ahpook

Somewhere else, thanks.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465854908' post='3071687'] Bum berets?? [/quote] Ass hat ? Bum beret ? Maybe.....

[quote name='Dropzone' timestamp='1465910024' post='3071992'] Once again drums massively up in the mix... [/quote] That's just almost every gig I go to these days...

Do strings need to pass over the 'middle' of the pole pieces ? None of my jazz basses have this (I use ungrooved saddles) and I've not heard any obvious effect.

I might have some cheese on toast or something similar when I get in, but I for an evening gig I'd always eat beforehand so no big feed.

Just to let folks know, Gemini Pickups have started producing T-bird pickups - Gemini are based in the UK and I've used them a few times and have always been pleased with Mike's advice and pickups. http://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass_85.html No connection, no bungs, just though peeps might want to know of a place to get T-bird pickups in Blighty.

Now, time to tap some brain power. I built a RunOff Groove Big Daddy last week, and boy does it have some output (to be expected). I need to pad the output /before/ the volume control. Is the an easy way of doing this ? My first instinct is to use a potential divider but then there's the interaction between the vol and the divider, as well as the tone control created by the cap decoupling the output. I'm beginning to think a buffer will be needed.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1465800200' post='3070977'] Stay with that band for social reasons and join another one too for musical reasons. First date in the diary gets your attention. [/quote] Exactly. If you leave your current band and the new lot turn out to have bum berets then you may have lost some buddies and you're still in a band you don't like. There's nothing like the look of a few irons glowing gently in the fire

I sent off last week for a couple of PCBs from Moody Sounds in Sweden as I fancied building one of their Härt Müller bass overdrives. I saw they had one of their 'Moody Overdrives' on clearance and for a whole kit including a box and decal/stickery thing was a bargain. I put some pictures from its construction [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHskC6vpiX"]here[/url] But here's the final article. Very good kit it with everything you need (even solder) as well as a few alternative components to tweak the circuit The board has locations for clipping diodes to place them either in the feedback loop of the op-amp or after the output. I socketed mine and I'm still tweaking. Not great for bass it seems - I've tried various input caps - it's happiest with a decent basscut or it gets awful farty. More on the bass overdrive later....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465631216' post='3069722'] No, I think that was Prolapse. [/quote] No, they were from Leicester.

"But make no mistakes and switch up my channel - I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle What could it be ? It's a mirage... You're scheming on a thing - that's [b]SABOTAGE ![/b]"

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1465225194' post='3066279'] For me, a big draw of preamp pedals is being able to get 'my tone' no matter what backline i might use, just by bypassing the amps pre/pluging into the effects return/DIing [/quote] Another vote here - easier to turn up and plug in anywhere, even with no backline.

[quote name='Signal Path' timestamp='1465330513' post='3067303'] I'll have a set of the Fender Nickels if you have any left. Many thanks, Steve [/quote] Sure, PM your address and I'll get them off to you.

Emily Roebuck - Pink Carlo & The Outboards Bob Frank - Charlie's Chanters Sara Cockerall - Flight of the Radish Snap - Yellow Outscope Gerry Arnold - Diversology

How about Gemini Pickups ? I put a pair of their Dawn Lightnings in my home-built bass and they're excellent.

[quote name='RickyV' timestamp='1465214153' post='3066129'] If you dont locate the charity mentioned then I will take a set of the Fender nickels off you. Happy to contribute to BC or to a charity for that matter. [/quote] PM me your address and I'll get them off to you, please feel free to donate your money to a charity if you'd rather. As long as some old strings get used and someone worthwhile gets a few quid then I'm happy.

[quote name='highwayman' timestamp='1465159188' post='3065767'] ahpook: "I've never come across it except in Internet forums" - being a new bassist that's the only place I've heard it too, but on BC & elsewhere when plectrums are mentioned there's a fair amount of snobbery - do a search yourselves if in doubt - though happily not from the respondents to this thread. [/quote] Well, the internet is full of people with nothing better to do than wave their opinions round after mistaking them for facts....

[quote name='highwayman' timestamp='1465152527' post='3065659'] ...so why is there (not necessarily from the fine members of BC) so much snobbery about using them? [/quote] What do people say ? I ask in all seriousness as I've never come across it except in internet forums.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1465137138' post='3065524'] Guitars can be sensitive to heat and often won't stay in tune when a room warms up. A spare guitar which is 'in tune' at the start of a gig will more often than not need re-tuning when the ambient temperature warms up in my experience. [/quote] Very true, especially if the guitarist changes strings a lot. (That said, 2 mins is a long time !) To the OP, Kevin - have you spoken to the guitarist and mentioned he's taking a while to get tuned and it's holding things up ?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1464999819' post='3064620'] Brilliant! Hat duly doffed. [/quote] I fangoo

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1464969257' post='3064283'] YOU'RE a bobbin! *Runs away* [/quote]

It'd be great if it cut to the end and he'd made a bobbin

Is it any good for 'Meddle' ?

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1464944689' post='3063930'] Wasn't a BCer running a charity to send used strings to those who can't afford in poorer countries? [/quote] I don't know....anyone got any details ?

Thanks folks - I'm still looking, hoping they'll turn up, but I'm not hopeful.