The Burpster

[quote name='The Burpster' post='364703' date='Dec 28 2008, 11:21 AM'][b]IN -[/b] Highway 1 P Ovation Viper PRS EB IV (#3) Shuker custom fretless ....various effects.... [b]OUT - [/b] Highway 1 (after being Bobbed!) Fender HM 5 string [b]Subversive plans for 2009 -[/b] Ovation, Shuker & Fender CS to go - to be replaced by 1x PRS EB IV (#4) which will be de- fretted 1x PRS Mike Mushok baritone geetar[/quote] DAMN IT ----- spoke too soon...... (as its still 2008) [b]IN- [/b] PRS Mike Mushok Baritone [b]OUT- [/b] Shuker Fretless..... NOW DEFINATELY ON HUNT FOR ANOTHER PRS !

Why dont you creat some new folders and label them (a la mail programme!) accordingly and then you wouldnt have this issue.....

You may find this VERY useful..... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22359"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22359[/url] Enjoy...

Get yerself a Roland Cube 100 as that will tick all your boxes and is (just) loud enough to practice with a drummer.... IMHO

[quote name='alexbartman' post='365311' date='Dec 29 2008, 09:20 AM']Help please - i was planning to invest in a new guitar but recent economic pressures means that has to be put on hold....so I have to turn to emergency home repair. Alex[/quote] Alex, if you fill your profile in there maybe a friendly and helpful BCer near to you that can help you thru this...! Bob.

I'd love a pop at disecting one... (in prose of course) and as I have written reviews in other comics I can give you whatever you need. Travelling basses do appeal to me and I nearly bought a Sinsonido recently for just that reason. Isnt 28.5" just longer than a Baritone guitar at 28" .....? That is my next purchase.... FYI.... Cant wait to see them....

I play well enough that my g'tarist doesnt give me 'that look' anymore and obviously well enough for him to ask me occasionally.... "how do you that?' or "where do you go after that 5th?" etc. You know what?. I'm happy with where I am. Will I get better? Undoubtedly. Can I play like Flea? Nope, and I have no desire to!

[b]IN -[/b] Highway 1 P Ovation Viper PRS EB IV (#3) Shuker custom fretless ....various effects.... [b]OUT - [/b] Highway 1 (after being Bobbed!) Fender HM 5 string [b]Subversive plans for 2009 -[/b] Ovation, Shuker & Fender CS to go - to be replaced by 1x PRS EB IV (#4) which will be de- fretted 1x PRS Mike Mushok baritone geetar

Actaully I take it back there is one design I dislike..... now dont get me wrong I like HM and I like MOST of the HM orientated designs but this one just gets on my tits...... Its too damn fussy! The headstock looks like an afterbirth......

In honesty I'd swap it for any 1/2 decent day in June..... The dimmer switch is busted here leaving us 8 dismal hours of sunshine that were interspersed with a dodgy shower washer so a partial shower ensued. The heating appears to be broke as well because its cold even in the sunshine.... Worse still some bugger spiked our xmas dinner with expanding polystyrene so that now I feel stuffed and cant even eat a 'wafer thin mint'. On the plus side the big fat bloke and his acne ridden ruminents left some half decent gifts as payment for having to be nice to lots of undeveloped small humans that seem to find this day exciting. So I'm not sure I'd want it recycling and making some other poor buggers suffer, cant we just crush it and be done.....?

This has been covered several times in repairs and tech.... search the word action at the bottom of the page and behold pages of advice!

Reuel, man it makes me feel warm seeing you with that Vamp...... I never realised it was so pretty, maybe if I had I wouldnt have helped quite so much.... (I'd have kept it for me..... ) Only kidding! Anyhoo dude have a great time and enjoy it, looks like it has a great home!

[quote name='Rich' post='363110' date='Dec 24 2008, 09:44 PM']Nah, if it was in proper Bristle it would have said "gert lush" or "ain't 'er grand?" :lol:[/quote] Isnt that - Zummerzet mi luvveeerrr?

Like so many things in life I'm pretty open to all shapes.... Again, more important to me is how they feel, what kinda sound I can get out of it, & will it mind if I tinker with it, does it hum and whine when I'm plugged in ..... Back to basses - I have my definate likes (onbviously) ,but only really Ritters and single cut Seis turn me off.

Bugger, another skinny neck........ Actually ....... THANKFULLY another skinny neck.....

About 2 years ago I played about with an Ampeg that had a commissioned PRS neck, (plus the original) It was heavy, had fantastic sustain but I couldn't make my mind up and another chap bought it....... If you had any idea how many times I've kicked myself for doing that now........ Try one, they are definately Marmite basses, but if you like 'em.....

^great story Mine is quite simple, I have always found the basslines the easiest to pick out of any recording..... I have no idea why...... As an adult I have had no hankerings to play anything else other than bass. (Although I am being tempted to get a 6 string to play the odd rythm parts!) Maybe some peeps are just more 'in tune' with the low end?

Another piece of conclusive evidence that breeding with relatives is not a good thing........

Yep do it yourself but take your time..... Oh and off to repairs......

Porn I believe......

[quote name='budget bassist' post='361488' date='Dec 22 2008, 10:10 PM']Hmm, sounds like an interesting idea, though is it worth going into a railway modeling shop and asking for a track cleaning eraser? [/quote] For those wishing to avoid the 'embarrasing railway shop' moments...... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320326200607&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX_Stores&refitem=320323082814&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget&_trksid=p284.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSI%26its%3DI%252BIA%26itu%3DCR%252BIA%252BUCI%26otn%3D4%26ps%3D42"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...n%3D4%26ps%3D42[/url]

better solution is go to your local railway model shop and get a track cleaning eraser.... No I'm not kidding..... Find yourself some very thin clear plastic (like that on blisterpacks) that is flat. Cout out a slot in a rectangle that will fit between the highest frets on your bass (21, 22, or 24th) and the cut out slot should be as wide a your frets.... then simply hold the plastic sheet either side of the fret to be polished and work across it with the track cleaner.... Lovely bright shiny frets...

Nope no experience andnot seen one.... let us know what its like when you get it.....! Stagg stuff is normally cheap and cheerful, useable rather than beautiful....

Marc, Yeah I tried it in Sound control in Nottm, with one of their P-basses ( I wasnt shopping for amps but got excited when i saw it) and in honesty it needed 2 of the bass amp driver units (subs) to make it sound 1/2 decent for a P. I can imagine with an accoustic set in a hotel lobby lounge/bar it would be sweet, but for a bass backline it was thin sounding, and very very expensive for what it was..... If I had unlimited funds and a huge sw***y pad that I invited my mates over to jam in then I would consider one but for getting the best sound from a bass in a live situation, IMHO forget it. Shame because I wanted to be blown away by it!

[quote name='Dave_MuadDib' post='360405' date='Dec 21 2008, 06:53 PM']Do you guys reckon if I emailed Rob Green very nicely, he might be able to sort me out a streamline with screwholes for the Steinberger DB bridge? And would this be a good idea?[/quote] I guess you have answered your own question.... email the man and ask... If the d-tuner is what you want, go for it.... (I love 'em but mine are on the squiggly bits on the other end to where you want yours.... )