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I'm toying with a few ideas & there'll definitely be a good bit of wood visible. My ideas involve either some silver leaf or aluminium paint directly on part of the wood so you can still see the grain & finishing the whole body in a satin lacquer, or maybe something different? A play around with Photoshop is in order before deciding.

& now I've sanded it down ready for messing it up! More later!!!

I then stripped it down to the wood with the blowtorch & left some nice burn marks. I tried using other methods, but nowt was working.

Some more... I stripped it down to a clear matt coating. [/url]

I've started! I've stripped the paint off it. Started by chipping flakes away & then got the blowtorch out & voala! I'm making a Steinberger Spirit with a head!!!!! Here's the first couple of pics taken with my phone... Stripped & ready for stripping (I'd already chipped away at some pait round the edge) Stick it in a vice & get the blowtorch & paint stripper into action All the poly gone! Still a bit messy I've got more pics & I'll get em up soon.

[quote name='markstuk' post='1225293' date='May 9 2011, 05:01 PM']How about one of these? :-) [url="http://www.tecamp.de/index.php?id=36"]http://www.tecamp.de/index.php?id=36[/url][/quote] That's got to be one of the stupidest & most pointless cabs I've ever seen!

It does seem a little strange that Bridge mode is 8 ohms & not 2 ohms.

You could even run TWO 8 ohm cabs per side if you wanted!

I think they made a cock up of that one! I don't get the Fender thing at all! Not that there's anything wrong with em.

Creative musicians. Nothing worse than trying to write a song & there's an uncreative musician just putting the same drum pattern or constant unimaginative strumming to a song. Just turns things lame. Gig's & an audience are good too tho

This ticks all my boxes!

I don't use the FX loop on my LMII as there'd be to many wires running around & the chorus (&all the other fx) sounds just fine. I had tried the FX loop & other than the ability to have the effect as layered over the original sound (so you can still hear the original bass sound, which is switchable via a jumper), there's no noticeable benefits.

Bought a set of TI flats for my Ibby last year & wish I would have done it 20 years ago.

You'd be wiser to go for 2 2x10 cabs stacked vertically or 2 1x15 cabs as mixing driver sizes isn't a good idea & the normal 4x10 isn't a good speaker layout.

I believe EBS heads also run at 2Ω. Why not sell the cabs as well (sell the lot as a full rig) & then you can get 8Ω cabs to go with whatever head you like?

Nice bit of kit I wonder how long it takes to tune one of those bad boys up? 24 saddles to adjust! Does it have midi?

[quote name='Graham56' post='1221582' date='May 5 2011, 09:16 PM']Probably Talking Heads' Psycho Killer. After that it was a very crude improvised four-to-the-bar walk over a jazzy 12-bar in C. This was as part of a bass evening class which had you working on improvised patterns against chords from almost the first lesson. Cheers Graham[/quote] The original or the one off Stop Making Sense?

Take the gig, turn up & when you open the case that holds your bass, surprise them by pulling out a running chainsaw & cut their legs off. Makes for a good stage show. Either that or just turn up with your bass & get paid for gigging

The 2nd song I learned all the way thru was Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, it all went downhill from there! Only messing, it was a selection of U2 songs from their first 3 albums that was in a transcribed book that my guitarist friend had (has all the instrument score). New Years Day being the gem to play out of that lot.

First rig: Vox Standard Bass, Carlsbro 90 Bass amp 2 Marshall 15 folded horn PA cabs (big heavy beasts taht was too big to stack on yer own). Current rig: Ibanez SR-1000e Bass Markbass CMD102p 2x10 combo Selection of fx pedals.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1221035' date='May 5 2011, 01:45 PM']Ditto - although it was just the famous riff at the end, not the whole song. The first complete song I learned was Bowie's 'John, I'm Only Dancing', as it was transcribed in the forst copy of Bassist I ever bought. [/quote] The very 1st thing I ever recorded on bass was the F1 bit, a few days after I learned the song (it's an easy starter of a song) & me & my mate on guitar played along to some programmed drum beats (we didn't do the 1st 1/2 of the song as the guitar part is fairly tricky for a 12 year old beginner.

I used to have a Zoom 708 fx pedal that had a patch that did just this, it gave the note a slow attack (which was variable). Other option would be an ebow & a volume pedal

The Chain - Fletwood Mac

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. When I play the I V the image that goes through my head is standing with bowed legs & stomping from side to side dressed as a cowboy, that's a silly image & really what I meant when I said silly I V feel. +1 on knowing when not to play notes being just as important as when to play.

We do a few C&W songs (originals tho) & I'm not a fan of the genre , but the singer wrote em & he loves C&W so I had to make basslines for em & although they ain't hard, they can be fun. Think things like Obladi Oblada where you play the 3 notes of a chord if you want to get away from consistent I V stuff & then add extra notes variations & sometimes it can end up a bit on the tricky side & still retain that silly I V feel. Have a listen to [url="http://www.myspace.com/jellyrollmusic"]So Damned[/url] to see if it gives you any ideas (Excuse some of the timing issues with the song in the mandolin solo).