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Here's the ubiquitous plug for an Audere preamp. They come prewired and are a breeze to fit. You may wish to drill acoupleof smalls holes in the body for the Z-mode switch and battery diagnostic LED, but I it's worth it for a preamp that will make a huge difference to quality of your sound.

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It explains, in part, why Monster cables are so expensive. I'm assuming all those lawyers have families to feed/children to put through college/expensive sports cars to maintain. I own loads of Monster cables and whilst they are great cables, I only bought them because Andertons where chucking them out half price 7 or so years ago. When they go belly up I will either be trying to claim my lifetime warranty or buying some nice new replacements produced by OBBM.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='174481' date='Apr 11 2008, 12:40 PM']Betcha do!! It's been used on 'The Apprentice' ads - heavily phased/flanged bass line with a girl group vocal 'money, money, money, moaney'!! - Google it and you will recognise it, I guarantee it. It was written by Anthony Jackson so he must be getting some new royalties for it![/quote] Exactly my point. That song is totally defined by the bassline and apart from that particular vocal line, most people only actually know the bassline and it's the part they sing. Another one, Lady Marmalade. Play that 7 note phrase to almost anyone and they'll start singing the verse and chorus - or try to bcause no one knows the words. The thing they remember is the melody line G D F bB F G C, only it isn't the melody line - it's the bassline! Chameleon - Herbioe Hancock and the Head Hunters. Fair do's it's not exactly mainstream, but for 5 minutes, the bassline is the coolest, most memorable part of the song.

I'm afraid I have to be contrary and disagree with most of the suggestions put forward. These are songs with very strong basslines, but they're not defined by their basslines. Play any of the songs below to the average layman and they'll twig what the song is - I have tested these on my wife. Money - Pink Floyd - definitely. O'Jays - For the love of Money Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Too often, electronics are used as a marketing gimmick. Bass A must be better than B because it features 3 band EQ with variable mid or preamp B must be better than A because it features a 3 way mid contour switch. Often though, especially in cheaper basses, the active electronics are there to mask the inadequacies of the pickups. A god quality circuit should be able to do wonders for the sound of your instrument with making huge changes to the output.

Or get a second identical string tree for the E and A and mount it nearer the nut - a lot of people do this.

Depends. Only active pickups require a battery. Most EMG LTD, Dean, Ibanez, Schecter basses have EMG-Hz pickups which are passive humbuckers. A good way of telling is to pop off the control cavity and look at the pickups. If there are three wires and one of the wires - red probably - is clearly going to the battery clip then you have active pickups that will require a battery. Be prepared that some circuits will seriously boost the signal, so you might find the passive sound practically unusable. Best to make a note in your calendar to switch batteries at regular intervals - every 3 months won't break the bank.

If you already play a 5, then if you were to buy a 4 string fretless, I can pretty much guarantee that in a few months, you'll be playing your fretless and you'll look down and think 'sh*t I could really do with a low B for this bit'. Unfortunately, there's a lot less choice in terms of instruments.

I hadn't really noticed a sudden increase to be honest.

Simple solution. Buy second hand.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='171632' date='Apr 7 2008, 05:47 PM']? it shoudnt be Hans, its a new Fender one! [/quote] I remember you saying you'd replaced the switch. Did you line the control cavity btw? Nice work!!! No, the switch is decidedly iffy - the main board is quite loose and the contact keeps breaking. It's not a problem - they're not expensive and I have the option of re-wiring it with a 3 way and push pull pot - loads of flexibility and not a battery in sight.

[quote name='Paul_C' post='171515' date='Apr 7 2008, 03:11 PM']You can still connect the bridge pickup to the five way switch - the easiest way is to run the hot out from the pickup to the middle tag of a 3-tag on/on mini toggle switch, with one out to the five way switch and the other direct to the vol pot.[/quote] I want to do any drilling, so I'll content myself with losing that one switch option as the others will more than make up for it and I can always return to factory default for the cost of a 5 way switch - the one on it is temperamental.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='170230' date='Apr 5 2008, 01:09 PM']that 3 jazz pickup combination would sound dynamite [/quote] Tell me about it. I realised that that I was actually losing one option I currently have which is pickup nearest bridge soloed, but it so bright, I would never use it. The two bridge pickup combination is wonderful and I reckon all three would strip paint.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='169902' date='Apr 4 2008, 04:56 PM']This all seems a bit weird to me, I always mute everything with my left hand, thumb over the top for the lower strings. Is this weird and/or innefective?[/quote] It's not the best way of doing things. I've only ever seen one player on a five string using the thumb of the top technique and that was the bassist in Running Wild who effectively used TIMR on left hand rather than IMRL, which seemed and looked bizarre. Using your right hand for muting is far more efficient and sounds better too.

The bass is great. I swapped strings between my backup deluxe jazz, so it's now got a nice set of Warwick EMPs and sounds great. Paul_C your suggestion is perfect, with one minor modification. I'm going to use the push/pull switch to control the pickup nearest the bridge as that's the one in the non-standard location. Bring it in will add a really nice edge to the sound without the need for extra electronics or piezos.

I recently took possession of a Fender HM Bass. This is a rather unusual beast in that it has 3 jazz pickups and a 5 way switch P P [b]P[/b] P [b]P[/b] [b]P[/b] P [b]P[/b] P [b]P[/b] [b]P[/b] P [b]P[/b] P P Now, it would be really nice if I could find a way of adding the following [b]P[/b] [b]P[/b] [b]P[/b] [b]P[/b] P [b]P[/b] Does anyone know if such a switch actually exists?

[quote name='Jimbo' post='166022' date='Mar 29 2008, 06:36 PM']01. Silverfoxnik 02. WalMan 03. Merton 04. Johngh 05. OBBM 06. G-77 07. Rich (hopefully) 08. Alexclaber 09. Tauzero plus the future Mrs Zero 10. Steantval 11. Doctor of bass 12. Birdy 13. ped 14. Machines 15. tonyf 16 MacDaddy 17 Owen 18 Bassace 19. Moody 20. McGraham 21. Skywalker 22. Jimbo 23. Urb 24. bassbloke[/quote] Burpster is supposed to be along too - we're doing a bass swap.

You have four choices with a laptop 1) Onboard soundcard 2) USB or, preferably USB2 interface** Edirol, M-Audio, Phonic, Line 6 etc... 3) Firewire Interface ** Edirol, M-Audio, Phonic 4) PCMCIA interface *** Echo Indigo, etc... ** Assuming your laptop has Firewire or USB2 ports *** Your laptop requires cardbus slots (32-bit) If you already have mixing desk and mics, etc... then a standard 2 in 2 out interface will serve you well - cheaper too. What's the spec of your laptop? You need upwards of 512MB, 1GB + ideally to stand any chance of using the machine for recording. You should also invest in an external USB hard drive to store your projects, etc... as these can soon eat up hard disk space.

Just got back from a dissapointing gig. 4 bands on a bank holiday bill, so very tight stage times. The first and second band turned up late for rehearsal, brougt their own backline and caused the evening to start late. If that wasn't enough, both proceeded to over run meaning that us, the main support, played a whopping 4 songs and the headliners got 25 minutes. How would/do you deal with tardy bands?

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Or the cheaper option, which is a 3 hole control plate from a stack knob jazz - Maybe a tenner from AxesRUs