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[quote name='Metalmoore' post='1120046' date='Feb 8 2011, 01:17 PM']Just fancy upgrading the electronics before i try and stick on a Mighty Mite neck seeing as thats all i can afford atm. I bought the Ryder to Mod and its exactly what al be doing, to be honest, if it never came in sonic blue i wouldnt have bought one. (silly, i know) I plan on somehow getting another and putting in two jazz pups and having a set of stacked knobs again with a Mighty Mite neck. I think i'm modding just for the sake of it...[/quote] Seems a good bass to mod with,new,cheap and wirings a breeze,im doing my cheapo Marlin P bass that the wife erm"surprised" me with at xmas,i had a set Duncan Designed pups lying around,2 months later it now looks like a tarts handbag with gold hardware everywhere and a fetching set of DR luminous green strings and new headstock logo reading"Fecker jizz bass",,ironically all this has made it less embarrassing to play

[quote name='icastle' post='1107323' date='Jan 29 2011, 04:11 PM']Ah. I've not tried getting carpet off but I can imagine it being a real pain in the ar*e... I had a quick Google but the only UK place I could find are looking at £100 in materials and £140 in labour per cab.[/quote] If your like me and dont care about keeping cabs original you could visit your local carpet store and buy the cheapest cord carpet they sell,i covered an old Peavey 1820 with it in a fetching charcoal colour,put new corner bits from Maplin on and it looked the dogs danglies i used evo stick aquired from work but in the past used spray adhesive...isnt hard carpet came in 3.3 mtr length and i bought a metre wide strip,cost about 12 quid,corners were about 4 quid for heavy plastic ones.

[quote name='waldemar' post='1104234' date='Jan 26 2011, 07:34 PM']Hi all. Just fitting some EMG Selects onto a rebuild project I've got going on. A little confused about the wires coming out of the p-ups... The EMG instructions refer to a white wire and an unspecified (but coloured black in the diagram) ground wire. My wires are white and a bare wire with an orangey sheath. (Pics below). Should I assume that my white is the white refered to in the diagram and that the bare wire is the ground? Cheers![/quote] The bare is defo to ground.

Most the stuff ive learned has been from Scotts site,intending starting his video tutoring soon as due to my work schedule i cant pre book lessons with anyone locally,his stuff i found on Youtube from day 1 has kept me interested in bass and by far the best ive seen online,others i tried albeit excellent players seem to forget picking up an instrument from scratch is challenging and what they find really basic and easy is total alien to the likes of me.....good to see these guys though that love what they do so much they take time out to share it with us.

[quote name='icastle' post='1100370' date='Jan 24 2011, 03:04 AM']The rear section of a loudspeaker has a tube shaped former with a precision wound coil around it. The coil is dunked in a laquer to prevent the windings from slipping as the speaker moves in and out. If the speaker has a 'seized coil' then it has generally been overpowered at some point in its life and the laquer has melted and sometimes some of the windings will slip down the former. This stops the speaker from moving in and out smoothly and poor performance and sound quality will be heard. In anticipation of the obvious question, no you can't - it'll need a recone [/quote] Cheers guys that clears that up,its part of a rake of gear im getting off a dude emigrating to Australia so doesnt have a bearing on the price etc,wont be going down the recone road again,done it with an 18" black widow out of an old Peavey 1810 cab and it cost more than i paid for the peavey mk111 head AND the cab,if they had been fixable i had this stupid notion of building a cab using the 3 x18" and 4x10" Scorpions i have spare....would have led to grief from the wife n kids and probably an ASBO too...thanks again

Any finishing work is f***ing extortionate,i paint anything from cars to bikes and the last few months have done old(worthless too)strat copies,without blowing my own horn they turned out immaculate,you make the best of what enviorment you have,even a cupboard does,just make sure its dust free and at a decent temprature,if your using a new blank give it a go m8 you will be surprised with the results,for starts you dont have much sanding taking old paint laquer of,get it smooth as you can,feel it as well as scrutenizing it before painting,in any refinishing work the saying"if a blind man can feel it,a blind man can see it"applies,i dont even sand between coats,i build the colour up then wet sand using 1200 grade wet n dry,the laquer gives the paint depth so apply it in thin coats til you get bored........plenty of them,then i use 1500 grit wet n dry(again wet)when FULLY dry,then automative cutting compound(forget T Cut its useless imo)if you spend the time on it you will get a finish better than many stock finished guitars ive seen,save a fortune plus yel be chuffed knowing you done it........sorry to rattle on about it lol but its somehing ive really got into recently,if you decide to go for it PM me and ill send you a couple of good e-books on axe painting

Im picking a job lot of amp/cab gear this weekend,Im told theres 2x300w 18" Fane speakers in it that the cones are ok on but have"seized voicecoils"anyone heard of this and what causes it??

[quote name='pablyth' post='1026551' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:27 AM']I was listening to some old tracks I recorded, and thought this might be useful as I had a bass free version. Wrote this something like 6 years ago, me on guitar with some drum loops. Hope someone finds it useful to jam along with. [attachment=64124:Dog_Bone__master_.mp3][/quote] cheers,ive been playing around with it,good fun

[quote name='Deep Thought' post='1089013' date='Jan 14 2011, 10:20 AM']Then of course there's the King Dick spanner-yes there really was a company called that. In fact, there still is:- [url="http://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/"]http://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/[/url][/quote] Yup.were the benchmark for mechanics before Snap on etc....good n British Of course the King Dicks were in my reptile section minglin with the Portugese trouser snakes....

[quote name='icastle' date='Jan 14 2011, 02:02 AM' post='1088837'] Well what were you expecting - a small furry animal with a penchant for tool making? [/quotThat explains why my Toolbox Zoo project flopped...really thought people would flock to see my Monkey wrench and Crocodile clips...

were talkin about a 6mm approx screw stuck in a lump of wood here lol,hack the button off,grab the remaining shank with a pair of pliers and gently wiggle it....bet u can withdraw it easy with moleys/pliers...had a 18mm threaded bolt shear in a truck chassis at work,now that was a f****r

ive 3 old cabs,Hartke vx210,Peavey 1820,and a obselete 1x15 made by"KMD"(dont ask)...experimented using my Peavey mk111 bass head(now f****d) and the matching KMD GS130sb head,all individually sound fine,all 8ohm....together sound total sh*te,im no expert by any means but my next prorer rig is gonna be as matched as i can afford m8.

[quote name='paul h' post='1086463' date='Jan 12 2011, 10:12 AM']As per title. Wiring P bass pickups straight to the jack, so where do I attach the earth wire from the bridge? Thanks.[/quote] I wired a Schecter straight to jack(via 2 pots,just wired it to earth on jack socket,maybe luck but no buzzing and havnt fried myself yet.

[quote name='Clarky' post='909245' date='Jul 29 2010, 01:58 PM']Waterfront - Simple Minds One note, repeated [/quote] One note???.....cheers just found my second tune

Just managed to play my first complete song with it actually sounding part of the track..happy as a pig in s****e (U2-with or without you) What was your first one ??????????

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='908874' date='Jul 29 2010, 08:24 AM']Any ddr2 memory and 775 cpu left?[/quote] Memorys gone m8 but yes got a 2.9ghz processor-FINALLY GOT JIFFY BAGS SO THE 3 OF U THAT PM`D POSTING IN THE MORNING GUYS,SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY...PUT IT DOWN TO AN ARSEHOLE BOSS THAT THINKS ITS OK TO SENT A GUY WITH A YOUNG FAMILY AWAY FOR A WEEK AT A TIME WHILE OTHERS WITH NO KIDS GET TO SIT ON THEIR ARSE..... .RANT OVER

Cheers guys,all good advice/points and also encouragement,got the first lesson on the 29th,been picking it up for about a couple hours daily and noticing small benefits,fingers are stronger and ive no fingerprints left barely,which works out nicely for the bank job im planning to finance my cabs etc,wife thinks im losing the plot a bit as apparently after a night out i got out of bed to use the bog and she found me sitting in the kitchen nude twanging away(on the bass that is)its been great fun esp since the weathers sh*tty and i dont get the bike out much.good helpful place this forum is....

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='904264' date='Jul 24 2010, 07:43 PM']yeah but we wont hold being east coasters against you chaps[/quote] Im a kinda half breed even in that sense....from Renfrew...now in Livingston

At risk of sounding a t*t (again) is this possible.......... Could i make a lead up with guitar plug one end,mono 3.5mm jack the other.....plug it into the mic input on my soundcard and use it to practice along with cds etc?????