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I [sometimes] use a [url="http://www.johnnyshredfreak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=12&zenid=a4c2912268abfc4033fac665bc0bb0f6"]johnnyshredfreak[/url] Diago-a-like & it's fine with me MultiComp. Dave Hall says - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=49055&view=findpost&p=489712"]The issue is ... regulation, poor regulation and it will hum.[/url]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='493111' date='May 20 2009, 11:23 AM']Used to play Slinkies, now play Hartkes. £6 a set and better IMO.[/quote] Hmmm, £6? Might have a punt next time. Shame that A's a 0.080 though. The one thing I'm not with the Ox on. EDIT: General question - why 45, 65, [b]80[/b], 105 and not [b]85[/b]? Mebbe I should give it a go, I do a lot of A-string chugging though.

[quote name='teej' post='492663' date='May 19 2009, 08:35 PM']There seems to be, in this thread and others, an under-current of misunderstanding concerning the exact nature of a career in music. I'm paying my mortgage and supporting my kids making music, maybe only having to work 2 days a week to do so. Spare time spent on the allotment growing organic food, reading and learning about stuff that interests me, playing with my kids. The standard of my playing is improving year on year, as are my earnings. I'm not rich, you've never heard of me, but I think I'm successful. A couple of gigs and a day busking is all I need to live pretty comfortably: we had home-made sushi for lunch, a chilli made with steak for dinner, and once the kids have gone to bed we'll be mixing mojitos and chilling out. And I'm looking forward to going back to work on Saturday. [/quote] You Sir, are the man and respect to you [as I believe the young-'uns might say]. I suspect any of us would love to do this, I know I would.

'ello mate, welcome. Plus de Frenchies ici. Probably. Good choice in music, nice gear.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='493010' date='May 20 2009, 09:48 AM']This world is full of retards.[/quote] Ain't that the cotton pickin' truth, boi.

Been using Hybrid nickel & SS Slinkys on and off for 20-odd years on every bass I've owned - I always come back to them and won't be moving away again. Recently tried some Lo-Riders that lasted half a gig before going off and some cheapy nickel Rotos that were ok, but weren't Slinkys. Better than those piece-of-sh*t-took-6-weeks-to-arrive-and-lasted-20-minutes DR's though.

Received a BassBalls of Chris yesterday. Well, I think it's a BassBalls, my 18 month old daughter & I spent about an hour last last night failing to get into a very well packed parcel Cheers mate!

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='492262' date='May 19 2009, 12:18 PM']I thought the para was for guitars and bass for bass?[/quote] The Para was originally called the Acoustic DI, it's the pedal version of the RPM rack pre. Best SansAmp I've used for bass - not an EBS or DHA though <Glad you still like it Paulo, see you're playing in Eastbourne, I'll try to get over.>

Ask him if he's got any books. Elom's book is AWOL.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='489604' date='May 16 2009, 10:22 AM']How about masking tape?[/quote] +1

[quote name='eude' post='491985' date='May 18 2009, 10:55 PM']+ 1 Awesome cables, great price and a very very quick custom service Eude[/quote] +1. Monster speaker cables, thick as a thick thing. EDIT: On thick day in Thickton.

Do you always go on stage with 3 life size cardboard cut-outs? I wouldn't trust that gadgey on the right. [quote name='Machines' post='490669' date='May 17 2009, 05:12 PM'][/quote]

It's not called the music [i]business[/i] for nowt, indeed it was a lot easier in the late 80's / early 90's.

[quote name='RhysP' post='490976' date='May 17 2009, 11:00 PM']It's the other way with me - I started off liking narrow Jazz bass type necks & ended up prefering chunkier ones.[/quote] Yep. 41-odd mm nut width [Spector 41.8mm, 'Ray 41.3mm, 70's & on P 41.2mm] all the way now. 38mm [Jazz] became too small and always found 44mm [vintage P] too big. All sizes approximate.

[quote name='carlitos71' post='491215' date='May 18 2009, 11:17 AM']So anybody with Wizard or Bare Knuckle pickups got anything to say?[/quote] Yep. Had some Wizard 84's in me old Ged Jazz - lovely kit. Email or phone Andy at Wizard, tell him what you want and he'll tell you what he can do, you don't necessarily have to stick with stock.

[quote name='Hamster' post='487436' date='May 13 2009, 11:22 PM']Whose got it now, and when did you get it?! [/quote] And would you like this first?

I've 'done' a few drummists over the years, I still talk to all of them and they often come to our gigs. Honesty is the best policy, playing a sh*t gig with them is also another option. I was once sacked from a hair metal band because I wouldn't buy one of these in white. Wish I had now.

[quote name='Merton' post='489589' date='May 16 2009, 10:03 AM']Well, I have the same amp and I hoping to have the same cab very soon. Not copying you, honest! This rig is immense yet compact, love it [/quote] And I will soon have the idiots version of this rig. Good choice men.

[quote name='The Funk' post='488899' date='May 15 2009, 02:05 PM']I was going to suggest a Conklin 13-string.[/quote] But mind out for the F-14's trying to land on it.

[quote name='JackLondon' post='488743' date='May 15 2009, 12:07 PM'][b]I haven't tried the Big One so I can't tell how loud it will go[/b] but as far as I remember one of the owners said something along those lines ''You would have to be f*&king crazy to have 2 of them''[/quote] I have. Very f***ing loud indeed mate. I have one on order. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=46780"]Comments[/url].

I can't remember who's really old P I was fortunate enough to have a quick noodle on at the SEBB last year [and my sincere apologies for that] but it was great and I'd have that over the VMP I briefly had any day, ditto the CIJ 50th anniversary P me mate has. The others were good, but there was something about the old one that was just, I don't know, much much better. I felt bloody scared holding it though. I'll have a pair of 1970 Fenders one day, it's me birth year see. Tomorrow mebbe, when the lotto comes in. EDIT: It was Sixshooters, so that makes it a '59. Carry on.

[quote name='OldGit' post='488545' date='May 15 2009, 09:38 AM']What's the TV logo?[/quote] The biggun. Big on the telly, see. [attachment=25260:55U_3713...ck_front.jpeg]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='488512' date='May 15 2009, 09:09 AM']It's gonna end in tears.[/quote] Yep, mine. From laughing. No-one on here is it?

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='488467' date='May 15 2009, 08:14 AM']With a rig and bases like that, plus your other half looking like she does, you should be banned from this site immediately! [/quote] Aye, but we can glean valuable succor from the fact Sean must get chips caught in them bones he has through his lip and the milk must dribble out during breakfast

Result, happy days!