doctor_of_the_bass

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='641520' date='Oct 30 2009, 10:53 PM']How does CIJ 75 RI Jazz in natural sound? Nope, didn't end up buying the sixer in the end.[/quote] Ah! Nearly right - well it was a Jazz! Thats great; if you'd gone for the RoadWorn Jazz, everyone would have said I was copying you when I get mine!!! ATB! Nick

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='641359' date='Oct 30 2009, 06:55 PM']Nope... Change of plan... The Sterling's staying - It's that good! And something else is arriving... Very soon...[/quote] Let me as sooth sayer smith predict! MIM RW J in FR!!! Aha! Nick (did ye not buyeth the Status 6eth?)

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='640935' date='Oct 30 2009, 12:48 PM']Wait for doctor_of_the_bass to spot this one. He has quite a few Arias in his mahoosive collection [/quote] I think theres 8 Arias in the collective! Funnily enough, I bought one of the 505 thru necked jobs when they first came out - nice bass!

Mike Brooks still has my nylons collection...er. sorry, wrong web forum! I've not used them for some time but used to have a Precision strung in such a fashion - a real bass sound! Herbie Flowers has had the same set on his lovely old Jazz bass for at least 20 years...!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='640587' date='Oct 30 2009, 12:01 AM']Funnily enough that was my inspiration to call my 70s Kasuga copy the Rickenbugger! J.[/quote] My mate had a replica Rick - known locally as the `Knackacrusher'! Still laughing about that faecal binding!

[quote name='Doctor J' post='639702' date='Oct 29 2009, 09:09 AM']It's as above but a 3 way rotary pickup switch and the two mini toggles are series/parallel switch for each pickup, at least that's how it was on my SB-R80.[/quote] Sorry - I had a vision of a toggle p/up selector! You are correct, its a rotary job! Nick

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='639620' date='Oct 29 2009, 12:55 AM']It gets scary![/quote] Correct: hehehe! Sorry, just showing off again (46 basses and 10 guitars missing from piccie!)

[quote name='Bassassin' post='639601' date='Oct 29 2009, 12:35 AM']Unfortunately they left off the best bit (the binding) & replaced it with what looks queasily like a knotted scroll of dog faeces. :wacko: J.[/quote] I just laughed so hard I nearly peed myself - that is one hell of a description but so blooming true!!! Hehehe! The woodworking is very clever but theres something very `un-Lemmy' about it! Nick

[quote name='retroman' post='639452' date='Oct 28 2009, 10:02 PM']You're right, those frets are HUGE!! Never seen that bass before. liking the position markers [/quote] And check out that `badass-backer' bridge, complete with raisable foam damping unit! Crikey! N

[quote name='cocco' post='639515' date='Oct 28 2009, 11:06 PM']Hey guys. I've recently bought an Aria SB II Elite off a fellow BCer and am a little stumped as to what the controls do. Anyone got any ideas? Research would suggest it has the same electronics as the SB900 and SBR 80 but I'm going on what I see alone here. HELP!!!![/quote] Off the top of my balding pate; Stacked volume/passive tone for each pickup, three way toggle switch for p/up selection, two mini toggle switches, one for coil tapping, one for series/parallel. I think thats it, might be wrong but there we are! Nick

Hallo I'm another advocate of light gauge strings - mainly due to most work being done through a rather large PA system - I don't have to play that hard and contrary to popular belief, there is, in my opinion, just as much bottom end with light gauges as with heavier sets. However, when playing in the rock band, I use 40-100 on the StingRay basses because I'm playing much harder and these respond better with a pick (heavier strings are more tense of course and hence, can be played much harder)! On saying that, I used the prototype E Basses Valiant with 30's on it for the same band and it coped admirably.

Good lad! Keep collecting - it gets much worse with age, believe me! Like that pink wall - looks like my Jaydee GA24. Nick

[quote name='Stingray5' post='638712' date='Oct 28 2009, 04:35 AM']To me, being 'professional' has always been as much an attitude and state of mind regardless of whether someone is a full-time musician or playing for fun at the weekend. In that regard, I've certainly worked with so-called 'amateur' and 'semi-pro' musicians who were definitely more 'pro' than some so-called 'professionals' I've worked with! [/quote] Absolutely! I recall a function gig we did down south somewhere with a dep guitar player (pro of course) - he turns up with a Peavey Rage practice amp with no channel select footswtich, no FX etc and a 50p lead - he kept having to bend down and press the channel button! What a berk! Needless to say he never got called back...

[quote name='fatgoogle' post='637334' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:54 PM']Can i ask for people who have become pro musicians, and those who did study music, did you study performance or theory. Did you come to it later in life or as soon as you left collage. And how did you get out there?[/quote] I'm completely self-taught - I spent my teenage years playing by ear although I did learn the names of all the notes on the fretboard when I started in '82 aged 11 - that stood me in good stead when I played in orchestra at school doing various musical projects (could read chord charts). When I was 16, I was the `saturday boy' in my local Music Village shop (now Digital Village) and I used to get many guys coming in there asking me for lessons. I used to turn them away as I had very little theory knowledge, but then, a couple of years later, I thought, `hang on, this might be a good idea' to teach as I'd be teaching myself at the same time, so I spent some time going through various books etc and then, I started teaching part-time. In 2001 I came to the end of my tether working for a software company - our original parent company sold us off to a competitor and it was hell working with them - perhaps that had to be the case in order for me to be here now as a pro etc. My Grandad (Geordie) passed away at that time and that really made me decide to leave and try to make a go of music full-time - it was very tough at first but if you put out the right energies you then attract what you need! One of the Music Village customers, a musical director called Steve Hession rang me completely out of the blue and offered me the bass job in his function band and not only that, all the work he was involved in at the local professional theatre - which I've been involved with since turning pro. Problem was, at that time, I couldn't read so again, I was literally dropped right in at the deep end and although I'm not a brilliant reader, I can do it well enough now and having a good ear has helped me no end. I fully agree with all points put forward thus far... be a good person to work with and listen to others and make sure you have good reliable gear, including all the small stuff such as leads etc. Nick

[quote name='nick' post='637326' date='Oct 26 2009, 09:50 PM']But I don't think that [i]pure[/i] sound of a bass into amp, with whatever tone coming from the fingers, can be beaten sometimes.[/quote] Nail hit on head! Good call Nick! Nick

I used to use a massive pedalboard chock full of pedals etc; I used to run two amp stacks, one clean, one dirty via a Whirlwind splitter box - the bassrig looked like a PA on stage, four cabs and two heads! This mega system was then fed into the PA such that each had its own channel - nasty! Now its my bass straight into my amp! Sometimes I use an octave divider but only when I feel a bit Pino/Guy! I do use a set of synth bass pedals but thats another story...