pete.young

[quote name='AM1' post='494748' date='May 21 2009, 10:54 PM']You don't realise how crap they really sound until you fit a new set. Nothing worse than the tone from dead strings, it's so dull.[/quote] If it was good enough for Jamerson ... If you use flatwounds, there's really no point in changing them.

[quote name='AM1' post='494687' date='May 21 2009, 09:45 PM']No, no, no...you got that a touch mixed up. Let me assist you by correcting it: If you're abnormally, disgustingly into jazz or play like a boring tw@t, with no energy, change your strings every few months. If you're normal and play top quality, energetic, sweat-inducing music, fill a tube with beer, to cool you down and bulk buy lots of strings. I'll get my coat! [/quote] You have a coat? That's not very punk rock.

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='493515' date='May 20 2009, 05:49 PM']Well new 21012 arriving tomorrow so hoping to tighten up my sound from the 2x15"MB ive been using. Gig on Sunday, Shaun says be sensible with the speakers and let the cones loosen up! not really sure what he means other than dont run em at full tilt![/quote] Whereabouts are you playing? I'd really like to hear from anyone who has AB'd a 4 ohm and 8 ohm version of the same cab. I reckon that with something as powerful as a LMII you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Glad to be proved wrong, as always!

Maplins to the rescue - Yay! These are good for making up pedal board cables: [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=usb&ModuleNo=1249&C=SO&U=Strat15"]http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=...O&U=Strat15[/url]

[quote name='51m0n' post='491415' date='May 18 2009, 02:46 PM']Thing is, if its supposed to be a clean valve (ie like the Hartke LH500) then you really shouldnt hear any diff at all.[/quote] +1 "Ive spend 20 years building the cleanest possible valve amp, and now you tell me you want distortion??" - Greg Burman, according to a long-ago conversation with Dave Lunt.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='490602' date='May 17 2009, 03:53 PM']Metal? These guys are proud punks! I think A Wilhlem Scream have techincal guitarists and the bassist and drummer are also very high standard musicians.[/quote] Shame about the vocals. Each to his own, I guess. This does nothing for me.

[quote name='greyparrot' post='488744' date='May 15 2009, 12:07 PM']Its the resonance of the basses woods that create the tone. Tone woods etc. If your theory is right 4 bass strings mounted to a cricket bat with frets and jazz p/us will sound the same as a fender jazz! Lets hope not![/quote] Hmm - we have plenty of cricket bats knocking about here, I feel a project coming on! :-)

[quote name='BigRedX' post='489596' date='May 16 2009, 10:09 AM']London International Music Show[/url] next month[/quote] Unless some drastic improvements have taken place in the last couple of years, don't bother. I went to this in 2007 and from a bass player's point of view it was a complete and utter waste of time, money and effort.

It's great news that they're getting back together. I missed them completely the first time around and only discovered them when my band decided to cover Twisted and Hedonism - that made me realise what a good player he is. I'll definitely go and see them when they tour. Much respect to Tayste for digging out that interview. Really good stuff, another reason to be glad I bought a G5!

One of my work colleagues has decided he wants an 80's covers band or an 80's tribute band to play at his 40th birthday. Date is Thursday 18th June and the venue will be central London. If any of you fine dudes has a band that would suit and you are available and willing, please do me the honour of dropping me a PM and I'll put you in touch with the man.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='416025' date='Feb 21 2009, 11:47 AM']We need players like Wooten. He pushes the envelope of what's possible on the instrument. And this in turn inspires us to become better bass players. Otherwise we all might as well just play 12 bar, 3 chord tricks in pubs for the rest of our lives.[/quote] +1. I really don't understand why certain individuals in this forum feel it necessary to attempt to belittle such great ability. I wish I were in a position to decide whether to play this way, or not.

I had an RSB Special fretless , bought second-hand in 1986 for what was a lot of money in those days and sold to silverfoxnik on this forum - I gather it's since moved on in a south-westerly direction. Not sure if it was a defret or not, but it was a nice job if so. Really nice bass, only moved it on because I acquired a better Bass Collection fretless from Beedster which I still love.

I've tried both. We often find we need to move the key of a song up or down a few semitones and the lower tuning is helpful when the bassline is already at the bottom of the range of conventional tuning. I had an OLP MM3 5-string for a while but couldn't really get on with it. It wasn't a bass I'd want to spend all night playing. I then strung a bass up B-E-A-D and just used it for a small number of songs in the set, but swapping basses during the set was a load of unnecessary hassle and I couldn't bring myself to play it all night. Having a 2-octave neck helped with the higher octave stuff, you just end up playing everything in the top octave up a 4th. The only problem I had, which may have been specific to the bass, was that it didn't trigger the synth pedal very cleanly. Then I found a 5-string that I was comfortable with playing, that I do want to spend all night playing, did trigger the synth properly and as an added bonus it has a huge range of different tones. So I'm using that as my main bass now and getting into it. There is still the occasional 'Where the hell am I' moment but they're becoming fewer. As others have said, I'd recommend you give BEAD a go, unless you want the excuse to buy another bass. Who, me?

Clip-on blue LED light, supposedly for lighting up the fingerboard but makes you look like you've got luminous smurf hands too.

I have an ancient Ibanez CS-505 which works really well on bass, doesn't have EQ issues, is probably full of germanium transistors. They come up on the bay quite often for not very much.