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.

I've never treated the B any different, pretty much play it the same as an E string on a 4, lots of open notes & runs up and down the string. The string spacing is something you get used to, Ibanez basses already have rather narrow string spacing which makes the jump harder. I use a lh1000 & either a 410 or 2 410's, both sound fine even tuned down to ADGCF.

I've done it with a few basses, the string tension is usually less than a standard EADG set so there's no issue with the neck, you might find the nut slots need widening and some bridges don't have large enoguh string holes to fit a 125 or 130 B string, both are easily sorted though.

Rather disapointing NAMM this year, the only interesting thing for me wasn't even a bass but Ibanez's new GRG7221 guitar, I've been looking for a cheap 7 to record some idea's without bugging somebody else to record the guitar parts, at under £200 this looks perfect.

I haven't done much on drums other than the basic 4/4 rock stuff but I found it much easier to sound half decent on the drums than I did playing bass.

I seem to alwasy end up with cars that have small boots so it's never been an issue, with 2 4x10, head, 2 basses, stands, pedalboard & all the other crap that goes with giiging, doesn't leave much room for anything else.

Never had an issue with Andertons or DV247, ideally I'd buy locally but there's not much choice around here.

Don't you still have to pay return postage in that case? Besides there's a difference between somebody in a factory testing it & being played every kid that walks in the door, electrical shops wouldn't get away with selling ex-demo as new, why should music shops?

Which is ok if you know it's a demo model and you've had a chance to inspect it but if you order a new bass online I'd expect it to be new.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1358838447' post='1945737'] I'm pretty sure the shop are pulling a slighly fast one on me, putting out a shop demo as a new one. [/quote] Loads of shops do this, they think it's ok to sell the one off the wall that everybodies played & still claim it's new.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1358609955' post='1942159'] talent is talent my friend.. its only you that brought it up.. who cares if shes a girl and shes good looking.. stop being so immature. [/quote] So saying the truth is immature now? She's no better than hundreds of other guys, it's a simple fact that nobody would care if she was guy, you have to be naive to believe otherwise.