Jean-Luc Pickguard

They're alright

I have 7 similar, but non-grabbing ones in the living room. No, I'm not sure of how I got away with that either.

Now that I've sold a few basses including my beautiful, but far too heavy metal looking Alpine White Epiphone Thunderbird, I have some funds which are very likely to go on an Epiphone Thunderbird Pro-V in the natural oil finish.

My slap happy weedwackers have arrived and I've put them on the bass, which was a much more fiddly affair than I expected. I haven't tried it amplified yet, but I love the blurry sound. I can achieve a nice bit of rockabilly slap, which I was never able to do with the spirocore weichs. I'll see how they go. I doubt I'll be going back to the spiros, but may upgrade to a set of Lamberts in the future. I wonder what the going rate for a used, but hardly played, set of spiro weich is

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1035997' date='Nov 25 2010, 10:21 AM']Buy it, put it on the wall, say someone famous smashed it up in the 70's[/quote] & then had a half-arsed attempt at patching it together

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1035903' date='Nov 25 2010, 09:06 AM']Aha! [/quote] No, they're from Norway. In Curb your Enthusiasm there was an episode called "The Ida Funkhauser Roadside Memorial" which centered on Larry stealing some flowers from the memorial of his friend Marty Funkhauser's mother.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Gibson-1971-Guitar-spares-repair_W0QQitemZ300495375006QQ"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Gibson-1971-...Z300495375006QQ[/url] I'm not sure I can see where there's £82 worth of spares on this piece of junk

I've always thought the cascading dot pattern on my NS-Design CR5M is innovative The two magic tone shaping controls - the VPL & the other one on Mark Bass Amps are fantastic. Even if I can never remember what they're called, just how they sound when I twiddle them.

I went in a lidl once. Do all the branches have that weird smell?

[quote name='Johnston' post='1033893' date='Nov 23 2010, 02:01 PM']Are we just old fuddy duddies set in our ways ???[/quote] I am - I like my instruments to be all-old style like my mustang. Unless they are all-new like my NS-Design CR5M

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1033596' date='Nov 23 2010, 10:01 AM']Shall I be first to mention the legendary and to some faultless (Your not playing it hard enough then ) Fender BBOT bridge?[/quote] I like 'em on a precison - but then again I don't it play too hard [quote name='Fat Rich' post='1033604' date='Nov 23 2010, 10:07 AM']Old Fenders where you have to take the neck off to adjust the truss rod.[/quote] That's a right pain on my MIJ '62 P. The little wheel thing used on musicman & Peavey basses is a great improvement.

I'm my ns-design CR5M, the method of adjusting the magnetic pickup height is just weird. Gibson 3 point bridge as used on the thunderbird - remove or break a string & lose the saddle Ashbory bass lined fingerboard - to play in tune fingers have to be way behind the fretline - I'm sure a lot of people dismiss it as being impossible to play in tune as they try play on the line Gibson headstock joints where they snap off at the slightest knock

I don't - I have a jazz and a few precisons, but prefer to play my mustang. It has a skinny neck like a jazz, but shorter, & has a nice chunky precision tone & doesn't have too many knobs to twiddle & confuse me.

I got an H4 from band funds before the H2 & H1 came out. Got good results from it, but its a bit plasticy and when recording a gig on batteries I have to remember to put a fresh set in between sets. I think the main benefit of the H2 is that it can record 360 degrees - ie one set of mics pointing at the band and another set picking the audience (or tumbleweed) behind, or for an acoustic "living room" rehearsal with everyone on a circle it might stand a better chance of picking everyone up clearly in 4 channels rather than just 2. As other band members use the H4, I'm thinking of buying one for myself. I really like the simplicity & size (& price) of the H1, but the 4 channel recording of the H2 is a massive bonus. Then again the Q3 looks temping at around the same price of the H2 - again only two channel but with video in additon to the high quality audio recording. Also the H1 uses Micro SDHC cards, the H2 & H4 use full size SDHC

[quote name='tiki613' post='1031452' date='Nov 21 2010, 02:59 PM']if you want to play weedwacker, you must play with Lambert Strings...[/quote] I've seen the Lamberts on the web - they haven't really got their web marketing together yet; using myspace as the primary website doesn't seem to inspire confidence. I've read good things about them on TB, but they're quite a bit more costly than the el-cheapos & I'm skint at the moment. I'll see how I get on with the cheapies & may upgrade to a set of Lamberts if I get more into playing the DB.

What' s this thread about? Oh yes ITS ABOUT TIM

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='1031200' date='Nov 21 2010, 10:28 AM']You knew that.[/quote] I must admit I didn't know that, but I do now - Cheers for the info.

Even more so than even basses I think. I was briefly in a band in the 80s with someone whose dad had a fiesta red (or salmon pink as he described it) 1957 strat in very good condition. He said he bought from Buddy Holiday at the end of Buddy's UK tour. Not sure how true the story was - it looked like a genuine '57 - not that I had ever seen one before & whatever it was worth when I saw it would probably be a tiny amount compared to its value today. If he had documentation to prove the Buddy Holly provenance (not sure if he did) I expect it could be something even Sir Paul would get his wallet out for.

It would be easy to make. If I needed one I would probably do it by making a little adaptor box with one in & two out speakon sockets wired for series, then carry four speakon to speakon cables. Then in the event of a connection failing there's a handy spare.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1031404' date='Nov 21 2010, 01:59 PM']...The only thing that worries me about this version is that it looks more "game controller" size than proper guitar size.[/quote] I'm used to playing an Ashbory so I'm used to comments like "he's got a fisher-price bass"

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Band-Wireless-Mustang-Guitar-/dp/B003RRTYEQ"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Band-Wireless...-/dp/B003RRTYEQ[/url] [quote]Use as MIDI Guitar Controller when not playing Rock Band (compatible with most MIDI sequencers)[/quote] I used to use a Casio Midi guitar to programme stuff into cubase when I was into electronic music, but the latency prevented me from using it to play basslines live. I wonder how this toy guitar would be controlling my Yamaha FB-01 and/or Control synthesis Deep Bass Nine tone modules.

Peggy Lee's version of Fever

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='1030893' date='Nov 20 2010, 09:43 PM']Didn't they nick that bassline off Vanilla Ice though? [/quote] But Jedward wrote it

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1030819' date='Nov 20 2010, 08:10 PM']Money - Pink Floyd[/quote] That one always get a cheer when its on the setlist & I start playing the intro. Also the Animals "We've got to get out of this place", that probably says more about the average age of our audience compared to the average man in the street.