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the scratchplate looks all...wrong

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1100582' date='Jan 24 2011, 11:23 AM']How can you project an image of rebellious individualism if you don't wear jeans like all the other individual rebels? (I never wear them either - what a pair of rebels we must be? )[/quote] what you up to this afternoon ? shall we smash the state ?

[quote name='Wil' post='1100575' date='Jan 24 2011, 11:14 AM']Doesn't it get a bit drafty?[/quote] other trousers are available !

[quote name='crez5150' post='1100473' date='Jan 24 2011, 09:48 AM']Must be in one of those 'Jazz' bands....[/quote] i just find jeans too warm !

[quote name='Wil' post='1100466' date='Jan 24 2011, 09:41 AM']You don't wear jeans while playing bass?[/quote] i never wear jeans, as it happens

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1100327' date='Jan 24 2011, 12:06 AM']-1 Not in my experience. I've played with plenty of reliable and talented guitarists. Some of them even thought they couldn't play bass.[/quote] plus the one. it's odd...with the number of threads about 'guitarists who solo over everything, don't learn songs, etc, etc, etc, i wonder where they all are...i've never met one. is it something particular to 'rock' bands ?

i used to have one of these units, and did find the vocoder tricky to use. as far as i remember it was mainly down to tweaking the levels of the mic and rear panel input so that the vocoder triggers correctly. sorry, i can't really offer any more help than that... good luck !

kevin shields

it just means that the signal coming out of your bass will be of a lower volume compared to a bass with higher output pickup. effectively you'd need to to turn your bass amp up to get the same volume as a bass with higher output pickups. moe suitable for gigging ? depends how low is 'low'

presumably whatever country's music he's ripping off this time doesn't have a tradition of basses.

[quote name='buff' post='1095745' date='Jan 19 2011, 10:21 PM']Ive no idea, maybe they'res is a higher output pick up.[/quote] but isn't the switch is there to modify the sound, not just to change the volume ?

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='1090062' date='Jan 15 2011, 12:46 AM']It depends on your core sound.[/quote] indeedy says the ampeg preamp man

[quote name='buff' post='1095579' date='Jan 19 2011, 08:07 PM']Darkstar appear to be the only replacement ive found, they do away with the 3 way switch.[/quote] how would they do away with the switch ? do they have some kind of impedance switching themselves ?

[quote name='clauster' post='1095446' date='Jan 19 2011, 06:18 PM']Indeed it was, you were posting as I was editing [/quote] jinx !

[quote name='clauster' post='1095426' date='Jan 19 2011, 05:58 PM']I know there is at least one pwdal comp that will do the side chain. [s] I can't remeber off the top of my head which one it is[/s], but it isn't cheap. Edit for model: It's the [url="http://www.fealabs.com/products/OFC-0001.html"]FEA OptiFet[/url][/quote] i had a look at that... not sure if it's just got the ability to put fx in the side-chain, or if it'll work with just an key signal in the return

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1094608' date='Jan 18 2011, 10:53 PM']Pulp bassist was a Sabre player, Quite cool and not much love for them from what I have seen round here? I wouldn't mind having a play on one.[/quote] shame you're not in london, you could pop round for a brew and a go on mine !

i always play it with open strings...but i'm lazy like that.

[quote name='buff' post='1094239' date='Jan 18 2011, 07:15 PM']How do you find the sound ? it could just be something completely different to what im used to playing.[/quote] lovely, simply lovely - i found it got more of it's 'own sound' when i strung it with flatwounds.

i use a cable tie from the upper bridge post to the strap buckle - it pulls the bass into a nicer position. it also makes the strap run over the front of the body which tips it back into your body a bit. it's not ideal, but does make more comfy.

[quote name='chilievans' post='1037695' date='Nov 26 2010, 12:49 PM']How do you rate these bridges?[/quote] i go to comparethegotoh.com

i taught myself 'hysteria' as an exercise (i really can't abide muse as a whole - sorry) and yes...that boy has stamina !!

very accomplished. tell ya what tho - if a saxophonist blew his hrony horn that far away from me when i was playing i'd be mouthing '"fook off back a few feet !"

[quote name='willyf87' post='1093561' date='Jan 18 2011, 10:13 AM']I do actually have an ehx lpb-1 booster, I guess I could try that if worst comes to worst.[/quote] it's an idea, but the lpb-1 isn't a preamp with a flat eq, which is fine if you like the sound it gives.