ras52

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1197352' date='Apr 12 2011, 09:27 PM']It's very hard to find these used, but I use an EHX Neo Clone. Cost me £50 new, is true bypass (which means no tone suckage when the pedal is off), and sounds very nice! I checked out almost every chorus pedal under £100 and that sounded the best to me. I believe it's exactly the same circuitry as the EHX Small Clone which was used on Nirvana's Come As You Are, only even smaller [/quote] +1

If was buying a reliced instrument I'd want to know what happened to the original lice.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1192096' date='Apr 7 2011, 06:24 PM']If you take the pup out and grip their base the poles just push down[/quote] Ah, thanks for the tip. She's staying at the rehearsal place (guitarist's shed) so I'll need to bring her home and strip her down, ooerr missus!

I used my Susie in rehearsal for the first time last night. Unmodded, Fender 9050L flatwounds, tone rolled off about halfway... very tasty! She's my first venture into frets+flats, and I must say I like it! In a band with two guitarists, I think those low mids really help me be heard. My only gripe remains the raised pickup pole pieces: there's a horrible click if I get over-excited and a string touches a pole piece.

[quote name='OzMike' post='1186451' date='Apr 3 2011, 05:43 AM']When people sometimes compliment me on my playing, I hold back a giggle thinking 'you don't know how crap I really am, and how much practice I had to do to cover it up'. [/quote] Perhaps another way of saying that would be, 'you don't know how crap I was, and how much practice I had to do to improve'

[quote name='Doddy' post='1185345' date='Apr 1 2011, 10:09 PM']I'm going to have to disagree here. Some of the best solos have been in those formal confines. Miles,Coltrane,Hancock, Metheny,Brown...they've all played brilliant solos within the head-solo-head format.[/quote] I agree with your disagreement :-) Some of the best solos, yes, but also some of the worst! I'm thinking of gigs I've seen where the bass player puts in a half-hearted solo, leading me to think that he'd rather not but that the form and/or bandmates required it.

[quote name='BB3000S' post='1185412' date='Apr 1 2011, 11:09 PM']Every one knows the A string is the best of the lot, right? G-string - great for octaves, popping and fills, but I don't use it much for meat and potatoes playing.[/quote] Yes, meat and potatoes is pretty much the context of my original post. And since posting I realise that I omitted to distinguish between fretted and fretless - I'm much more democratic on fretless. Which I think further points to a strings-choice issue. [quote name='OzMike' post='1185510' date='Apr 2 2011, 04:42 AM']But .. the G-string and all it's associated notes are lovely for playing the occasional minor or major third over a root note on the E string.[/quote] Oh yes, lovely for tenths, but jeez, you must have a hell of a stretch if you can do thirds! (Sorry, the pedantry/sarcasm filter is bit flaky...)

Sorry OP, here come the language police: it's the opposite of a dearth! But I agree they are certainly tasty. I was sorely tempted by that fretless.

[quote name='risingson' post='1185289' date='Apr 1 2011, 09:26 PM']. . . jazz is about freeform . . .[/quote] But often it's the opposite, very formal: we play the tune, everyone takes a turn at playing a solo, then we play the tune again. And it's that context that you're likely the find the least inspiring solos - bass or otherwise.

I've just finished reading this [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guerilla-Home-Recording-Studio-Leonard/dp/1423454464"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guerilla-Home-Reco...d/dp/1423454464[/url] as a prelude to getting back into the recording thang. The author generally advocates applying effects up front and "mixing as you go", principally because although you theoretically [i]can [/i]do it all later, in practice you'll be limited by CPU power etc. And of course you may prefer the sound of your outboard gear.

Thanks, good to know that I'm not alone! And thanks for thw interesting ideas re. strings.

I concur, this is great. Just listening to the tracks on Soundcloud now, and will likely be tempted down to the next gig. I'm also old, although only slightly distant, and presume this is not a gig for an evening-and-weekender with sporadic family commitments...

This is tangential to the "Does anyone else avoid open strings?" thread... does anyone else avoid the (unopen) G string? I've been playing an accompanying line in Dm with a range of a 12th from the low F to middle C and I'm racing up and down the bottom 3 strings (of a 4-string). Playing the C on the G string just doesn't do it for me. Is this nature's way of telling me I need heavier-guage strings? I'll quite happily use the top string for solo passages (and of course religiously practise my scales all over the board), but it occurred to me that I'll typically only use it in octave passages in a "regular" bass line.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1180262' date='Mar 28 2011, 11:35 PM']Correct in principle, I'd think - but this would engender considerable confusion should something (for example the avatar lady being discussed above), having been licked, require subsequent - indeed repeated - licking. As would very likely be the case. J.[/quote] Hm, well there's relicking and re-licking. They're easily distinguishable, as one involves rubbing wood and removing layers, whereas the other... oh, hang on....

Welcome, from one of the grumpy old gits who sometimes thinks he can play bass. You'll love it, it's a way of life.

Re. licing, oops, I mean re. re-licing, surely the correct spelling would be RELICKING - c.f. panic => panicking, etc. Relicing is more like something one would do to counter a nit-picker...

Van der Graaf Generator at the Barbican last night... trio of sexagenarians belting out a set mostly drawn from their last two albums.

I use Lilypond [url="http://lilypond.org/"]http://lilypond.org/[/url] which is free and fabulous.

[quote name='Rusco' post='1174824' date='Mar 24 2011, 03:55 PM']Yamaha BB424X – I was impressed by them at the Bass Show, nice neck and sound although not sure how a piece of plastic and tin cost an extra £100+ over the non ’x’ version.[/quote] +1 for the BB. The X-ness is just a matter of taste, only worth paying extra for if you think it is! G&L Tribute JB-2 may be worth a look - J/J rather than P/J but still a belter.

Bought an EBS MultiComp - super fast and safe delivery, no problems!

My 8-year-old daughter loves to pose with instruments but her mother would raise hell if I posted any pics of her on The Evil Internet... however I was pleased to hear her humming "Continuum" at the weekend. Makes a change from Justin Beiber!

No - looks like another eBayfaker to me.

I've just done some string-swapping and have a spare set of TI Jazz Flats (JF344). Gorgeous, but I was finding them not stiff enough, which sounds like the opposite of your problem. (I've now got D'Addario Chromes.) (These TIs have only been used for intermittent home practice over the last couple of months and so are pretty much as new, the only potential downer being that they're cut for a 2x2 headstock and won't fit a Fender-style 4-in-a-row jobbie. Mke me an offer if interested!)

Our guitarist just got a Zoom H1 with all the trimmings - extra storage, tripod - for < £100. Very easy to use and sounds good!