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Considering the carnage that would have ensued had they typed ' instead of ", it's fairly minor. Anyway, what wimp can't cope with a 43" scale? It's only an inch more than 3/4 DB...

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='439038' date='Mar 19 2009, 11:14 AM']Also the term "chav" means different things to different people. Just because you live on a council estate or have 12 kids by the time you're 25 doesn't automatically make you a chav. As far as i'm concerned chavs are people who go round leaching off government benefits knowing that they could easily get a job, blowing all that money on pot, kidnapping their own daughter and fooling the whole nation into giving them gifts and money, going round reckoning they're some gangsta and stabbing people etc... as far as i see they could be reasonable people, they don't have to be rich, they just have to be decent hardworking people who do what they can for other people as well as themselves without being criminals. But they're not, they're just lazy and selfish and don't care about what they do or how it makes other people feel as long as they're happy. That's what makes them chavs.[/quote] Fred Goodwin - superchav.

[quote name='rjb' post='438882' date='Mar 19 2009, 07:19 AM'][Goes and tries to play left handed, being a right handed player..] Good lordy that was really hard. Seems like an awful lot of effort. I'd rather save up and buy a custom if I were you....[/quote] I tried it too, on Moody's LH bass, and was completely unable to (possibly due to getting on for 40 years of conditioning). Although one guitarist I knew, a lefty who'd learnt righty, decided that he really should play lefty (he'd been playing righty for many years and was a good guitarist) so went out and bought a lefty and learnt to play it that way round too.

[quote name='nick' post='437721' date='Mar 17 2009, 07:43 PM']It has been spending more & more time hanging on the wal, than actually being played.[/quote] Now that's just extravagant, having a Wal to hang other basses off.

Just goes to show the value of sniping sites...

I asked Ashdown - I wanted to find out if I was better off using an 8 ohm in each power output rather than paralleling the two speakers and running 4 ohms off one output. With an 8 ohm load, the output per channel is about 175W.

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='436410' date='Mar 16 2009, 06:21 PM']I once played two Alembic basses in the Gallery, both the same model, same electronics through the same amp, different woods and both sounded totally different.[/quote] Same age and brand of strings?

I'll have to dig a few reviews out, but I do remember that one in (IIRC) "Making Music" said that one track would benefit from using a fretless bass. Which I entirely agreed with, as I'd recorded the track using a fretless bass.

After listening to [url="http://www.expertvillage.com/video/92019_piano-jazz-experimental.htm"]this[/url], it's difficult to imagine that anyone couldn't love jazz.

[quote name='OldGit' post='431708' date='Mar 11 2009, 05:38 PM']I use a BEHRINGER AB 100 foot switch. It's an anoyingly piece of kit - changing the battery is terrible andit east them, the power cable falls out etc But it's cheap and avaiableand it but it does have two level controls and you can use it for one bass and two signal chans or amps as well.[/quote] I hope you're not labouring under the misapprehension that one level control changes the level on one channel and the other on the other when you're using it for two inputs and one output. The AB100's level controls only work separately if you're using it with one input and two outputs, otherwise only one of them changes levels and it changes the levels on both channels. Also, mine's gone all hissy after using it with a power adaptor for some time. My solution is a passive A-B box (my 2B or not 2B box) and set the levels on the instruments. There's not a lot of difference between the levels for my instruments (NS WAV-4 and Warwick Thumb) so it's no great problem.

[quote name='ped' post='428712' date='Mar 8 2009, 05:19 PM']I never intended for anyone to like my music apart from me![/quote] Now that's the sort of ambition I can relate to.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='429361' date='Mar 9 2009, 01:49 PM']If you preferred the feel of your bass then that's good but i'm sure there are a lot of people out there who much prefer the feel of it over a JD thumb. Of course you probably won't want to hear it because i'm just some idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about![/quote] Funnily enough, I'm perfectly aware that there are people who would prefer the feel of an Alembic to a JD Thumb. Some people even like Fenders, for heaven's sake.

You could try [url="http://www.axesrus.com"]Axes'R'Us.[/url]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='428064' date='Mar 7 2009, 03:59 PM']As has been said, you might like a warwick as much as an amlebic but the warwick is a mass produced bass whereas the amlebic is a custom built bass.[/quote] thisnameistaken's Warwick is from the same era as mine - I certainly wouldn't describe it as mass-produced. And I wasn't that taken with the Alembics I've played, I found my JD Thumb far more playable.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='426777' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:14 PM']My problem is too big and too small but I don't like ewaar woo waar, who can I call ?[/quote] Ghostbusters?

[quote name='silddx' post='425477' date='Mar 4 2009, 07:52 PM']I can't stand this obsession so many bassists have with SEEING THE WOOD![/quote] Just look at how bloody awful painted Fenders look after about five minutes, with that special paint they use that wears out in milliseconds. It takes a lot of damage to make a wood finish bass look tatty.

[quote name='BassMunkee' post='423134' date='Mar 2 2009, 01:01 PM']I have 2 - one active, one passive. At a push I would buy a 5 string. Sorry, but I really can't see the point of having more than that...[/quote] You haven't quite got the hang of this, have you?

[quote name='Jarhead' post='423638' date='Mar 2 2009, 08:42 PM']Great basses those were, first time I played a fretless as well. Preferred the Warwick because it had the lines, and the neck profile was great. I believe it was Tauzeros, and he had it reprofiled to the same as his Warwick JD Thumb.[/quote] Yes, it's the perfect 4-string neck profile for me.

[quote name='Prosebass' post='423247' date='Mar 2 2009, 02:31 PM']I remember "Pop Tarts" being quite popular a few years ago[/quote] I think they still are, BassDirect Mark's still playing for them.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='421833' date='Feb 28 2009, 06:11 PM'][/quote] Those are three of the Tsais and the two Warwicks. Behind them are the "lightweight" DR250 with perched on it an Eden head and my Superfly.

[quote name='Andyalfa' post='423017' date='Mar 2 2009, 11:24 AM']This one is of me with a Jazz having my knob twiddled...oo err missus [/quote] That's me on the left, demonstrating that wearing black makes you look fat. Mrs Zero is visible in small portions behind me.

[quote name='leonshelley01' post='423069' date='Mar 2 2009, 12:16 PM']What do you do if you get a cut or blister on your picking hand?[/quote] Change fingers.

I was a convert from guitar but have always felt more comfortable playing with fingers rather than a plectrum (I've always played both fingerstyle and with plectrums on guitars, which may have some bearing on this). There's just one song I currently use a plectrum on, and that's "Saw her standing there" as I just can't get the speed with fingers without the timing going a bit off. Used to either use a plectrum or an air plectrum for "Want to break free" too.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='422939' date='Mar 2 2009, 10:08 AM']What would be the correct sequence to connect the following components? This is my current signal path but I'm not convinced it's the best way to do it: 1. Instrument 2. Multi-effects unit (input, stereo output, phones output) 3. DI box 4. Mixer (connected to drum machine and MP3 player) 5. Tuner 6. Combo (effects loop, tuner out, no headphone socket)[/quote] You've got 1 and 6 in the right places, keep them where they are. Another vote from me for putting the tuner first, er, second - before the multiFX anyway. And after the instrument.