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To solo on any instrument requires an actual understanding of the key that you're playing in, the feel of the song & what benefit it's going to have on the listener. Some songs have brilliant bass solos, other's don't. Some of my fave bass solos are from Billy Sheehan, but then so are some of my least liked. Jazz often makes good use of bass solos whereas the bass can be playing something so sparse it barely sounds like a solo & just a bit with some chords & a couple of bass runs, but done right, it sounds superb. There's many solos on guitar, keyboard, trumpet & so on that sound equally as bad as any you'll hear on bass. It's not the instrument, it's the player.

This... Not his dearest bass by a long shot, but still out of my reach.

Yamaha Attitude has low end??? Has anyone told Mr Sheehan?

I take it the Moog doesn't suit? There's a minimooger Drive which has a filter on it. Might be worth a look too.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1382360166' post='2251104'] would you not just turn down your bass? [/quote] What! & have those pesky guitarisits taking the mick for not being at full whack?

One of my guitarists said he doesn't like Jazz. The other guitarist said "Let's play That's Life" & the first said "I like that song"/

My fave filter, the Moog MF-101. It worked wonderful when my bass was active & works just as well now it's passive. I just turned the "Drive" knob a little further. If you're ever up my way, bring your bass & try it out.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1382218855' post='2249528'] Yakima are not officially imported into UK and their US website no longer sells feet for the GT86/BRZ/FR-S I very much doubt it No - it goes in through the door with the back seats folded - that'll do me. I'll just have to make sure I don't have to use it on nights when i take the kids back to their Mum's ...that does seem to happen from time to time [/quote] TBH I don't like roofracks on coupes. However, you'll get a roofbox big enough for the kids.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1382200139' post='2249242'] Can't fit a towbar to the GT86 in UK [/quote] Yakima do a roof rack. You can then get a roof box big enough for the cab...

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1382095594' post='2247822'] This is where the thread is going to break down. It depends on the individuals definition of mutts nuts. [/quote] I would have thought they would be found between the hind legs of a male dog?

Get any car you want & don't worry about the boot.....

I'd love to give it a try too. 5 string fretless would be my choice as that's what I'm wanting, but I'm a 4 string fretted player just now.

Don't be too hard on yourselves guys. I think a lot of folk are pretty busy just now as this isn't the only creative part that's not getting the input it deserves. I for one had a lot of fun mixing the track & I'm sure the other's did too! So I'd say that's a success.

I joined BC in April 2008, so it had possibly just changed.

[quote name='Hamster' timestamp='1381312645' post='2237261'] It grew quite quickly - [url="http://web.archive.org/web/20051231065205/http://www.bassworld.co.uk/pn/index.php?"]http://web.archive.o...k/pn/index.php?[/url] [/quote] It didn't half! I'm guessing Pedullaman is now Vigierman Ped?

Things have certainly sprouted arms & legs since then. I wasn't a member back then, but when I first joined BC there was usually a max of about 15 users online at any one time. I remember there was a surge in guest activity where it went over 100 & Dood confirmed that it was bot activity.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1381225268' post='2235914'] I don't think that anyone is saying that woods in themselves have no real effect. What I am saying is that there are simply too many variables involved to be able to say with 100% confidence that the change in sound is down to a single factor such as the kind of wood used for the fingerboard. For a start every piece of wood is different - even two pieces cut from the same tree. Then the traditional Fender style neck is made in an entirely different way depending on whether it has a maple or rosewood fingerboard. IMO construction has just as much impact on the sound as the wood used. I get the impression that when most people are comparing the differences in sound between a bass with a rosewood fingerboard and a bass with a maple fingerboard they are talking about 2 completely different basses. If we are lucky they might both be from the same manufacturer (most likely Fender) and hopefully if that is the case they are the same model, but other than that they probably have nothing else in common. Maybe not even made in the same year, let alone from the same batch of timber. If you believe that a certain wood gives the sound over and above any of the other variables in the construction, then that's your prerogative. I treat the bass has a whole thing and not a collection of its individual parts. It either works as a whole for me in terms of looks playability and sound or it doesn't. These days there are some many basses available that it makes little sense to get hung up in individual features. Look at the whole instrument. Either it suits you or it doesn't. [/quote] I had DR Strings on my bass for a good while, always had a very bright zingy sound. Then I changed them for Tomastik Infeld strings & got a more mellow tone, hardly any zings in sight. Now I have D'Addario chromes & it's kinda inbetween the previous 2. My fretboard is rosewood & before I put the TI strings on, I oiled the wood. Could that be what gave it a more mellow tone? Maybe it needs another oil?

Wasn't there a debate before whether what the body was made of affected the tone? I could understand the fretboard affecting the tone on a fretless acoustic or double bass, but if the string's sitting on frets, it's between 2 pieces of metal (fret & bridge). As for harmonicas, I prefer plastic as I once got a splinter in the tongue.

Companies reccommend it because they can sell ideas based on 1960s speaker technology that people are used to seeing. Things have moved on quite a bit over the past 50 years.

I've never looked, but I think my ring tone's a lightish brown.

I seriously hope they keep the CV options on the pedals. That's part of what makes them so good.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1380888430' post='2231937'] It's very true. I heard about these and saw them about 6 weeks ago when an online retailer put them up, before being promptly told off my Moog and took them down... but not before I'd had a good look!!!! [/quote] Excellent! Looks like I have something else to save up for.

Would be good if it's true!... http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/10/leaked-moog-minifooger-stompboxes-139-199-uninformed-analysis/

[quote name='stjohn' timestamp='1380827619' post='2231289'] Changed the sound for the better for sure. [/quote] That's a debate in itself!

From the thread title, I was expecting a punchline of "You'd think the 2nd one would have seen it". I suppose I'd better contribute... I heard they were only looking for somewhere to buy a vibrato. I guess they'll just have to go & pull off.