tauzero

[quote name='colda' post='121702' date='Jan 16 2008, 07:40 PM']A very special instrument for a very special person.[/quote] If I say something like "the sort of very special person who would have gone to a very special school", am I going to get smacked round the back of the head for tastelessness?

For the covers band, black. I generally wear a black waistcoat too. Barn dance band - band T-shirts (black) and black trousers (black, black), and waistcoats (not black) and hats. Kaz (aka Future Mrs Tauzero) the caller wears a black black black jacket. Other than the black common black theme, we behave rather blackly differently in the two bands - basically, in the covers band, we lug the black black gear in in T-shirts and jeans and then change (except for the one or two venues where there's no changing facility other than the bogs, when we come pre-blacked), whereas in the barn dance band, we turn up and lug the gear in the black stuff and just add waistcoats and hats to go on stage. In the duo, we just wear what we turned up in (which is appropriate to the occasion). I play a black Variax. Black. Black, like the endless night. They keep me in the cellar and feed me pins. Mother, my eyes are pies.

Old neoprene mouse mats.

[quote name='StiffyP' post='119901' date='Jan 14 2008, 12:49 AM']what i was thinking, is getting a daisy chain([url="http://www.diago.co.uk/images/stories/powerstation/04_diago_powerstation_daisy_chain_standard.jpg"]Picture[/url]), and plugging it into one of the 3 remaining connector cables - as a sort of alternative to having 5 of the original connector cables. would this work ? would the power be shared equally ?[/quote] Not sure whether they'd be a common live or five independently regulated lives, but each of the five must be capable of delivering at least 90mA so running a couple of 20mA effects off one socket should be fine.

[quote name='ped' post='118926' date='Jan 11 2008, 11:55 PM']Hmm the lil thing is about £60 odd - thought it was cheaper! Might stick to my XT pro then - maybe I can put a belt clip on it!![/quote] I'll give you £60 for your XT Pro so you can get a pocketPOD...

[quote name='peted' post='119648' date='Jan 13 2008, 06:05 PM'][quote name='Jimbo' post='119639' date='Jan 13 2008, 05:55 PM'] My LMK and Schroeder rig is the most powerful yet lightest I have ever had. That said, a fair few people are making lightweight yet powerful heads and cabs - [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/lightweightsol.html"]Bass Gallery lightweight amps page[/url][/quote] I just did a double-take when I saw Hartke in their 'lightweight cabs' section! [/quote] I did a double-take when I saw their price for a GK MB150S. £150 more than the real world...

[quote name='andy67' post='121159' date='Jan 15 2008, 10:28 PM']I used the pre amp out section of my ampeg svt 3pro effectively making it an svp bsp, it just did not work, maybe I should've used a true preamp instead of the out on the svt? but hey ho I hated it instantly and returned it!![/quote] So use the credit note to get a Bass POD Pro XT Live Board XT Pro thing and use that as the front end for your XS500. Ah. I can see a problem developing here...

[quote name='OldGit' post='121330' date='Jan 16 2008, 10:22 AM']"The Who's Pete Townshend said to be keen to find out more about it."[/quote] "Will it affect how high my Strats will bounce?" he asked.

+1 for Might Brite - got mine from [url="http://www.cottonpatch.co.uk/acatalog/Mighty_Bright_Craft_Lights.html"]Cottonpatch[/url] labelled as a craft light (and also have one of their rather useful A4 size magnifier sheets too, although I think a credit-card sized one would have been more useful).

I find it quite remarkable that someone could accomplish fractal ugliness. It's not just ugly overall, at every level of scale it's ugly. There are no redeeming features whatsoever, no matter how much you zoom in on it.

There's lots of pictures of that model [url="http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/Redmusic/Romaxe%20Bass/"]here.[/url] Dammit, bidding on that would bring me pain unless I could hide it...

I think [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300189654902"]this one[/url] seems a bit dodgy - there's a certain absence of photos of the headstock front.

I'm a little worried that you've got all the barbecue stuff in the background, ready to burn the bass... And remember what I said about real Warwicks. Eat one and you die. That's the wenge, that is.

I got it at around 12.30 too. Where's the forum actually hosted? I was just wondering whether it might be being briefly locked when a backup was being run, and if it was hosted in some foreign place, that could be ridiculous o'clock when there could be expected to be few users on.

Knocking things over reminds me: Knocked the guitarist's 12-string acoustic Yamaha (which was in a guitar stand) flat on its face onto a concrete floor. Amazingly, there was absolutely no damage. When he did exactly the same thing a couple of weeks later, he decided that perhaps he ought to replace the incredibly precarious stand.

[quote name='ped' post='119871' date='Jan 13 2008, 11:36 PM']Forgive my ignorance but what is a 'JD' Thumb?[/quote] It was a version of the Thumb designed by bassist John Davis which had a shallower body and neck than standard, making it a bit lighter and much easier to play than the standard Thumb. Unfortunately the email I had from Warwick about it has gone in a hard disc crash - I have a vague feeling that the JD was the first Thumb, being a cut-down Streamer, but this may be bollocks. Ah, [url="http://warwickthumb.web-log.nl/"]it might not be bollocks[/url] after all.

Early on with the covers band, when I still hadn't memorised the songs, on one occasion I turned up without my song book - quick dash home to get it. Another time, I'd taken the singer's songbook home to put it all into Word and then forgot to bring it to the next gig (even worse as he still hasn't learnt the songs after two years). Standard one, though, is having a 4-string moment when playing the intro to a song on the 5-string.

Twice so far. Twenty years ago, after playing it and falling straight in love with it, I traded in the Precision and B2 that I had at the time for the JD Thumb. I've never found another fretted 4-string as playable. I bought another Thumb and had it defretted and the neck reprofiled to be the same as the JD. I don't count that as finding it because it was quite a change from the original, and when I had flatwounds on it I couldn't quite gel with it, but since fitting roundwounds it's been great. The second "the ONE" was when I bought the 5-string fretted Antoniotsai. I've been trying to find a 5-string that I really got on with for a long time, probably about 15 years, but the trouble is that they've not come up to the playability of the Thumb, until I got this one. Rather lucky really given that it came from Viet Nam.

[quote name='RalphDWilson' post='119332' date='Jan 12 2008, 10:53 PM']can anybody tell me what bass this is on ebay (and what it's worth ?) Looks like a Warwick, but I'm not sure about the dull black finish. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170184623995&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007"]ebay bass[/url][/quote] Nothing like a Warwick. It's the same as a Vintage model (might be a Westfield) like [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300189409149"]this one on ebay.[/url]

[quote name='Wil' post='119106' date='Jan 12 2008, 01:06 PM']Once you've played a Status, you'll wonder how any bass could possibly be easier to play [/quote] I have. Doesn't touch the JD Thumb for ease of playing.

[quote name='markdavid' post='114730' date='Jan 6 2008, 03:11 PM']I was after an opinion about my fret buzz problem. On my Squier , I get some nasty fret buzz from the 12th fret to 21st fret , particularly on the D string, the fret buzz is particularly bad on certain frets (13th, 15th, and 18th). My action is quite high and I would like to lower it but when I do I get fret buzz from the 9th fret to 21st fret.[/quote] Sounds like the neck isn't quite angled right and needs shimming to angle it slightly forward from where it is now. Washers on the two neck screws furthest from the bridge would do the job - try that and see if there's an improvement.