Marky L

[quote name='spongebob' post='1331767' date='Aug 8 2011, 10:20 AM']I saw him in March, and it was the best live bass sound I've ever heard - growled like a monster, clear, precise....totally JJB![/quote] But..but.. he uses Ashdown and EVERYBODY knows Ashdown sounds wooly.. (That's sarcasm BTW!!)

Custom colour factory re-finish?? Hmmm I bet it's an aftermarket re-fin. If I had te cash available I'd be down there in a flash to have a look.

Ahh, I had a Fender cab very similar to this in the early 80's, IIRC it was a 4 x 12 with the drivers angled but I think they were all pointed inwards to sort of give a cone of sound. It was never that loud but it did look great, big silver cloth grille too.

[quote name='KiOgon' post='1313637' date='Jul 23 2011, 11:08 AM']That's exactly what I do, it's gentle but seems to take out all those little scuffs & scratches without damaging the surrounding. In fact you can use it on any surface - metal, wood painted or varnish etc. Cheerz, John[/quote] I wonder if I could work some of the scratches out of my fav sunglasses? This could be a great cure all!!!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1313589' date='Jul 23 2011, 10:11 AM']If he's rubbed it back ready to cut then that's fine but if you've got it back and the last step he "completed" was just spraying it, then you'll have to rub it back to flatten it yourself first - there's absolutely no point cutting it if it's not flat. Not knowing what grade he got it up to, I'm guessing this wasn't a pro job or he would have finished it properly for you, then 1000+ (wet) might be worth a pop. I take mine up to 1500 before my final buff.[/quote] Not a pro job, but he has made five or six various guitars for himself all to a very good standard. From what I understand it had it's final coat which he has let cure and then passed it over to me as I was hassling him a bit!! The finish isn't "smooth" it looks a little more satin than gloss. I want to take it easy and not bugger it up so I guess my heavy hands need to go with as finer wet&dry as I can without making it an endless task.

That does sound spot on John as I need that little bit of a cutting bite in it. I imagine it could be usuefull for working on a few light body scratches on other things too. Ta

[quote name='deksawyer' post='1308018' date='Jul 18 2011, 04:07 PM']Stagg bass strings have smaller, guitar sized ball ends. D.[/quote] Ooh! That's handy. The Aria electro-acoustic bass I have seems to need smaller ball ends to fit in the wooden tailpiece.

Oh matron!! Actually, I've just got a neck back from a friend who nitro laquered it for me but he said I just need to give it a final rub down to bring up the shine. He did mention what to use, but I forgot and now he's out of the country and I don't want to hassle him. Advice?? Ta.

It was the upsurge of punk that first opened my ears to music and specifically hearing the bass intro to Neat Neat Neat by The Damned on the radio (John Peel or Stuart Henry on Radio Luxembourg, can't recall which). That made me suddenly sit up and listen and dive into punkl. It also made me want to play that intro (badly on my sister's acoustic guitar). I quickly discovered the Ramones after that and found I could play along to the bass lines.. I could play a whole album!! I could make a coherant row! I also picked up The Stranglers first album and again, that was a major eye opener. Bass, in your face, rude and raw but fancy too. JJ became my aspiration. '77 was my epiphany year.

Sounds like a family catering sized can of worms. I do appreciate all your input and certainly do realise that if it ever did get to the point of a legal claim that we'd be in a financial ass biting situation. In a somewhat obtuse view point, if our work was copied than I suppose that would be a sort os stamp of approval of waht we created!

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1300599' date='Jul 12 2011, 08:07 AM']I did do a review sometime last year, [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=110827&view=findpost&p=1027411"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&sho...t&p=1027411[/url] Mine is a prototype no.2 the first two which were made no.1 went to Adam Clayton and I snapped the 2nd one. I don't even have a serial number on mine![/quote] Ta

The material was originally recorded on an eight track HD desk and I then took the tracks on to my PC, fiddled with them on there and then saved them as WAVs and finally wrote a number of audio CD's for friends to review, so I guess we have the digital date thing covered,

Envy! Have you done a review on your amp? Love to know your thoughts on it.

[quote name='Lenny B' post='1299634' date='Jul 11 2011, 09:34 AM']Don't waste your money on any of those. By the time you get to opening the envelope in court or getting a lawyer to produce it, you'll be thousands of pounds into legal costs. The important bit is that copyright only exists when recorded - that means fixed in any permanent form, not necessarily a musical recording (so a transcription or scribble would be valid) - any way you can evidence that will be fine, but don't waste money on any of these copyright protection services. [i]Will expand more on this later[/i][/quote] Yes please Lenny.

Thanks everyone. Maybe the CD with a solicitor route would be a good one.

Flyfisher, from what I've heard the sending your material to yourself routine isn't foolproof (for reasons I don't know as yet) which is why we've been digging a little deeper but it would seem to be the best place to start but have a second option in place too. ZMech, I'll have a read of the Gov page thanks.

My singer and I have been writing some original material, we've recorded it and are now close to the position of sending them off to try and get some music industry notice. Our issue at the moment is copyrighting. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way of getting our material protected from the possibilty of theft? My singer (not the most web savvy) came up with the following link - [url="http://copyrighthouse.co.uk/"]copyrighthouse.co.uk[/url] I've had a look at it and to me it looks decidely amature. A single page, yards of waffling text, a few testemonials and lots of scrolling before you get to the price, which seems too cheap. Just looks somewhat scammy to me. Anything to help this stage of our creative journey would be fantastic.

Pub gigs? Plug it in, turn it on, makes a bass noise? Fine, bass back on stand and out for a smoke.

Thanks again

Thanks guys. I like the idea of a pie tray.. shove it in your pie hole!! Anyway, this is for a Les Paul Junior copy, single P90. The earth lead is from the bridge and runs into the control cavity where it's contected to one of the pots. If I do shield the cavities, will I need to take a lead off the earth wire to connect directly to the shielding material? I would keep the earth connecting to a pot too.

This is where memory fails me, but wasn't John Lydon's brother part of The Bollock Brothers?

I need to shield the pick up cavity (mumble..in a guitar..mumble) and was wondering why not use aluminium cooking foil? The back of many pickguards use what I imagine is aluminium foil, so is there any reason not to use it for a cavity? I don't have any copper foil and just want to get on with my upgrades.