Patster1969

Let's Get Rocked - no thanks Come On Eileen - hate it Sweet Child O Mine - so over-played I'm sure there's more...

Totally agree - I don't think I've every managed to get through 1 listen of either "Hardwired" (Anthrax's "For All Kings" was vastly superior to Hardwired) or "72 Seasons". The songs are overly long & the riffs are generic/boring. I would also agree that "Crack The Sky" was a brilliant album and they haven't bettered it but every album is way better than anything Metallica have put out in the last 15 years.

Sunbury was kind of in the middle for all of us, as it was almost the middle for the 5 of us (I was in Woking at the start)

Annoyingly, I am the one that lives in Farnham 🤣

Hi all We are looking for a rehearsal space near Sunbury, as the space we usually use (Airplay) has closed recently. Unfortunately, we are a bit spread out (between Farnham and Princes Risborough & in-between) - any one have any good suggestions/recommendations? We are a 5 piece covers band. Any help greatly appreciated Pat

I answered one advert because I liked the bands that they mentioned in the advert, met them in the pub and they seemed ok, so sorted out a rehearsal date. As it was an originals band, they didn't have anything in terms of songs/structures (which was a bit of a worry), so they gave me two song covers to learn, as apparently they played these all of the time. I get there and the drummer doesn't know either of these "regularly played" songs. Also, it turned out that the singer/guitarist has only one song that he is working on, which I bluffed my way through, as he had nothing written down and nothing else. I didn't go back - I would be stunned if it went anywhere.

The sound for Metallica at Twickenham on their last tour was awful, although I was sitting near the top of the stand to the left of the stage. The sound was better when I shoved my fingers in my ears though. It was bad through the support acts but we sat in hope that either they would sort it out or we would get used to it - wrong on both counts.

John was great to buy from - organised a courier for me for a fabulous Ibanez bass (and even paid the top up on the cost after he was wrongly quoted a cost by UPS). When the bass arrived, it was really well packed/protected within a padded gig bag, a load of bubble wrap & a bass box as well - was pretty bullet proof. He also undersold the condition of the bass, mentioning marks on the headstock within the advert which I am having a tough time really finding. All in all, a great basschatter to deal with 👍

Good call, I will have a look at that 👍

That's a comfort knowing that I'm not alone in trying to reach this magic tone - are we all mad I wonder? There's certainly nothing on this bass that I 'need' to change in terms of what you have had to do to your P-Bass, as it hasn't really had a particularly hard life but as I said to Rich, am I looking for something that isn't obtainable but my head/ears are telling me that I need to find. Good point about setting a sensible budget at £600 and trying a few in that price point, as I could probably easily bust through that if I changed pups & pre-amp (for example) - if I went down the Sims route, it would be way over that. For some reason, I have it in my head that I have to spend way more than that to potentially get the tone in my head that I want but this isn't really the case. Thanks Nancy

That's the million $ question really and I'm not sure whether I'm looking for something that isn't obtainable, as I have any idea in my head that the tone I want isn't achieveable with the Ibanez in it's current form which could well be complete rubbish on my part/my hearing playing tricks on me. Having not played a great many different basses (and this one was bought through ebay several years ago without me trying it particularly because I liked the look of it), it could well be me/my technique/amp settings that is causing my doubt about the tone, and by changing any of these could allow a variation in a sound that I like. Certainly, I don't have any experience with your question about single/series/parallel switching, so can't even comment on that sensibly, although Nancy's point about going and trying a few different options could well answer some of these questions for me. Thanks Rich

I have a 2012 (I think) Ibanez SR400 but find that tonally, it seems to be slightly limited. I love playing it, as it's a very easy bass to play and I love the look of it but am now weighing up upgrading the bass or upgrading the pups/electronics in order to have a bit more tonal variety. I have seen the switchable Sims SuperQuad pick-up and these look great but if I bought these and then paid someone to install them (as it looks like a job well above my limited skill), this is likely to cost way more than the bass was brand new. However, could I either upgrade the pick-ups (currently CAP EXF-N2 pickups, paired with active three-band EQ) and get more tonal range and not spend a fortune, upgrade the pre-amp/electronics or bite the bullet and buy a new bass that gives me more variety (P/J mix or something like that - I'm a bit of a blasphemer as I'm not a bit fan of the Precision Fender look)? I don't really want to buy a new bass and have the 400 sitting there gathering dust, so it would be a one in/one out. Any help/suggestions would be gratefully received.

I think Paolo Gregoletto from Trivium plays the majority of his stuff on a 5 string

LOG I like - some of the guitar & drumming is really intricate, which I hadn't noticed so much on the cd's but more when I've seen them live at Download

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill > Paul's Boutique