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I would stay away from any bass with a twisted neck, unless you're planning to replace it. AFAIK Ernie Ball will sell you a replacement neck if you send them the knackered one, not sure if you can get any third-party necks for a Sterling but if a Stingray neck will fit it you could get a graphite replacement from [url="http://www.status-graphite.com/status/carts3/frames/frame1.htm"]Status[/url] for £300.

[quote name='Jonny Walker' post='208446' date='May 28 2008, 10:24 PM']Why you in here then??? you shure you dont have a secret metal desire ?[/quote] You asked how many of us play metal. I didn't want you to get the impression that we all do (or even would ).

Metal's about the only thing I would refuse to play. Well, that and country. If I had a choice of playing metal, playing country, or shagging Beth Ditto I'd pick country.

I don't buy Fenders any more because the two that I did buy both fell to pieces after 6 months of gigging. I would buy an older Fender if I found one I liked, but I would never buy another new one.

[quote name='edstraker123' post='204608' date='May 22 2008, 10:04 PM']The pedals I have are : ... how would users link these in the chain ?[/quote] Personally: EHX octave multiplexer EHX bass micro synth qtron EHX black finger compressor Pickle Pie fuzz Wah Boss Bass EQ EHX stereo electric mistress Boss Bass chorus Line6 DL4 delay modeller Again, not sure what I'd do with the EQ. Compressor before fuzz to avoid compressing fuzz, fuzz before wah but after q-tron so you've got envelope options both before and after the fuzz, octave-tracking devices at the start. And I'd stick that BMS (at least) in a true-bypass loop if I were you.

[quote name='Muppet' post='203933' date='May 21 2008, 10:24 PM']It's a great octave, isn't it? especially with two octaves down! I bought an original one in the eighties, brand new as my first ever effects pedal and sold it a couple of years ago for well over £100. I'm glad to hear MI Audio are doing a clone, I might look at it (though I guess it's not cheap in itself)[/quote] One went on eBay yesterday for £50-ish. Was considering having it myself but fell asleep...

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='204261' date='May 22 2008, 01:29 PM']Amongst the "famous users" cited as having one of these is Hui-Chieh Chien ... wonderfully described as an [i]Over Top Musican[/i]. That's what I want to be when I grow up.[/quote] Fantastic! Who wouldn't want that next to their name on the album credits.

Looks like a fun gig. Love that Streamer - wouldn't dare play it myself.

My main bass is a Thumb 4. It's a nice old one (91), I don't know if the newer ones are any different. The neck profile is a bit... unconventional, I agree. But not in a bad way IMO. It has more depth to it, somewhere to put your thumb. Maybe they're better suited to players with longer fingers. I had a Corvette Proline 6 a few years back, that was a bolt-on made in whatever year they started making them (guessing by the two-digit serial number), and I really liked the neck on that, too. It's still the only 6 I've played that felt immediately natural when I first picked it up, but to be fair I don't make a habit of picking up 6-string basses. Horses for courses and all that, but I really like them. I was thinking about buying another one about an hour ago.

Current girlfriend's not so keen. She's either silent or patronising. She actually left the house the other day when a friend was over helping me make hilarious laser noises.

[quote name='The Funk' post='202514' date='May 19 2008, 11:25 PM']During the audition, check out the drummer.[/quote] If you click with the drummer the gig's probably yours. So if you want the gig, talk to the drummer a lot and really pay attention to him when you're playing - chances are nobody else in the band does, so he'll be keen to have you back.

[quote name='dood' post='202513' date='May 19 2008, 11:25 PM']John Turner is a very nice chap too. Helped me choose my Conklin 7 string way back when. It's always nice to see the ERB bashing is alive and well [/quote] I'm not doubting that he's a nice guy, but if he'd spent a few grand on a really ostentatious hat I'd take the piss out of that, too. It just so happens that in this case it's a bass guitar. Maybe it sounds nice, I don't know, I just don't like the look of it. I suppose when you pay for a bespoke guitar the chances are you're the only person who'll like the way it looks, unless you happen to have excellent taste.

It would be an interesting talking point as a coffee table.

Figure out their songs note-for-note, try to cop the tone too - if they're established songs then they probably don't want your input on them (or if they do, you'll find out when you get together to rehearse). Leave your pedalboard at home or take off all the stuff that you think is capable of frightening a guitarist.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='201325' date='May 18 2008, 12:21 AM']the freq box sucks, big time, i was so gutted when i tried it last week, from what iv heard about it i was really quite excited, but god it was awful, passive/active/3 different amps, sounded sh*te on pretty much all settings [/quote] Did you try it through a low-pass filter to round off the corners off a bit? I think it's a really nice-sounding osc. Not sure if it's useful enough to justify £200 though.

Anything that will boost the gain before it gets to your amp, I suppose. So an MXR Micro Amp, maybe? Not sure how you'd deal with the change in level between the clean and dirty sound though.

Just re-wired my board yesterday: Bass -> Tuner -> Q-Tron -> Direct Out -> Boss OC-2 -> EHX BMS -> Return A on an LS-2 -> Effect Out -> Bassballs -> MXR Blowtorch -> IN on the LS-2 Loop B on the LS-2's got a Big Muff in it. It means I can't add distortion to the OC-2 or BMS, but they both sound better without it anyway. I did it this way mainly so I could give my filters and octave generators the same clean bass sound to work with. Out the other side of the LS-2 there's a crappy old DOD gate that needs replacing, a Boss chorus, Echo Park delay, and an LMB-3 that I don't switch on much.

I really want that weird box full of oscillators. I would be bored of it in a day but that day would be great fun.