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i recently put some old flatwound electric bass strings on my no-name acoustic. it certainly sounded better and as fretlessguy mentioned - a lot less finger noise.

when the market for relic-ed basses established itself, wasn't this the obvious next step ?

thanks for the review...sounds like a cracking DI, but... [quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='533253' date='Jul 5 2009, 07:52 PM']and the rubber feet make the pedal stick fast, even on a wet kitchen floor![/quote] c'mon...safety first

[quote name='bythesea' post='533193' date='Jul 5 2009, 06:26 PM']You don't know how glad I (and my wallet) are about that [/quote] i shall be repenting at leisure

[quote name='NJE' post='531528' date='Jul 3 2009, 11:36 AM']They also have a baby blue for silly money...[/quote] which i couldn't resist !!

i used to be 100% plectrum player, but not i usually play with my fingers. on a purely aesthetic level, i just don't like 'coffee table' basses and prefer quite trad-design basses. just me i guess.

you could have a word with the folks at watford valves - i asked them for some suggestions when i was revalving my ampeg and was chuffed with the results.

what does MD stand for ?

i use my ehx memory man (with hazrinkydoodledoo) on bass and i've not noticed any bass cut.

you actually know how a compressor works... and have a favourite attack time.

[quote name='leonshelley01' post='526299' date='Jun 27 2009, 09:40 PM']Oh so true! when at rehearsal you get shocked looks at suggesting maybe, perhaps, in just one song at some point as a special favour, we all play in time together.[/quote] heheh. plus the one. if i may adapt the words of verbal kint... "the greatest trick the bass player ever pulled was convincing the band he didn't wasn't running the show"

the turbo tuner certainly seems to [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bY9H7ec6_0"]track quickly[/url] i like the idea of a tuner shoot out...maybe something any BCers with different types of tuners could try (i've only got a boss tu-2 and a behringer clone, so no real contest there)

and what does he mean by '...pressed into service, perhaps most famously, by Rick Danko of The Band" [i]pressed into service[/i] ? it's a bass isn't it ? unless danko also used his as a washing-line prop or something as well.

[quote name='Zach' post='526143' date='Jun 27 2009, 06:15 PM']I was once told that i stand like a bassist. Still not sure what he meant by that.[/quote] there's a joke in there about sticking to the roots

[quote name='lowdown' post='526115' date='Jun 27 2009, 05:48 PM']When someone finally calls you a musician. Garry[/quote] liiike it

afaik metal shielding offers almost no protection against magnetic fields of the frequency that will be produced by a bass cab, unless you're using a special material like permalloy... just a bit of physics for a saturday morning

what does £80 more in tune than the pitchblack sound like ?

[quote name='BigRedX' post='525747' date='Jun 27 2009, 10:03 AM']...but probably the reality of buying an inexpensive instrument made in the far-east these days.[/quote] and not far from buying anything made inexpensively in the far-east as well i'd imagine.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='525371' date='Jun 26 2009, 09:35 PM']I'd say that decent hardware is important but it is a law of diminishing returns.[/quote] exactly the phrase that sprung to my mind too.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='525067' date='Jun 26 2009, 05:45 PM']Carol for me, but that's only with a gun to my head! We're comparing a very good apple with a very good orange here. It's my opinion, and worth exactly what you paid for it. [/quote] plus the one. but i go for carol kaye. better dress sense [i]and[/i] she played on pet sounds.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='521205' date='Jun 22 2009, 09:53 PM']Here's a good example. Listen to the tracks SDC1 and SDC2 here: [url="http://www.myspace.com/circledemos"]http://www.myspace.com/circledemos[/url]. Each of them is a high end small diaphragm condensers recording exactly the same performance. Both pointing over the players shoulder directly across the picking hand toward the thigh. Both sound very different. As it happens both work pretty well in this clip but imagine it was a voice being captured. One might work very well. Another might not. Make sense? Sorry, not intending to labour the point. Just trying to open people's eyes/ears to a whole new way of thinking about recording.[/quote] you know an awful lot more about this than me.

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='521157' date='Jun 22 2009, 09:13 PM']Horses for courses. Depends entirely on how the singer sounds and what the song needs. Sometimes one mic is better, sometimes another.[/quote] that's why i'm suggesting trying to get hold of a condensor mic, so the choice is there.

sure you can't get your hands on a condensor mic for the vocals ? each to their own of course, but i've always got much better results using a condensor than a dynamic mic for voice.