals band around Bristol, Swindon and beyond. Influences: From Alice in Chains to Meshuggah, Pink Floyd to Kyuss, Metallica to RATM and anywhere in between. Will send over tracks to genuine enquiries. If you’re a relatively normal functioning human being who can sing and wants to be in a band, please drop me a message. Previous work/tracks required please. Profile13 points
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Musicman Bongo 6 HH in Candy Apple Red. A six to replace a Streamer LX6 that was sold to cover legal fees. Arrived 43 hours after I ordered it from Bass Direct, securely packed and delivered on time (DHL) Lovely neck. Weighs 9lb 6oz, so not too bad. I thought the 18mm string spacing might prove problematic, but it's not. It's very "polite" sounding, but in the context of the other instruments I own, that's not a problem. Issues? Fingerprints show up really badly! If you rest your forearm against the body, it damps a smidge of the resonance out of the sound. Everything else is either fine or not a issue for me, so it's all good so far.10 points
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But back to @Stub Mandrel's topic. The first bass I bought myself was this lovely red Ibanez I bought for a song from a guy in Gloucester: And my first pimp-yer-bass attempt was on this one and was also my first attempt at veneering. Admittedly, beginners' luck! And it was this that led to me having a go at all the other stuff As a post-script, I eventually sold this to a Nepalese Buddhist who played in a Heavy Metal band in Luton and who was 'spiritually drawn' to the bass. A niche market, admittedly9 points
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I think we all know him, or his sister...7 points
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Paso Doble Pon De Left Hand Side - Musical Youth7 points
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I must have watched the film a dozen times in my late teens and early 20’s. Me and my mates were real devotees, and used to quote lines from the film all the time. I later went on to form a soul band in the 90’s and we did quite a few of their tunes, Shake a Tail Feather, Gimme Some Lovin, Hey Bartender, Messin with the kid, and I’m sure there a couple more. In 2013, in a pinch myself to see if it’s real moment, I was lucky enough to be in the support band for a tour with Steve Cropper with The Animals, starting in Paris. I couldn’t believe it when we got the gig, I was beside myself with excitement. We often shared a dressing room, and I became his wine gopher and had to pop out to local shops to keep the dressing room stocked up. He is a lovely guy, very open, loves a good conversation, and has some great tales to tell. I still have his number in my mobile! On a separate occasion, we were on before Booker T at The Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival and again shared a dressing room. His guitarist borrowed a guitar off us and used my amp. Looking back, I have been incredibly fortunate to meet these guys. Rob7 points
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More of a makeover!6 points
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Tonight's colour coordinated rig .. kind of ..6 points
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For interest. @Chopthebasshas kindly agreed to take on building a custom body for me, after we chatted when I clocked his Wal Mk3 clone build in the ‘Build Diaries’ section. He’s rather good with the CAD software, and we have a final design. Mahogany core, flame maple facings front and back. I think it looks rather good! You may observe I have moved away from the Precision body design to a refined Jazz shape that is ‘reminiscent’ of a Celinder. After a decade with various Celinders I decided it’s probably my most comfortable body shape.6 points
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Another head added on the closet!5 points
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Took a standard Squier CV 70s bass, changed the scratch plate to plain black (ie no white middle), changed the control plate to black with black screws all round. Added a black bridge, black strap locks and changed the pickups to Augilia. Finally changed the knobs to more modern ones. I've also taken off the gloss finish on the body, plus I sanded back the neck and oiled with burnt linseed oil.5 points
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Here we have an ACG from Alan's Graft range which I believe he no longer offers. It's a fantastic passive bass that covers a lot of tonal ground. I've been so pleased with it that I commissioned a 5-string medium scale version with the same pick-up arrangment hence the sale. It's just too similar to the new one and not getting the attention it deserves. I've owned it from new and bought directly from Alan at ACG. It's never been gigged and seen home use only; and is in excellent overall condition. There is one very small dink that I've tried to capture in the pictures. I've also included a picture of what looks like some indentations but are actually imperfections in the alder body that were there when built; these are under the lacquer and perfectly smoothed over. They just look like indentations in the picture! Everything else is in perfect working order; truss rod, pots etc. I also asked Alan to include an ebony-topped ramp that can be easiliy removed if you'd prefer. It's attached using doubled-sided tape. It's been recently set-up by Andrew at Anaconda Basses who also makes some brilliant instruments. I had Andrew fit a brass nut several years ago too. Currently strung with a set of Thomastik Jazz Flats but happy to change for a string of your choice before shipping. It sounds lovely with flats though! I’m happy to courier and the price quoted includes shipping. Also happy for you to collect from Reading or London. Scale length: 34” Body: Alder with White Limba top Neck: 3 piece maple (asymetric) Fingerboard: A very thick slab of rosewood with zero radius Pickup: ACG SB bridge and ACG PB neck (think P-bass!) Electronics: Volume, 4-way selector (front coil, both series, both parallel, back coil), tone Hardware: Hipshot B-style bridge and Gotoh tuners Weight: 7lbs 6oz (3.4kgs). Case: A Thomann branded hardcase in new condition for shipping or a Sandberg soft case depending on your preference A link to Alan's website for this bass: https://acguitars.co.uk/project/g012jtype5/ Please don't hesitate to ask any questions and you're more than welcome to come and try it out. I'm hoping for a straight sale but may be open to trades for a short scale with cash from me if needed. Some short scales that are high on my list include: Another ACG but a shortie Nordstrand Acinonyx Spector Bantam Lakland Hollowbody Musicman Stingray with a wad a cash from me!5 points -
Don't be daft, in the 22nd century they'll look like this....4 points
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Sometimes less is more.. Note how it defies gravity....4 points
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He owns his own microphone? 😳4 points
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Here’s my set up… Bass>Tuner>HPF>Basswitch (drive and comp in the fxloop)>Drive pedal >Filter>Omni IR cab sim The Basswitch is the ‘the brain’ and has the TRex (set to low gain) and the HL compressor in the ‘always on’ parallel loop. The other effects come after the Basswitch. It does have another fx loop but I prefer the sound of the drive and filter after the eq. This feeds into the Omni cab sim with DI out to the desk and I can run a line ‘Thru’ to an amp if I’m using one. On occasion I might run all this into my tube DI and send that to the desk. More recently I’ve been experimenting running the out of the tube DI to my amp as it has a really positive effect on the tone on account of the tubes and transformer. I’d best describe it as sounding like increasing the ‘bandwidth’ what one might hear using a pedal in 18v mode as opposed to 9v if you’ve ever compared those option in a preamp or drive unit. If I’m feeling lazy I’ll just use my DITTO tube DI box!4 points
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That one is going nowhere! Haha!4 points
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Still waiting for the pickups! But found time to sand and buff. I’m loving the flame!3 points
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A Trace Elliot you can use but not have to move?! I’d just use it, myself.3 points
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Time for one of my favourite tracks of all time, on the Take A Ride riddim. Very rare on LP and I finally bought it last year. For a teensy weensy bit too much money. But still. I have it.3 points
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bottom is still not decided yet, the nomad and seamoon might change for something else.3 points
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Euphemism right there...3 points
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I swapped the neck from my Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass to the body of my GSRM20B Mikro Bass, pulled out the stock pickups, and installed just a single EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket, filling out the empty bridge J pickup cavity with a folded piece of black cardboard, removed the barrel type side mounted output jack socket, installing a regular front mounted jack socket in one of the redundant pot holes instead, and added some transparent and black lampshade knobs to the 2 remaining pots for shows, though I later cut out pieces of green electrical tape to size and stuck it to the top of those knobs, the pickup top getting red electrical tape applied, as well as I applied some small Sherman Filterbank 2 stickers to the headstock, and a Jack Skellington skull sticker to the upper left (right I guess from the perspective of the bass) corner of the bass body : I do ponder on swapping out the stock bridge for 4 milled out solid brass mono rail bridge pieces as well, maybe in the same instance narrow in the string spacing slightly, from the current standard 19mm, to perhaps 17.5mm. The name is "Bottomfeeder", by the way, "Dud Bottomfeeder", secret agent 666.3 points
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I tend to remove (rip 'extraneous' stuff off) rather than add things tbh...3 points
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Shorthand for can’t be bothered to learn and thinks himself above the rest. What a tosspot.3 points
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It's all to do with what we are used to. Had the first popular bass guitar been headless, we be wondering why there's any need to have excess material beyond the nut.3 points
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I read somewhere about his approach to recording bass lines. I can’t remember exactly but he used to pare back and pare back until he was left with just the minimum notes to carry it. I’ll have to try and find the info. Yes, awesome player, saw him with Clapton in 1983 at Edinburgh Playhouse.3 points
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Having said all that I just looked up a video of me playing the VT and it does sound pretty good, and man it was nice looking. 😂 https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrLGJrCewa/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=2 points
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Unlined look so cool... he idealy wants 2 octave... Harley Benton B-450FL is looking like a contender... He likes a 'lead bass' higher strings and up the fretboard sound so might consider a 5 tuned EADGC for fun!2 points
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Picked one of these up and it arrived today. Firstly, it's gorgeous and I love the neck. Really light weight, and well balanced. On the downside, the E string appears to be gubbed (does anyone know what these strings are? Red silks), so tonight I need to change the strings and set it up again before I can comment further. But I think it's going to be a keeper.2 points
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Familiar riddim for Friday2 points
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More a functional pimp rather than anything cosmetic. Changed the original string through only late 90s Fender bridge to a 2010 Fender Deluxe P-Bass version. Same base plate size so no real change to the visual aspect except that I can top load strings which is my preffered way to fit flats. and...purely cosmetic scratchplate change from white to black on my DeeDee project Precision bass.2 points
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its good, you can def dial some bass out if not careful, but i think that comes with bass/guitar pedals tone below 12 in the dark mode and theres loads and in light theres also a nice amount aswell, you will def cut thru and be heard if you want clean lows then obviously you'll need to use it with a blend2 points
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When we started the project I said to @Andyjr1515 that I wanted a 22nd Century design in the 21st Century. I think we got close.2 points
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^ that Salvador Dali's a geezer isn't he.....2 points
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Ownage is relative. Does 'I swear I'll start paying you for it next month' count? 😬2 points
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These look better as a headed bass. Like, a million times better.2 points
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I may very well go the the Warman route myself pick up wise, are they difficult to fit? took my bass out to a gig on Saturday - straight to FOH via my Two Notes Le Bass Pre with bass boosted a touch and cab sim on. Guy comes up and first words are "Muddy that, mate". I did have the tone rolled back around 3/4" to be fair, and he did say it was better after a bit of adjustment (he did ask if it was an EBMM which surprised me). After having a conversation with him, turns out he plays bass and had 3 Bongo basses. If that's what he was comparing it to then I think "a bit muddy" is more than acceptable given the price difference!2 points
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Hipshot O Ring knobs Fnarrr Frank Blank. Purveyor of schoolboy innuendo smut since last Michaelmas.2 points
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Quick update on this a couple of weeks in. Firstly, I’m still delighted with this bass overall, particularly for the €322/£295 I paid for it. As others have noted, there is some neck dive, particularly with a narrow strap. However, this is easily counteracted with some light pressure from your right forearm when playing, which fits OK with my playing style. A thicker strap would sort it - I have a three inch wide padded leather Right On! strap fitted with straplocks that I use, but need to get some suitable (gold!) strap buttons for this bass before I can use it. I changed the strings for Roto 88s and am very pleased with the result - thumpitty thump thump thump. I wondered if the nut slots might need a tiny bit of widening, but the strings certainly aren’t sitting high enough for it to be a problem and there’s no obvious gap under them where they sit in the slots. The tapered part of the E string isn’t quite long enough, so there’s a half wind of the thick part on the tuner, but that’s more an aesthetic issue (for me…) than a problem per se. And still on the subject of aesthetics, the gold silks do go rather well with the hardware! I found one slightly high fret causing a buzz on the high D on the A string but a) that’s not a note I use terribly often and b) a couple of taps with a hammer on frets 18 to 20 seems to have sorted it (don’t judge me, luthiers…). I’m still playing with the pickup height to see what pleases me best, but that’s about this being my first precision and wanting to experiment, not because the pickup is lacking in any way. The tone control has a useful range - completely off is as dark as you’d expect, and I’m running it about half way most of the time as fully open is a little brighter than I want, even with the Rotos. So there we are - in a collection which includes such luminaries as a 4003, a Sandberg California and a Vigier Passion, the Squier has carved itself out a spot and is holding its own. Some pictures below of the silks on the headstock, the wrap on the E tuner, and the E string in its nut slot, FYI. PS I hadn't realised before I changed the strings that this bass has a bone nut as standard - quality! 🙂2 points
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I've said similar on the SOS forum about limited edition and pre-release announcements of synthesisers (Behringer I'm looking at you). IMO if I can't go into a shop a buy the instrument there and then and take it home with me, or order it on line for next day delivery (or the soonest they can get it to the UK for something from abroad) then I'm really not interested any more, and the instruments in question might as well not exist. Most of the time there will be something available for immediate use that will do the job. I've had 2 guitars and 2 basses custom made for me. The two guitars (both ordered in the late 90s) took less than 3 months each to make. The first bass (a Gus) took a year but a lot of that time was taken up with Simon trying to source suitable suppliers for the finishing of bass and the hardware I had specified. My Sei bass took almost 2 years and herein lies a cautionary tale: In the early 2000s I joined a new band and it soon became obvious to me that fretless bass would be ideal for many of their songs. After spending over a year trying every fretless I came across in shops and at musical instrument shows, I came to the conclusion that the only way I'd get the instrument that I really wanted was to have it custom made. I then spent almost another year researching luthiers before settling on Sei, and placing my order. The bass when it was finished was everything I was looking for. Unfortunately the band folded six months later and my requirements for fretless bass have been minimal since then (I've used on the recorded versions of two songs and that's it). I'd really like Gus to make me a Bass VI based on the Eastwood Hooky neck dimensions (which while being the most suitable out of all the Bass VIs for my needs as at best only an adequate instrument), but price aside, the current waiting time for a new instrument is a minimum of 18 months, and I can't guarantee that I'll still need a bass VI of any description that far into the future.2 points
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Dance me to the end of love. Leonard Cohen2 points
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Ha! The thing is it already matches the cab and I’m loving it! if the right valve Ampeg turns up we’ll have to speak though - an itch to scratch I guess! Take care buddy … and best luck to the seller of this jewel!2 points -
Acoustic gig. She's Right I'm Left This Saturday 1/14 @The Harley Motor Milwaukee WI 5:30 Blue2 points
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Steinberger talked about his findings back then (ghost note issues etc.) but I do not find it anywhere. Someone could be brave enough and do some excavation. His comments were very interesting, not only because his background was design and furniture.2 points
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When I read posts like this I feel blessed to belong to a music group (and wider church) who just seem to get on with each other. We have a team of singers and musicians who play on a rota basis. I play bass on average about once every three weeks with different personnel each time. We do not have set teams and it makes for interesting sessions. Cliques cannot form and we get to know a wider group of people. Most of us only play at church and run through the songs about an hour before the morning service. At 72 I'm one of the oldest members of the music team and we have secondary school students contributing too. It is a great mix and the Sunday morning run through can be good fun. We try to play well but don't get hung up if anyone makes a mistake. Our thinking is that when the 120+ congregation start singing they won't hear our fluffs anyway! That doesn't mean we don't care about the standard of playing but we accept that we are human and things can go wrong. We mix outside of band duties at other church activities and tend to enjoy being around each other. The main thing is giving our best for God and we park any egos at the door.2 points
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It’s really easy to add shielding to your current instruments. Go on YouTube to see how it’s done, and have a go!2 points
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