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you HAVE to go to howard's bass place if it's still there

[url="http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/newcastle/shop/133327r/howard-s-bass-place"]http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/newcast...rd-s-bass-place[/url]

if you ask him if he remembers the guy who bought a musicman sabre from him years ago...

he does great setups and repairs, and always has some weird and wonderful basses in the shop.

"Isolated audio track of bassist John Entwistle playing "Won't Get Fooled Again", filmed for The Kids Are Alright documentary"

from the mixing desk i guess...


presumably they'd record the concert on multi track for mixing to the film later...


or they recorded just entwistle for the documentary.

[quote name='bnt' post='71828' date='Oct 9 2007, 08:53 PM']I honestly had to look that one up. The Fleetwood Mac song? YouTube here I come...

edit: the ending? The old Formula One theme? OK. [/quote]


that's the one !!

[quote name='bnt' post='71778' date='Oct 9 2007, 07:41 PM'][i]Smoke On The Water[/i]
PS: in a local guitar shop, they have the usual list of banned guitar pieces: Stairway To Heaven etc.[/quote]


haha - sheerers in leeds had a list like that when i was at school...it had a list of guitar ruffs...stairway to heaven, smoke on the water, foxy lady etc. and at the bottom ?

"and for bassists...the chain"


i never know what to play when i'm trying out a bass. i was trying out some overdrive pedals a few weeks back and i ended up playing some my bloody valentine and sonic youth songs.

after a minute or two i realised i had an audience of 3 young lads. they looked very confused...i'm not quite sure what they expected me to be playing

be difficult to put my finger on it, but prolly something by joy division...maybe 'she's lost control' ??

first bassline i learned (or rather was taught) was 'a forest' by the cure.

nice bit o' wood.

[quote name='simon1964' post='71329' date='Oct 8 2007, 10:47 PM']I bought a Stingray as well - and its absolutely awesome![/quote]



thinks about double muff...thinks about stingray.


aaah well....one musicman is enough for me i guess.

i bought a ehx double muff from ebay...not entirely sure why, but for £25 ???



why not !

good god !!!


i just got my 80's jazz bass out of the case it's been in for the last year or two. it used to be my no. 1 gigging bass until i got my pj. jaysus ! does it stink...pub carpets and 1000 cigarette butts. i mean folks...i smoke and it still kinda turned my stomach to play it.

any tips for getting rid of the smell ?

ok...i've stopped mathering and this is the pedalboard for the upcoming drum and bass radio session.

fender cowpoke >> behringer tuner >> aria platinum drive >> cae line booster >> ehx micro q-tron >> ehx small clone >> behringer bdi >> desk

i've had to put the cae booster in there, and run it to make up for the vol boost that comes from the q-tron.

ok - here's the deal...i got myself an aria td-1 valve overdrive pedal and it came with a no-brand chinese 12ax7, so as i had couple of valves lying around i thought it'd try them and see what it sounded like.

firstly i tried a fender (sovtek) 12ax7...sounds good...valve lights up nicely...then i tried a lower gain EHX 12at7...and it sounded different, BUT the valve didn't light up at all.


why should the lower gain valve not be shining with the light of the heaters ?


any ideas ?

i've no idea what the inside of one looks like....


...or else i'd help.



can you post pic of the innards ?

[quote name='nick' post='69731' date='Oct 4 2007, 09:54 PM']I recently got a Zoom 503 amp simulator pedal off Ebay for about a tenner. They're discontinued now.
Only managed to have a brief mess about with it so far. However, when used in conjunction with BDI21, some of the speaker emulation parameters sound not bad, to my cloth ears.
Never been a fan of Zoom stuff, but this is not a bad pedal. Quite handy for home recording bass.
I see them come up on ebay fairly frequently. Usually don't go for much more than I paid for mine, sometimes less.[/quote]


hmm - good to know. the bdi'll be fine for the session i'm doing tho...it gives the sound a nice depth.

i've never used any zoom pedal stuff, but i've got two of their rack units and they're good to my ears.


i still mourn my midiverb 3 tho....

and now it's here...

blimey, what a monster-sized pedal.

gave it a quick blast and swapped the no-brand 12ax out of it and put in an ehx 12at...sounds [i]much[/i] nicer...


does a gentle break-up nicely and has more drive than you could want.



ok - back off upstairs to give it some more wellie

i started playing bass about 20 years ago, and started teaching myself guitar about 13 years ago when i realised that [i]someone[/i] had to play guitar on my demos

i play a bit of keyboards too.

it all adds together...makes you a better musician...so it's a good thing right ?

[quote name='paul, the' post='69296' date='Oct 3 2007, 11:15 PM']Has anyone tried a Hartke VXL Bass Attack?[/quote]

does the hatke have speaker emulation ? i thought it was just a preamp pedal ?

[quote name='nick' post='69281' date='Oct 3 2007, 10:23 PM']Had a brief look inside, vitually everything is fixed to PCB.
Planning on having a go at this sometime this month, when (if) I get some spare time.
Anticipate having to replace pots, jacksockets, & switch etc.
Will be putting mine in fairly decent sized box....

Cheers[/quote]


thanks for the info...

[quote name='nick' post='69020' date='Oct 3 2007, 12:31 PM']I second you on that. Tried both, & I prefer the sound of the Behringer. And for the price, you can get at least five BDI21's!
Tech 21 Blitzkreig cometh!!

My next project,is to put one of mine in a more robust diecast box.[/quote]

phew - i thought i might be the only one !


i was wondering about a better box...i've still got the casing from my exploded sansamp...

have you had yours open yet ? i was wondering how big the board is and if the pots are wired straight to the board (which i suspect) or on flying leads ?

if you've not opened yours up yet....i might tonight

[quote name='BigRedX' post='69150' date='Oct 3 2007, 04:51 PM']Got to say for all the really good practical design features on the bass it's got to be the most ugly J-clone I've ever seen...[/quote]


plus the one...it's fugly

took mine down to band practice tonight...

very impressed...playing through an ashdown mag 2x10.

i set it pretty flat with the eg on the behringer and the amp flat, and pushed the drive control a bit.

to my ears (dons flameproof suit) it sounded better to me that my old sansamp...i kid you not. i think it has less mid-cut.




anyway...not the reason i bought it, but a very nice suprise...i'm considering the guitar model for recording now.

[quote name='finnbass' post='68262' date='Oct 1 2007, 05:23 PM']Wire 'em all up in a loop, feed the output back into the input and see what happens [/quote]

now this idea i like...

nice work....

unless the bass is going into van or the boot of a car i use a ritter gigbag...