ahpook

personally, if i were there i'd be more bothered about seeing battles.


the chillis are good, but they're pretty much digging a familiar furrow deeper.


ymmv

[quote name='alexclaber' post='50179' date='Aug 24 2007, 02:51 PM']A properly designed amp will not benefit from an external power conditioner as its own power supply should deal with all the filtering and buffering of the mains supply.[/quote]

i'm no expert, but that's what i would have presumed.

i'm curious as to how a mains supply that deviates from a true sine wave would affect an amplifier - surely the power supply in the amplifier is going to be rectifying the sinusoidal main supply into smothed dc anyway ?

enlighten me folks !!!

[quote name='G-bitch' post='49023' date='Aug 22 2007, 03:52 PM']I almost feel inadequate with this little thing - it's going to take some getting used to.[/quote]

so you should g -how the mighty have fallen !

i remember the good old days...when you hit your effects the lights would dim in birmingham.

i've not found any bass shops in london that are particularly inspiring.

my fave bass shop was 'howard's bass place' in newcastle - lovely guy...very reasonably priced tech work and always some interesting basses in to have a look at...all second hand mind.

it's where i got my musicman sabre.

my main bass is a mexican 'cowpoke' pj...blind bought on ebay, and it turned out to be the best i've ever played.


i love it

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='14509' date='Jun 9 2007, 08:43 AM']I've bought their soapbars in the past, as Russ says they're very underrated and good value for money.[/quote]

plus the one - i bought a KA soapbar for my self-build bass, but i sold it to a friend and we fitted it in a westone bass he was upgrading.

sounded amazing

very fat and defined...i'd deffo use them again

[quote name='setekh' post='44461' date='Aug 12 2007, 03:28 PM']yeah my fear is that it isnt reliable..Ashdown amps seem to be a bit dodgy - its hit or miss..[/quote]

i'd be wary of the smaller ashdowns..i had an after eight and it crapped out [i]very[/i] quickly.


luckily i fell on my feet - i manged to snag a 15w session rockette bass amp for cheap, took the amplifier section out of the awful speaker and slotted it into the ashdown's chassis and speaker !!

sounds fab

sorry for the digression

i made my first strap myself out of a seatbelt from an austin allegro and the bits from a friend's broken strap.

i still have it...it's long enough so that you can wear the strap and have the bass lying face-up on the floor

:)

it's a tad shorter these days...

it depends what you want the volume pedal to do i guess...if you were wanting to do glissando-style stuff (a la steve hillage), you'd need to put it before a delay pedal...similarly if you wanted to use it to control the input level into an overdrive pedal, it'd need to be before that.

is there any practice studio in the land that doesn't have some carlsbro stuff in ?


odd...cos they sound like sh*te !!!

my fave bass distortion is either my ehx little big muff or my award session sp75...

i have just got hold of a 70s guyatone tube distortion td-1, which sadly is a bit too higher gain for me, but i'm waiting for a lower gain valve to see how that sounds

edit: well, my electro harmonix 12AT7 arrived today...just before i had to head into work...i'll let you guys know how i get on


(bloody working on a saturday !!!)

[quote name='Telebass' post='47936' date='Aug 20 2007, 08:36 PM']Welcome! You won't have any trouble remembering your member number! Nice one!
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hehe - didn't see that before

noob !!

88's....


it's like playing an anti-aircraft gun...kindof

my 70's fender precision...what was i thinking ?

hello, just joined up...

i'm in london btw