thepurpleblob

[quote name='MB1' post='265860' date='Aug 19 2008, 08:22 PM']MB1. Hello Howard. Great Buyer! Quick Transaction....paid promptly and arranged collection swiftly!.Hope your happy with the cab,should be with you soon!. also....Many Thanks To The Local Dentist,without whose Help non of this would have been Possible! All The Best! Martin.[/quote] That's a damn good dentist who'll go and pick up Ashdown cabs as well as drill my teeth. Great transaction - thanks :-)

Purchased an Ashdown 2x10 cab from Martin and although it hasn't actually found it's way to me yet I sent my dentist round to get it (!) and am assured that Martin is a really nice bloke who lives in a dead big house Thanks mate !!

[quote name='iain173' post='265210' date='Aug 19 2008, 08:43 AM']Wonderful - thanks! I'm going to pop to Denmak Street on Saturday and investigate. It sounds like the EBS would be a good option. Can anyone recommend a decent tuner? I quite like the look of the Boss TU-2 since I use it quite easily in a live setting too. Any thoughts? Thanks for all the help on this by the way guys (= and girls?). I[/quote] You can't go wrong with a TU-2. Korg make a vast range of tuners too. The DT-10 seems to be popular if you want a stomp-box tuner. If you want to be really fancy there's Petersen strobe tuners, e.g. the StroboStomp which has the best name if nothing else. I've never used one but they're supposedly the dogs thingies.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='264037' date='Aug 17 2008, 05:52 PM']If you don't like it f*ck off.[/quote] Mmm.... harsh yet somehow fair

[quote name='josh3184' post='263776' date='Aug 16 2008, 10:17 PM']lol, I thought you were the seller taking the piss [/quote] nope... just blind/stupid

2,000 bucks! Phew! You could get a nice new one and have enough left over for a night out *with* curry! BTW.... why do old Fender owners insist on pulling the neck off to check the date. I refuse to beleive that it's not wearing the screw holes - i.e. doing damage. Leave it alone :-)

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='263737' date='Aug 16 2008, 08:50 PM']Hasn't this been up for sale on this forum for aaaaages?[/quote] Has it? I might get it for a tenner then Yup: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23341"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23341[/url]

I really like Yamaha TRBs (no Jap manufacturers in the list!) and have two. However, the sound is just a little too laid back for the stuff I play live so I always take my MM Stingray to gigs. I usually carry along my Precision Fretless for a couple of songs and as a backup (in theory, but I hope I never have to play a full set on the fretless)

Stumbled across this on EvilBay.... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120292115553"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120292115553[/url] I am completely ignorant about Ibanez basses, that is don't know what models are cheap/expensive good/bad. This looks gorgeous though. Anybody know anything about it?

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='263598' date='Aug 16 2008, 02:24 PM']But the EBS Mircobass II is much better, but also cost more.[/quote] I guess any of those quality preamp/DI boxes are a much better idea than the 20quid specials you get in many studios. If it's yours you'll (hopefully) know how to work it too. On a budget, even one of those Hartke VXL things is a lot better than nothing.

[quote name='iain173' post='263526' date='Aug 16 2008, 11:18 AM']As for recording, I think I see what you mean about going DI. I wasn't aware of the sans-amp unit you mentioned, thepurpleblob. I had a look on their website (I assume this is it: [url="http://www.tech21nyc.com/bassdriver.html)"]http://www.tech21nyc.com/bassdriver.html)[/url] and it looks quite interesting. Is this basically something that connects the bass to the recording system so that you can alter the tone before it gets recorded? Again, forgive me if this is obvious, but could we just go straight into the recording system and chage the tone etc afterwards or is the sans-amp for a different use? Thanks again Iain[/quote] No... it don't work that way. The mixing desk takes a balanced input (not the low level unbalanced from your bass) and isn't designed to EQ bass anyway. The sans-amp is pretty much the industry standard.

Get a sans-amp for the studio and for plugging into the house PA. It's all you need as they say. As for an amp.... piece of string, how long is a? I'm going to suggest that almost anything from a reputable company is much of a muchness *really* - Ashdown, Ampeg, MarkBass, Eden..... etc. for ever!!!

It was probably all just bad planning.... I was in NYC for a week earlier this year and pretty much hated the place. Too noisy, too busy, just another big city. I failed miserably to find any decent music venues at all!! Oh well :-)

[quote name='Bassmurf' post='260734' date='Aug 12 2008, 12:01 PM']Can anyone help? I've recently changed the strings on my Fender Geddy Lee from the 45-105 Fender strings to a set of 45-105 DRs' - the other strings are fine but it appears that when I play a powerchord high up (say for instance an F on the D string and a C on the Gstring) the note from the G seems to be out a little out. When I changed the strings I changed them one at the time which when I owned a Precision seemed to work ok! Any ideas? Cheers Dan[/quote] Yeh - if you change your strings you need to check the intonation. Even if it's the same make/gauge strings. That thing about changing one string at a time is nonsense. Whip 'em off, give it a clean, and put 'em back

I know they seem to get some variable press but I've used SoundsLive a few times with no bother at all ([url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/[/url]) Of course, the real answer is that you should be supporting your local music store

[quote name='leonshelley01' post='260393' date='Aug 11 2008, 10:08 PM']Had the same problem myself in the past. We had a "band meeting" (few beers) and exited those who were unreliable and replaced them. Whilst the new guitarist is not as good, he turns up every week, is enthusiatic and learns the songs before rehearsal. So maybe we don't sound as good as we used to, but at least we are now gigging regularly again![/quote] My money is on people who turn up and learn their parts every day over raw skill (particularly as I fall into that group myself!!). The first lot will practice and get better. The second lot will still be a pain in the arse. If people aren't interested and won't put the work in I doubt they'll change. Walk away or sack them as appropriate.

[quote name='gary mac' post='259128' date='Aug 10 2008, 08:41 AM']thanks for all the replies chaps. Guess I should buy a meter before trying anything else, or maybe just get a grown up to fix it for me. I was really hoping to carry out this work myself for the satisfaction, but I'm finding it a struggle. Its hard to hold the soldering iron, the solder, the wire and the all important magnifying glass! At risk of making myself look even more of a doughnut brain, could it be the wrong type of solder? The one I'm using is 5 core solder. Thanks again.[/quote] You'd probably have trouble buying the wrong kind of solder unless you where in a plumbers merchant!! As you've noticed it's tricky with only two hands. The best thing is to always try and get a good mechanical connection before you solder - put the wire through the hole and/or twist. At a push - and only when there's no other way - put a blob of solder on the thing to solder, do the same on the wire (it's called tinning) then (without the solder wire) heat the two together. It's a good way to get dry joints so don't make it a habit. Another tip, always heat untill you can see the solder go liquid and flow into the joint and remove the heat after the solder. Not getting enough heat in is a bad thing too. Make sure your soldering iron tip is clean and well tinned and make sure everything is clean.

[quote name='escholl' post='259040' date='Aug 9 2008, 09:25 PM']*shrug* the graphite tracks are quite thin where they connect to the tabs. maybe it's just me who's done it, idk, was in a rush that day. :blush: [/quote] Of course you carefully scraped the tags clean before you tried soldering to them!! I've done *much* more stupid things. One day I'll tell you how I replaced an expensive surface mount processor in a very expensive DVD player upside down

[quote name='escholl' post='259022' date='Aug 9 2008, 08:50 PM']good point. although even if the other side of the pot wasn't connected to ground, there should still be a signal through the pot. either way, you can get a decent meter from maplin for about 8 pounds or so, and it's one of those things that's just really useful to have around anyways. if you can get one, or borrow one, etc. then that'd be the place to start.[/quote] True enough, it just strikes me that you'd have to go some to cook a pot as they have quite a bit of thermal mass. But.......

[quote name='stylonpilson' post='253903' date='Aug 3 2008, 08:21 PM']The plastic battery snap on my bass guitar broke apart, so I figured I'd try to replace it myself. The original was connected to a little 2.5mm TRS plug, so I took this out and soldered on a replacement battery snap. Now I seem to have a really bad ground loop, making itself known as a rather loud hum that disappears when I touch the relevant parts of the instrument. Does it seem likely that the ground loop was caused by: 1. Poor soldering (haven't done any since school) 2. Inadequate part (ie the replacement battery snap) or 3. Inadequate shielding round the base of the TRS plug Thanks in advance. S.P.[/quote] Assuming it wasn't there before. I would check very carefully that you haven't dislodged any wires or troubled an existing dry joint or bad connections. Lifting the board out and use a bright light - look carefully for any dull or broken solder connections.

[quote name='gary mac' post='258867' date='Aug 9 2008, 03:42 PM']Hope someone can help a stressed out bass chatter. I've just taken delivery of a pair of Wizard pickups for my Jazz and decided I fancied the challenge of installing them myself. So, yesterday I purchased a soldering iron and this morning started the procedure. I am starting to wish I hadn't now. Finally got it all soldered up and put back together, but the neck pickup is not functioning. Checked it all out again and the problem seems to be with the white cable that I've soldered to the middle lug of the neck pot. Just can't seem to get it right. If I attach the white cable to the lug with the red cables (That feed off to the bridge pot) it works but with no control to the volume. Hope I have explained myself clearly, any help would be hugely appreciated. Cheers, all the best Gary.[/quote] Without seeing a proper diagram it's hard to be specific (I don't know what the "white wire" does). However, a faulty pot is a possibility but so is the remaining terminal on the pot not being connected properly. I would think it should be connected to ground. Usually that means connected to the case of the pot and then the case of the other pot(s) and all sorts of other stuff. A cheap meter is almost as important as a soldering iron - without that you can't check anything - you're just guessing which isn't much use.

If they didn't want Mustang Sally, they wouldn't wear that stupid white dress, have that stupid big cake and/or pretend they are a practicing Christian for three weeks

[quote name='mewsie' post='258249' date='Aug 8 2008, 04:01 PM']+1 we use Joomla for a lot of our web stuff, its really simple if you want to simply plonk stuff into a template, but you can tinker with it quite a lot if you want to customise it. x[/quote] I'm a big Joomla fan and use it for a lot of commercial sites. I not completely convinced that the learning curve warrants it's use for a simple, two or three page band site though.