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    Uncommon Earthing Problems

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    Better to use the continuity check I reckon (diode check with some meters) or try an analogue meter, even a battery and bulb would do. Not often you get a 0.00 reading on low ohms, theres always a little resistance in practice.

    Looking at your O.P it pops buzzes and crackles when you touch earthed parts. So i get the impression that either the 'earthed' parts are not earthed, or your not, and theres a potential difference, which is why I suggested check your mains earthing.

    Can you measure anything, Volts or ohms - try both - between your radiator and the amp metalwork ? it can get cofusing with a high OPV digital multimeter though, this is wnere analogue wins out,

    Are you sure theres nothing else electrical in the house running ? TV on standby ? anything with a power supply on, like a laptop charger, try it in another house if you can, not next door though. lights with dimmer switches cause some funny buzzes and crackles,

    Uncommon Earthing Problems

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by BRANCINI

    [quote name='Jungle VIP' timestamp='1329926839' post='1549890']
    Oh dear... I just tried the static theory by earthing myself on the radiator whilst touching the bridge, control plate and strings... It's SIGNIFICANTLY reduced. Nothing from anywhere but the bridge which has a small pop... :( I am Static Man! :ph34r:

    Wow. Thanks for you help guys and congrats to Bod2 for getting it. Now just to figure out how I can earth myself!
    [/quote]

    Well at least you know now that the strings are not live cos of a really serious earth problem with your mains wiring.

    Otherwise you could well be dead now.

    Seriously...NEVER NEVER NEVER earth yourself with one hand while touching something faulty with the other. One possibility that struck me was that your mains isnt earthed very well, and something else in the house is faulty. That way the sockets earth could well have been live, through a high resistance path, but still live..

    Contempt for your audience.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I dont play in a straight covers band anymore. But back when I used to, yep, I hated em all usually, and found it hard to hide. I found people who expected me to smile especially irritating.

    The odd punch up or drunk nutter at least made it interesting, and theyre the ones I remember best. I wouldnt go so far as to say I wouldnt do it again ( probably too old now ) or that I didnt ever enjoy it. But I would only do it if the money was very good, which tbh in my case at least, it never really was after the usual overheads.

    The Advent of Punk - Good or Bad Thing?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Not everyones bag I know, but there was some really great Rock n Roll around in the mid - late 70s
    Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Ian Dury, the Feelgoods, Kursall Flyers etc. plus what I thin of as the Rockpile stuff. Like Kirsty McColl, etc that had the same basic lineup of Billy Bremner / Nick Lowe etc driving it. All on TOTP at the time.

    Although they were already around, if the Punky style of 3 minute singles hadn’t caught on, a lot of these bands would never have got the airplay.

    The Advent of Punk - Good or Bad Thing?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='hairyhaw' timestamp='1329421934' post='1542353']
    Really? [url="http://themusicalbox.net/"]http://themusicalbox.net/[/url] They seem to be doing alright. And a quick cursory look on youtube shows that plenty prog still getting played by other people.

    I'm glad punk came along, otherwise there'd be no Joy Division or Slaughter & The Dogs and it sharpened a lot of senses in the prog community.

    Keep praising punk for its own sake. But stop talking kak and talking pot-shots about music you know hee haw about.
    [/quote]

    Takes all sorts I s'pose.

    The Advent of Punk - Good or Bad Thing?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1329404195' post='1541954']
    frequent references to Top of the Pops to illustrate how bad music was. People seem to forget Led Zeppelin were still kicking ass, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were around, and Motorhead were getting started.

    Not to mention all the stateside funk involving Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins.
    [/quote]

    To be honest, to my mind, the singles from the early 70s have, on the whole outlasted the album tracks which os surprising when you cosider that singles bands like Slade and the Faces were looked down on by the groovy people, myself included, who only bought albums back then. I still have the albums, but cant really get into them, theyre just so dated.

    There are of course the odd album tracks that still sound good. As evidenced by what covers bands are still playing 30, or sometimes 40 years on. None of em are by Genesis, or Yes, or the Van Fer Graff boring ol fart generators though.

    The Advent of Punk - Good or Bad Thing?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I'm convinced that Punk made a huge difference to the way things have turned out, At the time it certainly got me, and thousands of others like me away from trying to be a serious musician and put the fun back into it. And woke up a lot of the boring old fart musos who were getting too far up their own arses at the same time

    Wasnt really all that new though I dont reckon, in the early 60s bands like the Stones and tha Yardbirds stopped dressing in identical suits and grew their hair. That shocked the older folks. but it dragged on and the same once outrageous people went off the 3 chords for 3 minutes formula and started making 'concept albums' some called emselves the Cream and played 20 minute solos, things like that.

    Just think how music could have ended without the new wave bands of the mid 70s.

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    The Advent of Punk - Good or Bad Thing?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1329240994' post='1539452']
    A quick glance at the charts from the first half of the 1970s should be more than enough to convince all but the most cloth-eared that punk was completely and utterly [u][i][b]essential[/b][/i][/u].
    [/quote]

    Speaking as somebody who was there at the time - This post says it all. Absolutely on the money.

    Rock and Roll had lost its way, not just the singles charts, but programs like the ogwt, John Peel and such were playing, and talking utter drivel,...man

    Mexican Fenders?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I bought a Squier Jazz a few of years ago as a present for someone. I was surprised at how nicely it plays and how well set up it was, Really Really great for the price.

    I used it myself in a rehearsal last month. It just dont cut through in a loud band situation like a Fender. Just pickups I expect, but if cheapo guitars like Westfield can fit [i]useable[/i] pickups to a £100 Bass, I dont see why fender cant do the same with Squiers. An extra few yards of copper wire is probably all it would need after all.

    Mexican Fenders?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I have an early MIM Precision that I bought in new and unseen in 92. As a gigging bass It plays just OK, not great, - I have played worse MIA ones.- but it sounds good. and at some of our gigs I wouldnt want to take anything too valuable tbh.

    I'm not sure, but I think the earlier MIM ones were a bit better than they are now.

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