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i had a 15mm overbite when i started playing bass. that's pretty dam goofy

hmm...sure ain't pretty

[quote name='Kev' post='568723' date='Aug 14 2009, 10:07 AM']pointless discussion. He's the best bassist for RHCP, you cant go beyond that, too subjective.[/quote] plus the one. total waste of time to ask who's 'best'

[quote name='OldGit' post='568678' date='Aug 14 2009, 09:35 AM']... and those Tyneside Precisions! Out on a Saturday night in all weathers with no covers![/quote] all fur coat and nay knickers ? must be a darras hall precision

well i tried mrcrow's suggestion, but only succeeded in knocking a corner off the offending screw. now what ? drill it out or just snap the bassplate off ? i'm thinking it might be a better option to just buy a new pedal - there's no guarantee that i can get it working properly anyway.

can i add something not related to bass ? please stop making the kick drum sound like an alesis drum machine.

what a dreary thing to do.

2 months on a DB are you're doing gigs ? wow...good going !

[quote name='Zach' post='568158' date='Aug 13 2009, 04:46 PM']If my A-level physics from last year is right, then due to a quirk of physics I can't quite remember, possibly called the lorentz force, a conductive object, i.e. metal, moving through a magnetic field will feel a dampening force due to the conservation of electricity. This will happen with the metal bass strings as they vibrate through the magnetic field of the pickups, which is why I've heard some people say your pickups shouldn't be too close to the strings.[/quote] yup - you're totally correct - had that problem with my musicman sabre. but that's down to a bad set-up, nothing to do with the intrinsic properties of the instrument itself.

forgive me if i'm wrong, but what does sustain have to do with pickups ? surely sustain comes from the mechanical aspects of the bass - pickups just amplify what's there already. good pickups on a bass that sustains like a wet washing line will still sound like a wet washing line - just a hi-fi washing line !

i think you need to take synth pedals for what they are. if you want the sound of a novation bassstation or a moog, then use a bassstation or a moog. i like my boss syb-3 for the slightly messed-up synth sound it gives, but it aint no synth. mind you - i've not used expensive pedals like a deep impact so i would know about how they work. but then...for the price of a deep impact......i'd just buy a synth

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='567815' date='Aug 13 2009, 11:46 AM']I once did a gig with a 5w practice guitar combo. What made it worse was the fact that the gig was an open-air festival on the Mir Space Station and was thus performed in the vacuum of Space.[/quote] mir ran a 27v DC supply...no wonder you were quiet.

[quote name='crez5150' post='566961' date='Aug 12 2009, 04:43 PM']One thing you should try if you haven't already is to try and tighten it further...... sounds mad but works... should help losen it up[/quote] that's how i managed to free the other three !! [quote name='mrcrow' post='566958' date='Aug 12 2009, 04:41 PM']i used to use a fine chisel and tap it round the edge in the appropriate direction...anti clockwise the closer you get to the edge the more torque you get what you are doing is jarring it out with little licks.. instead of a fine chisel a screwdriver head might do and go easy...mark [/quote] thanks crow-san, i'll give that a whirl

welcome indeed !

right - here's the score. played the wettest gig i ever a few weeks ago in wales, and all my equipment survived, except for my boss bass chorus - it no longer works properly when powered by a wall wart (sound is distorted and very quiet). now, i'd like to get the back off to check it's not something easy to fix, but one of the screws on the bassplate is frozen in - i've tried WD40, heating the head of the screw up with a soldering iron, but still no luck...and the screw's getting pretty stripped now. any good ideas before i give up and drill the offending screw out ?

he invented the jazz bass i'm eternally in his debt.

anyone tried one of these out yet ? i'm looking at the vid on the ehx site and it sounds like it would be spot on for the techno/breakbeat band i do now and again. greasier and nastier than my ebs iq.

that's great. very clever..thanks.

[quote name='Musky' post='560074' date='Aug 4 2009, 12:06 PM']...but I'd be a bit worried that it'd look like you're playing one of those toy guitars once you've got it strapped on. [/quote] a bit worried ? why ? you'd look like a GIANT !

that's amazing ! hard to believe it's real, although i'm quite prepared to believe the camera buffs