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You could run an XLR to 1/4 jack cable (not a mic cable as you would need a male XLR) from your line 6 to the Laney. But I would save & get a more powerful combo or amp & cab.

+1 on the meths. Good hobby shops sell mega heavy duty Velcro that has the stickyest glue ever.

There's a good video tutorial on YouTube for defretting a bass. I'll try get the link when I get up. MoonBassAlpha, could I ask what you did with the neck after defret, did you laquer it or oil it or anything? I have a Vox Standard that's in pieces just now.

I'm gonna do it to my Vox. It's a maple board, which is easier to defret apparantly as rosewood is easy to damage.

I've only ever had the one expression pedal & that's the Moog EP2. It has a knob at the side to adjust the amount needed to move the pedal. Solid build & costs about £30.

GuitarGuitar is in Corstorphine. I've never been in but passed it many times. Come to think of it, I haven't been to any music shops in Edinburgh. I usually go to Glasgow or Dundee.

Basses are for playing! The wife doesn't buy a really nice pair of shoes & then say "oh, they're too nice to wear on a night out", same difference. If it's precious, pop it in a hard case as soon as you're done playing. My Ibby is worth loads to me, but it's got more chips than the Golden Fry.

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It certainly sounds like 2 basses playing.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished instruments & a 5 string fretless would really be of interest. The only thing I'm not too keen on is how pointy the top horn is, the size is fine but if it was squared off a little so it didn't look 80's (like the tip of most Overwater top horns).

Funny, there's been a few that seemed to have disappeared & I'd been wondering the same thing.

Both disks of New Forms resides on my iPod too. I have Brown Paper Bag on single too that includes the rap. Change my life & Jazz are two brilliant songs from the 2nd disk (simple but effective basslines). I'll get a look for some of St Johns other stuff tomorrow hopefully.

I haven't tried any of the other mb combos, but the 102 is certaintly loud enough for most gigs & it's easier to add a choice of 2x10, 4x10 or 1x15 cabs if you was playing a large venue (& look like one rig). I suppose it depends on what speaker configuration you're after as they both have the LM II(I) (as if you didn't know).

Sounds like you want an Ibanez soundgear prestige. Or my bass which £1k might tempt me to part with it

If you hate the sound of new strings then try flats. I took the plunge about a month ago & love how they have plenty of frequencies but don't sound bright like rounds do.

Most insurance companies (not all tho) will cover musical instruments in & away from home under the personal belongings/possessions section & you can usually specify the items if they exceed the individual item limit, as long as they're not for professional use. I'm with Direct line (one of the co's I actually don't work for) & they're pretty good for cover, I'd give them a phone. As for covering stuff away from home when you're not with it, some do & dome don't.

In the Amps for sale section there's a few decent combos for @ £200 (Ashdown, Trace Elliot, ect) & there's even a Carlsbro Bass Bomber for £75 (my first amp was a Carlsbro, they're as good as what you pay for, cheap but do the job).

Save up & buy an Ashdown combo? They ain't all that dear & it's better than wasting money on something that isn't actually gonna do what you want. Have a look in the second hand section, there's plenty of bargains to be had.

I've taken several breaks from bass (played guitar, keyboards, xbox, women, lego, drinking games) & I always come back to it. There's been times where the bass has sat in a corner of a cupboard for years only to pop out once every 4-5 months for a quick blast & get packed away again, but now I'm playing all the time & loving it. I have my other hobbies too such as photography, cooking & basschatting which keeps my mind creative.

Ah, got it. My bass is going thru my Mooger 101 & we DI'd out the back to the interface & then to Ableton Live. This is about as technical as I get, but most of my basslines are as technical as this. To me it is a fine balance of something I can comfortably play that is melodic. I can comfortably play some slap, but I'm not very good at getting all the dead notes to fill in the gaps like many of the good ol' slappers do. Anyway, here's an mp3... [attachment=47437:Stars_GuitarsMono.mp3]

[quote name='discreet' post='807886' date='Apr 16 2010, 12:16 AM']Me too. We should be practising, not wasting our bloody time on BC! [/quote] Haha, same here. I had a couple of runs through the first verse of Rhythm Stick when it got posted on here a good few months back & didn't have too much trouble with it, it's my own stuff that gets me. We do a Countryish song called Stars & Guitars that has a regular run up the strings from the low G & back down in an alternating pattern that now & again trips me up (especially if the guitar opens it a touch too fast). We recently recorded it & some other tracks to test out a new interface (one take, no practices), so I'll go & make an mp3 of it & stick it here as I mess up the first one I come to!

I can't recommend the Markbass CMD 102p high enough. I used it without going thru pa at a gig of @ 300 folk & both gain & volume knobs was set at 9 o'clock & was told I was too loud! Plenty of bass & never ceases to amaze me.

I got my tap tempo & expression pedals from DV247 as they offered the best price & can recommend their service. If you want to hear the mf-101 & mf-105b, I have a review of both [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36164"]here.[/url]

My MF-101 is on 95% of the time. I just like the extra depth that it gives to the lower frequencies & having it cutting a lot of the top + flatwounds = lovely subby sounds. I don't use my Bass Murf enough tho. Rest of the band have trouble keeping in time with it, so it either gets used for it's sweepy flangy sounds or as a distortion for the most with solo parts on the arpeggio side.

We don't really do any covers, but I'm enjoying playing "the waking" by Kurt Elling and "use me" by Bill Withers.