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A couple of tunes I did early last year can be found here - [url="http://www.myspace.com/maanic"]http://www.myspace.com/maanic[/url] I'm playing on "Lately" and "Cheap" Be forgiving because I don't normally play funk and am crap at slapping. It was just something the three of us did because we didn't have anything better to do for a couple of weeks. The songwriter moved to Nottingham last year, but got in touch earlier this week to say I've gotta go up and lay down bass for more of his songs, which reminded me that MrsClauster did us a Myspace and I could tell you lot about it.

Yorks5stringer:[quote]Anyone else ever see "Single Bass": she was called Jennifer Moore from around Nottingham way, maybe 10 years ago? She used to sing and accompany herself with lots of Jaco type slaps, chords and harmonics. I've still got her tape somewhere, "Be Your Friend" [url="http://www.single-bass.co.uk/"]http://www.single-bass.co.uk/[/url][/quote] I was lucky enough to do the live sound for one of her gigs almost 20 years ago. Bass into Yamaha SPX90 into PA Microphone for the vox Knew how to play and sing and really use FX creatively and musically. At sound check she stood in front of the stacks to check her sound - "You've got 6db of boost at around 4khz, can you turn it down to 3 please?" I checked the desk and yes, there was 6db of boost right there! Amazing lady!

Tung oil gets good words on the warwick.de forum. I'm gonna try it on mine shortly.

I remember seeing Me'shelle on The Tube years ago doing a bass and vox version of Bobby Womack's "Walk on By". Talented lady.

+1 to Tina Weymouth Also Clare Kenny (Shakespeares Sister, Aztec Camera, etc, lots of session work).

[quote]......but at least they're not German and made of driftwood.[/quote] You really have a thing about Warwicks, don't you?

Glad you're playing again, and thanks for your advice with PA related stuff - the turbosounds sound fantastic with the new lamp in.

Cheers for all the above advice. We did a tech rehearsal on Sunday and patched 8 channels through to the fireface (with trs jacks) - worked a treat for recording and monitoring. Happy, happy, joy, joy (although we'd still like the excuse and cash to be able to go and get an A&H desk)

[quote name='bremen' post='189567' date='May 1 2008, 11:06 AM']or does she play with your pick?[/quote] Whose fingering does she rate as better?

Okay, I've just voted - for the J (but I want S1 switching too please )

[quote]tBBC: Warwicks definitely make you gay though[/quote] Chase me! X

1. Yes 2. Behringer DDX 3216 Desk, Lexicon Reverb, 2 X QSC power ambs, crossover, 4 X Turbosound cabs (2 bass, 2 full range) - can't remember all the models and ratings but total is about 3kw. 3. Shift it all ourselves - infact this Sunday we're training our guitarists and drummer in PA setting up and breaking down duties, so the singer and I don't end up doing it all ourselves. 4. Sort of - one who is reliable but not very good and one who is very good but not at all reliable.

Edit : What Gaz said!

I tried singing backig vox once and the rest of the band confiscated my mic

Forgot to say - if oiling use tung oil (or similar) not 10w/40 semi-synthetic castrol gtx!

There's someone on the Warwick forum who had never waxed his. Someone else took it away for a week, dismantled it and oiled it - apparently a very occasional wax is all it will need. I'm gonna have a go at mine now that the wax has started bringing my hands out in a rash.

+1 for studiospares

Doesn't it spoil the taste of the meths?

+1

Any decent timber merchant should be able to help.

Assuming it's not been lacquered Beeswax'll keep it polished and conditioned. Lemon oil will clean it (and some say make the wood a touch darker). If it is lacquered then any guitar polish will do.

If it's working okay, yes. The schematic Bod posted is the standard VVT wiring, so you may need to change the wiring of the vols if the middle pot cuts all sound and not just the bridge pup.

I was made to have 12 guitar lessons before I got a bass for my 12th birthday. Taught myself by playing along to records and jamming with friends for the next year. The head of music at my school found out I played bass and along with a guitarist friend we got asked to join the band for school musical productions. On the strength of that he hired an external bass guitar teacher for me and anyone else who wanted lessons. I hated that teacher. I'd turn up every week and he'd have forgotten that I already had the basics, "I'll prepare something different for you next week, I promise". After 6 weeks of that I decided double chemistry was more interesting and stopped turning up. Music O-level was probably the best tuition I had - taught me loads about theory and I had to get my playing up to scratch for the practical. Since then I'm pretty much self taught / picked things up from friends. Thinking about some lessons at the moment - my technique is pretty sloppy after 2 decades of mostly playing punk/rock/indie + I've always wanted to slap but can't get beyond a couple of simple licks.