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Obsidiandesire

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  1. thanks, i've always trusted rotosound strings and so these'll probably be the ones I use!
  2. I have a stonewood bass, It's not even a copy of anything :/ It's not active though, and it'll soon have a pair of medium gauge Rotosound strings on it, they're humbug style pickups, and it's 24 fret, i think that's about it Caught some people messing with it in my school today, all hell unleashed since I'm due to leave soon so i can be assured they won't touch it again
  3. I was supposed to say Flatwound, i always get them confused, I don't know why! I'll look up my local stores before hand when I get the money, and hopefully find a set that I like... I do love cello tuning, and I plan on learning it some time, and a fretless in cello tuning's as close as I can get , I always thought 5ths are a better tuning than 4ths, and it would be much easier to make chords!!
  4. Ok, so I recently got this Ashdown Mag-200, but I have to be ashamed to say I don't know half of the options on it! so i've come here for help, for those not in the know, it's this model (Note: This isn't MINE, just found it on google) I like to play slap, my band usually does stuff along the lines of muse, but with funkier basslines, think Level 42, but i'm not as good as the King I'll be getting it back from the clutches of the stockroom at school (due to a recent move, i had no space to put it ), and so i was wonering the best setup. also, Is it possible to run it through more than just the speaker in it? I believe it doesn't give the amp justice. Umm, this seems like a really short post, so if you need any more info, just tell me, and I'll edit this post EDIT: Mine only seems to have 1 speaker in, however, not the two that are in this one
  5. That's really nice, my stepfather had a stingray at one point and it was gorgeous to play! Somehow I think that this will be the start of a beautiful relationship between one man and his bass
  6. Let's see, about 2 months ago (could even be 3!), I decided that I wasn't using my Ray pierce bass, it's a Jazz lookalike, and my first bass. I really had enough of it, the action was shot and suchlike, so after careful thought, I decided to de-fret it. So, away I hacked at the fretboard (Though I obviously didn't [i]hack[/i], I was very careful!) 20 frets I think in total, might be 19 though... Then my Low E broke on my main bass... which I just robbed off my defretted bass (being sixteen, means I'm skint!), it proceeded to sit in my room, full of holes where there should be frets, and with 3 strings on it. The poor thing was locked in an attic for 7 months prior to this treatment, I sometimes feel as though I'm torturing it. So today, I found some filler lying about, applied it to my bass and voila, I'm trying to pass the time waiting for it to dry. Once sanded and varnished, I plan on buying roundwound strings for it, but i'm in a slight predicament. I would like to put it in cello tuning (CGDA), but obviously normal strings wouldn't exactly go into that tuning without completely killing them. I was wondering if I could actually use cello strings on it, or is it just better to go with EADG and find a cheap cello somewhere? Thanks in advance! Ash EDIT: Also, what sort of price range am I looking at for the strings? I live in the bolton area, and manchester is fairly accessible for me
  7. Huzzah! welcome to the bass players community Good luck playing and all! Remember, guitarists are just failed bassists
  8. Yeah I use a 2.2mm Tortex pick very very rarely... Longview IMO is a very easy song, I recommend some easy rush stuff to show off (does that exist?) or if longview is more your level, some Chili's stuff. (By the way would be a good one with a pick, if you don't mind dropped D) and I have no idea what the exam your going in for is? Would someone enlighten me? PM or otherwise...
  9. This would be the bash in St annes? I may just feel a little out of place being new to the forums and probably quite young and probably not as good as any of you =[ and not having as many basses and not as many amps... i could go on forever Just as long as I get to play a 6 string (which I shall do very badly) and/or a 5 string fretless, i'll be ok Sounds a lot of fun though!
  10. Well in the recording, it's worth noting they recorded about 3 or 4 basses on top of each other? I think just regular distortion on max + octaver like was mentioned above [i]should[/i] work...
  11. Yeah an old singer from one of my bands lives in Ormskirk, isn't the internet such a small place?
  12. and that would be? I lived in Oxton, Birkenhead for 4 years so I may just know the place
  13. I am, Transport will be an issue, but I know the trains around northwest fairly well.... should be fun! Should I bring my bass? If anyone passes through Bolton/Belmont on their way, a lift would be much appreciated!
  14. I was thinking of "Upgrading" one of my bass's... Yes it'd probably cost just as much to buy a new bass, but I'd like the experience in modding them myself. When I get my PC back i'll post a picture of it. For now a descripting will do: 24 fret maplewood neck I forget the name of them, but the tuners with 2 on each side Fairly new unwound strings (medium gauge) Pickup arrangement is like this (and are the same as the one's that came with it) ------- [indent]-------[/indent] -------------- 2 volume one Tone control The action's pretty low and buzz's around the 2nd fret on A + D but i'm gettting that sorted tomorrow hopefully. It's not active anything else you need to know? I'm looking around £100-£200 budget. Oh, and tutorials would be helpfull Bear in mind I hardly know anything about bass
  15. I have a set of pretty new unwound medium gauge strings, I thought they would do the job really.
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