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[quote name='sime17' timestamp='1347757212' post='1804732'] This is now the third - yes the THIRD thread about this car crash of a relic job. So Warwick have definitely got us talking about them. Job done? They sure as flip can't be selling any unless Stevie still dabbles... [/quote] not sure how this comes within the realm of 'no publicity is bad publicity' - that may work for max clifford and royals who want to flash their private parts to the world, but this is retail - people may be talking about it yes, but the general consensus is that it looks like something the cat sicked up rather than something you would want to go and swap hard earned beer tokens for

you could always explain that you saw a second-hand warwick for sale on the forum here and realised it was your old bass so you saved up to buy it back at a real bargain price

for [b]SLAP[/b] substitute [b]SHRED[/b] i prefer [b]WIDDLE[/b] - much better onomatopoeia [quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1347776913' post='1804758'] Will our current user accounts span all the sites or will we need to re-registered on each different board? [/quote] interesting point, and being multi-faceted as us bass players are who would go which direction - first thoughts being an ex-guitarist would be to go to guitarchat, but... a thought thats not occured to me until reading chris2112 post is that maybe i would prefer to read and post on drumchat for a bit of an insight into how all the drumchatters perceive us lot in the performance arena - although i know there are a few on here already offreing useful advice will there be any stigma issues? being a drummer on a bass forum must carry a certain small frisson of excitement and titillation !! would that still be the case once everybody was assimilated into the big new world order music-chat mothership [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Funk_Mothership"] [/url] on the plus side it can only be a good thing if more keyboarders and guitarers are exposed to our basschat [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/70165-funk-and-groove/page__hl__funk%20and%20groove"]funk and groove thread[/url]

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[quote name='7string' timestamp='1347666564' post='1803951'] This is how 'Marv' (the Marvel Splatter bass came out). The actual material is quite thick and is really meant for car bonnets and so on.The flat area front and back are pretty easy to do, but horns and sides are a complete nightmare and I still haven't got it perfect. It does look a lot better than it did before though. I think I had a 1.3 metre square of the graphic which is a lot, but then you have to pick which part of the design you want to go where. A proper paint job (even a plain one) would have cost hundreds, but this was under £50. Be warned it's really frustrating if you're not artistic or used to handling this stuff (like me!). [/quote] look s very funky - did you use the hairdyer? thats why i printed loads more than you would need so you had spare to practice with (was about 2 sq m iirc)

cant do it.. guitar or bass.. never been able to ... danger of all automatic body functions shutting down if i try to people i think are amazeballs for being able to do it very well only just found this.... [url="http://youtu.be/WYHZVDUr9x4"]http://youtu.be/WYHZVDUr9x4[/url] also Geddy Lee, John Mayer, Esperanza, Adrian Belew, John Wetton, Greg Lake ect etc etc

advertise it as a new age electro ceilidh band - that should deter all the pesky six stringers with their muff boxes

thanks - just screengrabbed it and enlarged/sharpened a wee bit (NOT MINE) taking a wild guess that mine might be an earlier model before they recitifed the mistake perhaps ??? (MINE)

[quote name='OliverBlackman' timestamp='1347648304' post='1803675'] No need, someones bringing mark bass gear and after owning both, markbass is just better [/quote]

just in case anyone was wondering about the unlabelled buttons on the back of the hartke heads email reply from samsontech.com support The upper switch is a ground lift, so if you're getting a 60 Hz hum from a ground loop, pressing the switch should help eliminate the problem. The lower button is a Pre/Post switch so you can choose to send your signal with or without EQ to a mixer. Pushing the switch in sends a post-EQ signal out. The frequency cut off of the HPF is at around 30Hz, and is designed mainly to protect your woofers from blowing out from lower frequencies. The slope is about 6-8dB/octave depending on the amp.

nobody has any hartke gear on the list - would it be worth having a hydrive cab there to demo so fellow basschatters can experience the total lushness of hartke hydrive 4x10? ive only got a basic ha2500 head at moment but it would be interesting to hear how the hydrive cab performs with some higher end heads up against other cabs? i could also bring the stone clad TRB if y'all want to point and laugh edit [quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1347578178' post='1802818'] The Amber Trust seems like a good cause to me and being music-related is always a good thing.. So how about that and the DPAC (Disabled people against cuts? [/quote] [url="http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/"]http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/[/url]

[quote name='Mattayus' timestamp='1345227199' post='1775332'] My name is Matt, I'm primarily a guitarist, but I do play bass [/quote] oh hai - i wuz too so much easier just the 4 strings

i <3 my squier

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1347322668' post='1799439'] To me? More often than not. And these guys couldn't wing Louie Louie? Or Sunshine? Or Tush? Definitely an unexploded clusterf***. Run, don't walk. [/quote] this plus a squillion i agree with mr skanks and would shout it even louder anybody who makes the claim of ...[b][i]very experienced musicians, played in bands for years[/i][/b] .... and then cant even busk those 17 songs needs to be shouted down very loudly indeed and then burn them - theyre probably a witch

is it rippling up? or the coating sinking down? your large pic with the three string holes visible on the back looks like it's a rogue section of wood grain showing through??

ive used UKMail quite a bit and always been good and reasonable price

try a darker room and a torch with the beam shining horizontally side on and level with the surface (is also good for finding tiny things that youve dropped on the floor and then cant see under normal light conditions very easily )

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1347223502' post='1798295'] If it was my 'Do you really think so ... ' comment then it wasn't meant to be a criticism in anyway, so please don't take it as such. I was just saying that that wasn't my experience, yours is obviously different. If it upset you in anyway then please accept my apologies. It doesn't take musical training etc. , but it does need someone who actually listens to / is aware of the bass line (Indeed any part other than the predominant theme at the time). Hence in some tunes, (All Right Now (parts of), Wherever I Lay My Hat etc.) a deviation in the bass line might be noticed but in many others I still believe that the average punter is pretty unaware of what the bass is doing. I made a point in yet another thread re Smoke On The Water. I suspect that if you asked a random collection of people how the bass line went most of them would sing the main theme - not the bass line. I repeat - all in my humble opinion/experience: I could be wrong - it did happen once. [/quote] no no offence taken at all i do agree it comes in degrees of variance all the way through the spectrum in fact only recently i experienced the bandleader/keyboard player of a function band i play in doubling the bass line from a chord sheet he was playing from purely because he was probably 'recalling it from memory' tbh ive noticed it too at previous gigs but the last gig it became horribly apparent to all in the room as my bass cab was stood right beside the PA bass cab and it was in a long low hotel function room - it must have been shaking the optics in the bar at the far end - but with regard to your original comment i am slightly biased in that i have what i can only describe from a very early age as an almost borderline ocd/autism ability to recall music in a mental tape recorder fashion and even at four years old i was listening to all the sixties schtuff on the wireless and unconciousley homing in on the bass lines so i do tend to take bass a bit more for granted i guess - so i guess the average keen music listener would more likely home in on lead lines keyboard lines etc - how many non guitarists for example could whistle or sing for you the complete solo of hotel california or stairway to heaven? quite a few id imagine but then bass lines people will only recall the memorable/prominent stuff like down in the tubestation or wherever i lay my hat etc etc apologies if a bit rambling im just trying to come up with a decent logo for a BC'ers band edit - yes if lucky they might recite the first three rising notes of the bass line that leads in the the crunching guitar riff but then not much else after that

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1347098614' post='1796893'] It'd be interesting to see how many non muso types could name songs with a bass feature in it. Hat certainly, maybe Alright Now, My Generation and Level42 song of your choosing, but outside of those the bass is probably not noticed, I'd love to be really wrong about that and not giving Joe and Joanne Public enough credit. [/quote] +1 exactly this! i was 'criticised' last week for suggesting that average public person could tell when a tune wasnt faithful to the original script - people ( ie non muso types) are a lot more savvy than they are often given credit for - it doesnt take musical training/education for somebody to be able to spot small differences in performances and arrangement ok so they may not be able to explain them in their correct technical terms (but then i know plenty of 'musicians' who are unable/unwilling to refer to measures/bars/codas/mid8s etc etc) is the pino clip still up on iplayer?? - just off for a wee check edit - just found [b][url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/freur/"]THIS[/url][/b] whilst searching

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1347182423' post='1797654'] Whatever is going on? Pino interviewed on the One Show on Friday by a girl who clearly "gets it" and was picking up on some specific phrasing etc. Now this morning on Sunday Sequence on Radio Ulster, the reporter (rather than simply ignoring a text from an anorak), read out said text question "ref the new Dallas TV theme tune - why have they replaced the slap bass in the intro with drums instead?" Crikey. Bass guitar is soon going to be like TCP/IP networking 20 years ago. All of a sudden your girlfriend asks you an "informed" question about something you thought no normal person would have heard of and you think "what?!?". CB [/quote] there is a slight flaw in your logic you have assumed that the slap bass versus drum part enquirer to the show was a 'member of public' by the same logic couldn't we also assume that the aforementioned member of public is a basschat forum member who was covertly posting a sl*p question for the titillation and general amusement of fellow bass players ?

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/138997-nothing-to-see/page__view__findpost__p__1503191"][b]THIS[/b][/url] supplied by me fitted by 7string

just been giving it a wee test switch on and it starts up but at very low intermiitent poower fl;uctuating and distorting gradually gets slightly louder with occasional spluttering and increasing in power eventually 'pops' a few times as the power seems to kick in at full level - this seems to take about 10-15 minutes stays stable for about half hour ish (as it did last night) left it switched on and went back to it about 20 minutes later again and is back to stage 1 again crackling and distorting but this time because it has been on some time and probably reached some sort of working temperature range it cuts into full power much quicker - this time in about 30-60 seconds edit - just found this [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/help-multiple-broken-hartke-ha2500-heads-445012/"]http://www.talkbass....0-heads-445012/ [/url] and also this from t***bass ...the shame! [i]A friend and I bought our Hartke 3500 MOSFET's in 1992 and they are both still going strong and problem-free today. Another friend bought one used (of the same vintage) six years ago that had an intermittent problem where it would drop in volume slightly, then jump back up. It turned out to be a bad solder joint on one of the power transistors that had cracked due to normal heating/cooling, because the joint had been weak to begin with. A five minute solder touch-up job repaired the problem and it's run like a tank ever since.[/i] edit the edit - also found this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/135436-hartke-ha2500-problem/"]http://basschat.co.u...ha2500-problem/[/url] and checking through what i can at moment edit.... just checked two different speaker cables both good the two speaker outs on the back of the amp though, one feels nice and clean when plug inserted however the other fells a bit 'off sorts' like something slightly out of place inside it - however the problem is exactly the same regardless of which speaker out is used

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1346941262' post='1795107'] Did you manage to crack this ? Just curious, in case my HA2500 misbehaves in the future... [/quote] err sort of ..last night at rehearsal it did the same thing on start up and then after about half hour of playing at only half volume it just fizzled out and packed in completely edit - ive checked inside and no obvious loose connections or crap solder joints - i also checked my leads and was quite surprised that they were really poorlysoldered and some were dodgy so i stripped them all back and re-soldered them - unfrotunatley this did not seem to cure it - the prob sounded like a component within the amp failing and fizzing out slowly whilst was being played [b]is it possible that connecting a cab up to a head that if the cab has faults (ie such as wiring/impedance issues) that it can affect the head and cause problems? and if so how easily/quickly could any damage occur[/b] this problem started the very first time i hooked up a loaned ashdown 15" 8ohm cab (as an extension to my usual 4x10) - i had previously used the head many times successfully with my hartke 4x10 and 1x15 cabs with no probs at all

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1346743435' post='1792487'] Would it be better if he played solos and crazy jazz licks? [/quote] no not at all - but it does sound probably more like the sort of stuff where he may have been shown some charts and told to just stick to basics - actually my favourite part of the album is Queen doing backing vox on you nearly did me in ed - but also not forgetting (am sure its probably already mentioned earlier in this thread) his fantastic skills with horn arrangements