FJ1200

[quote name='s_u_y_*' post='181818' date='Apr 21 2008, 01:38 PM']Really? I always found tuners on PODS on anything but Pro series were slightly slow to register. Nothing too annoying though.[/quote] Does have a slight delay but find I can tune much quicker with that than with my battery one.

[quote name='bassace' post='183458' date='Apr 23 2008, 07:50 AM']I use IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) from good ol' Maplin. They call it Electronic Cleaning Solvent and it goes for about £10 per litre can. I use it to clean the URB strings in situ once a week.[/quote] I thought IPA was banned by the HSE. We used to use it where I was working years ago and had to change.

I use one all the time but if no tuner present I use 5th and 7th fret harmonics. I have a small LCD Yamaha tuner that my daughter keeps pinching, otherwise my Bass POD XTL has a superb tuner, very easy to use and mutes when in tuning mode. Takes but a matter of seconds to get it right. You can even change the frequency - came set at 435Hz out of the box. I checked up (ok - Gooled) on the pitch and it goes back beyond the 1950's and earlier regarding international arguments over what frequency A above middle C should be. I changed it to 440 and so far it's been spot on ever since. Britain wanted 452hz at one time. I don't care what we use - I just want to be in tune with everyone else. See [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music)[/url] for more info.

Had a bowl-backed CL Clarissa Bass for years. In 1986-ish whilst living in France I'd put it down on the sideboard to go and make some coffee, and as I turned round caught the strap. being a bowl-back it just rolled off the side - and I didn't catch it in time! Split the binding along the top, small crack in the top varnish, not nice. Was discussing with the good Doctor OTB last night about getting her fixed up. Action is very high so will be looking to get it lowered considerably at the same time. Maybe new pickup as well..... hmmmm..... new paint job..... hmmmmm ... ££££££££

That's a lovely looking plank. Now will yer PLEEEASE tell us what you paid for it?? Huh? Huh? C'mon - it's only us... We won't tell... ... will we guys?

I play just like that. Then it's morning and I have to I wake up! He makes it look so effortless too.

[quote name='Galilee' post='177468' date='Apr 15 2008, 11:17 PM']Hi, I'm Stuart and I'm in Kent. Been playing bass (and singing) for over 20 years. I've only just stumbled across this forum and I've lurked for a week or so. It looks active and friendly here, so I'm looking forward to hanging around a bit. [/quote] Welcome to the nuthouse!

[quote name='Jase' post='177469' date='Apr 15 2008, 11:20 PM']Aye, they have. It's weird, I was 17 then...SEVENTEEN!!!! or 16, can't remember [/quote] Photos in a cupboard currently buried behind a stack of laminate flooring packs! ...I feel a new thread coming on - photos of a bygone age of the megabands in concert (or similar drivel). Quo "End of the Road Tour", Selhurst Park - front row anyone? Closeup of Phil Lynott doing his stuff?

Remember how in the 80's cassettes were the new evil? People recorded albums to play in their cars or on the new Sony Walkman and the record industry cried out that it would die. But it didn't. Fat cats got fatter, made more money than ever. Then they tried putting a signal on the album that would render copying impossible but it didn't work. I don't know what the future is or - as has been said - if there is one. The internet has not so much moved the goalposts as changed the game beyond all recognition. I think they need a new business model as some bands are starting to realise and are starting to pioneer. Watching with interest.

[quote name='Jase' post='177131' date='Apr 15 2008, 04:06 PM']Yes, it's all coming back now.....Gillan saying he knew each of us buggers by name..haha. Lesley West with Mountain...I think????? You HAVE to get those pics up...I too had a tape many moons ago, isn't it available on cd now, not sure??? I have very hazy memories of the guy with the flag [/quote] Wants to be on DVD! Mega bash it were! All them yung'uns have missed out....!

Blimey! Some list! Sort-of recognise one or two... Going as a spectator to my first Open Mic night Thursday (I think) - see if I have the guts to do a sesh next time round!

[quote name='johnnylager' post='177085' date='Apr 15 2008, 02:58 PM']Blackfoot & Mountain. Hmmm, Blackfoot tribute band, hmmm... [/quote] [url="http://www.blackfootrocks.com"]http://www.blackfootrocks.com[/url] - they're back! Do you remember the bloke that climbed onto the roof of the stage to wave a flag? What about the hints being given out months before on the Friday Rock Show (R1) that Purple were re-forming and then finally the announcement? I think Gillan was doing the show himself that night - used to stand in sometimes. Has his own rock show now.

[quote name='FJ1200' post='177082' date='Apr 15 2008, 02:56 PM'][i][b]Gotta [/b][/i]do the flares and freakey shirts, man!! [u][/u][/quote] (<hijack> Saw DP at the Return of the Knebworth Fayre in the 80's - what a gig that was! Slept in my mate's lime-green Marina and froze. Ian Gillan sitting on the stage saying "I know each of you buggers by name..", refered to the new album as "Perfect Street Rangers" - Started off with Highway Star with the DP logo spinning at the back in lasers... ahh - happy days! Also in attendance - The Scorpions, Meatloaf (with broken arm/leg), Blackfoot (what happened to them?), and loadsa great bands. I'll be forced to dig out the photos now... Radio 1 played the full concert a few weeks later - I have it on tape somewhere. </hijack>)

[quote name='AndyMartin' post='176727' date='Apr 14 2008, 10:41 PM']But that's the best part of doing a Purple Tribute [/quote] [i][b]Gotta [/b][/i]do the flares and freakey shirts, man!! [u][/u]

[quote name='bassbloke' post='174428' date='Apr 11 2008, 11:28 AM']I'm afraid I have to be contrary and disagree with most of the suggestions put forward. These are songs with very strong basslines, but they're not defined by their basslines. Play any of the songs below to the average layman and they'll twig what the song is - I have tested these on my wife. Money - Pink Floyd - definitely. O'Jays - For the love of Money Fleetwood Mac - The Chain[/quote] Actually - he's right and kind of what I was alluding to - see the tracks I put forward - play Money to someone and they'll know it instantly. Or Another one bites the Dust, and so on. Some of the songs mentioned have strong bass lines, yes, but are they what people remember the song by? perhaps I should have been more explicit - sorry - sort of where the bass is the lead instrument if you like.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='173624' date='Apr 10 2008, 08:04 AM']Can't think of any more modern ones because I'm too much of an old g*t [/quote] I'm with you on that one... ! (Lou Reid - Walk on the Wild Side - one of my faves!) Some great stuff here and tracks I'd forgotten about / don't know. Fun though.

Sometimes it seems bass players are seen as inferior to guitarists and even drummers, especially in some music shops and by some equipment manufacturers, and yet some of the best and all-time classic songs are defined by their bass lines, songs like: Money, Radar Love, Another One Bites the Dust, The Chain, Billy Idol's version of Mony Mony (I know, simple - but great to drive to played loud!) to name just a few. So to arm ourselves against those who look down their noses at us - how many "bass-player's" tracks can we find - songs old and new that are immediately recognisable simply by the bass line?

Yup - me too. S'wot it's there for, init?

[quote name='cheddatom' post='169147' date='Apr 3 2008, 01:26 PM']Theres a big new zoom bass pedal coming out that might have it?[/quote] The B9.2U or something? Depending on how good it is I may trade my POD in.... may not, mind. Might have to have them both! GASsing again!

[quote name='stevie' post='168280' date='Apr 2 2008, 11:46 AM']I just thought it was a guitar amp because of what it said on the eBay ad, but I think you probably do have a bass amp. It looks exactly the same as mine and FJ's as far as I can see. Ohm did produce a range of guitar amps at around the same time - so I wonder why they called these GA (and why mine is a GA125)? Stephen[/quote] GA = Graphic Amplifier? As opposed to parametric. Dunno otherwise. Does yours have a 6-band graphic on the front? It does after all say 'Graphic Bass Amplifier' on the front of mine.... Just a thunk.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='169108' date='Apr 3 2008, 12:54 PM']I have a B2 and I'm quite embarrased to only just find out it has a slow attack. I'll try it when I get a chance.[/quote] Having said that.... Looks like it doesn't. Which is odd, I was looking at the B2.1u before getting the POD and it was one of the things that drew me to it.... must have been looking at the wrong thing somewhere then.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='168939' date='Apr 3 2008, 10:03 AM']what do you mean by looper, an effects loop or a sample loop?[/quote] Sample loop There's a slow attack on the Korg AX3000B that's gorgeous, and I want one, but there's not much else on there that's not on the POD. I know the Zoom B2-range have a slow attack, but haven't sampled them. Any takers on that one? they are pretty cheap.

The POD XTL is good for some things, but theres a bit missing and I'm not a huge user of pedals but the Korg AX3000B has given me some ideas so I'd like people's opinions on the best way to go cos looking at the pedal boards on here there are more experienced people out there with them than me! I'm considering: Pitch Shifter Slow Attack Looper Don't have a buge budget - OK - I don't have ANY budget - but need to know what I'm planning on spending.

This is my Ohm GA140 1 x 15" Combo. Interested to see the head version. Had this 15 years or so, and still love it though it's a bit heavy lifting it into the back of a Fiesta! Like busses - haven't seen another one in 15 years then 2 come along together! The compressor on mine is quite good I think, doesn't change the sound too much, but with the Bass POD XTL I bypass everything, just use the Effects send/return and let the POD do all the work.

[quote name='Frusty' post='167783' date='Apr 1 2008, 04:02 PM']Interesting that they can do LED's on guitars so cheap.[/quote] Apparently they come out of a high-quality factory in - yup, you guessed it - China. Cheap labour = cheap goods, I suppose. I'd like to try one out though.