Monckyman

Candles. Frodsham. That could be all..

Erm.. if you are talking about music in Off Topic, what Topic is it "Off" exactly? Not enough exploding brains around here. Except of course Skanks which having exploded is currently expanding into a universe all of it`s very own. If you look on the bright side though we could [i]all[/i] be selling candles in a shop near Frodsham. So think on.

The four string of the species is more twangier than the... Coat pre-worn.

I`ve been taking my main Jazz and a backup bitsa jazz with one tuned a half tone down for all those songs that had brass in them and consequently had basslines built around open E strings,I thought it would be easier and quicker than detuning retuning. But,I always ended up tuning it when I put it on anyway, so wasn`t really saving time,and subsequently stopped bringing it. Lately though I have my bitsa P which I love the tone of so I`m taking that for shits and giggles. OK it won`t sound like the Jazz, but the Jazz has Nordstrand SVs fitted so nothing else sounds like it anyway, and nobody cares in an emergency in any case. Most people including your band mates wouldn`t notice if you pulled out a kazoo,never mind a different bass. I wouldn`t fancy soldering my way out of trouble at a gig,nor testing my way through pickup wiring,not when all I have to do is bring a spare...

Can`t believe this has gone to 10 pages...

There seems to be an abundance of frets on the Rosewood that the Maple lacks...

I just used [url="http://www.listentoyoutube.com/after.php"]http://www.listentoyoutube.com/after.php[/url] to convert tunes to MP3,took about 20 minutes.

One here. I cut bread, write and used to smoke left handed, but play bass right handed.

I don`t wanna be a hero,all I want is the moneeeey!

Bands are bloody hard work. Especially if you don`t want to throw away all the work you already put in. I`m in the position of having rehearsed a decent set for 4 months only to have the singer have a massive falling out with the drummer and his bro keyboard player after 3 gigs... I should have left then, but I just couldn`t stand to lose all that hard work. (I had de-constructed all the songs, the chords for keyboards,the structure and lyrics etc and spoon fed them to the incompetent keyboard player who proudly insists "there is no such thing as a wrong chord"). Unless you`re in a covers band mate... So I stayed with them on the assurance they had another singer they could drop in immediately as she knew the set already. OK thinks I, at least we can do the gigs on the calendar. Only,she didn`t know the set, and what`s more, didn`t like half of it when she saw it, rejecting nearly half of the songs and putting forward songs of her own. She also hadn`t been told that we had gigs on the calendar that needed covering asap. So does the drummer who`s band it is step up and say "well, we need to gig in two weeks, so please learn these first, then we can work on replacing some with your choice"? Nope he just says ok, we need 6 songs and looks at me. So I`ve lost 3 gigs wages (because she won`t do the show as it is)and I`m once again working on more songs for these two lying clowns,purely because I need the gigs still on the books and I`m determined that we do them. Although to me the need to get the new songs into the set seems urgent, they don`t seem to want to work on them for more than 90 minutes a week, turning up for 1pm rehearsals,getting set up by half past, then insisting on finishing at 3 because blah blah blah. So yes, ruthless is what you need to be to avoid this type of situation.It`ll take ages to find the right people but if you do, then it just might last. Life is far too short to be involved with high calibre knobheads.

I have the Smartflap thing.Opens only for chipped cats that you scanned in. Cost £60 but it keeps marauding Toms out. They used to sneer and at my pathetic magnetic flap,eat me out of home and traumatise my two boys. Now it`s all "I fart in your general direction" from my two,and outraged shouts of dismay from the marauders.

Using a well set up compressor helps with this kind of uneven response but getting the bass right is better. I noticed similar mis-matching the other night on my dadrock gig. Only on the P though, which I used for the second set. The Jazz was spot on. Loads of E&A and much less Dolce&Gabbana so I think I`ll whip the screwdriver out and take that E/A pickup down.

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you could make this thing for £20

They look like a metre length to me,there are two glued together on the drum platform. If so, one should be enough cut in half shouldn`t it? 2x 50 cm should make a large enough platform for most folk.

I thought the Grammas used Neoprene which explains the price?

Also check your polarity, could be one is out of phase.

I heard Apple were going to start making these..

I use the Shure E5s mainly because a lot of bands I worked with used them. They are the earlier dual driver version of the SE425s. I like them a lot, they give a very crisp definition but with a full bottom end. I`ve used them with drummers and vocalists and they were great for both. As to tips, the foams are OK, but can irritate the ear if they`re in for a few hours,and they isolate a little too well for drummers who tend to like a little ambient sound getting in so I would recommend the Xmas tree rubber tips (EATFL) for comfort and reasonable isolation. The easiest way to get a mix for your ears without an engineer is to split whatever inputs you want,ie: kik snr hats bass keys,guit, vox 1 ,2, into a small 8 chan mixer via a passive "Y" split cable x 8 Then a budget 8 way loom into your mini desk (mackie,Peavey,even the dreaded behringer),and take the stereo output from that into your in ear transmitter. If you just want a general mix with one or two lines mixable, then set up an aux mix on your main mixer,make sure it`s PRE fade and send that to your mixer and just Y split your bass and vox, giving you 4 inputs to mix. You probably have a few points you can take your bass signal anyway, amp D.I,pedal D.I,pre-amp out,FX out,tuner out etc. Sounds a faff, but once you have your mix up, it shouldn`t take two minutes to set it up. MM

See, that`s more like it, I can dig exploding brains.

I just "Negged" a Discreet post. Um, no real reason, just because I could. Sorry.

Yep me too, but looking across my headstock I notice my A string angle is noticeably different to the others. I`m prob cutting too short and not winding to the bottom of the tuner enough. Still no problem though p.s if I wanted to wave something about shaped like a steinberger, i`d be in a Cricket team.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1321196548' post='1436286'] Is there an inherent problem with the break angle? I'm genuinely confused... [/quote] The general vibe seems to be that the E sting has a nice short run from the nut to the tuner, at a nice break angle downwards. The D and G strings go through the string retainer to produce the same angle downwards. the poor old A string is orphaned,with a longer run to the tuner than the E and with no retainer to maintain the angle of the dangle,leading to tuning and nut jump problems.(allegedly).

Played a dadrock set in a pub for a band I auditioned for a few weeks back who needed two gigs covering. The standard was fairly shocking but their exuberance covered for a large part of that. Luckily the punters were very drunk and seemed to think we were good enough to dance to. The cash went towards some bills. One more gig for them and I`m out of there. I`m beginning to think the only way to be in a band I`m happy with is to set up my own.

PMd albeit late,. just seen the thread.

I have a Framus 3/4 you`re welcome to borrow in Manchester if that`s more convenient.