Mr. Foxen

I read an interview that he was pounding of his hass whilst holding a chord and punched it in half (being a mad karate guy). He said it never sounded the same after, gues thats the one with replacement body.

Why basses shouldn't have more than 4 strings and should only play root notes. That would be a good one. Seriously, try and do it, good mental excercise.

Since they are all guitar pickups, you are going to have trouble finding any sort of review in the bass context. Its gonna have to be one you figure for yourself. The Cool rails is for neck position, so the output is lower than the hot rails, but I have no idea about the voicing.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='170813' date='Apr 6 2008, 05:56 PM']some kind of bass bash in bristol would be great, loads of bristolians on this forum, and iv only met 3![/quote]

Did you just this second change your profile from bristol/widness to plain Bristol? Anyway, I'd be up for it, the only people to turn up to the last plan was someone I knew and someone who I was going to meet anyway.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='170792' date='Apr 6 2008, 05:25 PM']to be honest, i think alot of people on this forum could actually benefit from havin a good play with an odb-3[/quote]

One in bristol would be good, I've got bunch of effects I don't use for someone to try and buy from me, and I can big up stereo wiring basses.

Shot off my paypal pennies, and had the postman waking me for my hangover long before I expected anything to arrive.

[quote name='greyparrot' post='169463' date='Apr 3 2008, 09:38 PM']i take it you belive a bassist should not have his turn to do his bit at a gig then?[/quote]

Well, current plan is I do the first part whole gig, but I only do the holding the bass aloft when I want to show off.

Surely Tom Waghorn would do that, or any other luthier in the reccomended section.

I was seriously thinking about the other Sansamp that was going, but I missed it...

Drop your d-tuner, kick on all your fx, and feed back horribly at a very low note whilst running in circles holding your bass aloft by the body.

[quote name='mr pablo' post='168770' date='Apr 2 2008, 10:53 PM']thems some seriusly manly strings strung BEAD by any chance?[/quote]

ADGC

Go S/H and get a setup. That way it won't look all shiny and new when your gigging and noticing every new bump.

Currently: 0.070, 0.085, 0.115, 0.145, Newtone tapered.

What measurements?

Not sure if it is a guitar or bass head, the EQ goes down to 125hz, so I guess that means guitar. It asrrived today, but ain't had a chance to try it, might go for some biamp action.

[quote name='tempo' post='166200' date='Mar 30 2008, 01:13 AM']Yeah, sorry. I didnt think. DO NOT THINK AS A MUSICIAN, ONLY A BASSIST![/quote]

In Shockwaves defence (and that will be a rare thing, as I'm generally inclined to make fun of him behind his back), he is coming from the perspective of a shred guitarist turned bassist, so his point is to an extent valid, in that all guitarists only think one way, and can't accept any other way of thinking until they try to learn a real instrument like the bass..

There, I think I sort of struck a balance between defence and still making fun of there...

I won this a while back, should be arriving soon (had some fun with that). [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190199467160&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=009"]OHM head[/url]

Is it similar to that? Will be paying attention to the things your mods achieve.

A bit of work with a razor and a lighter cures the silk winding problem.

Tone hole. One of Leo's innovations, not a CNC locating point at all.

My favourite is dragonburst on some really evenly quilted maple, proper looks like the underneath of a dragon should.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='164302' date='Mar 27 2008, 09:17 AM']Do you have two outputs on your bass to do this? That's cool![/quote]

Yeah, just made it more technical that putting a new pickup in and wiring to a new jack and had OBBM make stereo cables and put a single jack in so it looks all normal, and less Sheehan wannabe. Good for borrowing guitarist's effects without losing your lows.

I use a standard silver big muff at the moment, blended with clean. I put the bridge pup through the muff and the the neck pup clean, so I can have it snarl up my sound a bit, then turn up the pup to bring the roaring feedback for those parts (playing slow droning doom). Gonna go check out the other muff options.

Dammit dude, what happened to the blazer being one too many. And the riclone being 2 too many?

[quote name='jammie17' post='101484' date='Dec 8 2007, 08:02 PM']No, Rickenbacker has always been cool. At least with me. They have admitted "dead spots" and even described them at length and have listened to their customers input and improved their basses. The new vintage switch, thinner neck profile and adjustable poles on their pickups for the 4003 series basses came from complaints about quiet "e" strings and other remarks. That company listens to their customers. And the year long wait and high resale shows the high quality of the instrument.[/quote]

From GWbasses website in his restoration of a Ric:
[quote]A block of lead had been put in a hollow spot in the back of the fingerboard... weird, huh? I talked to Rickenbacker and they said it was for helping to eliminate dead spots.[/quote]

If you are playing unplugged, it might not be a problem once your plugged in. I've just put new steel strings on my bass, theres a fair amount of clank when I fret, not really an issue when you compete with a Peavey 51050 and a marshall with respective 4x12s.