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Dood, thank you very much for sharing that link. I'll watch the interview and the Dave Ellefson stuff as well.

They haven't got it!!!!!! Oh....... I've confused myself now. I clicked on your link and subscribed to UG Plus, which doesn't have it, and then I read the page your link sent me to which does It's too early and I've only had one mug of tea and one of coffee!

I don't suppose anyone has the notation for Anthrax's cover of Got the Time? It was in Guitarist when they still had a bass techniques column, so that's going back some years but if anyone has a copy that they could scan or photocopy that would be grand. It's the solo I can't work out by ear, just need more practice!

Frank Bello

From our first muck about session in Thor knows how many years, my guitarist mate and I have decided that we shall try and get some songs learnt For we, read me, as he's a bit good and has gigged, which is more than I have done. Anyhoo, I have to get Pretty Vacant, Sweet Child of Mine and Wasted Years down. We sort of got them yesterday, so a little (lot) of practice on my part is needed. Then we need find a drummer and singer, though I reckon my mate should do the singing duties but he doesn't agree... Sorry to clutter the forum with nonsense but I'm still frothing from it

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1339409518' post='1687918'] This question comes up pretty often so I wrote a brief article on the topic [url="http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/gear_maintenance/making_it_loud.html"]http://www.ultimate-...ng_it_loud.html[/url] The advice you are getting is pretty sound all round and for your budget you should find something fairly useful I'd also recommend Peavey or Ashdown secondhand. Good Luck [/quote] Nicely informative article for someone like me who knows nothing beyond a practice amp I don't quite get the last paragraph though. I read it that to get 120db with a 98db/w speaker at 1 meter you suggest 200w, but if that goes through a 95db/w speaker then it needs a 400w head, or only 100w with a 102db/w speaker? Told you I knew nothing! I'm cogitating over a GK MB200 and a BF Compact, but that's way in the future and only if things go right at the moment

[quote name='EskimoBassist' timestamp='1344979086' post='1772037'] That Peterson tuner is a seriously nice piece of kit, as is your TC Compressor. If I was going to have a totally minimal set up I'd be very tempted by just using the Peterson on it's own, especially with the modelling DI stuff built in. [/quote] I was more commenting on the board made from an old drawer front and pedals held on with bent brackets and chipboard screws than what was actually on it, but thank you for the comments about the content. I haven't really explored the Peterson beyond the tuning capability and noting that it has a DI output, what's the modelling DI function?

My board!!! And I would think that there aren't many quite as shockingly bad as this one It was supposed to be quick and dirty as I need one for Sunday, but whilst it's certainly dirty it wasn't as quick as it could have been, re-bending and filing these angle brackets to fit took about two hours and I think I've broken my vice... It's only a stop-gap until I build my nice one I've got planned, which will be mostly made of 19" rack parts, but thought you might like a laugh

Bought a Boss ODB-3, turned up safe and well as described a day or two later. No faff with payment or dispatch, an all round good egg

When you say reverse pup I presume you mean that the D-G half is in front of the E-A half? Apart from a different look, does it make it sound different? I can't imagine it would, but always happy to be proved wrong

I'm not keen on the shape, there's something funny about the horns, even though the long truss-rod cover is quite cool, but that's only my opinion. Why does no-one ever mention Lemmy when suggesting a list of Ric players? Don't you like him? (I'm a bit fuzzy from a pub lunch, so excuse me if I seem a bit blunt )

It's my dad's workhop not mine, but I do use it occasionaly. It's a water pump for his Simplex, he can't get the injectors to work and the eccentric pump is worn out. He's actually stopped making locomotives and got into clocks at the moment.

I got this Aria Pro II Magna Series 5er from eBay maybe seven or eight years ago. It's got a made in Korea sticker on the neck heel and I think it plays nicely. Over the years however things have started getting a bit flaky. So... Take one perfectly usable bass and put it on a bench... Whip the machine heads off to replace with tasty "new" Schaller M4's with Made in W Germany stamped on them Replace the bridge with a real new Schaller 3D5 Things got interesting at the pointy end. On offering up the Schallers we found that the collar is 12mm, while the originals are 14mm. To really make a mess, the holes on the head that the tuners go through are 15mm, no wonder the B tuner was broken. We made some sleeves with an appropriate ID and OD I don't have a picture of the sleeves in situ because I forgot and it means de-stringing and taking the tuner out so you'll have to trust me they're in there Once the metalwork is sorted, take the pups out, empty the control cavity and add the new controls Put the new pups in. Why is nothing simple? EMG don't supply springs and the originals were chocked up with a bit of high density foam. Plus the new pups are smaller than the old by enough to mean drilling new screw holes, fingers crossed I don't go through the back... Mr Maplin saves the day with a box of 150 springs for £2.99. I only want 8 springs, but springs and P&P from the 'net is over a fiver... Control cavity wired up, and I bet that you are all laughing at me now.. The poxy battery didn't fit!!!! Re jigged to get it all in. Cleaned and restrung, the finished article As a bit of a teaser, here is the old plywood body from my P Copy. A new eBay body and the neck are in the garage awaiting new paint, plus there's a pedal board in the offing, so watch this space as they say.

My guitar. I got the neck from a friend at school, he bought it as a working guitar, pale blue metallic Strat copy with twin humbuckers and a coil tap. Somewhere along the line it lost its body and I got the neck. The body came from a parts ad in the back of Guitarist and then got abused. The frount routed body got capped with a thin layer of wood where necessary and the control cavity was drilled through to allow access from the back. The floating bridge had the bit under the string clamps milled out to allow for pull up bends and after muchos filling and sanding it was treated to a couple of rattle cans of metallic green, I think it's a Vauxhall colour, but I can't remember. I'm fairly sure that the pups are Kent Armstrong but quite honestly, it's been so long that I've forgotten. It may be a collection of bits, but it was me wot done it, it's mine and I love it

Not personally, but I once followed someone through a village who drove into the back of a parked car whilst fiddling with the stereo. The boot of the parked car was loaded with a drum kit waiting to go to a gig...

DragonForce @ Rock City 2nd/3rd October, one or the other, which ever one they're there for Anthrax/Motorhead @ DeMontfort in Leicester, 11th November.

I'll probably give myself GAS with this, but... What do you guys use to record practice or general muck-about sessions? At it's simplest I'm thinking of a mic attached to a huge hard disk, which sounds like I've answered my own question - a laptop with a mic attached, but is that really the best answer?

Shep, You've cracked it! Swapped everything around so the comp follows the NG and they both follow the pedals and no funny whistle. Thanks very much for your help and sharing your expertise

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1340964519' post='1712052'] Ah - I have only just realised!!! You are using the noise gate BEFORE the noisy pedal!!! Ha. Yes.... put it after otherwise it will do NOTHING! I assume you were using the ins and outs of the separate inputs on the back to isolate the pedal? Wish I'd noticed that 1st! lol. Id suggest just putting the nova dynamics inline so only one input and one output is in use and use engine A as a NG and engine B as a compressor. [/quote] I am using it after the ODB-3, it goes through the EQ - COMP - ODB-3 - NG. The port allocations are: EQ to Input A, Output A to ODB-3, ODB-3 to Input B then Output B to the amp. I'll try using it inline with the engines the other way around as you suggest though and see what happens. Thanks again for sparing the time to assit

Thanks for all the info, it's clearly me not actually understanding what I'm trying to achieve rather than a problem with anything I've got. Especial thanks for clarifying the TC instructions, and you think the signal chain should look something like: BASS - GE7B - ODB-3 - COMP - NG - AMP? It's worth a try, I know very little about effects beyond what it says on the box! [quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1340957751' post='1711912'] Hope some of that helps and I'm not just teaching you to suck eggs... [/quote] I can't imagine that anyone on here can teach me to suck eggs, especially once you get beyond a 25w practice amp and a GE7-B

Morning all, I need a little help with my noise gate. I've got a TC Nova Dynamics, which I'm using the first half as a compressor and the second as a noise gate. The signal chain is BASS - GE7-B - COMP - ODB-3 - NG - AMP Either I have misunderstood what a noise gate actually does (most likely) or I'm going it wrong but... With the ODB-3 on there is quite a lot of hiss, a bit like wind through a gap if that makes sense. I can dial it out using the threshold control so that whilst doing nothing it's not there. All hunky dory, then once I start playing as the note decays the noise comes back for a bit. It's OK with a run of notes just at the fade/decay part of the sustain you notice it. Any ideas? I realise it's little difficult troubleshooting a sound issue on the internet but thought I'd ask Another thing I noticed with the ODB-3 on is that held notes just disappear into a fuzzy mush, but that's a user fault

I've got three 9v and a 12v set-up, but the Harley Denton box looks mahoosive, which is a shame as it's a darn sight cheaper than the Gig-Rig stuff. Still, I've not built my pedal board yet, so it's all a bit academic at the moment Alternatively, does anyone know whether a TC Nova Dynamics will run on 9v without ill effect?

Another slighty random question with a multitude of answers I suspect, but can a particular amp manufacturers "sound" be defined, ie, all Ashdown's are very middle biased, all Trace's are tinny and thin and all GK's are are bass heavy and turn your gizzards to mush? Just curious, and I realise that the playing sound depends upon the player, the bass, the cabs and the room acoustics, but if you took a range of amps and set everything to flat what differences between them would you hear? You can tell I'm not really sure what I'm talking about in my posts... I know the sound I like, quite middley with a bit of top end to bring out the G and a non muddy B/E, I can get it most of the time with my EQ pedal, but if I have to start looking at a bigger than 15w combo where would I begin? The Bass shop in Warwick after reading a lot of these gear posts!