bassbloke

Quality wise - probably not a patch on your ESP 400

Did you plug this into a UK mains outlet?

[quote name='Wil' post='318940' date='Oct 31 2008, 12:09 PM']Whatever happened to community spirit among musicians?[/quote] If community spirit involves the other bands standing round outside the venue during your set slagging you off before miraculously appearing at the side of the stage during your last song, holding their guitars and ready to turf you off the very second the final chords of your set have decayed and offering the ubiquitous 'great set, really loved it' whilst they get in your way whilst you try and pack up, then I think it's alive and well.

The Bass Bible is a very good book, but I wouldn't neccesarily buy it to learn basic theory - the section on music theory is pretty brief and the book is far better at presenting an analysis of dozens of different styles of contemporary music and a number of renowned players. It's a great source of ideas and inspiration. Do a google search for basic music theory. There are dozens of good sites out there.

If promoters want to use a shared backline, they should hire one,rather than sponging off one of the bands. I've played plenty of gigs for greedy promoters who ask one of the bands to provide backline even though there's plenty of time for changeovers and you can guarantee that the money saved on equipment hiregoes straight into their pockets.

I have modded both my Fenders - swapped out the preamps for better ones and swapped out the pickups and tuners on one to make it more like the other. However, modding is only worthwhile from a financial perspective if you plan on keeping the instrument and want a reliable workhorse with superior components. I reckon you'd be lucky to get a 50% return on the value of retro fitted components if you decided to sell on the instrument. If it were me, I'd save up as much as possible and wait for a nice US Fender to appear 2nd hand.

Germany is straigtforward enough, but some places in Southern Switzerland and Italy have a 3-way type socket and the pins are narrower that the traditional European 2 pin plug. I have had problems with this in the past. It's a right pain.

No one has mentioned the fact that the Deluxe has a 22 fret neck, which is probably one of the reasons for the smaller body. I believe the standard, as do many of the other quality jazz copies only have 20 fret necks.

I'm just watching it on iPlayer. I've heard a lot worse and I can't stand crap like Young Knives, Snow Patrol, etc...

Does anyone know who the drummer is in that last video?

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GJu8rA1L9M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GJu8rA1L9M[/url] I prefer this version

Hello there, Whereabouts in Athens do you live? My sister lives in Maroussi. I love the place.

[quote name='stewblack' post='303537' date='Oct 10 2008, 08:20 AM']So did languae ![/quote] Typo. My laptop keyboard hasn't been the same since my son pulled off all the keys.

I waslooking at your avatar picture and was wondering if any other forum members practised bare-chested?

I'm chuffed that c**tish passes the languae filter. I would have been tempted to include words to the effect of 'maybe when you can actually pull a decent crowd to a gig you'll be in a position to act like rock stars, but given the sparse turnout, your band is as much in need of help as us lowly openers'.

[quote name='NickThomas' post='300665' date='Oct 6 2008, 05:24 PM']I'm running vista 32 bit . Through a delta 66 . Asio drivers are installed on the soundcard but they aren't used in the Audacity program . Maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet and pay for software lol[/quote] No, but good quality windows drivers should be low enough latency - that's what Sonar uses.

[quote name='cetera' post='300629' date='Oct 6 2008, 04:51 PM']Bad analogy IMHO.... The Red Arrows are still giving a solid flying demonstration, just with added tricks. All I saw on that video was clickety-clack tricks with barely an audible bass note, melody or solid line underpinning it.... [/quote] Perhaps, but in the context of a tendency on this forum to dismiss examples of flashy playing because the poster would rather be laying down a solid groove, etc... I think it's quite apt. Anyway, it's a music show, I thought showing off and playing as fast as humanly possible were the whole point. Drummers have shows dedicated to the art of playing as fast and unmusically as possible. It's great fun. [ur]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TzWrKso4I[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0RUBzeH40"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0RUBzeH40[/url]

I wonder if amateur pilots visit discussion forums and slag off the Red Arrows for all that stupid aerial acrobatics and coloured smoke nonsense when they should be giving a solid demonstration of flying from A to B?

[quote name='NickThomas' post='299613' date='Oct 4 2008, 09:23 PM']Hi guys. From my understanding, asio drivers aren't supported in Audacity.So how do any of you Audicitites get over the latency issue? Cheers, Nick.[/quote] What OS are you running? There should be low latency WDM drivers for any decent audio interface.