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Bridge pickup only on fretless side? No thanks. Not everyone wants to be Jaco when the play fretless.

From the site: "At the moment Take it away is only available through retailers based in England. "

[quote name='hagguy' post='777724' date='Mar 17 2010, 05:40 PM']i've seen this advertised myself quite like the idea are there any restrictions on who can apply for example if your in full time employment? i've not read all the details but thats usually a big stumbling block when applying for charity based things[/quote] England and Wales only, at least it was last time I checked.

It really depends on the line you're playing IMO- I would try and stick with 1 finger/fret as far as possible but sometimes its just not possible to do so, in which case I see no problem with doing as you're suggesting.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='777617' date='Mar 17 2010, 04:31 PM']As OBBM says, won't work. Check out the Micromon from Behringer, or some alternative headphone amp + monitoring equivalents from ART. These act as small headphone amps, that also allow you to pass your bass signal through to an amp, and also to mix in an external signal (e.g. aux, mp3, monitor signal, etc). I've got a similar system integrated in my SFX Preamp (www.sfxsound.co.uk). After using in-ear, I won't go back to monitoring bass from the amp alone. Unless I am leading a band (or other situations where I need to be able to speak/give directions and hear people speak whilst playing at the same time) then I will always run IEM. I am totally convinced by this technology, and it can be achieved for next to nothing nowadays (my first attempt was with a cheap Behringer 4 channel mixer and my best pair of headphones that I had kicking about - sound sucked but I'd never heard myself more clearly!).[/quote] Just to clarify, would you continue to use this even if the rest of the band were using conventional monitoring (so it would be bass only though the IEMs and the rest of the band through the monitors as normal)?

n/a- I try and avoid anchoring as it tends to introduce tension to the hand IME. Floating thumb all the way for me.

I can't stand it personally, but YMMV!

It's basically a tablature/notation program (mainly for guitars) which lets you play back the tracks using crappy MIDI sounds. There are also freeware programs which read GP files, such as TuxGuitar if you don't want to pay for Guitar Pro.

The neck on my fretless is almost perfectly straight, with just a fraction of a millimetre's daylight visible when you hold down the 1st and last "frets". Not much different to setting up a fretted IME.

Likewise.

And if you can find a cheaper 5 string than that, I'll have my hat for breakfast.

As long as you keep the gain under control there shouldn't be a problem. There's no reason you can't use two preamps. I would assume the DI would include the effected sound, but I'm not 100% sure- the manual states that the DI is pre-EQ but doesn't mention the effects loop. Try it and see- you won't damage anything trying these different setups.

[quote name='4 Strings' post='770627' date='Mar 10 2010, 04:59 PM']There is no reason at all for using a guitar amp, it should make no difference to it at all.[/quote] Er... judging by the rest of your post, I assume you mean there is no reason [i]not to[/i] use a guitar amp? [quote name='0175westwood29' post='770639' date='Mar 10 2010, 05:12 PM']cross over? andy[/quote] A cross over is just a device that splits your signal based on frequency. Commonly sold as PA components, so you can send your treble to the PA tops and the low frequencies to the subs.

Any of the three methods should work as long as you have an effects loop. I would probably put the Rocktron in the effects loop- should look tidier that way!

Personally I have no real interest in an entirely seperate forum- there are other places I can (and do) go, although the community aspect is not usually as strong as it is here- which is why I think a sub forum here would be cool. I don't really see how it could alienate people- there are a number of subforums currently which I consider a waste of space (the Groove Library and the Barefaced forum in its current state, for example), so what do I do? I ignore them. Not that difficult. I don't think anyone's advocating turning the site into a platform for multi instrumentalists- its a bassists' forum; I just think it would be nice to have a small corner where we can talk other instruments with this community, and there seems to be a number of people with interesting things to say about them.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='767502' date='Mar 8 2010, 02:08 AM']Oh, [b]kudos[/b] to this man. He's like a steamroller powered by glowing nuclear logic. With a big steel roller at the front with big steel knives in it. With a deadly poison made from undiluted logic on the tips of those knives. He swerves round the obstacles. He demolishes the objections. And those big, steel, logic-poisoned knives just keep coming closer and closer. This is the first time I've seen the mods worried. The rank stink of terror pervades these pages. We [i]will[/i] have our Hitlercaster sub-sub-forum. You may depend upon it. Oh, yes.[/quote] That's going on my CV.

[quote name='Wil' post='767755' date='Mar 8 2010, 11:43 AM']Kind of defeats the object though, I mean, there are plenty of guitar forums out there as it is. What better place is there than basschat for basschat members to talk to other basschat members about non-bass stuff?[/quote] Exactly.

Also, the fact that when people post [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=79922"]guitar threads[/url] in Off Topic they get moved to Bass Guitars suggests we need some other solution to me

[quote name='JMT3781' post='767393' date='Mar 7 2010, 10:22 PM']I imagine it's because it's a relatively new thing, there's not much competition yet, so the price battles haven't begun! [b]Also, all the active cabs out there are lightweight,[/b] which of course adds to cost when you have class d amps and neodynium going on[/quote] No they're not- the Bergantino IPs and the ISPs are both heavy for their size. I think they're expensive because they're being marketed as the next big breakthrough in bass amplification, despite powered PA cabs having been around for a while and being much cheaper.

According to the page title, it's for bass [i]players[/i], not basses per se. We'd still be bassists doing deep discussion.

Assuming you mean Elixir, then I agree.

[quote name='27 frets' post='766976' date='Mar 7 2010, 03:38 PM']I guess you may be looking at something better than the Gedo Musik basses - see my input/pics on this thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=77602&pid=766332&st=20&#entry766332"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;#entry766332[/url] but you're welcome to pick my brains on these. otherwise, has anyone got any comments on the Kremona basses? [url="http://www.sandarac.co.uk/rangekremona.html"]http://www.sandarac.co.uk/rangekremona.html[/url] (European made, not to be confused with Cremona - Chinese!) Their UK imports are connected with: [url="http://www.oakdenemusicservices.co.uk/"]http://www.oakdenemusicservices.co.uk/[/url][/quote] My 5 string is a Kremona, which I bought through Bob Gollihur as I mentioned in another thread. Decent quality, and wider range of options (4/4, 5 strings. l/handed etc) but as if I were doing the full classically trained thing I'd be after something higher quality I think. The Upton range look fantastic.

Which sharp eyed mod moved this to Bass guitars without checking what the instrument in question is?

Hi, Since we seem to get threads about other instruments fairly frequently, could we have a sub-forum for guitar/bass/sax/drums etc discussion? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=79731"]This thread[/url] and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=67635"]this one[/url], amongst others, suggest there may be an appetite given the lack of quality UK based forums for other instruments and the number of multi instrumentalists we have. Cheers Kyle