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[quote name='obbm' post='21761' date='Jun 22 2007, 10:35 AM'][size=3][b]South East Bass Bash[/b][/size] [size=3][i]Saturday 18th August[/i][/size] [size=3]10:00am - 6:00pm[/size] [url="http://home.btconnect.com/backlinestudios/location.html"]Backline Recording and Rehearsal Studios[/url] 1-2 The Archways Guildford Park Road Guildford GU2 5NP Farnham Road Car Park is 60p per hour or £5 per day.[/quote] Thanks

Hi Can you edit the top message and title to fill in the confirmed detail please I've been upi an down the thread but can't see the venue info Thanks OG

[quote name='finnbass' post='21700' date='Jun 22 2007, 01:18 AM']have a *cough*[b]lot[/b]*cough* of pedalage...including GT6B's, XTLives etc[/quote] Plural? Wow! Don't fancy another [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2032&st=0#entry21640"]GT6B[/url] do you?

[quote name='obbm' post='20893' date='Jun 20 2007, 05:25 PM']I'll bring my iron with me and do it for you.[/quote] Hey Dave, I've got some rumpled shirts here if you are ever in Cardiff .....

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='20755' date='Jun 20 2007, 01:47 PM']I know there are builders around here like Shuker, RIM, AC etc, but whenever I start writing an e-mail to one I get a little way then have no idea what to tell them as I'm not 100% sure on what I want, apart from a singlecut! What kind of stuff do they want to hear to give a rough price?[/quote] It's s tricky one first time round.. I was a bit aprehensive when I first specced out my bass to Jon Shuker but he is great at it. So as Big Red and Largo have said just call up with the bits you know - like how many strings, headed/headless... single cut you've sussed. There's a whole lot of stuff you won't even think off til they ask but they will take you through the options and what difference things make .. Like maple or laminated necks and then what the different types of laminate will do to the sound etc.. Jon Shuker was brilliant at taking my confused ramblings and make a bass out of them and I am sure the people you listed would also be able to do that. Whateve r you get have LEDs on the side Oh and if you go to Jon Shuker's STAY OUT OF THE WOOD STORE!! OG

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='20615' date='Jun 20 2007, 10:06 AM']Cheers. Actually we might start doing what you suggest. with my other band i always go in to their PA. Its only a small one but they have a sub bass speaker as well and your right, just a small amount helps. with my main band its difficult getting them to do anything but at the last gig we all put a bit of our instruments in to the PA and it does help project but at this gig we didnt get to sound check so it was a bit over the top. We are hoping to continue to do this but by no PA support i meant large PA.[/quote] Okie kokie OG

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='20595' date='Jun 20 2007, 09:23 AM']We have three holiday camp gigs in early July, no PA support so these will be the biggest venues we are playing this year without PA support.[/quote] Hi Dave Glad the cab story has a happy ending .... Meanwhile have you tried putting a tiddly bit of bass into the vocal PA for this sport of gig (I assume you have vocals ) I do that with my band and the smallest amount of bass in the PA seems to throw it a lot furher down the hall and means the backline sound can be less loud .. Just a thought OG

[quote name='Sean' post='20430' date='Jun 19 2007, 09:16 PM']the resluts should be what you're looking for. Anyone concur?[/quote] Blige! I dated a few of the Resluts in the 80's .. They arn't still around are they?

[quote name='binky_bass' post='20106' date='Jun 19 2007, 12:11 PM']basses are allowed more than four strings![/quote] Quite right Your's looks like it has none though

As a slight aside .. are there any mainland European mags that feature basses? Don't mind which language

[quote name='The Funk' post='19492' date='Jun 18 2007, 10:18 AM']£125 for a valve compressor? Bagsy me after Dood?[/quote] After you, please Mr Funk OG

[quote name='lwtait' post='19710' date='Jun 18 2007, 04:24 PM']ive seen a fwe of these shuker basses on basschat, theyre really nice. im guessing theyre handmade by Jon Shuker by what ive seen from these comments.[/quote] Oooh yes There's loads of us with them

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='19741' date='Jun 18 2007, 05:19 PM']Genetic engineering has allowed them to insert the DNA from a Harley Davidson V-Rod into a donor egg taken from a Yamaha J-bass, producing this mutant zombie-axe. Normally, the aluminium sub-frame is concealed beneath a layer of synth-skin, allowing this monster to avoid detection ... until it's too late.[/quote] Wow! if Linda Hamilton is involved, put me down as interested .. OG

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='19734' date='Jun 18 2007, 05:08 PM']Not on the fingerboard, Jon, just the nitro-cellulose bits. I use lemon oil (and very seldom, too) on ebony or rosewood. I wouldn't recommend using [i]Brasso[/i] on a frequent or regular basis, just for that once-in-a blue-moon clear-off-loads-of-crud type clean.[/quote] + lemon oil for the woody bits Use actual T Cut and car polish like MER on the shiny polished bits - occasionally. It works fine on modern bass coatings. Also Planet Waves make a "mirror finish" spray for guitars which is really good too .. Not that good on the car though ...

[quote name='Tinman' post='19461' date='Jun 18 2007, 08:50 AM']Just thought I'd ask this as I'm going to be out of the country for a couple of weeks from later today. If any of you are going along to Jon's to start a build or check on a current one, could you possibly take a camera with you and see if there's anything of my build to photograph. I know it's only been 3 weeks since it started but I don't want to bug Jon too much as he's so busy and the last thing I want to do is annoy him with endless requests for pics. I should be able to access my e-mail while I'm away, so if there are any pics available could you e-mail them to [email protected] Cheers in advance. Pete[/quote] Might be up there this weekend though it may not involve a trip to Jon's workshop .. If I see anything I'll snap away .. OG

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='19464' date='Jun 18 2007, 08:54 AM']Yeah, it was a long drive home. worth it though as the audience was all female [/quote] Is that the gay club in Doncaster?

[quote name='elom' post='10318' date='Jun 1 2007, 12:42 AM']Okay, that's good enough for me. I'll get one in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for all your help.[/quote] Elom did you get one? What do you think now?

[quote name='paul, the' post='18696' date='Jun 16 2007, 08:47 AM']I swear I find out about a new brand of bass every day.[/quote] Ha ha well here's a few years' reading for you [url="http://www.bunnybass.com/e-zine/directories/builders.shtml"]Bunny Bass list of cusom bass luthiers - about 100[/url]

[quote name='nik1093' post='13748' date='Jun 7 2007, 07:05 PM']how u get side leds???????[/quote] Side LED's are pretty normal .. Martin Sims will retrofit them to your bass if you like ... [url="http://www.simscustom.com/html/simsleds.htm"]http://www.simscustom.com/html/simsleds.htm[/url] Orange ones are a tad pervy and bizare but hey, that's Rich for you

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='19122' date='Jun 17 2007, 12:53 PM']Going OT here i posted this over on TB but seeing as they are all still in bed ill post this here to see if anyone can help Last night i had the worst sound ever at a gig. Using my MB SA450 and UL115. --Snip------ Thanks for any advice.[/quote] Dave were you set up in the same place on the stage as usual? It may have been a wall proximity thing I've also noticed that the density of the air can change the sound - cold nights with atmospheric high pressure sound different to hot sweaty humid low pressure nights. Oh and I once went back to a venue and the whole place souned different as they'd moved the PA bass bins under the stage - caused all sorts of strange effects til we got used to it.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='19183' date='Jun 17 2007, 04:13 PM']I believe you totally overestimate the size of the market! I doubt even Ampeg sells that much gear... Alex[/quote] How many Epifani dealers are there in the UK? Is it just the Gallery?

Something odd has happened to my view o fthis threads' buttins and controls so here's paste in "by site map you mean a page with links to all the pages on the site? excellent idea. i do realise i am a bit slack on the SEO front! i should make more of an effort. i will be doing some updates for the NightDragon site when they are a bit further down the line, so i will use that time to do the tweaks you suggest. i'm just more of a pictures guy....and i tend to let the clever stuff slide a little bit. i'm pleased you like the ND site mate....it's nice to have a review from someone who really knows their stuff. i did expect you to have something to say about the sound fx and animation on the flash banner though! " -------- reply ----- Yeah Site map is one page with links to all of the pages on the site. That way when the Google (Yahoo/MSN) spiders get to it they can find all the pages on the site. I am sure you realise that no one knows exactly what Google bots do but the belief is that they are now looking specifically for site maps and favouring new sites that have one. Thus your site gets indexed more often .. Loads about it on the google site. Also humans are finding site maps to be the fastest way around a site when the navigation is complex or idiosyncratic PM me when you want to do the SEO on the Night Dragon site and we can talk specifics. 80% of SEO is common sense and easy so a good picture guy with good visual design skills who also builds to include easy SEO as a default (a very rare animal) would score many brownie points with clients and potential clients who look at his portfolio Re the Night Dragon site - "arts" sites are great 'cos you can basically do what you like, unrestrained by the rules of commerce, competition etc. but you are selling the movie to loads of people - investors are just one group - so it does need to work well in that respect. Someone looking for info about a specific project like the Night Dragon film will stick with the site and work out the navigation and stuff like that.. It's not like selling a wedding band to a groom where you have to make it easy straight off or they just go BACK one click and google off to the next wedding band in the results list .... Incidentally you should use the phrase "night dragon" whenever you talk about it in a forum as these forums are indexed by Google and so it will add to the google score for the film, especially if you link to it .... Guerilla SEO in action Animation and music are fine in their place - I'd expect a film site to have it - in fact a film site without that stuff would be missing an opportunity .. Flash is great as well. Used sensibly it can really lift the quality of a site, used badly it can make your site invisible to Google and impossible to forward to a mate, thus killing a (following building) band's main marketing methods stone dead - google and viral marketing. However if you sell your band to agents then an all-Flash site works a treat precisly because it doesn't work well in Google .. Fun eh?

Found this useful list somewhere GT6B Models etc Flip top-models the ampeg B-15 B man models fender bassman 100 Bass 360 models acoustic 360 T.E. models trace elliot ah600smx. Session models SWR SM-400 Concert 810 models ampeg SVT As for speakers 1x15 Trace Elliot 1518 1x18 SWR Big Ben. 2x15 acoustic 402 4x10 SWR Goliath. 8x10 ampeg 810E Original for built-in speaker for amp selected in type. ----------------------------------------- Effects Individual effects: Comp/Lim OD/Dist Chorus Rev/Delay Preamp 3 Band ParaEQ Speaker Sim Wah Combined FX1: Octave Enhancer (fantastic){original author's opinion] Slow Gear Defretter Ring Mod Combined FX 2: Phaser Flanger Harmonist Pitch Shifter Pedal Bend 2x2 Chorus (Chorus with a crossover, very cool) Auto Slap (stupid) Short Delay Vibrato Humanizer Tremelo/Pan Bass Synth.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='18645' date='Jun 15 2007, 11:51 PM']Dave, whilst you've got the speakers out I'd really like to see some photos of the inside of the UL cabs, just trying to get an idea of how they brace things to make them quite so light! Alex[/quote] To refer back to a question way back up the thread, isn't [i]that [/i](and the sound) the stuff that makes a cab with two 100 Euro drivers worth £800? It's the R&D .. OG