steve-bbb

good afternoon basschatters any clues as to how to best deal with blooming (if that is the correct term) lacquer? its an old early/mid 70s Fender F-15 acoustic and curiously the headstock is the only place suffering from this ta muchly edit- scuse photo lackage am grappling with the re-arranged dropbox

like the vid - nice tight band good sound

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1450252347' post='2930863'] Most threads of this ilk generally advise to tell him to take "his tone" elsewhere [/quote] This +1 Tone >>> bedroom Naughty tone Hope this helps

Yamaha BB

have this for some sunday early morning sublime [url="http://youtu.be/dcnGD05VzRE"]http://youtu.be/dcnGD05VzRE[/url]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1449918674' post='2927921'] What you really want is for your bass to sound passive and exactly as it was before until you decide otherwise and start either changing the level (boost and/or cut) or changing the sound (tone-shaping). In theory (and usually in practice too) it is possible to set the controls of an on-board preamp so that they effectively "do nothing". That gives you a reliable, flat platform from which to start using the preamp. If I were you, I'd set the preamp knobs to as flat as you can, then set the trim knobs to produce exactly the same volume as if there was no preamp fitted. [/quote] marvellous - thanks will give it a go later when i find the teenie screwdrivers possible trip to maplins as i need to buy a little battery tag connector as the one in the yammy just bust so another little soldering job

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1449914439' post='2927878'] Almost certainly this is to do with converting your bass to active. Have you tried starting with all the knobs set to "neutral", i.e. no boost or cut at all? If that's still giving you a sharp increase in gain, then see whether there are trim pots you can tame it with. A good preamp should be capable of providing complete transparency as well as loads of boost and shaping, and John East makes exceedingly good preamps. [/quote] yes there are trim pots - my thoughts were that the one i bought on the forum here might have been trimmed high so will adjust it down - but i also bought a brand new uni-pre from john east to put in my status and that was also very high - also have a trb which is active which ive used with the head but the yamaha cicrcuit seems nowhere near as big as the east will have a fiddle with them when i can find a teenie screwdriver what would you suggest? wind them right back the minimum and then slowly wind back up until they seem to be around about the same sort of output level as the yamaha which has always been fine? ta

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1449581826' post='2924817'] How do I put this ? I can understand how influential he is and appreciate his talent, his legacy, and so on....but that whole headband thing. Sorry, it just kills it for me. [/quote] I have this problem with Jimmy Haslip - love his lines and his playing and his tone ... then i saw him playing a left hander WITH THE STRINGS ALL UPSIDE DOWN

slapper! (there, I said the S word)

Eqpt = Hartke LH500 into a Hydrive410 previously i was playing a passive J into the head via a couple of boss pedals (with levels set to match the clean signal) recently purchased on the sale forum here a nice little dbx160a rack compressor - ive tried this in line in fromt of the amp input and also in the send/return loop (where i am informed it will do its job to best effect) after i started using the comp the amp has become extremley loud - at same time i also loaded a j-east01 preamp into the J so the output from that is now rather massive - i tried turning down the input gain on the comp but it still frreequently flashes into the orange and red on the comp - indeed the first time i gigged it i did start to experience what i thought at the time was power amp break up possibly where the whole preamp signal was driving the power amp too hard - i gigged it a second time and turned down the input gain on the comp but still clips into red - the only way to stop the comp from clipping into the red seems to be reducing the master vol on the guitar do i need to adjust the trim pots on the active eq - is it likely that the signal from the guitar is the cause and not the amp.comp? ta muchly

we're all going to hell in a handcart

[url="http://youtu.be/v9EcqMCnFUQ"]http://youtu.be/v9EcqMCnFUQ[/url]

saw them on permanent waves and they were great - would take a lottery win enticement to persuade me to go watch them now - well done mister peart for having the fortitude to say enough is enough - after all it's not like he hasnt got an impressive back catalog to celebrate for his career

time for a bump [url="http://youtu.be/HajWhhXkfYQ"]http://youtu.be/HajWhhXkfYQ[/url]

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1449496563' post='2923995'] Of course all music is totally subjective but what I've heard of Jaco Pastorius has been a total let down compared to what I've heard from word of mouth. Granted, I've only heard some of the most well known tracks and to me it was just disjointed... It sounded like I'd just walked into any guitar shop in the world... Aimless noodling... Anyone got any suggestions that may change my mind? [/quote] pretty much anything of his material with joni mitchell - she was his sort of muse and saw the 'original' in him and gave him masses of leeway creatively (and socially it would seem) within her closest circle way too much material to choose from so im going to put this up here because it is beautifully sublime and simple [url="http://youtu.be/N0MwObE-OC4"]http://youtu.be/N0MwObE-OC4[/url]

[url="http://youtu.be/KukyTGJfGhE"]http://youtu.be/KukyTGJfGhE[/url]

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1449277894' post='2922269'] While I am no fan of Mr. Bieber, he should be given due credit for having singles at numbers 1,2 and 4 in the charts. That is a very impressive, if not unparalleled, achievement. [/quote] why credit him? why not the writers producers and marketing team? in the big shceme of things he probably comes quite low down the list of talent/skill/endeavour credits list after all those in the background who keep him in the spotlight just mho of course

it means ive just bought three yes three J-East modules in the space of two weeks ... and i still need a fourth

too many zappa ones to even begin thinking about

oui allo bon jour

this rather nifty little todd rundgren production... [url="http://youtu.be/wPLMk2m6gaI"]http://youtu.be/wPLMk2m6gaI[/url]

[url="http://youtu.be/dnBAMQhtjEk"]http://youtu.be/dnBAMQhtjEk[/url]

all went rather well - large party crowd of about 150-200 ish for 50th birthday party held at the players in pavilion kent county cricket ground - loads of space loads of volume - crowd shaking their booty thang and friendly DJ too