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  1. fretmeister
    Is anyone having trouble with the BD website? My Malwarebytes keeps saying there is a Trojan risk and Chrome is also reporting an invalid response.
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    Possibly! I'll get the kids to search the house in exchange for a burger. Usually does the trick!
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    That's False Equivalency. Taking a spare bass is not the same as needing another van full of kit. PA failure falls into the same bracket as a complete power failure - nothing you can do about it. But you can do something about a bass failing - use a spare.
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    I always take 2. I don’t think it’s a professional approach to not have spares at a gig.
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    Thank you! I hadn't noticed.
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    I am loving this amp. Proper punchy and a nice grit if I want.
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    Forgot to say, it does come with the official case. And don’t be afraid of making an offer. I don’t really have a clue how to price it. Other than when the necks alone come up on eBay / reverb they can make £600 on their own.
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    2nd rate solos! Very true!
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    Embrace the space. Improve the composition- bassist needs to listen to more Jack Bruce and less Adam Clayton. Build the sound and arrangement from the ground up so bass drums and vocals could carry the tune alone then the guitar is always an embellishment. Guitar player to be more aware of chordal structure and not just go off in a pentatonic widdle fest. Interact with the bass line, use double stops, and rests to give even more space to give contrasts of loud and quiet with the solo. Rests / silence are some of the most powerful composition tools. Not every thing has to be a wall of noise. SRV / Hendrix / Kings X etc etc all sound great with sparse arrangements.
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    Q: can I have a go on your bass? A: Only if I can have a go on your woman. Does the trick.
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    I don’t think LP / Strat makes a blind bit of difference if the arrangement is right. I say that as someone who was the guitarist/ frontman in a 3 piece for years. As it happens I find LP more comfortable to play but the rest of the band thought the strat sounded better with more clarity and note definition giving a richer sound rather than just all the mids.
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    SOLD AND GONE THIS BASS HAS BEEN MODIFIED. I love this bass, but even with its very low weight for a stingray 5 at 8.9 lb (kitchen scale reading) I can’t cope anymore. Back and shoulder pain along with post hernia surgery mean that my limit is now far lower. It’s a 2005 limited model in Buttercream. The previous owner swapped the scratchplate to the silver paisley. I did more modifications including replacing the tuners for Hipshot Ultralites and swapping 3 of the heavy metal control knobs for lightweight plastic ones. The 3 are for the EQ and the regular metal one is the volume. Even just swapping 3 of the knobs lowered the weight a couple of hundred grams. The biggest modification is one you can’t see - at one point this was changed to a PJ bass so there is PJ routing under the scratchplate. There is a thread on here showing it in that configuration. It was great like that but I’ve had it put back to being a Stingray to sell it. The routing was done professionally as was the putting it back to being a Ray. It sounds brilliant and if it was 2lb lighter (I wish!) I would be keeping it. Everything works as it should and here are a few dings as expected for a 2005 bass. the outside photos were taken today in bright sunshine which makes it look more yellow than it is. Other photos are older but probably show the colour better - it’s quite a gentle colour. Collection from Northants just north of Towcester. About halfway between J15A and J16 on the M1. £999.
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    That’s an arrangement / composition problem not an instrument problem.
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    The Financial Times has an article a little while ago stating that the chip shortages are expected to last well into 2022. Until then the scalpers will be using bots to buy anything they can and sell it at massively inflated prices.
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    Well, after this thread I dusted down my very dusty P bass and tried it in my new amp. Just after I had decided to sell it... It sounds amazing with the Tech21 amp. Damnit!
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    I have a Helix rack and I think it is the single best bit of kit I have bought in 35 years of playing. Amazingly versatile, brilliant for thrashing out new ideas and brilliant for proper recording. I love it.
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    Me, last time...
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    I really want one. I saw Nathan Navarro's vid and there was one sound that I like so much I'd pay the price just for that tone. At least I would If I hadn't just paid for a car service and MOT.
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    I tend to go bass > envelope filter > octave > compressor > drive.
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    Your sustain knob will either be a Ratio control or a Threshold. Different on different makes - and I hate that they don't label them properly! Adjusting that with the attack control might let you reduce the nastiness a bit, but possibly at the cost of not quite having the effect you want from it. A good isolated power supply can work wonders though. What drive pedal are you using? They are often the worst offenders for background noise - sometimes they are making it, but also they are massively boosting any noise that exists in the system before it reaches the drive pedal - as far back as your pickups. I went EMG + posh power supply many years ago and I can't see me going back just because of the noise issues.
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    Normal behaviour for a compressor. All the low stuff gets boosted including the crap you don't want to hear - particularly for drive pedals. Could put the compressor in a different place in the chain, and also experiment with different power supplies to the other pedals to see if that helps reduce the noise they are making.
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    I've got a very nice American Special. It's very light (I put Ultralites on it and it's only 7 3/4 lb now), action is great, and as it is a Special the neck is a little slimmer than a regular P. It sounds just like a P bass should. But I never play it. I seem to be keeping it because there is something stupid in my head that demands that I have one, because it's a precision and all bassists should have one. Which is clearly bollocks. I really should start looking at shifting the stuff I don't play.
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    Jack Meoff.
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    I started a band where the singer and drummer were married. It was 2 men, 2 women and the them and us ended up being girls -v- boys! It was a bit weird sometimes singing duet parts with her when her bloke was on the tubs watching!
  25. fretmeister
    I like that logo. Definitely better than the attempts of using a Fender font to say something else. Like that god awful "Fecker Jizz Bass" that went round for ages.
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