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They could! I played the Energy 5 in the Bass Gallery last week. Wanted so much to like it but...it did lack warmth...particularly compared to Pino's Wal.

Foam is structurally pretty strong given the surface area. I've had expanding poly glue recommended to me by joiners as top flight stuff. PVA does contract when it dries and it also swells the wood because its water based. PVA is cheap so it wouldn't surprise me that its being used a lot by US cab manufacturers! If it was me, I'd be running a bead with both glues.

Plus 1 for shuttle - sounds more Trace than Trace. Cleaner, more neutral, louder and more efficient.

That's fairly decent money by anyone's standards considering living expenses and flights are covered. I've visited China maybe 12 times in the past.

Paul McCartney is still going strong. Doesn't have enough time in the year to cram all of the invitations to perform apparently.

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1362846634' post='2005306'] and Mike Nesmiths mum invented Tipex, making a fortune! [/quote] Liquid paper, not Tippex [url="http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/liquid_paper.htm"]http://inventors.abo...iquid_paper.htm[/url] [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364543527' post='2027832'] Peter Tork was offically the bassist but all the earlier material was LA session players. [/quote] Peter Tork was pretty gifted given how many instruments he could play.

FFS...who on earth thought that promotional idea up?!

Try for an H. It's up the dusty end though and will require an extreme metal type pose with legs apart and all 8 fingers and both thumbs on the fretboard in order to hit the right harmonic nuances. Welcome 64k BTW, I used to have an Acorn Electron. I am a child of the 70's. I liked basic, Assembler put me off coding for life.

I caught myself staring at their tweed and waxed moustaches.

I was playing a couple over the weekend and, despite the differences in wood, a custom and a pro1 still sounded very similar to me. So I guessed it was down to either pickups or preamp. Pickups are a blunt tool when it comes to tone shaping, and because what I was hearing wasn't down to them or the wood, I reckoned the preamp has a bit of trickery in it. But I would need to test a passive Wal Pro in order to be sure.

My band's fees started at 2000 quid and expenses were added on.

[quote name='megallica' timestamp='1364210736' post='2023128'] But for that sort of money you could afford an 80's Aria SB through neck bass with great quality electronics and hardware.[/quote] Perhaps not in a 5 or 6 string format though. Those Arias are great basses but they do sound a little nasal by comparison to a pimped Toby.

You could try combining Piccato singles, I think they make a piccolo bass set. Alterantively go custom and talk to this guy: http://garrygoodman.com/round_wound_strings.htm

So many limited editions and so little time!

The thru necked Toby Pro's are great value. They didn't skimp on the wood, just the electronics and hardware. Replace the bridge and preamp with upmarket versions and you'll have a great gigging bass. I was very impressed by how comfortable they were.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1364078988' post='2021806'] Great player, totally wrong for The Who.[/quote] To be fair to Pino, he wasn't chosen because he sounded like Entwhistle, he was chosen because he was available and had the skills and chops to learn an entire show with four days notice. His fretless lines are inspirational and sublime. His motown inspired playing with Usher etc. is less inspirational for me. But you know, he's gotta earn a crust and fair play to him for being so versatile and making people take notice regardless of the genre.

SKB bass safe has seen me right for a number of long haul trips. Most airlines will allow an extra 10kg allowance for sportsgear and instruments. But not all...like Thai Airways for example. Air NZ will though. Guess which one I ended up using? Unaccompanied baggage is f***ing expensive when insurance and clearance fees are factored in. Only ended up being a hundred quid less than paying the excess baggage fees.

Not better, both are well designed although my experience of GK has been the RB range. Shuttles are very good gigging amps for small stages and will last you an entire career IMO. I suspect I might want to move on from the MB range at some point.

I've seen the doc, its really good. He's playing in London at the end of July. Anyone feel like going to see him?

Dingus - there is no reason for anyone to believe the threats are empty. We're not intimidated, but we are obliged to act within the law and the law is very clear about what constitutes defamation. If you could pop a couple of million quid in a paypal donation, we'll think about testing the water for you though.

The frequencies were where the frequency shift controls were centred.

The standard form of basschat nonsense is usually understood by everyone.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1363904231' post='2019424'] I had been following the thread, at the time, and can confirm that there may have been grounds for protecting BC in some posts by members. I also feel that total deletion is not the best solution (although much easier than others, I'll allow...). Deletion of individual phrases or posts, replacing them with an explanation, would be more satisfactory, I would suggest. More time spent, but better than re-writing history (by deleting any and all in one swoop...). I'm a mod on another forum, and can understand the time and effort that goes into the admin and mod roles. I also would suggest that there is a deontology which goes with the role. Just my opinion, no malice intended. [/quote] The comments about Ernie Ball had been quoted by others and salvaging the thread would have required modding multiple posts and changing part of the original premise for the thread. There was nothing wrong with the observations being made, the issue was the conclusions reached about Ernie Ball as a result of those observations.

I have them as my preamp of choice. They're great. The 3 band parametric is very clean and amazingly versatile. Check with Klaus where the frequency centres of each band are. The original model had the mid and bass centres too high for bass and I asked him to lower them a little. The bass control is now around 100Hz and the mid control around 250Hz. I think the treble was around 1.3Khz but could probably benefit from being broader. I don't know if he did that only for my preamps or whether he's introduced the change permanently.