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[quote name='paul_5' post='1113695' date='Feb 3 2011, 11:55 AM']I haven't seen Chuck Norris on here yet... I may be seconds away from death...[/quote] If Chuck Norris wanted you dead, he'd just have told you and left the rest to you.

[quote name='Sean' post='1111783' date='Feb 1 2011, 11:11 PM']I am, in reality... ...Carol Kaye. I've been taking names and getting to know all you Jamerson freaks since BassChat was BassWorld![/quote] I thought Carol Kaye wrote 90% of the posts on Basschat.

Coincidentally, as the REM thread is one thread away as I type this, REM's "Sidewinder sleeps tonite". Nothing that's hard to play but I seem to be having a bit of a mental crash of gears going from the end of the verse into the chorus - nothing that a bit more playing along won't sort out.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1104672' date='Jan 27 2011, 02:34 AM']Explain more. As far as I know the inducatance is the thing that generates a voltage that makes a pickup work. Unfortunately they aren't a perfect inductor, so they also have a capacitance (as a component of impedance) which is what attenuates high frequencies. But electronics understanding is a work in progress for me.[/quote] A coil is an inductor. Insofar as two wires near each other have capacitance, there will be capacitance knocking around the circuit somewhere but it'll be insignificant. An electrical current flowing in a conductor will result in a magnetic field being produced around that conductor. A coil makes use of that by wrapping the conductor round in a loop so that the magnetic field is reinforced. This results in an inductor, which has higher resistance the higher the frequency of alternating current that's fed through it (there's probably a good article explaining that on Wikipedia, as long as it hasn't been vandalised with speculation on Jordan's sex life). That's the electronic characteristic of a pickup coil. Oh, and the magnetic field, when it collapses, produces a big voltage - this is used for the HT side of car ignition and for zapping your finger if you switch your amp off at the mains and immediately unplug it with your fingers across live and neutral. As for how the pickup picks up, that's related but different. The pickup acts as a dynamo. The magnet in the pickup induces magnetism in the strings (which is why they have to be steel), and so you have a moving magnet next to a conductor which induces a current. The conductor is wound round lots of times because that increases its sensitivity. A capacitor is an open circuit to DC. It consists of two plates - as the voltage on one side varies up and down, so electrons are either pulled or pushed from the other plate, so current flows. As the frequency rises, so the resistance to current flow falls. See Wikipedia again

[quote name='icastle' post='1108439' date='Jan 30 2011, 06:34 PM']...in next weeks programme 4-string-thing shows how to solder a phono plug to a length of pylon cable... [/quote] I've soldered an RS232 plug to a cable that was going down a mineshaft - had heavy duty sheathing on it, I had to strip the outer back with a junior hacksaw. I'll happily use an instrument cable to connect an amp and a speaker if I just want to find out if one or the other is working or has significant nasty noises (assuming I haven't got a speaker lead to hand and don't want to spend ten minutes delving through bags and cases for one). I certainly wouldn't stress test anything while using an instrument cable for a speaker lead, or do anything loud with it come to that. "Informed pragmatism", that's what I call it.

[quote name='icastle' post='1110896' date='Feb 1 2011, 12:50 PM']I'm damn sure that some of these companies decide what they want to quote as an output and then fiddle around with different ways of expressing output power until they hit a figure they like the look of... [/quote] If you can't find a way of expressing it by messing with p-p vs RMS and transient vs constant, then make up your own system. Check out PC speakers on That Ebay - they've invented a whole new definition of the watt by using "PMPO", which allows you to have 860W of speakerage driven from your USB port (power available: 5V at 500mA for USB2.0 or 900mA for USB3.0).

[quote name='david_l_perry' post='1109660' date='Jan 31 2011, 04:25 PM']I do keep going over to Manchester for the UK bass day...and I am off to Harrogate again....funnily enough I don't go for the local views.. [/quote] At Moffat, the Devil's Beeftub is quite a view, and the A701 is a fun road on a bike - though it apparently got named "Fireblade Alley" in the tail end of last century by the local polis, who apparently picked up more wrecked 'Blades on that road than were ever sold in Scotland.

[quote name='Dusty' post='1107927' date='Jan 30 2011, 10:55 AM']Can I post the first gripe with these..... Changed the strings on my White one for some Rotosound Black Nylons. Looks and sounds fantastic, but the Ball Ends are too small to fit into the things on the back of the body, so they all are sticking out [/quote] If you're willing to do a little modding, you can probably sort that out. Just look for "bass string ferrules" on That Ebay and see if you can get some slightly larger ones that will take your string ends. Um, that's assuming that my assumption that you meant that the bits on the end of the strings were too big to fit into the ferrules is correct.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1106218' date='Jan 28 2011, 02:02 PM']To me, that classic Warwick sound comes from the Thumb, with it's wenge/ovangkol/bubinga construction and pickup placement.[/quote] No ovangkol in [i]proper[/i] Thumbs...

[quote name='silddx' post='1103214' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:40 AM']And why the f*** am I selling my superb Corvette $$ that has served me faultlessly live and in the studio for a stupid price (I'm getting even stupider offers too) so I can jump on the awful boring mindless Fender bandwagon?? Eh? Please convince me I am a complete f***ing tool. Thank you.[/quote] In the current Warwick-specific economic climate, you're an absolute f***ing tool for not buying lots more Warwicks at knock-down prices.

Sounds like the ideal testbed to try out ideas on before improving a 1970s Fender.

[quote name='sk8' post='1103192' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:18 AM']Well my bushy bison shipped yesterday [/quote] I'll keep an eye out in the "For Sale: Effects" forum tomorrow then.

[quote name='Circle_of_Fifths' post='1101143' date='Jan 24 2011, 06:14 PM']THAT can be cured very easily. Just think of it this way: NOBODY has enough basses.[/quote] Although eventually you may run out of fence.

[quote name='KiOgon' post='1102032' date='Jan 25 2011, 01:05 PM']I can't see, you'll have to enlighten me please! All my Fender head logos are different, none like that, but here's one very similar in a book I saw:[/quote] The "I" between the "S" and the "O" is much more squeezed in the questionable one than on the one in the book. In fact, there's a lot of uneven spacing. Compare with this: which is a '74 so not identical, but does show how Fender space the letters evenly.

PS. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=114777"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=114777[/url]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1101397' date='Jan 24 2011, 09:16 PM']Not me. Back in the 70s & 80s, Fenders of this era were largely regarded as guff and were fair game - back then if it wasn't "pre-CBS" it wasn't worth a damn. Got any pics of your masterpiece?[/quote] I don't know if I have any pictures. Oh, and did I mention that I stripped off the badly cracked and chipped sunburst too? It was actually a good player - I tried a few second-hand Ps in what was then Musical Exchange in Brum, and this was the one with the nicest neck, tattiest body, and lowest price. Which was nice.

Basses generally live on stands or wall hangers, and I cart them round in hard cases (almost invariably).

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1100533' date='Jan 24 2011, 10:43 AM']In my list of "new topics" there are a few topic titles that are not fully capitalised . . . . "Looking for people from Edinburgh/Lothian/Glasgow" "Ernie Ball Musicman Gamechanger now a reality" . . . . being two of them, so it's either not fully automatic or it can be configured by each user.[/quote] It seems to have been applied to some topics dating back to the 5th or 6th of Jan, but be on all topics from somewhere round the 21st. It's not that easy to pin down though. Later: looking at the Introductions subforum, it's difficult to draw exact conclusions but it's definitely not applied to one of the topics started on 16th Jan, and almost certainly is to one of them started on the 20th Jan.

This question of which forum adverts for one's own ebay auctions should be on is getting silly. Despite the fact that the description of the forum says it's for discussing ebay auctions, adverts for auctions are still getting shoved over there. Could I propose a simple change to the "For Sale" rules for basses/amps/etc - that [b]either[/b] a price should be posted [b]or[/b] the advert is for an Ebay auction (or other official auction site).

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='1097714' date='Jan 21 2011, 04:05 PM']Because quite a lot of people hate the sound of active pickups?[/quote] Then possibly the best thing to do would be not buy this bass but let someone who actually wanted to use it rather than "restore" it to being yet another run-of-the-mill Precision only with bits of wood stuck in. I imagine I'd be hung drawn and quartered by certain BC members for what I did to my 1970s P - Di Marzio pickup, homebuilt active preamp (with attendant routing under scratchplate) and modified scratchplate with a brass control plate section equivalent to the chrome section of a Jazz.

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1098273' date='Jan 22 2011, 12:41 AM']Hmmmmm, nice bit o ply wood![/quote] That's "exotic laminates".

That's the Mk 1 shape, which was what Fender used for the revival. I've already got one. If you want to sell it, there's almost always someone keeping an eye out for one.

Friday - second gig for the rock covers band (it was going to be pop/rock but it looks as if the only concession to pop that still remains, "Billie Jean", has its days numbered). Guitarist had managed to convince a few people to come so we played to a full room. First set went well, second set got them dancing (mainly attractive young ladies, definitely a step up from when I was doing the working men's clubs). A couple of fluffs which we overcame, no train wrecks. And the gaffer told me they'd have us back when I left, so that's good news.