LukeFRC

i put flats on my status shark just to see what it would sound like and cos the strings on it were quite old. when the flats were brighter and zingier than the roundwoulds i realised that i really did need new strings aof some kind!

[quote name='Bald Eagle' post='75369' date='Oct 17 2007, 12:17 AM']The '58 precision is the 'one' if gen , the rest I don't care much for as they're generally obtainable.[/quote]

not on my wages!

tisk 100w? I use a TIG welder........

not really, the theory is the same.
the fumes are very bad for you, use ventilation.
the things you want to solder must be grease free.
apply a bit of solder to iron (which you cleaned last time you used of course) this will help the heat transfer better
make hot. if joining a big thing to a small thing the big thing will take longer than the small. both have to be hot as the solder will move towards the heat. make the bits hot. you can solder things together with them cold and they will kinda work but to work well they need to be joined propperly.
apply solder. just a wee bit
remove iron.

then either tadaa! or swear at the thing and repeat a few thousand times till the damn thing sticks. as far as i know theres no problem with remelting old solder and using it agian.
easy

try brazing a small set of railings 10mm high made out of thin copper rod. thats fiddly.

they sound nice if you turn the pre-shape off.
we have a EVO at church which sounded alright but always wooly mush. if i turned the pre shape off i would loose the punch.
yesterday i wacked the gain up and used 80% the tube preamp and turned it off and suddenly this amazing P-bass sound popped out the amp... lovely.
having said that i wouldn't buy one myself.

have a bump, just cos too many santa beards are scaring me

has it gone?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='73589' date='Oct 12 2007, 10:54 PM']There is no such thing as a bargain. What goes around, comes around.[/quote]
Justin quote?

one day he will realise that dre uses samples not real bass players and he will go twiddle his knobs till he can show us something new.

is you scrape your fingernails up and down roundwounds that how DJ Shadow puts his scratching noises on it

from the south east you can probably drive to belgium quicker and cheaper than you could get too newcastle- plus you would get to load up the rest of the car with quality french wines and belgian beers made by monks......

shame i live in scotland eh?

is the band or music really more important than friends? talk to him, find out how he feels about being in the band, find out whats going on. then take action, maybe he leaves the band, maybe you put the band on a break for a month or so. maybe the band and playing music is one of the only things holding him together?
thats the emotional side. on the flip side he needs to loosen up. try affirming how good a drummer he actually is. get into a habit of communicating the positives in the whole band. try something that's not a cover and see how he finds it. have fun, music's all about enjoyment right?
surely relationships with friends is more important than this music lark?

there was a wee independent pawn shop on the way to my uni that had the odd guitar just hung at the back every now and again. One day they had a Gibson ES 335 with bagsby trem added for £400. I rand my guitarplayingwheelingdealing friend ahd he said i could buy it and make back 3 times as much.
i had a wee play and it was in lovely condition but i think cos it didnt feel right to my bass playing hands i let it go by. it was gone an hour after i tried it out.

kudos to you beedster.
im sure your good actions will impress kylie if nout else

as an art graduate with the whole visual knowhow gubbins we were supposed to have been taught i would say be carefull.

like it or not a lot of people's opinion of you is formed on the image first then the music. therefore a banner would have to be 'right'. the design will have be done well, perfectly match and encapsulate the band and the music and not date in style.

ideally a banner/logo should encapsulate the band and also be transparant to let the music do the talking. This is a very hard thing to do- signed bands will spend thousands and thousands on people to do this well. a half good effort will make the band look half good no matter how good they are as a banner is so big. a banner also has a certain pretentiousness to it- if you are skilled you can make this work to your advantage.
Something like a logo on the bass drum may do the same thing but be easier, or posters for the walls of venues...

have you thought about buying a second hand video projector and using that instead? your backdrop would then be able o be updated/move/ be changed plus you would have a video projector for all your video art/home movie needs

[quote name='ARGH' post='70319' date='Oct 6 2007, 03:06 PM'].Guitarplayers are notorius ignorant knobheads)[/quote]

hehhehe

what about bringing amps in? are there many that can switch from 120 to 240v?

yawn

i used to be in a electropop band, we chucked the odd cover in. the one that starts 'round round spin around' by the vaselines was good, as was nelly futrados maneater.
no nos would be anything in the same genera as you i think. as in if you play mid tempo indie rock that sounds a wee bit like ocean colour scene/oasis/shed seven then the cover of wonderwall may be a bit dull.
ryan adam's got an ace version of that track though

that was one of the lines i was thinking down.

therefore europe should switch to our plugs and us to the Euro......
or we should get independence up here, then join the euro...

oh was that a hornets nest i hit with my stick?

4 years ago as i was starting to learn bass i saved up my money and went to buy my first wee practice amp. Given the choice between the Ashdown perfect 10 and the Vox T-25 i went for the vox.
It's fantastic. The tone is so warm and thick.
But at 25 watts it is a little underpowered for any serious giggage.

Well anyway i have a 2x12 cab with a 2unit slot at the top waiting to have an amp put in it. what would people recommend to to get that warmth of tone.

I've played plenty of other stuff and the only thing that came close was a old fender all valve bassman head. Is there a lighter and smaller alternative?

i have never managed to make a peavey rig i have used sound nice to my ears. but then thats just my ears

i was setting up (after a night out out) at church, the aucoustic guitar player was having trouble tuning so asked me to wait to tune, i had one of those cheap nasty electronic tuners so muted the amp and used that to tune, 3 of the stings were ok but in my tired state i missed the A string on the tuner and ended up trying to tune it to the A the octave up, not thinking untill it went ping. they were heavy gauge too! luckly i had an old set with me spare

I used to love the Edinburgh Sound Control, when i first moved up to edinburgh i had just started learning and you would walk in and it would feel good, the staff were super helpful and due to a probable missprint in the Snapfax that year they gave 50% off accessories. I bought allsorts there including my lovely Vox T25 practice amp for a very good £110 (which due to my cab being broken was used tonight at cab vol!)
Then they moved to Grassmarket and it seemed to go slowly downhill, more monotonous stock, longer queues while staff did 'important' stuff, daft staff and i wonder what the deal was with old Mev.
I went in once and was looking at some musicmans hung up (shows it was a while back the had more than one), at the time i was thinking what i was going to get as my second bass. This daft member of staff starts trying to sell me some ugly yamaha thing. Really if the customer is looking at 1000 quid basses why try and sell him 100 quid ones?
The exception was the bass guy who came within 5 minutes and £50 in my account of selling me a US fender P. I guess it was dougy here but He knew his stuff, knew my 1st bass (status shark2 not the most common), could tell me all about the wiring, how many bits of wood would make up the body in different types of fender, and was offering it to me at a rediciously low price. Unfortunately for him it was not a nice colour and for some reason felt cheap in my hands so i didnt buy it.
Since then though it seems to have gone down hill (tho they do have a warwick in) and i tend to go elsewhere.

I wonder also why all the amps are left on most the time. (radiators are a better heating method) If i buy a guitar then i get the one i see, i guess its the same with the amps, having bought something thats been on most the day every day seems a bit strange.

Another strange thing. GuitarGuitar are the stocker of a make of cab im interested in, though they had none in stock when i went in. They ring round their shops to look for one, ring head office and tell me the could order one in in a month and what the MRRP was but told me it probably would come in a bit under that cos they could. excellent.
I go in to SC to ask about thoes cheap Behringer pedals. (Bass doesnt need much effects IMO but it would be fun to try things with my bass and guitar and i dont have much money) SC are a behringer stockest according to their website. SC's magazine had an article about these pedals. Behringer had taken a full page advert out for these pedals in SC's in house magazine. The pedals had only been out a few months. In the few months i had been keeping my eyes open and had to go into SC every few weeks for DI boxes and leads etc.
So why when i asked was i told
"oh we got a few in but they were all returned cos they were so crap and the buyer bought a boss instead" Despite seeming not to be true I wonder how that answers
"could you order me in this please"?

grumble grumble,
for those in the south east recommend music warehouse in colchester as worth a look. esp for amps.

I went in there a while back, i thought the fact i was ignored and then not helped at all with what i wanted was due to the fact I'm young and they (semi correctly) thought i didnt have much money. telling me they didn't stock nemisis stuff when they had a pile of it around under the stairs in clear view was a wee bit strange too.

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='60520' date='Sep 14 2007, 06:19 PM']Take it on the chin. Most people don't really understand how music works. They know what a guitar is because they've seen one up close and maybe once played "My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean" on it when they were 9 at school. The bass is an altogether different beast, a strange 4 stringed thing played by a fat bloke who doesn't want to take a solo every 8 bars.[/quote]
it amazes me not only how other musicians wont understand the bass does but how they think they do. (other musicians being guitarists) If i was looking for a new band the first thing i would be interested in after do the people here have anything that excite me is 'is the guitarest a wayne kerr'?

im nae fat either