pete.young

[quote name='therealting' post='37198' date='Jul 26 2007, 10:10 AM']Five switches for just over four quid shipped, difficult to argue with that.[/quote] That's very cheap. On reflection I'll see if I can find a black one, to match the rest of the hardware. [quote]As for circuit diagrams, I used a combination of these two diagrams:[/quote] Smart. Thanks very much for this info.

The book is published by Hal Leonard and was written by the even more improbably-named Chris Kringel ! [url="http://www.elderly.com/books/items/49-695850.htm"]http://www.elderly.com/books/items/49-695850.htm[/url] . Someone on amazon has it for 7 quid - I think for that price I'll take a punt on it .

[quote name='therealting' post='36575' date='Jul 24 2007, 09:14 PM']End result - the bass sounds much better than it did! In parallel mode, it sounds just like it did before, except now I have full control over the volume without fumbling or hum. The series mode has a little more volume and has a nice midrangey quality which works well for fingerstyle. I think everyone who owns one of these OLP passive basses should consider this mod... it costs practically nothing and makes the bass much, much more versatile![/quote] What a good idea. I've had problems getting rid of the 'hum' too. Do you have a circuit diagram? If you have any spare switches I'll take off your hands - PM me and let me know how much you want for it. Kind regards, Pete

Can anyone tell me where I can find dots and/or tab for Pino Palladino's bass part to Paul Young's version of 'I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down' ? I've got most of it from a video on youtube, but there are still a few details I can't quite get my head round. Google tells me that there's a Hal Leonard book about Fretless Bass which includes an arrangement, but I don't know if it's Pino's, or how accurate it is.

Thanks Phatmonkey. According to the bug reports, it is intended behaviour! Riight. I think it's actually showing the time of the server, so I guess it could be argued that it's the server which isn't doing the right thing DST wise. Oh well. Reminds me of the happy hours spent trying to work out why 'BST' was always 9 hours ahead, until I discovered that that particular (US) vendor assumed it stood for 'Bangladeshi Standard Time'.

[quote name='phatmonkey' post='5040' date='May 23 2007, 11:19 AM']I'll have a look at this in the evening when I have some. So I can make comparisons, can everybody please post here saying whether they are having troubles with the time or not when it is set to the correct time zone in board settings (GMT for most of us) and auto DST is switched on. Thanks.[/quote] I have GMT set and auto DST switched on. When I log in, the time is correct (BST). When I log out, the time is one hour behind (GMT). No way I'm going to be posting to Basschat before 7.00 am! Kind regards, Pete

Very stylish. Excellent job. Also works well on Solaris 10 (Mozilla and Firefox).

The Euphonic Audio iAmp Micro 300 is under 3lbs, has two channels and can be picked up for $600 in the US. Someone on Basschat ordered one from the UK, but I can't remember who it was.

[quote name='Oxblood' post='22588' date='Jun 24 2007, 10:27 AM']HOWEVER, if a fellow Londoner with a big enough vehicle feels like calling by my place and sharing the petrol costs (hint...hint ), the list could consist of:[/quote] Hmm, whereabouts in East London? I'm thinking about it and it's kind-of on my way (A12/M25) . If Kiwi isn't bringing a Burman I could bring mine. Pete

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='25642' date='Jul 1 2007, 04:39 PM']So no 2x12 advocates then??[/quote] Hell yes! I'm more than happy with the EBS 2x12 I bought from Warwickhunt, but it isn't any smaller than a 4x10. Borrow an 8x10 and put it on its side. Tell em it's what Iggy Pop uses. I guarantee they'll be glad to see the 4x10 back again :-)

Some happy memories here. A couple to add to the growing pile: Dancin in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy I'm gonna tear your playhouse down - Pino on Paul Young's version Come on, come over - Jaco at his most metronomic Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Would I be right in thinking that this was the great Norman Watt-Roy again?

[Fly a kite] ObShaggy: It wasn't me. Does anyone over 8 years old really find that offensive? I've had enough. I'm off to watch Bill Oddie and some stunning footage of some great tits.

Some lovely contributions here particularly from Argh, who has definitely missed his vocation as a writer. Beedster, the more I think about it the more I think I'm going to have to kill you for letting that Black Rose go! I started on upright bass, which was so totally uncool that I dreamed and schemed at every opportunity until I finally persuaded my old man to buy me a bass guitar, a Hofner Senator. Violin Basses being the first choice but an unfeasible 25 quid. Then, it cost 15 quid and all worked, despite some rather dodgy-looking cracks in the finish around the (achilles) heel of the neck join. Now, probably worth 4-500 quid on Ebay. Then, sold to a school chum for 15 quid, to be replaced by ... A Vox Wyman. Possibly the worst heap of [Fly a Kite] masquerading as a bass guitar that has ever been produced. Why it had both Vox and Wyman on the headstock I cannot imagine. Short scale, neck width that makes a Jazz neck look like Beth Ditto, weighed more than my mate's marble-bodied special due to the 3mm chrome steel pickguard. Now probably worth a minimum of £750 on ebay - it was immaculate. Sold for £15 quid and good riddance to bad rubbish. Replaced by: A Futurama (Hagspiel) Coronado IV . Fiesta red, all rocker switches and chrome finger rests. Played like a dream. Amps of the time prevent me from knowing what it really sounded like, but I wish with all my heart that I still had it. Probably the only instrument I've ever parted with that I wish I still had. Oh well. Back to the upright bass until: A Columbus Jazz Copy. Ho hum. Replaced by: An almost new Yamaha BB800 . This was the early 80's when Yamaha were really trying to make their mark and it showed. A totally quality piece of kit which I still have and use, my go-to bass, the one I fall back on when the going gets tough. New amp technology allows this one to really shine through. I can't imagine being without this bass and it will be the last one to go. The case deserves a mention too, it was across the back seats of my car when i got T-boned. The car folded up around the bass case and was written off. The bass was still in tune when i took it out of the case, fearing the worst. Augmented by: an Aria Pro II RSB Special fretless. What to do: the neck is so flawless, the body so light, the completely un-choppable pickup so naff and gutless. I still have this, but a decent fretless is next on the list. And then a lull of several years, while I indulged myself in all means of other bizarre instruments with 6, 8, 12 strings, reeds, the whole bit. and then: Fender CIJ not-for-export precision, from Far East Guitars. Natural finish, with a maple board and a jazz neck. The "I always wanted one of these, and now I'm going to have one" bass. It is flawless, sounds wonderful, and is so shiny that I can't imagine gigging it, but a delight to play. Shine 6-string. A failed experiment. ERB is not for me and playing it as a normal bass but across-not-down didn't work either. Replaced by: OLP MM3 . The famous Mother of Toilet Seat otherwise all Black, owned by several bassworlders before it came my way. Smashing bass but I can't really get on with 5 strings, so make me an offer. Jim Reed jazz. Bought cheap from a guy in Ipswich via the bay. The gap between the neck and the neck pocket is one of the three man-made items visible from space, along with the Great Wall of China and the panel fit on a Range Rover Classic. Despite that surprisingly OK to play and good growly Kent Armstrongs. The kids have this so that they dont' have to upset me by asking to borrow the Precision. And, a continually growing heap of Jazz bits which may one day form project Swirly and allow me to get that "must build a bass" vibe out of my system. Watch this space, or maybe the 'build' forum. Wanted: a Black Rose. Waaaah!!!

I've just bought an amp from Ari and he was a pleasure to deal with. Good communications and when the item arrived it was professionally packaged. I recommend him highly too.

This weekend's weather caused me to dig out 'I can't stand the rain' by Ann Peebles. I'd forgotten just what a superb bassline that song has, and I realised that I had no idea who'd played it. Step forward Leroy Hodges for your moment in the basschat spotlight! We hear a lot of respect in this forum for the great James Jamerson, and quite right too. I think Leroy is right up there with him. Maybe this should have gone in the 'underrated heroes' thread, but hey!

[quote name='phatmonkey' post='20642' date='Jun 20 2007, 10:51 AM']Look at the bottom of your posts, it already exists![/quote] By jove, so it does! Must be about time for another eye test!

[quote name='Oxblood' post='18207' date='Jun 15 2007, 12:29 PM']I'm in full accord with you, Pete, and you've provided some very enlightening info on the way that workplace control-freak systems operate.[/quote] Aw shucks. Some more enlightened places, including the place where I work, is now switching off and unblocking many categories that were previously filtered. This is being done on the grounds that it's not the job of equipment provided to enforce a security policy to also enforce various acceptable-use and working policies on behalf of Human Resources or whatever they are called these days. There's also a lot of time wasted over false positives. My favourite was the for-sale section of the Mini owners club website, which got flagged under 'Criminal Skills' . Someone had seen the Italian Job too many times I think. A serious suggestion for the mods to consider: lots of forums and blogs have a button at the bottom of posts to report anything that you consider offensive. This to my mind will be a better way of alerting the moderators to real problem areas or users, though it will probably make more work. Whaddyathink?

So to summarise, we have three different reasons why people use compressors: 1) As an effect in it's own right 2) At the end of the signal chain, in order to protect the head from moments of ham-fistedness ;-) 3) To smooth out the lows and highs in the dynamic range. Yes? I have a Tech 21 Compactor which I tend to use in the 3rd category. Currently it's at the start of my signal chain, after the tuner and before octaver and chorus. Is this the right place for it, or should I stick it at the end of the signal chain? I also find that when I'm using a valve head the effect of compression is a lot less noticeable/useful than when I was using a borrowed transister head. Hm.

[quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='17258' date='Jun 13 2007, 10:43 PM']You have a trolley darling, but you are quite clearly off it [/quote] ROFL. Someone please put this in the classic quotes thread!

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='17208' date='Jun 13 2007, 09:07 PM']Do you not see the funny side of this?![/quote] I think it's hysterically funny that someone thinks it's a good idea to filter the substring 'ass' in a forum called basschat. [quote name='dood']Thats interesting, it hadn't occurred to me that if we have a site full of foul language it can be picked up by 'parental control' type software and web surfing URL blacklisters.[/quote] There's no doubt that it will get onto the blacklists though. The most obvious reason will be the 'chat' in 'basschat' , which will get flagged as a chat forum. The second reason will be that most sites which allow messages to be sent and recieved are blocked because they circumvent corporate email policies. The effect of the odd expletive is neither here nor there. Like other posters, I'm not in favour of the smartarse replacement strings. As Joe so elegantly pointed out, this has the potential to give more offence than the offending bon mot. If this filter has to stay, the censoring mechanism needs to make it absolutely plain that the changes were made by a filter.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='16577' date='Jun 12 2007, 10:42 PM']We are helping a user out (i suspect a handful actually) so i dont see why its got such a bad reaction...[/quote] Leaving aside the fact that I don't regard it as a 'bad' reaction, I'll give the following reasons: 1) It won't fix the problem. Virtually all web content filtering systems do not work the way that your anonymous correspondent thinks they work. I'm prepared to be corrected, but all the systems I'm familiar with do not do any intelligent filtering or decision making. They work on blacklists of URLs, which are compiled and placed into categories by people surfing the web in dark rooms. Some companies modify these based on observing the traffic flow from their systems, and some companies monitor outgoing search strings, but they don't normally have the resources to read content on individual pages. So the decision whether to tag 'basschat' as a forum isn't based on dynamic profane content. 2) I would have preferred the moderators to take the approach of discussing the problem and filtering as a possible solution on the forum, before introducing filtering. This might have helped avoid some of the problems with false positives. 3) There are still going to be loads of false positives which get in the way of communication and cause other problems. When the filter mangled my posting in the 'Wanted' forum, changing 'bass' to 'be*ss' , I shut down my system and changed my keyboard, thinking mine had somehow developed a fault. Call me selfish, but this is at least as inconvenient to me as someone else being denied access at work.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='16664' date='Jun 13 2007, 08:24 AM']However... had you considered sizing it up a bit on the small side, and practising on some old off-cut of MDF? Then offer up the pick-up cover, and see if it fits. If it does, great. If it doesn't, enlarge your template and have another bash.[/quote] Good suggestion. I'm certainly going to practise on an old plank or two before tackling the real thing!

Mine arrived today. Excellent value for money, surprisingly loud too. Thanks for the heads up MB1.