dannybuoy

Markbass Minimark and Micromark are worth a look along with the Phil Jones stuff for a clean sounding high quality practice rig. Since they are pretty clean and flat sounding they will be a good replacement for the power amp setup if you will still be using your POD for practice. You could even step up to the CMD121P for around £500 used which will be loud enough for gigs yet still very small and perfect for home use - ideal if your main rig blows up or you can't be arsed carting it to a gig.

It's because they're hard to do right, it's not easy to design a great sounding easy to use pedal that also has great tracking. Also because they have (or at least used to have, I think they're becoming more popular now) limited market potential, hence 2 of the best synths out there, the Deep Impact and Korg G5 being discontinued a long time ago.

I've got a 1979 T-40 which is the most indestructable bass known to man!

If you want octave down like an OC-2 then it'll be tricky. I've never seen a DIY one because the circuits are pretty complicated! If you're thinking digital octave up/down then forget it and just buy a MicroPOG. You can build an octave-up fuzz pretty easily though, but I don't like the sound of them on bass.

This sometimes happens with strings - I recently purchased 2 sets of identical strings and one came withe dead E string that had much less sustain than the other. I just rang up the place where I got them from and they sent me a new set, to return the others by post and now all is good!

[quote name='urb' post='561313' date='Aug 5 2009, 05:40 PM']Anyone up for doing a lift share from London? I'm happy to get the train as I don't drive, but if there's two or three of us coming along from Laaandaaan it'd be cool to split costs etc, just a thought cheers Mike[/quote] I reckon I'll come, not sure what I will bring, depends if I come by car or not! Probably just one bass (maybe Peavey T-40) and my pedalboard. Could be up for a lift share (or if I manage to blag my gf's car for the day I could offer lifts), but London's a big place so it depends where everyone is (I'm SW16).

Here's an old USA Peavey T-40: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR-PEAVEY-T-40_W0QQitemZ250474679835QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3a51744e1b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR-PEAVEY-T...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url] Incredible basses, and this is one of the older ones, possibly a '78 or '79. Mine looks identical and it cost me £220 which I thought was a bit of a bargain. At £100 this is an absolute steal!

How are you all finding the output volume of the Audere? I was expecting my SG bass to be really hot, especially with the Darkstar pickups, but it's about as loud as my passive P-Bass with the EQ set flat (although the EQ is capable of some serious boost). This is not a bad thing (as hot basses can clip the input of some of my pedals) just not what I was expecting!

Digital Audio Workstation - usually used to describe sequencers (e.g. Cubase, Sonar) but since they do much more than MIDI sequencing these days a new term was coined for them. EVERY wave editor will have a normalise function. Even the free ones they give away in cereal packets.

Buy a used one (they go for around £45), you won't find anything decent cheaper than that.

For something very different, check out Mishaps Happening by Quantic. Especially good on fretless!

Hi, I'm selling a bass at the moment, and also have it listed at Talkbass where a couple of people have expressed interest in having it shipped to the US. I have a hard case and plenty of bubble wrap, just need to procure a cardboard box (so if any local BC'ers have one they don't want let me know!). Does anyone know the cheapest way (with insurance included) to do this? Also, would I be best to ship it as is, or loosen the strings first? I'm thinking if it hits a warm climate the neck could bow slightly...

That's the Box Of Awesome! Welcome to BC Excane, I see you're no longer able to post at TB (again)!