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[quote name='oakforest5961' timestamp='1390425162' post='2345418'] This thread is making it fairly clear - there's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to plectrums. [/quote] Very true. I'd also say that how much time and expense you put into finding a plectrum should depend on how much you use it. I only use them occasionally, so I haven't gone on a big quest for one as the ones I use for guitar work perfectly well for me on bass. If you're using a pick for most or all of the time, it makes sense to try a broad spectrum of them out.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1390342952' post='2344413'] I don't use picks, but on the rare occasion that I do, those 1mm nylons are my favourite by far!! [/quote] Same here - I use them for guitar too so I'm used to the feel of them.

I still look at other basses. I've tried enough Fenders to know that I don't want another one of them ever again, but there's others I have yet to try (not that I could afford to buy, say, a Ritter).

[quote name='Si600' timestamp='1389713348' post='2337139'] I think the dot markers are bolts holding the fingerboard on. [/quote] Well spotted, that man. I was, er, waiting for someone to notice that. [quote name='Si600' timestamp='1389713348' post='2337139'] Is it wrong to say that I quite like it? [/quote] It's an interesting idea but just how playable would a neck which consists of a square steel tube with a slot up it and attached wooden fingerboard be? Might have been better to have a complete neck with a slot cut up the back that would straddle the steel tube (a bit like the fillet strips that Kramer put into their T-section aluminium necks).

Could I join after PaulWarning please?

The back of the neck looks as if it might be a little painful. And an adjustable scale length wouldn't work terribly well with the dot markers, although it's an intriguing idea. Maybe there's scope for a kit which would fit on a cricket bat type bass...

Although the auction title doesn't mention it, it's a branded Hiscox case which copes with yer bog-standard classic Status, be it headed or headless (S1, S2, presumably all the closely-related ones like S2000s, S5000s etc). It has a Suzi Quattro connection too. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hiscox-STD-EBS-Standard-Bass-Guitar-Hard-Shell-Case-Ex-Suzi-Quatro-/131087787442?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1e8570e5b2"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hiscox-STD-EBS-Standard-Bass-Guitar-Hard-Shell-Case-Ex-Suzi-Quatro-/131087787442?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1e8570e5b2[/url] If you want a Status to go in it, there's an S2000 on there at the moment - not enough strings for me.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1389137609' post='2330657'] Combine this with guitarists with pedal tuners who faff around getting the guitar bang on ever song and you soon have a band that looks nervous on stage and this can make the gig hard work. [/quote] If only our guitarist had a pedal tuner. Or, indeed, ever bothered to bring the tuner that he finally managed to get round to buying a year ago (he's been playing for over 30 years) to a gig.

I'm surprised at the truss rod TBH. Are the Rumblers so much higher tension than strings like the Ashbory's rubber band silicone strings that it's actually justified?

I think the last time I tried was with a Korg AX3000B and it wasn't a success - distorted rather badly at line level. Now I use a Line6 G50 wireless which has a stompbox receiver, it makes more sense to go straight from the receiver to the effects (Zoom B3 or MS-60B) anyway.

We used Morning from the Peer Gynt Suite for the settling down music and "Journey of the Sorcerer" by Eagles (aka the HHGTTG theme tune) for the entrance music. Can't remember the last piece of music we used (there were just three required).

One of the two covers bands I'm in decides on a set list at the last minute and the singer scribbles it down on a bit of paper, so the only one to know what the next song is is him. When you have a guitarist and a drummer who both take ages deciding to start the songs that they start, even when they know it's them starting, and I don't know that the next song is one of the ones I start, the flow just isn't there. I have raised this, I'm going to raise it again. Guitarist has one guitar tuned a semitone down, one at standard pitch, and there's a couple of numbers where he uses a capo, so all the detuned numbers get played in one lump at the start of the second set (so he puts the detuned guitar in standard pitch in the first set as a backup, then tunes it down in the interval) and the capoed numbers are also put together, so that does help by minimising disruption. In the other band, Mrs Zero prepares the set list and gives everybody a copy. I will, one day, get her to print them out in a big enough font so the drummer and I can read them more easily, but it does mean that the set flows better. The drummer is better at getting songs going than the drummer in the other band. No guitar changes and the lack of a backup guitar is covered in the case of a string break by Mrs Zero and I doing something with just bass and vocals (and maybe drums) - "Stand by me" and "Fever" come in handy. In both bands, if someone feels it necessary, we'll vary the set list on the fly. That doesn't happen often.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1388692661' post='2324989'] The point of them is to fire up the imagination of the bass - buying public and encourage them to keep buying Fender basses by using the power of association. [/quote] Surely that's a contradiction in terms? People with their imagination stirred buying Fenders?

As well as BestPractice, there's a Winamp plugin called PaceMaker which does the same thing. Or, if you want to play music on an Android phone and change speed or pitch, there's the Maple MP3 player.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1388539680' post='2323326'] Everyone should be made to play one of these at some point in their playing career - absolutely sublime experience [/quote] Just don't look in the mirror while doing so. I forgot about John Newman. How is it possible to sing so incomprehensively? "Merg werg wergle merg umba merg"...

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1388535701' post='2323267'] Ray Davies was a bit off key [/quote] If he hadn't had ten backing singers all singing in perfect pitch, it wouldn't have been as noticable... Haim bassface was fantastic, Mel C gave a good account of herself.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1388515982' post='2323006'] Link? [/quote] Look for content from BC member douggie. There's only one thread [s]this[/s] last year.

Steve Manes' list? I didn't realise that was still going.

One of my bands has supported a couple of bands where the bassists haven't had a clue (root notes only for the verse and chorus of Wishing Well, for example). I have found it remarkably easy not to tell them where they're going wrong, partly because it's not the done thing, but partly because they're even more obnoxious than me. So the OP should take it as a compliment on his personality, that he is regarded as unobnoxious by his would-be mentor.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1388437066' post='2322051'] What I could not get on with was, I could have 3 stomp boxes or put it in memory mode, where it did not display the boxes, the only way to cycle up the stomp box displays was to bend down and use the up arrow buttons. [/quote] You can also press and hold the left footswitch, then use middle and right footswitches to scroll up and down.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1388433189' post='2321972'] Yeah I saw that before, looks like a great mod! Though what I meant was the ability to go from, for example, A1 to C3 by just touching one switch rather than cycling through. I realise I'm expecting far too much for a £140 pedal though! [/quote] You'd need a few more footswitches. I had a Boss MS5B (I think) where it was easy to select bank and patch number on the fly, but you weren't then in single stompbox mode.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1388334601' post='2320877'] Yep! The one thing I really want would be a footswitch so you can easily select a specific patch on the fly. [/quote] There's a way of doing that... [url="http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/"]http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/[/url]

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1387628118' post='2313931'] Ive youve got the preamp on your pedalboard, theres no way they engineer can bypass it. Its always a struggle convincing the engineer to mic or DI from the amp. [/quote] The engineers I've encountered over the last few years are all delighted that I have a DI socket on the amp. The last time one objected was six or seven years ago.

I'll throw the EA iAmp800 and Tecamp Puma 900 in as further suggestions, just to muddy the waters a bit. Saying that, I used to use a Superfly 500 into a Tech Soundsystems 4x10 (so it was actually just 250 as I only used one power amp) versus three guitarists and a noisy dummer and it kept up, though I replaced it with a Superduperfly 1000 (hence 500) because it used to get disconcertingly warm.