Jean-Luc Pickguard

Two for me - both Behringers both with totally unmemorable names The green limiter pedal maintains dynamics where you want them. The brown acoustic preamp works as a DI & works very nicely to sweeten the tone of an acoustic bass, electric upright or ashbory as well as making my stratacousic sound like a much more expensive guitar.

The meths doesn't taste as good after soaking the strings though No soaking for me - I like dead TI flats. My oldest set is probably about 7 or 8 years old & they still sound great.

If I needed another precision I'd be all over one of these. The fiesta red looks great. [quote]£259[/quote] A pound less than I paid Rockbottom for my MIA 'QEII anchor' cherryburst precision - bought new in 1982 when the MIJ Squier JVs (with fender logo) were £150.

I don't have an opinion on this

Blogspot - why are sending their traffic to blogger? From an SEO point of view that's dumb. They should self-host their blog on their own domain.

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='796052' date='Apr 4 2010, 09:51 PM']Sorry but Fireflies is a brilliantly well written song![/quote] Well I'm effing sick of it, its nursery rhyme melody, sing-song lyrics and everything overcompressed and autotuned. Horrible characterless drivel (IMHO).

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='795510' date='Apr 4 2010, 09:45 AM']Incredible [/quote] Good choice Wayne - After watching I've just requested that to be played on my mate Sandy's Internet Radio show this evening - He starts at 9.30 and plays requests if anyone's interested Sandy on Green Futures Radio: [url="http://greenfuturesfestivals.org.uk/greenradio.html"]http://greenfuturesfestivals.org.uk/greenradio.html[/url] Listen on VLC: [url="http://87.117.250.3:9090/gffr2.m3u"]http://87.117.250.3:9090/gffr2.m3u[/url]

[quote name='Rosh' post='795655' date='Apr 4 2010, 01:01 PM'] [/quote] I want a yellow jumper with a tie knitted into the front now edit - preferably one that doesn't show up manboobs as much as the one the trumpet player in the video is wearing

I'm hearing and trying not to listen to rubbish coming out of my daughter's laptop. So far she's play something called fireflys which has buckets of autotune and some tracks from glee which also have buckets of autotune. Kill me now.

[quote name='alanbass1' post='795878' date='Apr 4 2010, 06:26 PM']Get one the late 70's 'body builder' 11lb P Basses - no neck dive on those![/quote] I can vouch for that. After playing mine, any other bass feels like its made of helium.

[quote name='chrisd24' post='795624' date='Apr 4 2010, 12:19 PM']I played on one of these a little while ago and was amazed by the projection, volume and clarity of it played purely acoustically. After playing on a few acoustics over the years i had just always excepted that they were only ever any good if they semi acoustic and plugged in but now i really want one....the only problem being that this being a martin the price tag was a little out of my range. My question is that is there any acoustic basses out there in the more budget price range with actual volume played acoustically?[/quote] My Tanglewood rosewood reserve has a great tone (with TI acoustic strings) and has a solid sitka spruce top & is nice & loud played acoustically. I used to think tanglewood were a cheap & cheerful brand, but this one oozes quality. Its well worth the £359 current price at DV247, but I managed to get an ex-demo one from ebay for £230.

[quote]Tuning down to E flat, any tips?[/quote] I think you just have to give those twiddy things on the headstock a bit of a twist. Mine was in tune when I bought it though so I'm not 100% sure.

It would be nice to own a spare bass player and he's a bargain at the current price, but he's in Cornwall and 'collect in person' only.

I thought it was the one with the bobble hat.

If these are the standard 'classic' type EMGs that run off a 9v battery, try them with 18v- get down to maplins & buy three 9v battery clips, wire then up together so that you can power the pickups off two batteries instead of one and they'll magically come alive. The EMG I bought in 1986 wasn't all that inspiring originally, so I took it out. After reading that they can be powered from a much higher voltage & even phantom powered from a mixing desk, I dug it out of my bits box & put it back into one of my precisions and it has stayed in since (although there wasn't room for 2 x 9v batteries so I had to hack something together using a bunch of button cells from car 'plipper' batteries stuffed into an AAA holder)

Not sure - When I did a term of jazz bass lessons (in a small class - not 1 to 1 lessons), the tutor couldn't make it one week, so the college's drum tutor took the class. I recall it being a bit of a waste of time. Maybe a bass player who also plays drums or a drummer who also plays drums to a good standard would be worthwhile.

The really cool looking relic instruments with classic wear all have a thin nitro finish.If you bash about a MIM Fender with a thick poly finish for thirty years it'll get scratched & dented, but never wear through like a nitro finish. Attacking it with abrasives will make it look stupid & you'll look stupid playing it. So I say - do it.

I soak my cables in vinegar

Looks like I'm on my own - I prefer playing my mustang to my jazz or precisions - & I have some nice precisions.

I'm very please with my tanglewood 'rosewood reserve' bass. An absolute bargain at the rrp & even more so at the meagre price I paid (ex-display via ebay - just over half rrp)

[quote name='mrjim' post='785596' date='Mar 25 2010, 10:38 AM'] [/quote] Unsoddered? Why are 'mercans unable to pronounce a simple word like solder. Its got a pluckin' 'L' in it Its not the sound of the pots that matters - any differences in tone should be very subtle for pots of the same spec. The differences will be in how long they last before they go scratchy or fail. At the first sign of trouble on one of my guitars or basses, I make a new CTS/switchcraft/decent capacitor harness rather than replacing just the one pot causing trouble. I've never had to replace a CTS pot or switchcraft socket and the cheapo sockets on most budget guitars & basses always fail eventually for me.

When you see 40+ year old fenders with the original pots, what make are they? I always use CTS & put in a switchcraft jack socket at the same time.

I'd love to have a Rob Allen mouse 30. The headstock does look a bit like a foot though.

For a brand I've never heard of, they seem to have a lot of endorsees on their website (no one I've heard of though). The cynic in me wonders how many sets they actually sell at the full price - ie iss this an ego massaging trick to get you to buy their strings? Do they make their own strings or are they generic far eastern made strings you can get in other packaging for the same as the endorsee cost or less? Like some listed for £6 delivered from ebay. They have a sign up form for string endorsees on their website: [url="http://www.dovetailretail.co.uk/registration.php"]http://www.dovetailretail.co.uk/registration.php[/url] - There are 84 bands listed currently - I wonder if they ever reject anyone who applies?