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I think being able to read helps you understand music better. You might never need to read in a band, but knowing a little theory behind things can give you more freedom to play what you want if your song doesn't need to be an exact copy. It's just like any language, people speak English without knowing how to read.

Had a melody going through my head all weekend too. Ba ba da, ba ba da, Jim'll fix it for you, and you n you.

[quote name='he man812' timestamp='1351985059' post='1857670'] ahh it seems i need to go try some things down the shop then. Although you come into problems when you want to buy second hand but you can't try it because its not in the shops [/quote] Try as many as you can & get an idea of what you like. The good thing about buying s/h is that if you don't like it, you can pass it on with a minimal loss of £s (if any). I bought new as it had to go past the Mrs & she wouldn't approve of s/h at the time (she does now though).

[quote name='he man812' timestamp='1351983961' post='1857662'] haha, don't mind me with my lack of knowledge of bass amps Is your 2x10 the [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Markbass CMD102P? or something different?[/font][/color] [/quote] I chose the Markbass after spending many months trying countless rigs from Ashdown, SWR, Ampeg, Trace Elliot, GK, Eden, Phil Jones, Euphonic Audio & a few others. A lot of them make good rigs & it's down to what You like the sound of. I like the MB as it handles whatever I want from it & it's probably the loudest combo I've ever used.

Cheers. That was an interesting read.

I heard 15s are more punchy too! It depends on what it is (how well it's been designed, etc). My 2x10 has a lot more bass than the 2x15 I had before. A 1x12 combo with a 1x12 cab under it can be a very good rig. Especially if you're playing in tight spaces.

Try one first. I had a TE 4x10 combo & it was a fart monster. I'm not a fan of them, but if you are, try Ashdown. They're the old TE engineers.

Congratulations! Now you can get on with what YOU want to do & not trying to do it with folk who don't want to do the same as you (that's a bit like pushing a truck up a hill with the dead man on). Best of luck with getting a good band together.

If you can stretch your budget by @ £200ish, you'll be hard pushed to get anything better than a 2nd hand Markbass CMD102P. They come up on here from time to time for @ £600 & it'd blow that TE back into the 80s.

Very true.

Cutting doesn't have to be untidy. If you cu one side flush & the other @ 1-2mm longer, you wont see it. You could even pop a little shrinkwrap over it.

I used to be a roundwound fan, but got sick of the zingyness & how it can sometimes get noisy (& even spoil what the vocal/guitar is doing) if not kept in check. I'm now a flatwound user (Tomastic Infeld) & wouldn't go back to rounds. They have plenty of definition & despite what I had heard, aren't wooly trebleless things.

Not sure. PLI is more to cover damage that your gear does to punters, like a PA top falling on someone.

Like Mart says, & cut one wire slightly longer than the other so they can't short (& make sure it's unplugged 1st ).

There's a couple of options available. You could fit a midi pickup (Roland do one) & that plugs into a converter which you could then plug into any midi synth. There's synth access instruments from the likes of Godin (works on the same principle as the above. There's midi guitar controllers that look like a bass, but have rows of buttons instead of strings & frets. Or you can buy a few fx pedals & route them to make your bass sound like a synth. Quite a few of us on here do the latter, as it allows you to build something that has your own sound. Basic pedals for getting there are dirt & filter. Octaver on a wet setting also helps get more synth sounding & then you can get carried away. Shep (Pantherairsoft) has a good blog for explaining how to use effects. Jarman Donohue from Men Imitating Machines uses a full midi setup, Shep did an interview with him on his blog. He can be found on Organic Bass Wobble Facebook page if you have any Qs about his set up (he's a helpful & friendly chap).

Have you got a printer? Pop to hobbycraft & get some beige 200g paper & print a cheque. What about a P.O? fair enough it costs a few £ more, but if it's gonna get you the gig...

I've only used the effects in Garageband on my iMac when recording, but not very often. Would be interested to see how something like iRig or similar sounds live & if there's any latency issues.

Play with the EQ & turn the mids down a touch, see if it helps. But like you say, it might just be the cab.

Don't listen to them, they're trying to fool you. They're just jealous & trying to get you to blow your rig up!!!

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1351792765' post='1855521'] Sounds like a great cake! :-) [/quote] I'll PM you a link to it so not to ruin other folks interpretation.

I might be one who's wrong. Jo made a cake in that theme, but it was for someone's birthday back in August.

[quote name='hollywoodrox' timestamp='1351781849' post='1855313'] Yes open chords played higher up the neck with a capo can have a light mandolin quality, the capo can make it a bit easier to play an instrument with an unwieldy action and also facilitate simpler fingering on intros like hotel California [/quote] I'll second that!

Well done Skol & Nige, & to everyone else who entered. Interesting pics you guys have chosen. I actually know what Skol's pic is of & it was celebrated in th relevant countries about 3 months ago.

Dear Jim, Please could you fix this for me.