MrTaff

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1361103875' post='1981033'] When you make a living from selling copies, taking those copies wothout paying is theft. It's not the musicians fault if the law hasn't kept up with this. [/quote] That's a completly different thing, people profiting from piracy deserve to burn in hell. [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1361103770' post='1981029'] Copying a CD your PC is illegal, yet you see no problem with it. Or downloading plenty of music you don't own. [/quote] No it's not [url="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a446817/uk-law-change-permits-cd-ripping.html"]http://www.digitalsp...cd-ripping.html[/url]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361101919' post='1980974'] Yes, but they see it that it's not theft, because they reason in their own mind why it's not theft, often applying what they do as a job to what the artist does and see it as no different, when in fact, they have drawn parallel between 2 incomparable things. [/quote] Because it's not theft, it's copyright infringement, from wiki, [quote]in common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent [b]with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it[/b][/quote] when you copy some the rightful owner still has it, unlike stealing from a shop which everybody seems to compare illegal downloading to.

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1360921246' post='1978270'] <Warning: gross generalisation approaching> I'm not sure if you're playing a t-bird that access to the upper frets is terribly important to you. [/quote] It is when your band plays some Metallica covers, I love the sound of thunderbirds but I just can't play the solo's on them. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360924049' post='1978321'] Just because the P-Bass has a cutaway doesn't make it very much better. You still have the nasty lump of the boly-on neck joint to contend with. [/quote] I don't find P's that bad, the neck joint isn't ideal but without the cutaway it would be even worse.

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1360794540' post='1976780'] [/quote] This really shows how bad the access to the higher frets on the thunderbird is.

No idea if this has been posted, too much fighting, but this looks interesting http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnrb8

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0MkJtI3FvU[/media] Probably not that popular here but it's got some good fretless playing, a bass solo at 4:18 amd you can actually hear the bass.

Happens all the time & ebay doesn't care, I've won quite a few basses for less than they're worth & every time it's the same crap about how they'd thought it would sell for more & wont sell it that cheap

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1360158785' post='1965788'] Leave the amplifier flat to begin with, set up the Zoom how you like. Then when you gig, you can use the Amplifier EQ to tweak the sound a little as every room will make it sound slightly different. [/quote] That's how I do it & it works fine, I have the pedal going into the input, not the effects loop.

Sounds like crap service from EBMM, not what you'd expect, rather puts me off buying the new fretless ray34 I've been wanting.

Did they even tell you how much a new neck is?

[quote name='gelfin' timestamp='1359926485' post='1962245'] +1 A 4001 Ric would need to be set up by a decent tech, though many who are decent might warn against this. I suggest you find a budget bass to try this out on first. I have done it on an old Westone and it's fine and great to play. I have a 4003 but wouldn't try it on this. I feel the neck is just too thin for the extra tension. [/quote] What extra tension? BEAD is normally lower tension, 45-100 (45,65,80,100) D'Addario nickels tuned EADG are about 172lbs, 65-130 (65,80,100,130, 5 string set without the G) D'Addario nickels tuned BEAD are about 164lbs.

[quote name='thodrik' timestamp='1359912662' post='1961954'] But have you not just listened to something and thought 'Wow, that was so amazing! He must have been standing up when he recorded that!'? [/quote] Nope, it's normally, 'Wow, that was so amazing! How the f*** did he play that"

Clearly I'm not the exception otherwise everybody would recoding standing up, but they don't & most albums sound fine, if anything I'd say most people sound better sitting down before they're more focused. I don't see it like that, it's the visual parts that make a live show exciting you'll never get a recording to be like it, I don't find live anymore exciting the stuff recorded in a studio, often it just sounds more sloppy.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1359905562' post='1961842'] My biggest bugbear about this is rock guitarists who sit down to record their parts in the studio. You don't sit down on stage, so why when you are recording? It saps all the energy out of the performance. If you can't play the part standing up well enough to pass studio scrutiny then IMO you need to practice more. [/quote] The difference you're not putting on a show when you're recording so why bother standing up? it doesn't make any difference to how I sound recorded whether I'm sitting or standing.